Phoebe Stanley

Phoebe Stanley (born 17 October 1985) is an Australian rower. She was a ten-time Australian national champion, including four victories as the stroke of Victorian state Queen's Cup winning eights. She won medals at world championships and represented Australia at the 2012 Summer Olympics in rowing.

Personal Stanley was born on 17 October 1985 in Geelong. She was educated at Wallington Primary School and The Geelong College in Victoria before studying for a Bachelor of Science at the University of Melbourne from 2004 to 2007.

Club and state rowing Stanley is a rower competing in pairs and doubles races. In 2007 she was selected in the Victorian senior women's eight to compete for the Queen's Cup at the Interstate Regatta. She raced in eight successive victorious Victorian Queen's Cup eights from 2007 to 2014 including the emphatic 2008 13 sec margin victory. She stroked those crews in 2007, 2010, 2011 and 2012.

In Melbourne University colours she contested national championship titles at the Australian Rowing Championships on a number of occasions. She stroked a Melbourne Uni crews to the open women's eight championship and the open women's coxless pair title at the 2011 Australian Rowing Championships in West Lakes, Australia.

International representative rowing Stanley's Australian representative debut was in 2006 at the World Rowing U23 Championships in Hazewinkel, Belgium. She raced in the Australian eight (to a fifth placing) and in a coxless pair with Katelyn Gray to a bronze medal. In 2007 she was elevated to the Australian senior women's squad. She competed at the World Rowing Cups I and II in Europe before racing at the 2007 World Rowing Championships in Munich in the coxless four to a bronze medal. Crews were selected in March and Rowing Australia initially decided not to send a women's eight to the 2012 Summer Olympics but this decision was reversed, a squad of ten was selected and soon after Stanley secured her seat at stroke in the Australian women's eight. She led them to victory (and Olympic qualification) in a qualification event in Lucerne; a fifth placing at the World Rowing Cup III in Munich, Germany and fourth place at the World Rowing Cup II in Lucerne, Switzerland. At the London Olympics, she stroked the Australian eight to a second placed in their heat, final qualification through a repechage and then to sixth place in the Olympic final.