Perry began rowing back in 1999 while at school at St Ignatius  College, Riverview. Perry took a hiatus from rowing after he left school but took it up again in 2012 when he moved to Canberra. At the 2015 Sydney International Rowing Regatta Perry took silver in the Lightweight Men's Single Scull and gold medals in the Lightweight Men's Double Scull and the Lightweight Men's Quadruple Scull. This season, he will race at the World Rowing Championships in the Lightweight Men's Quadruple Scull with Edward de Carvalho, James Wilson and Jonothon Hookway.