Addy Dunkley-Smith
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
| Personal information | |||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Born | 30 August 1993 | ||||||||||||||
| Education | Geelong College | ||||||||||||||
| Alma mater | Deakin University | ||||||||||||||
| Occupation | Clinical Psychologist | ||||||||||||||
| Years active | 2012-2018 | ||||||||||||||
| Sport | |||||||||||||||
| Sport | Rowing | ||||||||||||||
| Club | Mercantile Rowing Club | ||||||||||||||
| Achievements and titles | |||||||||||||||
| National finals | Queen's Cup (W8+) 2015-18 | ||||||||||||||
Medal record
| |||||||||||||||
Addy Dunkley-Smith (born 30 August 1993 in Victoria) is an Australian former national representative rower and a Clinical Psychologist in practice. As a rower she was a four-time Australian national champion and a 2015 medallist at U23 World Rowing Championships.
Dunkley-Smith first learned to row at the Barwon Rowing Club and then at The Geelong College.[1] She rowed in The Geelong College's first VIII in Victorian Schools Head of the River races in 2010 and 2011.[1]
Her mother, Addy Bucek, is a former Australian Olympic sailing representative.[2] Her older brother Joshua is a former national representative rower who won medals at five World Rowing Championships and at two Olympic Games.[3]
Club and state rowing
Dunkley-Smith's senior club rowing has been from the Mercantile Rowing Club.[1]
She was first selected to represent Victoria in the women's youth eight which contested the Bicentennial Cup in the Interstate Regatta at the 2012 Australian Rowing Championships.[4] In 2013 she stroked the Victorian youth eight to a silver medal finish.[5] In 2015 she rowed in the Victorian senior women's eight which contested and won the Queen's Cup at the Australian Interstate Regatta.[6] She rowed in further Queen's Cup winning Victorian women's eights in 2016,[7] 2017,[8] and 2018.[9]
International representative rowing
Dunkley-Smith made her Australian representative debut in 2013 in the Trans-Tasman Series of match races against New Zealand crews on Lake Karopiro, New Zealand.[1] In 2014 she made it into the U23 Australian eight which at the U23 World Championships in Varese that year placed fourth.[10] In 2015 she rowed with Katrina Werry in the coxless pair to a bronze medal win at the World Rowing U23 Championships in Plovdiv.[10]
Dunkley-Smith made the Australian senior squad and into the three seat of the senior women's eight when they started their 2018 international campaign with a bronze medal win at the World Rowing Cup II in Linz, Austria.[10] Then at the WRC III in Lucerne they finished fifth. For the 2018 World Rowing Championships in Plovdiv Dinkley-Smith lost her seat in the eight to Rosie Popa and she raced in Australia's coxless pair with Hannah Vermeersch. They placed eighth overall at that regatta which was Dunkley-Smith's last Australian representative appearance.[10]
