Kathryn Rowan

Kathryn "Kate" Rowan (born 16 December 1996) is an Australian representative rower. She has represented at underage and senior World Championships.

Club and state rowing Rowan was raised in Queensland and attended St Peters Lutheran College in Brisbane. Her senior club rowing was initially from the University of Queensland Boat Club. She was selected into a New South Wales Institute of Sports program in 2021 and thereafter rowed with the Sydney University Boat Club.

Rowan first made state selection for Queensland in the 2018 women's senior eight which contested the Queen's Cup at the Interstate Regatta within the Australian Rowing Championships. She represented again in Queensland Queen's Cup eights in 2019 and 2021.

International representative rowing Rowan's Australian representative debut was in 2014 when she rowed in a coxless four at the World Junior Rowing Championships in Hamburg to a tenth placing. She rowed in the Australian women's quad scull at World Rowing Cups II and III in Poznan and Lucerne. At the 2022 World Rowing Championships at Racize, she stroked the Australian women's quad. They made the A final and finished in sixth place. At 2023's RWC III in Lucerne, Rowan took the seat of Ria Thompson and raced with Rowena Meredith, Caitlin Cronin and Harriet Hudson in Australia's W4X. The boat repeated its result at RWCII three weeks earlier, finishing 2nd in the B final for an overall eighth placing.