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Meet our Team: Alexya Vega
Join us in welcoming New Haven coach, Alexya Vega! Alexya started her rowing career in high school at the Sound School where she became team captain and began dabbling into coaching. She’s also enjoyed other sports like track and cross country, but rowing is a sport...
Meet our Team: Clio Nash
I started rowing at a high school after being a swimmer my whole life. I rowed at Melbourne Girls Grammar and the sport really opened up my eyes to how important teams are. By rowing with all my school friends & competing I started to learn so many important life...
Meet our Team: Lily Innes Irons
Meet our Team: Kathryn Spinnler-Jenkins
In high school rowing seemed daunting and inaccessible. Only ever picked as a goalie in netball for my height, I had decided that team sports, and sport in general, wasn’t for me by age 13 or 14. When the opportunity came around to try for the rowing squad, I went...
Meet our Team: Xanthe Hadfield
Sport has always played an important part of my life, but It wasn’t love at first sight when I initially tried my hand at rowing at school. I was predominantly a competitive ballroom dancer, more concerned with getting blisters on my feet rather than my hands! After...
Meet the TopRow rowers: Cynthia Masters
Meet the TopRow rowers. Cynthia Masters has much to celebrate this year 2021. After progressing with TopRow and joining our partners Richmond Rowing Club Cynthia is finally feeling comfortable with single sculling due to persistent, consistent and understanding...
Meet our Team: Thais Umbelino
Thais joined TopRow in 2019 because she wanted a flexible job that would fit in around her studying. Now that Thais has graduated from university she has more time and wanted to take the opportunity to get more involved in TopRow Putney. Thais Learnt to row in Brazil...
Meet the TopRow rowers: Kerrin
Meet the TopRow rowers. Today we have a testimonial from Kerrin, a graduate from our January Learn to Row group in Melbourne! Read below to learn about her experience coming out of Lockdown and trying rowing for the very first time. (On the photo, Kerrin sat far right...
Brock Sampson: ‘Rowing is more than a sport’
In the series 'Rowing for All', this time we speak to Brock Sampson. This American came into contact with the Netherlands about ten years ago and eventually settled here for love. In Nijmegen he set up the Rowing Without Limits project. With this he wants to make...
Meet our Team: Melanie Perkins
Having learnt to row with a laid back university club in York (UK), I didn’t know what I was getting into when I later joined my local club in London with a 6 day a week training program. I was soon hooked. With the club spirit and vision of winning shiny pots, rowing...
Meet our Team: Marcus Rossi
My rowing experience began when I was 15. A few of my friends chose rowing as their school summer sport the previous year and suggested that I join them at their pre-season gym sessions. The next thing I knew I was rowing in the eights on the Yarra! It was a little...
Meet our Team: Harriet Lowe
If you've ever rowed with us in London, you've probably met (or at least emailed) Harriet. She joined our team in 2018 when our London Putney location first opened. It started as a summer coaching job after she graduated from university and before a winter working as...
Welcome TopRow Melbourne
Amidst the madness that is 2020, TopRow is celebrating the opening of our new site in Melbourne, Australia. Our first Australian rowers will hit the water beginning November 4th, 8 months after the originally scheduled March opening was postponed due to the COVID-19...
Meet Our Team: Will Golding
Like so many people in our sport, Will didn't start out as a rower. Rather, he played football (soccer) and rugby - "not especially well," as he tells it - in addition to running cross country. After his first year at the University of East London he came to the...
TopRow Graduate – Hannah
Life after TopRow Coming out of COVID, I wanted to get out and about again and decided I’d take up rowing. I completed the TopRow courses back in March 2021, as I never rowed previously it was a steep learning curve but thanks to the wonderful coaches I was soon...
TopRow-Tourism-Rowing-Holiday
TopRow Tourism on the Thames Emerging from two years of international border closures, Aussies with itchy feet are eager to travel overseas. Backpackers, surfers and of course, rowers, all eager to jump on a flight and dip their oar in a European summer. I visited the...
Rowing in Color, a podcast with a mission in a white-dominated sport.
Almost a decade ago, Patricia Destine began her rowing journey and hasn’t looked back since. Patricia’s career began in 2012 when she joined club team Row New York where she later became a coach and continues to share her passion for the sport to this day. Alongside...
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