ALICE Coltman helped add another layer to Ballarat Clarendon College’s rich rowing history on Sunday.
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Alice (bow) and crew, comprising Lucy Joyce (three seat), Julia Kittelty (two seat), Georgina Jackson (stroke) and coxswain Eliza Millen, took out the Ballarat Associated Schools girls Head of the Lake in convincing fashion.
Rowing has always been in the Coltman blood. Indeed, Alice’s great-great-uncle John Coltman stroked BCC’s first winning crew more than 95 years ago, in 1920.
On Monday, Alice said it
was family history that made her strive for rowing glory.
“It definitely makes a difference when you have been told a story like that and then want to do something similar,” she said.
“Dad talks about it a lot; it’s pretty special.”
With rowing seemingly a family affair, Alice’s brother Angus was bow for BCC’s first crew last year, while her father Steven and aunty Tania Coltman also rowed for the school.
“You always want to do your best, you want to make them proud,” Alice said.
Alice, who began rowing at the school in year 9, said she had always wanted to be in the firsts crew.