Red Coats

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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Madeline Seaman

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. 

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Ross McKee

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

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Grant McAuley

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

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Rod Hutchinson

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

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Jack Stevenson

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,

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Don Rowlands

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

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C. E. Stone

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

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