New Zealand Representatives

Olivia Hay

Olivia attended Glendowie College prior to enrolling at UCLA in the US. She served as the rowing team captain in 2019 and was named the “rower of the year” in 2018 and 2019, earning a gold medal at the Aon Maadi Cup in 2019.  She has been in the Under 23 crews representing New Zealand […]

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Sarah Crummey

Sarah was Captain of Glendowie College rowing. She won Gold at Maadi in the U17 double in 2014.  She gained a rowing scholarship to Syracuse University in the USA where she completed a dual major in psychology and sociology in the College of Arts and Sciences. In 2019, she was named to the All Atlantic

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Isaac Grainger

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

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Chris Wright

Chris rowed for Glendowie College out of the St George’s Club from 1997 through to 2001. He won the New Zealand Championship Senior Pair and went on to represent New Zealand as a Junior and Under 23 in Poznan, Poland in 2004 coming second in the B Final.

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Rob McCarthy

Rob started rowing in 1965/66 from Waitemata Rowing Club where he had rowed as a Tamaki College school boy and he joined St Georges Rowing Club in 1969.  He was a crew member in the successful St Georges Junior and Senior Eight and was selected as reserve for the 1972 Olympic Rowing team. The 1971/72

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Bob Murphy

Bob was the first St Georges rower to represent New Zealand for the Colts in Australia in 1970. Bob rowed in the Senior Eight for St Georges in 1971/72.  In 1969 after leaving school a group of young men including Ross McKee, Rob McCarthy and Rex Potter moved to row out of St Georges Rowing

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