Nickname: Southie
Home town: Perth
Place of residence: Melbourne
Occupation: Mum/ student
Club: Mercantile Rowing Club
Began rowing: At school, 1997
Date of birth: 23/01/1983
Height: 179cm
Weight: 72kg
Favourite food: Fruit
Favourite book: Currently really into Malcolm Gladwell’s books
Personal achievements: Combining elite sport, university studies and motherhood
School: St Hildas, Anglican Girls School, Perth
Current coach: Bill Tait and Chris O’Brien
Institute/Academy: VIS
Rowing career highlight(s):
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2002 – gold medal U23 W4
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2003 – gold medal W2x
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2004 – Olympic Final W8+
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2005 – gold medal W8+, silver medal W2
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2008 – Olympic final W8+
Professional goals: Completed university degree
Interests: Dreaming about home renovations but never finding the time to complete them, watching my daughter in amazement at how the human body develops, reading (newspapers and books), baking
Favourite sporting team: Fremantle Dockers
Famous relatives: David Crawshay (second cousin) – Olympic Gold medalist
What would you do if you won $10 million dollars? Send our daughter Leila to a private school. Probably wouldn’t have much left over after that!
If I could live anywhere in the world it would be: In a big house in the country
When I was growing up I wanted to be a: Police woman
