Kate Grose

Katherine L.F. Grose (born 7 February 1959) is a British retired rower, who competed at the 1988 Summer Olympics and the 1992 Summer Olympics.

Rowing career Grose took up rowing while at Cambridge University in 1978. Six years later she was in the women's boat race rowing for the blue boat when studying for a post graduate architecture diploma and was part of the Cambridge boat that won the eight at the 1984 National Championships.

She represented England and won a silver medal in the eight, at the 1986 Commonwealth Games in Edinburgh and competed in the 1986 World Rowing Championships. and rowed in her second World Championships in Copenhagen.

Grose competed in both the 1989 and 1990 World Championships and was part of the coxless fours with Miriam Batten, Kareen Marwick and Caroline Christie that won the national title rowing for the British squad at the 1990 National Championships.

In 1992 she was selected to represent Great Britain in her second Olympics, in the women's eight event at the 1992 Olympic Games in Barcelona. The team which consisted of Grose, Rachel Hirst, Fiona Freckleton, Philippa Cross, Dot Blackie, Susan Smith, Kareen Marwick, Katharine Brownlow and Alison Paterson finished in seventh place.