MEET THE TEAM
COACHING TEAM
Nick Barton
Head Coach
Nick was born in NZ’s prettiest town, Whanganui. He learned to row at school on Rowing NZ’s spiritual home, the Whanganui River. Nick illustrious rowing career saw him rowing 5 years at Otago University while studying physical education and commerce. After hanging up the sticks in 2004, Nick began work as the Rowing Development Officer for Sport Waikato for two years before really starting his coaching career by jumping in the deep end as Head Coach for Sacred Heart Girls College. Over the next decade Nick coached at Sacred Heart, Villa Maria Christchurch, Waikato University, Oxford University, UK and St Paul’s Collegiate school before taking up a full-time role in Waikato RPC in 2017. Since then, Nick coached in the RPC for five years as well as in the NZ U19 programme for 6 years. Most recently, he has coached the NZ Men’s Coxed Four at the World U23 Rowing Champs in Bulgaria. Nick is now looking forward to his second season as Head Coach of Waikato Rowing Club and is super excited by the caliber of his coaching and management team.
Brett Henry
Men's Senior Coach
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Matt Adam
Assistant Coach
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Steve Wills
Head Women's Coach
Angela began her rowing career at Hamilton Girls High School. While at school Angela made her mark by winning her first red coat, being selected in the NZ Juniors and U23s and was the start of the new generation of annual teams selection to compete at the Junior World Championship albeit a small team of 2 single scullers in 1994.
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At the end of 1995 season Angela was ruled out of the sport due to medical reasons that took her out of the sport till meeting up with Judith Hamilton in 2000.
She moved alliances from Cambridge Rowing Club to Star Boating Club and was selected into the NZ U23s in 2001 and Elite team in 2002-03 until being forced to retire due to a spinal injury.
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Since then Angela moved from athlete to mother and manager running many Swimming and Basketball teams. Angela is a current board member for Swimming Waikato, Parent lead for HBHS Rowing and works at Waikato Hospital as Duty Nurse Manager.
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Megan Glenn
Assistant Coach​
Steve started serious coaching in 1996 with the Marlow Rowing Club women's squad in England after being approached when erging in a gym. He was head women's coach at Marlow from 1998 to 1999, when he returned to NZ. The women's squad at Marlow numbered up to 70 rowers and ranged from world champions to novices.
On returning to NZ, he was recruited by Ian Wright to coach at St Paul's, Hamilton for the 2000-1 season. Following that season he was coaching the Waikato University novices with Peter Baddeley and carried on coaching the women's crew at Waikato for the summer season.
Steve has continued coaching the Waikato Club and RPC women's squad ever since, apart from a few years off. He has overseen 36 Waikato crews that have won NZ titles, ranging from the novice coxed four to the premier eight. He has also coached Waikato in the Great Race seven times, NZ Universities, NZ U21s and Waikato Inter-Provincial squads.
Megan entered the sport of rowing while at St Peter’s Cambridge, winning Maadi and NISS medals during her time at school. Post-school Megan studied a Bachelor of Media Arts whilst continuing her passion of rowing through coaching at St Peter’s. In 2012 Megan took up the position of Boatman at King’s School Worcester, UK and continued to coach and repair boats at the school for 5 years. During this time Megan coached various athletes to British titles on the erg and on the water, as well as being selected as the Assistant Manager for the British J16 team in 2015 and 2016. Megan then spent 2 years as the Head Coach for a Community rowing club in Oxford, Hinksey Sculling School; coaching athletes through the British trials system and coaching athletes into the English Rowing Team for the Home Countries Regatta in 2018. Megan has joined Waikato Rowing Club in 2023 after returning to New Zealand in late 2018 to take up the position of Assistant Director or Rowing at St Peter’s Cambridge. During her time at St Peter’s Megan has coached crews to Maadi and NISS medals as well as athletes into the New Zealand U19 and North Island U18 teams. Megan coached the North Island U18 Men’s quad in 2019, New Zealand Universities Trans-Tasman Men’s eight in 2021 and the New Zealand U21 Men’s Four and Eight in 2022.
Angela Bourke
Women's Coach
Leanne Henry
Assistant Coach
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Sinead Cooper
Manager
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OUR CLUB CAPTAINS
Seb Fulton
Club Captain
Hi my names Seb. I started rowing in 2016 in my first year at St. John’s college. I’ve had an interest in rowing from a young age and came into my first season weighing in at a whopping 50kgs being a few kilos lighter than my coxswain. After a bit of growing and a lot of hardwork I was able to finish my last 2 seasons of high school rowing with a handful of medals. I started rowing at Waikato in the 2020-2021 season. I had a break the following season then came back re kindling my passion for the sport with the help from a few awesome coaches being one of the major reasons I love this club. The competitive atmosphere and wide range of abilities within the club make it a great place to further your ability as an athlete and make some good friends along the way. I hope to have a successful season this year coming away with some medals and have aspirations to make the NZ u23’s next year. I can’t wait for this season to come and hope I can help building another strong tight knit group of athletes. looking forward to putting in some hard work and seeing what the season will bring.
Hi everyone! I’m excited to start my 3rd season with WRC. It’s been an amazing couple of years learning a new sport and meeting lots of cool like minded people. I’ve enjoyed the positive and competitive environment at WRC and being around driven and committed athletes. Off water, I’m a recently qualified lawyer working full time in the Resource Management space. Like many other athletes balancing work and/ or study alongside their training, it’s definitely a tough gig but we all make it work. I’m looking forward to leading the squad this year with Seb and hope to contribute to building a cool culture here at Waikato!
Frances Casey
Club Captain