Charles E. Stone was the oldest St George’s ‘Red Coat’. He won the championship singles 4 years in a row - in 1908/09 at Auckland, in 1909/10 at Picton, in 1910/11 at Wanganui and in 1911/12 at Dunedin. He died in the 1978/1979 year at the age of 97 years.   

He was awarded the Rathbone Cup for winning the singles three times in succession and, according to the conditions, it became his property; it was decided at a committee meeting on 3 Feb 1908 to write to Mr. E.W.G Rathbone (who was the Vice Commodore of the Club) to that effect.  Mr Rathbone generously surrendered his ten debentures for the purchase of a new sculling trophy.  It was noted in the 1911 AGM minutes that he had won the NZ Championship sculls for the 3rd time – this was a record for the Dominion of NZ. In 1911 C.E. Stone was not able to take part as an amateur in the Australasian championships on the Paramatta as he had previously competed on one occasion in the Auckland gaslight sports.

Don Rowlands won the Red Coat for St Georges in the NZ Championship Single and in the Championship Double with Jack Stevenson in 1957. 

Don and Jack rowed out of West End and Auckland Rowing Club respectively. They wished to compete together in the double so they chose to row out of St George’s Rowing Club in 1957. Both men continued to support St George’s activities even when they moved back to their original Clubs.  

Don Rowlands won nine national titles and was the Empire Games single sculls champion in 1954 after being a member of the silver medallist eight at the games in Auckland four years before.

He won the prestigious Interprovincial Eights Championship for Auckland, in four seat of an eight at Wellington in 1949, and Picton in 1950.

Don won the New Zealand Championship Singles five times, once for St Georges Rowing Club 1956/57 at Karapiro and four times for West End Rowing Club in 1952/53 at Queenstown; in 1953/54 at Picton; in 1954/55 at Wairoa and in 1955/56 at Invercargill.  

He also won the Eight’s championship three times for West End in 1948/49 Karapiro; in 1950/51 at Akaroa and 1951/52 at Wellington.

He won a Silver Medal in the New Zealand Eight at 1950 Empire Games at Karapiro and a Gold Medal at 1954 Empire Games at Vancouver, on the Vedder Canal.    

His time as a rowing selector included the golden years of the 1968 and 1972 Olympic Games and he then turned his attention to securing for New Zealand the world championships in 1978. The event at Karapiro was regarded as outstanding and Rowlands was deservedly praised as the man most responsible. This was the first time the world rowing championship was held outside of Europe or North America.  The main facility at Lake Karapiro is named the Sir Don Rowlands Centre in recognition of his contribution. 

In the 1973 New Year Honours, Don Rowlands was appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire, for services to rowing, and he was promoted to Commander of the same order in the 1979 Queen's Birthday Honours.

In the 2015 New Year Honours, shortly before his death, Rowlands was appointed a Knight Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit for services to business and rowing. In the 2015 Australia Day Honours he was appointed an honorary Member of the Order of Australia for significant service to the sport of rowing.

Sir Don was named as a member of the New Zealand Olympic Order in 1991. He won the leadership award at the 2005 Halberg Awards. He was inducted into the New Zealand Sports Hall of Fame. In August 2014, he was inducted into the New Zealand Business Hall of Fame.

Jack won the prestigious Interprovincial Eights Championship stroking the Auckland eight at Kerrs Reach Christchurch in 1954.

In addition winning a red coat rowing for St Georges in the double with Don Rowlands in 1957, Jack also won the New Zealand Singles Championships at Wellington in 1951/52 and the Championship Doubles in 1951/52 at Wellington, and 1952/53 at Queenstown.

In 1961 he was selected for the crew of the Auckland Provincial Eight, which won at Lake Waihola, which resulted in him being chosen for the training squad of the New Zealand Eight at the 1962 Perth Empire Games. Rod was St George's first ever NZ Representative and Athlete Number 82 to represent New Zealand in rowing.  

He won the prestigious Interprovincial Eights Championship for the Auckland Eight in 1961 in four seat on Lake Waihola and 1963 at Wellington in bow seat.

He was awarded the NZ Rowing Legacy Medal with the following details - year selected 1962 , Commonwealth Games Perth , 5th place Men's Coxless Four. He rowed in a coxless  ( -4 ), the boat was a coxed  ( 4 + ) boat which had a 1 inch pipe coming out of the stern and it had a 20 or 30 KG weight on it to make up for the weight of a cox. He rowed with Geoff Benge, Murray and Peter Watkinson in Perth.

Grant joined St Georges in the mid-1960s. He was working as a butcher’s apprentice in Panmure and doing a lot of running with the Otahuhu harriers club. He rowed in a range of boats and progressed to become the stroke of the St George’s Junior and Senior Eight. The Junior Eight won the New Zealand championship. 

He went on to win seven Red Coats as a member of Whakatane Rowing Club in a range of different boats including winning the Coxed Pair with Bob Murphy at the NZ Championships in 1974/75. He rowed in the New Zealand Eight in the 1975 World Rowing Championships in Nottingham, Great Britain, and won a bronze medal. He represented New Zealand at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal, Canada in the coxless four where he came fourth. He competed in the 1978 World Rowing Championships in the double sculls. He is Athlete Number 358 to represent New Zealand in rowing.

At the 1979 World Rowing Championships held at Bled in Slovenia, Yugoslavia, he won a silver medal with the Coxed Eight. In the same year he was voted the Bay of Plenty Sportsman of the Year award.

Ross joined St Georges in 1970. He won the Pair in the Junior Pair Oars in 1971/72 when he was rowing with this race for the first time in the and was second in the NZ Championship Coxless pair in 1972/73. He was a member of the successful 1971/1972 Junior and Senior Eight.  In 1973 Ross moved to West End Rowing Club.

 In 1977 he won the Red Coat in the Championship Coxed Pair with Bruce Rae. In 1978, Ross was selected to row at the World Championships at Karapiro in the New Zealand Quad sculls.  He finished rowing in 1980 and has held various roles at West End Rowing Club including President and Life Member of West End and in 2023 achieved 50 years with the Club. In 1990 Ross decided to go back and row Masters competing in the World Masters Championship Quad sculls with Tony Hurt, John White, Bruce Rae. He went on to become the first West End Masters crew to win a world championship in the 45-49 years old age group.

Madeleine Seaman won a “Red Coat” in New Zealand Championships in 2008 and became the first woman in the club’s history to have success at the very highest level of club competition. She represented New Zealand at the Sydney Youth Festival in 2007. 

Isaac began his rowing career at Edgewater College in 2007 rowing out of St George’s Rowing Club.

He has won three red coats in the National championships. In 2017 he won a red coat in the men's premier coxless quadruple sculls; 2019 in mens Premiere coxed eight and 2021 in the men's premier coxless quadruple sculls.   

In 2013 and 2014 Isaac was an U23 World Champion in the men's eight.

He went on to represent New Zealand in the eight. He came fourth at the 2015 World Rowing Championships with the men's eight, qualifying the boat for the 2016 Olympics. He came sixth with his team at the eight competition in Rio de Janeiro.