Kendall Brodie

Kendall Brodie (born 21 November 1991) is an Australian national champion and national representative rowing coxswain who won medals at the 2018 and 2022 World Championships. In 2018 she became the first Australian female coxswain to steer a representative Australian male crew under the FISA gender-neutral coxswain selection policy initiated in 2017. She was awarded a scholarship with the New South Wales Institute of Sport.

She was first selected to represent New South Wales in the women's eight contesting the Queen's Cup in the Interstate Regatta within the 2013 Australian Rowing Championships. For six consecutive years from 2013 to 2018 she coxed New South Wales senior women's eights in the Queen's Cup. In 2019, 2021, 2022 and 2023 she coxed the New South Wales men's senior eight in the King's Cup. Those crews were victorious in 2019, 2022 and 2023.

International representative rowing In 2017 FISA announced a number of new rule changes, including voting for coxswains to become gender neutral. In 2018 Australian selection processes embraced this new policy resulting in Kendall Brodie being selected to steer the Australian men’s senior eight for the international representative season of 2018. The Australian men's eight with Brodie in the stern started their 2018 international campaign with a fifth placing at the World Rowing Cup II in Linz, Austria. In an Australian selection eight and racing as the Georgina Hope Rinehart National Training Centre, in honour of Rowing Australia patron, Gina Rinehart, Brodie won the 2018 Grand Challenge Cup at the Henley Royal Regatta. The fourth Australian men's eight to ever do so. The following week at the World Rowing Cup III in Lucerne, Brodie steered the Australian eight to silver medal in a thrilling 0.14 second finish behind Germany. The eight were looking for a top five finish at the 2019 World Championships to qualify for the Tokyo Olympics. The eight placed second in their heat and fourth in the final and qualified for Tokyo 2020. At both the World Rowing Cup II in Poznan and at the WRC III in Lucerne, Brodie steered the Australian men's eight to silver medal results. At the Rowing World Cup II in Varese Italy, Brodie coxed the Australian men's eight. In the final after a slow start they rowed through most of the field to take second place and a silver medal. At 2023's RWC III in Lucerne, Brodie again steered the Australian men's eight. In the final they rowed stroke for stroke with their fancied Great Britain rivals but then moved away at the 1000m mark and held on for an upset gold medal victory. For the 2023 World Rowing Championships in Belgrade Serbia, the Australian men's eight was left unchanged with Brodie in the stern. They won their heat powering past the USA eight who had headed them at the 1000m mark. In the A final Australia and Great Britain traded the lead over the first 1000m, but beyond that point the result mirrored that of 2022 with Great Britain exerting dominance by the 1500m, fighting off a fast finishing Dutch eight who took silver and leaving the Australians with the bronze for the second successive year.