2023 U23 & U21 Team Announcement
Coming off the back of a successful NZ Club Champs down in Twizel last week, a number of young up and coming athletes have spent this past week trialling at Lake Karapiro to try and make the NZ U23 and U21 teams for 2023.
Rowing NZ is pleased to name the following teams:
2023 Rowing NZ Under 23 Team
To contest 2023 World Rowing Under 23 Championships, 19-23 July, Plovdiv, Bulgaria
- U23 Men’s 1X
Ben Mason* - Avon Rowing Club
Coach: TBC
*Subject to medical clearance
- U23 Lightweight Men’s 1X
Finn Hamill - Waikato Rowing Club
Coach: TBC
- U23 Men’s 2-
Josh Vodanovich - Waikato Rowing Club
Oliver Welch - Avon Rowing Club
Coaches: Tom Stannard and Mark Stallard
- U23 Men’s 4X
Evan Williams - Waikato Rowing Club
Ben Olifiers - Waikato Rowing Club
Kobe Miller - Wairau Rowing Club
Edward Lopas - Waikato Rowing Club
Coach: Malcolm McIntyre
- U23 USA Based Men’s Coxed 4+
Coxswains: Harry Molloy - North Shore Rowing Club
Crew TBD at June 16-18th trial in USA
- Team Manager
Jared Cummings
- US Based Coaching Team
Fiona Bourke and Nick Barton
2023 Rowing NZ Under 21 Team
To contest the U21 Regatta (NZ, Australia, Canada) to be held at Lake Karāpiro on 27 – 29 July, 2023.
- U21 Women
Charlotte Lightfoot - Dunstan Arm Rowing Club
Emily Gordon - Waikato Rowing Club
Emma Averill - Waikato Rowing Club
Grace Farrell - Avon Rowing Club
Jemma Burrowes - Avon Rowing Club
Mackenzie Tuffin - Star Boating Club
Madeleine Parker - Waikato Rowing Club
Orla Fitzgerald - Avon Rowing Club
- Coxswain
Isabella-Hope Murray - Avon Rowing Club
- Reserve
Maddison Shanks - Tauranga Rowing Club
- U21 Men
Connor Bacchus - Avon Rowing Club
Fred Vavasour - Wairau Rowing Club
George Johnson - Cure Boating Club
Gerard Wall - Ashburton Rowing Club
Henry Kirk - Avon Rowing Club
Jack Pearson - Dunstan Arm Rowing Club
Oscar Ruston - Waikato Rowing Club
Sam Wilson - Avon Rowing Club
- Coxswain
Oliver Duncan - Waikato Rowing Club
- Reserve
Ryan Gass - Auckland Rowing Club
Coaches and Manager to be determined.