Victoria Murden McClure (born March 6, 1963[1]) is an athlete, adventurer, chaplain, lawyer, and university administrator who was the first woman and the first American to row solo across the Atlantic Ocean, which she did in 1999.[2] She was also the first woman and first American to ski to the geographic South Pole and the first woman to climb the Lewis Nunatak in the Antarctic. She was the president of Spalding University, a private Catholic university in Louisville, Kentucky, for 25 years until her retirement in 2024.[3]