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2022 Heavyweight Rowing Roster

Neil Kennedy

  • Height 6-0
  • Class Senior
  • Hometown Fronthill, Ontario
  • Previous School EL Crossley Secondary School
  • College Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Sciences

Biography

2019-20 (Sophomore): Season canceled (COVID-19).

2018-19 (First-Year): Rowed at Bow for the Varsity Eight at the EARC Sprints and IRA National Championships.

HIGH SCHOOL: A 2018 graduate of EL Crossley Secondary School in Ontario, Canada … Competed on the varsity rowing all four years and cross country for two seasons … Two-time World Rowing Junior Championships participant and earned a seventh-place finish with the coxed four in 2018 and ninth place with the straight four in 2017 … Took first place at 2018 CSSRA Championships in the senior men’s eight and senior men’s pair ... Also victorious in 2018 Stotesbury Cup Regatta (Senior Men’s Double) … Named EL Crossley’s 2018 Graduating Athlete of the Year … Won senior men’s quad at 2017 CSSRA’s … Reached top of podium at 2017 Head of the Charles Regatta with the youth men’s four, setting a course record … Earned a win at 2016 Royal Canadian Henley Regatta with the junior men’s quad.

 PERSONAL: Born April 21, 2000 … Son of Kerry and Sean Kennedy … Has one brother, Aidan … Enrolled at Fu Foundation School of Engineering.

Historical Player Information

  • 2019First Year

    6'0"
  • 2020Sophomore

    6'0"
  • 2020-21Junior

    6'0"
  • 2022Senior

    6'0"