Sally Newmarch

Sally Newmarch (born 2 June 1975), now known as Sally Callie, is an Australian former rower – a four-time national champion, a medal winning national representative who competed at World Rowing Championships from 1993 to 2004 and a three time Olympian.

Club and state rowing Newmarch attended Annesley College in Adelaide where she took up rowing. Her senior club rowing was from the Torrens Rowing Club in Adelaide.

From 1993 to 1998 she was selected as South Australia's single sculls representative to contest the Nell Slatter Trophy at the Interstate Regatta within the Australian Rowing Championships although in 1996 she was selected but did not start. In 1999 Newmarch changed down to lightweight status and at state level was then selected in South Australian lightweight quads contesting the Victoria Cup at the Interstate Regatta. She stroked that quad in 1999 and in 2000 to a Victoria Cup victory. In 2003 and 2004 she crewed further South Australian quads to Victoria Cup wins.

In Torrens Rowing Club colours she contested national championship titles at numerous Australian Rowing Championships. She contested the 1994 and the 1996 open women's single scull and in 2003 and 2004 she raced in composite selections crews who won consecutive national lightweight quad sculls championship titles.

International representative rowing Newmarch's Australian representative debut came in 1993 as a single sculler. She competed at the World Rowing Cup I in Melbourne that year and at the WRC II in Mexico City. Then at the 1993 Junior World Rowing Championships in Aarungen, Norway she was Australia's junior single sculls entrant and raced to a silver medal.

In 1994 aged nineteen she moved into the Australian senior women's quad scull. She stroked the quad at the 1994 World Rowing Championships in Indianapolis to fourth place. Newmarch's preparations were hampered by a cycling accident in training. She broke three ribs three months out from the Olympics and was prevented from racing in the lead-up World Cups. – as of 2021 it still stands as an Olympic record. But the 2004 Olympic final was rowed in calm, glassy conditions and Newmarch and Halliday's disrupted fitness program showed. The Romanians rowed through them in the third 500 m and the Germans and Dutch also came over the top of the Australians. They finished in fourth place.

Post-competitive rowing Following her 2004 retirement Newmarch married former South African rower John Callie, became known as Sally Callie and embarked on a teaching career. In 2010 she taught at Methodist Ladies' College, Perth and was Sports Coordinator and a rowing coach. Since 2013 she has been Director of Rowing at Brisbane Girls Grammar School.