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Andrew Wright

Place/DOB: 28/01/1981, Bryn Mawr, PA, USA

Home Town: Burlington, Canada

Living: Oxford

College: St Edmund Hall

Nationality: Canadian/American (dual)

Year Enrolled: 2005

Course: MSc/DPhil Controls Engineering

Course Length: 2/3 years

School: Nelson High School, Burlington, CA

Previous Uni/Col: Syracuse Uni

Height: 6’4”/1.95m

Weight: 14st 1lb/89.2kg

Andrew is studying Controls Engineering and is writing a transfer report to move onto an MSc or DPhil. Previously he graduated from Syracuse University (Magna Cum Laude) with a BSc in Electrical Engineering. Andrew was convinced by his older sister Meghan that he should take up rowing in the spring of 1998. She was an accomplished rower herself and went on to captain Boston University Women’s rowing team. During High School, Andrew rowed at both the Canadian Leander Boat Club and St Catharine’s Rowing Club. In the Autumn of 2000, he started at Syracuse University where he had been recruited and given a scholarship to row. Andrew was a three times varsity boat member while at Syracuse. Outside of collegiate rowing he won medals in the eight and coxed four at the 2001 Canada Summer Games in an U21 competition. For Oxford in 2006, Andrew rowed five seat in Isis and three seat in the composite boat that made it to the semi finals in the Ladies Plate at the Royal Henley Regatta. He has also been an elite level alpine skier and cross country mountain bike racer. For the 2007 Boat Race Campaign, Andrew is one of the Vice Presidents of the OUBC.