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Alice White (rower)

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Alice Jean White also known as Alice Jackson (born 20 January 1993) is a British-New Zealand rower.[1] She has represented both New Zealand and Great Britain in junior and senior level rowing competitions. White has competed in and twice won the annual UK Boat Race in 2017 and 2018, representing Cambridge, and helping to set the course record in the 2017 race. She has twice competed in the NCAA Championships in the United States.[3][4] Originally from Yorkshire, England, she emigrated to first to New Zealand as a child, where she attended high school, before attending the University of California, Los Angeles to study psychobiology, and then Cambridge studying Clinical Neuroscience with a focus on Huntington's disease.

Alice White
Alice White during the 2018 Cancer Research UK Boat Race
Personal information
Full nameAlice Jean White
NationalityBritish/New Zealand
CitizenshipBritish
Born (1993-01-20) 20 January 1993 (age 31)[1]
EducationHomerton College, Cambridge
Alma materCambridge University
University of California, Los Angeles
Years active2009–present
Height176 cm (69 in)
Weight76.3 kg (168 lb)[2]
Sport
Country United Kingdom/ New Zealand
SportRowing
PositionPort
Medal record
Women's rowing
The Boat Race
Gold medal – first place 2017 team
Gold medal – first place 2018 team

Early life

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Alice White was born to Edward White and Louise Wild on 20 January 1993. She has one brother, Sam.[5] Originally from Bradford, she lived in Yorkshire, until the age of 10 when her parents emigrated to New Zealand, where she attended Hillcrest High School in Hamilton.[5][6][7] White became interested in rowing following the Beijing Olympics in 2008, watching Georgina and Caroline Evers-Swindell. According to White, she attended a "two-week learn to row programme and really didn't like it". She was later reintroduced to the sport the following year, when friends asked her to fill the final remaining seat on their boat.[8]

Competing with the Hamilton Rowing Club and the Waikato Regional Performance Center, she was named as the most promising athlete in 2009, and in 2010 was named the Hamilton Club's "rower of the year'.[5]

Career

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White started rowing in 2009 when she was living in New Zealand. She represented New Zealand at the 2011 World Junior Rowing Championships, where she won the bronze medal.[9][10]

White attended the University of California, Los Angeles studying for a degree in psychobiology. While there, she competed in the NCAA Championships, where her team finished first in the V8+ Petite Final in 2013, and saw two third-place finishes in the V8+ in 2014, going on to finish first in the C Final. She was named by the Collegiate Rowing Coaches Association, as a National Scholar-Athlete in 2015 and again in 2016.[5][11][12]

She represented Great Britain in the 2015 World Rowing U23 Championships in Plovdiv, Bulgaria, where her team finished third, behind Russia and the United States.[13] She, along with Georgie Haycraft advanced to the final round of the Rosie Mayglothling Trophy in 2015 in the double sculls, but lost to the Molesey Boat Club.[14] The same year, she won the gold medal at the Great Britain Under 23 event.[15]

She then moved to the University of Cambridge, to study for her Master of Philosophy at the Homerton College.[8][10][15] There, she studies in the Department of Clinical Neuroscience with a focus on researching Huntington's disease.[16] White represented Cambridge University in the 2018 The Boat Race, also known as the Women's Cancer Research UK Boat Race, where her team broke the course record by more than a minute, at an overall time of 18 minutes and 33 seconds.[17][18][19] She was one of two rowers from the 2017 team to return to the race in 2018, along with Miriam Goudet-Boukhatmi, where they again won with at time of 19 minutes and 15 seconds.[20][21][22]

Charitable work

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White volunteers at Eddie's, an English charity directed at helping youth and adults with learning disabilities, and works specifically with those who have autism.[16]

References

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  1. ^ a b "Alice White – worldrowing.com". www.worldrowing.com. Retrieved 1 August 2018.
  2. ^ Morgan, Lucy (28 March 2017). "Women's Rowing: Getting to Know The Team". bluebirdnews.co.uk. Retrieved 15 November 2018.
  3. ^ "A few thoughts on the Oxford and Cambridge Women's Boat Race squads". Fatsculler's rowing blog. 29 November 2017. Retrieved 1 August 2018.
  4. ^ McVeigh, Niall (24 March 2018). "Boat Race 2018: Cambridge beat Oxford in men's and women's race – as it happened". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 1 August 2018.
  5. ^ a b c d "UCLA Athletics". uclabruins.com. Retrieved 1 August 2018.
  6. ^ "Boat Race 2017: Cambridge's White making most of 'second attempt'". cambridge-news. 29 March 2017. Retrieved 1 August 2018.
  7. ^ "Alice White – CUWBC". CUWBC. Archived from the original on 1 August 2018. Retrieved 1 August 2018.
  8. ^ a b Vaughton, Michael (29 March 2017). "Boat Race 2017: Globe-trotting Alice White making the most of 'second attempt' at rowing at Cambridge". Cambridge News. Retrieved 15 November 2018.
  9. ^ "Events". www.worldrowing.com. Retrieved 1 August 2018.
  10. ^ a b Caldwell, Olivia (30 March 2017). "Kiwis in world famous boat race". The Press. Retrieved 15 November 2018.
  11. ^ "CRCA Announces 2016 Scholar Athlete Awards". Collegiate Rowing Coaches Association. Retrieved 15 November 2018.
  12. ^ "CRCA Announces 2015 Scholar Athlete Awards". Collegiate Rowing Coaches Association. Retrieved 15 November 2018.
  13. ^ "Events". www.worldrowing.com. Retrieved 1 August 2018.
  14. ^ "Henley make history with three wins at record-breaking women's regatta". Henley Standard. 25 June 2018. Retrieved 15 November 2018.
  15. ^ a b Thomas, Lauren (21 October 2016). "CUWBC Crews for British Rowing Senior Championships". sport.cam.ac.uk. Retrieved 15 November 2018.
  16. ^ a b Gardner, Gemma (15 June 2018). "The Boat Race winner and Cambridge PhD student who loves Eddie's volunteer role". The Cambridge Independent. Retrieved 15 November 2018.
  17. ^ Mason, Aaron (3 April 2017). "Boat Race 2017: What was Alice White thinking after Cambridge gained a big lead in women's race?". Cambridge News. Retrieved 15 November 2018.
  18. ^ Goodbody, John (24 March 2018). "Cambridge's women blow rivals away in emphatic boat race victory". The Times. Retrieved 15 November 2018.
  19. ^ "2017 Blue Boat Crews Announced – The Boat Race". The Boat Race. 14 March 2017. Retrieved 1 August 2018.
  20. ^ Street, Tim (24 March 2018). "Meet the Cambridge women's crew for the Boat Race 2018". cambridgenews. Retrieved 1 August 2018.
  21. ^ Taylor, Mark. "Boat Race 2017: World traveller Alice White balances mind and matter at Cambridge University". Cambridge Independent. Retrieved 1 August 2018.
  22. ^ "The Boat Races 2018: Cambridge take clean sweep – As it happened". Varsity. 24 March 2018. Retrieved 15 November 2018.
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