Kendall Brodie

Kendall Brodie
Personal information
Born 1991
Education PLC Sydney
Sport
Sport Rowing
Club Sydney Rowing Club
Achievements and titles
National finals Queen's Cup 2013 – 2018
Medal record
World Championships
2018 PlovdivMen's eight

Kendall Brodie (born 1991 in Sydney, New South Wales) is an Australian national champion and national representative rowing coxswain who won a silver medal at the 2018 World Championships. She is notable for becoming in 2018 the first Australian female coxswain to steer a representative Australian male crew under the FISA gender-neutral coxswain selection policy initiated in 2017.[1]

Club and state rowing

Brodie was educated at Presbyterian Ladies College, Sydney where she took up rowing. Her senior coxing was from Sydney Rowing Club. In 2018 was the vice-captain at Sydney Rowing Club and on the board of directors. [2] She was awarded a scholarship with the New South Wales Institute of Sport.[1]

She was first selected to represent New South Wales in the women's eight contesting the Queen's Cup in the Interstate Regatta within the 2013 Australian Rowing Championships. [3] For six consecutive years from 2013 to 2018 she coxed New South Wales senior women's eights in the Queen's Cup. [4]

She coxed Sydney Rowing Club fours contesting the coxed four national title at the Australian Rowing Championships in 2014 and 2015 (to victory and a national championship title).[5]

International representative rowing

In 2017 FISA announced a number of new rule changes, including voting for coxswains to become gender neutral. In 2018 Australian selection processes embraced this new policy resulting in Kendall Brodie being selected to steer the Australian men’s senior eight for the international representative season of 2018. [1] The Australian men's eight with Brodie in the stern started their 2018 international campaign with a fifth placing at the World Rowing Cup II in Linz, Austria.[6] In an Australian selection eight and racing as the Georgina Hope Rinehart National Training Centre, in honour of Rowing Australia patron, Gina Rinehart, Brodie won the 2018 Grand Challenge Cup at the Henley Royal Regatta.[7] The fourth Australian men's eight to ever do so. The following week at the World Rowing Cup III in Lucerne, Brodie steered the Australian eight to silver medal in a thrilling 0.14 second finish behind Germany. [6] The stage was set for the close competition that played out at the 2018 World Championships in Plovdiv. In their heat the Australian eight finished 5/100ths of a second behind the USA and then in the final, Germany dominated and took gold but 2/10ths of a second separated 2nd through to 4th and the Australians took silver, a bowball ahead of Great Britain with the US out of the medals and just another bowball behind. [6] Brodie came home with a silver world championship medal.

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