The Sydney International Regatta Centre in Penrith is set to welcome the best rowers and coxswains in the country for the 2025 Australian Rowing Team Selection Regatta, taking place from April 18 to 25.
Prospective Rowsellas will push themselves across seven days of intense racing as they undertake small boat trials and the highly competitive seat racing format and a speed order that will determine final crew selections.
“In a post-Olympic and Paralympic year, the trials are an opportunity for the rowers to take their first step towards LA 2028," Rowing Australia Performance Director Paul Thompson MBE said.
“Every athlete invited has earned their place through performance and we are expecting some fierce competition as these rowers push each other in pursuit of representing Australia.”
The Selection Regatta forms a crucial step in naming the Australian Rowing Team squad for the 2025 season, which includes appearances at World Rowing Cups I and II and the Henley Royal Regatta.
The 2025 Rowsellas squad will then compete at the 2025 World Rowing Championships in Shanghai, China, later in September.
Among the invitees are some of the standout performers from the 2025 Australian Rowing Championships (#ARC25) held recently in Lake Barrington, Tasmania.
#ARC25 medallists like Oscar McGuinness, emerging talents like Catherine Khan and 16-year-old Isobel Egan and experienced senior internationals such as Alexander Hill OAM, Erik Horrie OAM, Tara Rigney and Fergus Hamilton will feature at the upcoming trials.
The invite list spans a broad spectrum of age and experience, from Olympic and Paralympic medallists to emerging talent trialling for 'Australia A', each representing their club, state and state institute with pride.
The results of this regatta will not only shape Australia’s 2025 international campaign but lay the groundwork for LA 2028 and beyond.
Full invite list is as follows:
PARA ROWING – PR1
Mitchell Bails (SA / Torrens Rowing Club / SASI), Erik Horrie OAM (NSW / Sydney Rowing Club / QAS)
PARA ROWING – PR3
Isobel Egan* (ACT / Radford College), Lisa Greissl (NSW / Lake Macquarie Rowing Club / NSWIS), Susannah Lutze* (VIC / Banks Rowing Club / QAS), Harrison Nichols** (NSW / Hunter Valley Grammar School / NSWIS), Macintyre Russell (QLD / University of Queensland Boat Club), Sam Stunell* (SA / Adelaide Rowing Club / SASI), Alexandra Viney** (VIC / Barwon Rowing Club / VIS)
*Also eligible for U23 PR3 / coxswain
**Subject to fitness
WOMEN’S SCULLING
Laura Gourley (NSW / UTS Haberfield Rowing Club / HPNTC), Catherine Khan (ACT / Australian National University Boat Club / ACTAS), Tara Rigney (NSW / Sydney University Boat Club)
WOMEN’S SWEEP
Paige Barr (VIC / Mercantile Rowing Club / HPNTC), Ella Bramwell (SA / Adelaide Rowing Club / HPNTC), Jaime Ford (NSW / Sydney University Boat Club), Emmie Frederico (VIC / Mercantile Rowing Club / HPNTC), Eliza Gaffney (VIC / Melbourne University Boat Club / HPNTC), Georgie Gleeson (VIC / Sydney University Boat Club / Melbourne University Boat Club / HPNTC), Zoe McKellar (NSW / Sydney University Boat Club), Caitlin McManus-Barrett (ACT / Sydney Rowing Club / ACTAS), Eleanor Price (VIC / Sydney University Boat Club / HPNTC), Georgina Rowe (NSW / UTS Haberfield Rowing Club / HPNTC), Emily Sheppard (NSW / Sydney University Boat Club / HPNTC), Jacqueline Swick (WA / Swan River Rowing Club / HPNTC), Taylor Caudle* (NSW / Sydney University Boat Club), Zara Collisson* (NSW / Sydney University Boat Club), Laura Foley* (VIC / Melbourne University Boat Club / VIS), Aisling Hayes* (NSW / Sydney University Boat Club)
*Trialling for AUS A
MEN’S SCULLING
Nicholas Blackman (SA / Adelaide University Boat Club / SASI), Johnson Daubney (WA / Swan River Rowing Club / RBNTC), Marcus Della Marta (NSW / Sydney University Boat Club / RBNTC), Harry Fox (VIC / Melbourne University Boat Club / RBNTC), Dominic Frederico (VIC / Mercantile Rowing Club / VIS), Jackson Free (QLD / Griffith University Surfers Paradise Rowing Club), Hamish Harding (ACT / Australian National University Boat Club / ACTAS), Oscar McGuinness (SA / Adelaide Rowing Club / SASI), Mitch Reinhard (SA / Adelaide Rowing Club), Alexander Rossi (WA / West Australian Rowing Club / RBNTC)
MEN’S SWEEP
Charlie Batrouney (VIC / Melbourne University Boat Club / RBNTC), Fergus Hamilton (NSW / Mercantile Rowing Club / RBNTC), Alexander Hill OAM (SA / Adelaide Rowing Club / RBNTC), Myles McQuillan (NSW / UTS Haberfield Rowing Club / NSWIS), Fraser Miscamble (VIC / Melbourne University Boat Club / RBNTC), Alex Nichol (NSW / Sydney Rowing Club / NSWIS), Nikolas Pender (NSW / UTS Haberfield Rowing Club / RBNTC), Riley Rees-Turner (WA / Swan River Rowing Club / WAIS), Austin Reinehr (VIC / Mercantile Rowing Club / RBNTC), Jack Robertson (VIC / Mercantile Rowing Club / RBNTC), Miller Rowe (QLD / KAND Rowing Club), Mitch Salisbury (QLD / KAND Rowing Club / RBNTC), Nicholas Smith (VIC / Melbourne University Boat Club / RBNTC), Darcy Watter (QLD / KAND Rowing Club), Alexander Wolf (VIC / Sydney Rowing Club / ACTAS), Hamish Wynn-Pope (VIC / Melbourne University Boat Club / VIS)
COXSWAINS
Hannah Cowap (NSW / Sydney Rowing Club / NSWIS), Nicholas Dunlop** (NSW / Sydney Rowing Club), Tess Harris (NSW / Sydney Rowing Club), Lilee Lunney (NSW / Sydney Rowing Club), Anna O’Hanlon (NSW / UTS Haberfield Rowing Club), James Rook (VIC / Melbourne University Boat Club), Priscilla Russell* (QLD / University of Queensland Boat Club), Hayley Verbunt (VIC / Mercantile Rowing Club / HPNTC)
*Also eligible for U23 (cox)
**Considered for AUS A