SASI

South Australia’s Home of High-Performance Rowing

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The SASI Rowing Program is a National Training Center within Rowing Australia’s High Performance Program and has a senior and junior focus with the aim of achieving national team representation, contributing to podium success at international benchmark events.

In 2024, SASI opened its new $88 million high-performance hub at Mile End — giving South Australia’s elite rowers world-class training, recovery and sports-science facilities alongside the state’s other Olympic and Paralympic pathways.

SASI has a long history of success. Check out the current and past athletes below.

Current SASI Athletes

Jasper Boyce

SASI

Oliver Evans-Wood

SASI

Oliver Evans-Wood competed for Australia at the 2026 World Cup III.

Grace Barrera

Adelaide Rowing Club / SASI

Grace Barrera was selected in the Women’s Eight (W8+) for Australia’s 2025 representative team.

Tamara Bates

Adelaide Rowing Club / SASI

Tamara Bates was selected in the Women’s Eight (W8+) for Australia’s 2025 representative team.

Hamish Allan

SASI

Caroline McNally

SASI

Graduated SASI Athletes / National Training Centre (NTC)

Athletes who progressed through the SASI program to Australia’s National Training Centres

Alexander Hill OAM

Adelaide Rowing Club

Alex Hill won gold in the Men’s Four at the 2011 Junior World Championships, then back-to-back senior World Championship gold medals in the Men’s Four in 2017 and 2018 – the first time in 26 years Australia had won that boat class – and was named 2018 World Rowing Male Crew of the Year. At the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games, Hill won Olympic gold as stroke of the Australian Men’s Four, breaking Australia’s run of three consecutive Olympic silver medals in the boat class and matching Australia’s last Men’s Four gold at Atlanta 1996. He was named 2021 South Australian Athlete of the Year, and the Mayor of Loxton named Alexander Hill Drive in his honour.

Hill was named in Australia’s 2024 Olympic & Paralympic Team, and in 2026 won gold with fellow South Australian Angus Dawson in the Men’s Pair at World Cup III in Lucerne – the same pairing that won the Australian Championship title together back in 2021.

Angus Dawson

Adelaide Rowing Club

Angus Dawson is currently studying at the University of California Berkeley, but due to COVID returned to Australia and was consequently selected into Australia’s Men’s Eight in 2021. He’s now based out of the Reinhold Batschi Men’s NTC in Canberra. The young South Australian has represented Australia at Under 23 level, winning gold in the U23 Men’s Coxed Eight at the 2019 World Rowing Under 23 Championships.

From rural South Australia, Dingabledinga, Dawson went to school at St Peter’s College, Adelaide. In 2021, he raced in the Open Men’s Pair at the Australian Rowing Championships, winning the title with fellow South Australian, Alexander Hill.

Dawson was named in Australia’s 2024 Olympic & Paralympic Team (Men’s Eight) and selected again for the 2025 Australian U23 Team. In 2026 he won gold in the Men’s Pair with training partner Alexander Hill at World Cup III in Lucerne.

Mitchell Reinhard

Adelaide Rowing Club / SASI

Mitchell Reinhard has represented Australia in the Men’s Double Sculls (M2x), including at the combined U19/U23 World Championships in St Catharines, Canada, and the 2025 Australian U23 Team.

Oscar McGuiness

Adelaide Rowing Club

He started Rowing at the age of 16 under the guidance of Australian dual Olympian, Sam Loch. His father, Tony, is a former AFL player with the Adelaide Crows.

Oscar represented Australia in the Men’s Lightweight Single Scull at the 2022 World Cup 3 regatta (Lucerne, Switzerland) and placed 4th in the A-Final. He will team up with Redmond Matthews in the Men’s Lightweight Double Scull for the 2022 World Championships held in Račice, Czech Republic (September 18 to 25).

Off the water, Oscar is studying a Sport and Exercise Science degree at the University of South Australia.

McGuinness has continued to represent Australia through the U23 and open programs, most recently racing in the Men’s Double Sculls at the 2026 World Cup III in Lucerne.

Ella Bramwell

Adelaide Rowing Club

In 2022, Ella was selected in the Australian Rowing Team (ART) Women’s Sweep Squad. At the World Cup III regatta in Lucerne (July 2022), Ella raced in the Women’s Eight that won a historical Gold Medal.

