Alice McNamara

Dr. Alice McNamara (born 22 February 1986) is an Australian sports physician and former representative lightweight rower. She was a national champion and a back-to-back world champion in 2007 and 2008. She represented Australia at nine successive World Rowing Championships in lightweight sculling events.

Club and state rowing McNamara's senior rowing was done from the Melbourne University Ladies Boat Club.

From 2006 to 2017 on twelve successive occasions, she rowed in Victorian state representative crews contesting the Victoria Cup in the women's lightweight quad scull at the Interstate Regatta within the Australian Rowing Championships. She stroked those crews on six occasions including to their victory in 2006.

In MUBC colours she contested national titles at the Australian Rowing Championships on a number of occasions. She raced in the lightweight double scull in 2006, 2007 and 2008 winning the national championship in 2008; in the lightweight quad scull in 2006 and 2007; and she contested the lightweight single scull event in 2008 to an Australian title win in 2008.

International representative rowing McNamara first represented for Australia at the 2005 Rowing World Cup III in Lucerne. In 2005 and in 2006 she was selected to contest the World Rowing U23 Championships in the lightweight double scull. At both championships she raced with Jessica Huston, they won the bronze in Amsterdam in 2005.

McNamara was elevated to the senior Australian women's lightweight quad for the 2007 World Rowing Championships in Munich. Seated at three with Bronwen Watson, Miranda Bennett, and Tara Kelly they won their heat and lead the final from the 500 m mark to claim the gold and McNamara's first World Championships title. This was McNamara's second World Championship title.