Phoebe Spoors

Career At the February 2011 New Zealand national championships held at Lake Ruataniwha, she competed in two U19 boat classes starting for the Canterbury Rowing Club. She came first with the double scull and second with the coxed four.

At the February 2012 New Zealand national championships held at Lake Karapiro, she competed in five boat classes starting for the Avon Rowing Club; this was the year after she had finished high school.

In the 2012/13 season, she was a member of the Southern Rowing Performance Centre. At the February 2013 New Zealand national championships held at Lake Ruataniwha, she started in three age group boat classes and one premier boat class. With the premier coxless four, she came third. With both the U20 coxless four and the U22 eight, she came first. With the U22 coxless pair she came fourth.

Spoors then moved to the United States to study at the University of Washington and to join her twin sister Grace on the university's rowing team.

At the February 2018 New Zealand national championships held at Lake Karapiro, she competed in two premier boat classes rowing for the Regional Performance Centre South and she won her first premier national title. With the eight, she came second. With the coxless four, she became national champion alongside Emma Dyke, Grace Prendergast, and her elder sister Lucy. Her performance at the nationals impressed the selectors of Rowing New Zealand and she made the national team, being placed in the coxless four alongside Kirstyn Goodger, Ruby Tew, and Elizabeth Jeurissen.

At the February 2019 New Zealand national championships held at Lake Ruataniwha, she competed in three premier boat classes and gained two national titles. With the coxless pair, she came second teamed up with Davina Waddy. With the coxless four and the eight, she won national championships. She was again invited to join the sweep squad and was joined by Davina Waddy, Kelsi Walters, and Eve Macfarlane in the coxless four. They went to the 2019 World Rowing Cups II (Poznań, Poland) and III (Rotterdam, Netherlands), where the team came eights and twelves, respectively. At the 2019 World Rowing Championships in Linz-Ottensheim, Austria, they came eleventh.

At the 2020 New Zealand rowing nationals at Lake Karapiro, Spoors competed in the coxless four and won the national title. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, there was no international rowing during 2020. Two weeks later at the 2021 New Zealand rowing nationals at Lake Ruataniwha, Spoors competed in three boat classes. In the squad scull, she came sixth. In the eight, she came third. In the coxless four, she lost her national title and came second. When New Zealand's Olympic team was announced in June 2021, Spoors was listed as one of ten rowers designated for the women's eight. The seats were confirmed on 9 July 2021, with both Spoors sisters as part of the team. However, Grace Prendergast and Kerri Gowler did double-duty in the women's pair and the eight, with Kirstyn Goodger and Phoebe Spoors remaining unused reserve rowers.

National titles National titles for senior rowers are known as Red Coats in New Zealand. As of 2021, Spoors has won four premier Red Coats.