Bramwell has continued to represent Australia through the U23 program in 2024 and 2025, and won silver in the Women’s Eight at the 2026 World Cup III in Lucerne.

Nick Blackman

Adelaide University Boat Club

U21 Athlete

Blackman has since progressed through Australia’s U23 and open representative programs, most recently racing in the Men’s Double Sculls at the 2026 World Cup III in Lucerne.

Sam Stunnell

Adelaide Rowing Club / SASI

Sam Stunnell is a para-rowing athlete selected in the PR3 Mixed Double Sculls and PR3 Men’s Single Sculls for Australia’s 2025 representative teams.

SASI Alumni

Historical SASI athletes selected onto Australian representative teams, drawn from Rowing SA’s own Annual Reports

Jed Altschwager

Torrens Rowing Club

PR3 Athlete

It would come as a surprise to most that Jed Altschwager did very little in the way of exercise before entering the world of Para-sport. Surfing was the extent of his fitness regime, but after losing his lower leg in a workplace accident when an excavator crushed his left foot, sport became an important part of Jed’s journey back to full physical and mental health. Enter CrossFit.

Then in 2016, Jed was approached by Paralympics Australia’s Talent Identification Manager and three-time Paralympian Tim Matthews, who had seen a video of him using a rowing machine and recognised his potential in Para-sport. Enter Para-rowing.

Jed made his international debut at the 2018 World Rowing Championships in Plovdiv, Bulgaria, where he won a silver medal with James Talbot, and returned to international waters for the 2019 World Rowing Championships in Ottensheim, Austria, to defend his silver medal, this time with Will Smith (the other Will Smith).

Even as a dual World Championships silver medallist, however, Jed is still fighting hard to secure a place on the 2020 Australian Paralympic Team – his medal-winning discipline, the pairs PR3, is not a Paralympic event, which means that he has had to shift his focus and training to one of the most fiercely competitive events in Australian Paralympic sport, the mixed coxed four.

Altschwager went on to combine with Nikki Ayers in the PR3 Mixed Double Sculls, and the pair won gold at the Paris 2024 Paralympic Games – the first-ever Paralympic gold medal for Australia in rowing.

Molly Goodman

Adelaide Rowing Club

Molly Goodman made her international debut in 2011 at the Junior World Championships in the quad sculls. In 2013 she was fourth in the final of the women’s eight at the U23 World Championships. Goodman made her first senior A team in 2014 competing at the Lucerne World Cup and the World Championships in the women’s eight.

In 2015, Goodman rowed in the Women’s Pair with Genevieve Horton, while in 2016 she was in Australia’s Women’s Eight at the 2016 Rio Olympic Games. In 2017, she was named in the Women’s Four, alongside Lucy Stephan, Sarah Hawe and Katrina Werry. She went on to win three gold medals in the season – winning at World Rowing Cups 2 and 3, as well as at the 2017 World Rowing Championships. She rounded off 2017, alongside her crew, by claiming the 2017 Female Crew of the Year at the 2017 Hancock Prospecting Rower of the Year Awards.

In 2018, Goodman was once again selected to represent Australia, in the Women’s Four, at World Rowing Cups 2 and 3 and World Rowing Championships. Goodman also stroked Australia’s Women’s Eight to victory in the Remenham Challenge Cup at the 2018 Henley Royal Regatta.

Based at the Hancock Prospecting Women’s NTC in Penrith, Goodman is currently studying a Batchelor of Criminology, names Aiguebelette in France as her favourite rowing venue and says her favourite songs to listen to before racing are either ‘Would I Lie to You’ by Charles & Eddie or ‘Lean on Me’ by Billy Withers.

Goodman was selected to row in the Women’s Eight for the rescheduled Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games. The crew made the A-final and finished in 5^th place.

Goodman was named in Australia’s 2024 Olympic & Paralympic Team (Women’s Four), continuing an international career that began at the 2016 Rio Olympics.

Olympia Aldersey

Adelaide Rowing Club

Born during the Opening Ceremony of the 1992 Barcelona Olympic Games, her parents named her Olympia and at age 15 she took up rowing in the hope that the sport would see her achieve her Olympic dreams.

Aldersey competed at the 2010 Singapore Youth Olympic Games where she won silver with Emma Basher in the women’s pair. Also in 2010 she took bronze at the Junior World Championships in the women’s four. Two years later, Aldersey was crowned as an U23 World Champion in the women’s quad sculls. Still in the quad sculls, Aldersey had podium finishes at all three World Cups in 2013.

