Dauphin is connected to the recent 2024 Paris Olympic games through Abby Dent, a great granddaughter of the late Ted and Alice Dent, who won a silver medal as a member of the Canadian Women’s Eight rowing team.
Dent was born in Kenora, Ont., to Leanne and Carlton Dent and completed her schooling in that community, attending Saint Thomas Aquinas High School, where she competed for the school’s rowing team. While studying there, she was named the junior women’s athlete of the year in 2017 and the senior women’s athlete of the year in 2018.
At the same time, Dent also competed with the Kenora Rowing Club and the Manitoba Rowing Club. In 2017, she competed for Team Manitoba in the 2017 Canada Summer Games, winning bronze in the women’s quad sculls. The next year, she won gold in both the junior women’s single scull and in the women’s U19 double sculls at the 2018 Royal Canadian Henley Regatta.
Following high school, Dent enrolled at the University of Michigan, where she majored in general studies through the College of Literature, Science, and the Arts.
While attending University of Michigan, Dent competed with the school’s rowing team, helping to secure fourth place at the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Championships in her freshman year. In her junior year, she was a member of the crew named Big Ten Boat of the Week for the week of April 11. The following month, she won gold and helped the team win the Big Ten Championship. She also placed ninth overall that year at the NCAA Championships. In 2023, she was named Big Ten Athlete of the Year and was on the All-Big Ten first team.
Dent was also twice named an Academic All-Big Ten in 2022 and 2023.
During her time competing in the NCAA, Dent also enjoyed a successful international career, including competing for Canada at the 2019 World Rowing Junior Championships in Tokyo, Japan, where she finished sixth overall in the single sculls.
In 2021 and 2022, Dent was part of Team Canada’s U-23 World Championship roster for double sculls and the 8+. In 2021, she finished 12th in the double and seventh in the 8+.
At the 2023 U23 World Championships, she competed in the Women’s Four event, finishing 5th. She also rowed at the 2023 World Cup III regatta, finishing 10th in the Women’s Four.
Later that year, Dent was named to the Canadian Pan American Games Team in the Women’s Eight, Women’s Pair and Mixed Eight events. She placed fourth in the Mixed Eight, won a silver medal in the Women’s Pair, and was part of the first-ever Pan American Games champion crew in the Women’s Eight.