In 2014, she joined with veteran Sally Kehoe in the double sculls. In the semi-final of the 2014 World Championships, Aldersey and Kehoe posted the world’s fastest time in the double sculls – 06:37.310. They went on to place third in the final and take home the bronze medal. The pair also won gold at the Sydney and Aiguebelette World Cups in 2014.

Aldersey is studying a double degree in Law and Health Science at Adelaide University. In 2016, Aldersey competed at the 2016 Rio Olympic Games in the Women’s Eight, while also acting as the women’s sculling reserve. In 2017, she was joined the Hancock Prospecting Women’s NTC and was named in the Women’s Double Scull for World Rowing Cups 2 and 3 and World Rowing Championships with Maddie Edmunds. The duo went on to win bronze at the 2017 World Rowing Championships in Florida. In 2018, Aldersey was selected into the Women’s Quadruple Scull to race at the World Rowing Cups 2 and 3 and the World Rowing Championships.

In 2019, Aldersey made the switch from scull to sweep rowing – winning medals at the two World Rowing Cups and being crowned World Rowing Champion is the Women’s Four.

Aldersey was selected to row in the Women’s Eight for the rescheduled Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games. The crew made the A-final and finished in 5^th place.

Aldersey was named in Australia’s 2024 Olympic & Paralympic Team (Women’s Four), extending an international career spanning more than a decade.

Simon Albury

Torrens Rowing Club

PR2 Athlete

Simon Albury was born and raised in Brisbane before moving to Alice Springs when he was 20. He lived and worked in Alice Springs for 15 years before moving to Balaklava in South Australia in 2017. In December that year, Simon had a workplace accident on a farm in which he fell into a hay baling machine and lost both his legs.

At the end of 2019, Simon took up rowing as a way to exercise and within two years the father of four was selected in the 2021 Australian Rowing Team in the PR2 Mixed Double Scull. He won the PR2 Men’s Single Scull Championship of Australia in 2021 and has combined with Kathryn Ross in the PR2 Mixed Double Scull to secure a place on the Australian Paralympic Team for the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games

Adam Holland

Adelaide Rowing Club / SASI

Adam Holland has represented Australia in the Men’s Quad Sculls (M4x), including selection for the 2025 representative team, having earlier been part of Australia’s U21 Team in 2022/23.

Amber Halliday

Adelaide University Boat Club

Amber Halliday won gold and set a world record in the Women’s Lightweight Quadruple Scull at the 2001 World Championships in Lucerne, then backed it up with a second gold at the 2002 World Championships in Seville, partnering Sally Causby in the Lightweight Double Scull. She went on to represent Australia at the 2004 Athens Olympics in the Women’s Lightweight Double Scull with Sally Newmarch, setting a world record in the heats before placing 4th in the final. She went on to further World Championship selections with Marguerite Houston from 2005 to 2007.

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Torrens Rowing Club

Adelaide Rowing Club

Kane Grant was selected in the SASI representative squad across the Men’s Pair, Four and Eight in 2016.

Tim Santin

Adelaide Rowing Club

Tim Santin was selected in the SASI representative squad across the Men’s Pair, Four and Eight in 2016.

Verayna Zilm

Adelaide Rowing Club

Verayna Zilm was selected in the SASI representative squad across the Lightweight Double, Quad and Eight in 2016.

Annabel Gibson

Adelaide Rowing Club

Annabel Gibson represented Australia in the Lightweight Double Scull at the 2016 World University Games in Poznan, Poland.

The SA State Pathway Program, a joint program between Rowing SA, SASI, and South Australian rowing clubs, provides a clear pathway structure for the development of athletes towards SASI High Performance Scholarships and ultimately the National Training Centres.

TALENT PATHWAY

The Talent Pathway Program is led by the SASI coaching team, Beth Bryant and Katrina Werry. A range of program and initiatives are structured to provide quality underpinning programs, to support emerging, existing, talented rowers and to identify raw talent from non-rowing backgrounds. The Talent Pathway Program covers a variety of different programs – the SASI High Performance Scholarship, the SASI Associate Scholarship, the Junior Training Agreement, the Pathway Eights and row4gold. A table of the programs and who to contact can be found here.

For further information, please contact:
Beth Bryant, SASI Coach
Katrina Werry, SASI Coach

SASI Website