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2025-26 Women's Rowing Roster

Nell Murphy

  • Height 5-5
  • Class Freshman
  • Highschool All Hallows' School
  • Hometown Brisbane, Australia

Biography

2025-26:

  • Rowed in the stroke seat of the varsity four, posting a time of 8:02.90 against No. 12 Syracuse and No. 9 Virginia and a 7:46.80 split against No. 3 Yale at the Doc Hosea Invite
  • Posted a 7:53.015 as the stroke seat in the varsity four against Boston University
  • Part of the varsity four that claimed second place with a 9:10.47, defeating Rhode Island
  • Competed in the two seat of the second varsity four at the Lake Morey Regatta, recording a time of 7:43.22
  • Part of the second varsity four that took fifth in the Eastern Sprints grand final, finishing in 7:27.340
  • Sat in the three seat of the first-place third varsity eight at the CAA Championships, where the Huskies claimed their 12th-straight league title, recording a time of 6:46.924

Before Northeastern: Claimed gold at the 2025 Australian Rowing Championships in the Under 23 Lightweight Women's Coxless Pair... Earned bronze at the 2024 Australian Rowing Championships in the Under 19 Women's Coxless Four... Captured the 2024 Queensland State Championship in the Under 21 Women's Eight and the Schoolgirls Double Scull... Won back-to-back State Championships in the Schoolgirls Eight in 2023 and 2024... Claimed back-to-back BSRA Head of the River titles in 2023 and 2024... Competed with the University of Queensland Boat Club in 2023 and 2024... Served as All Hallows' School Rowing Captain in 2024 and was a member of the school's 1st VIII from 2022-24... Recipient of the 2024 Sporting Excellence Award... Five-time recipient of the All Hallows' School Sculling Award (2020-24) and four-time recipient of the All Hallows' School Ergo Award (2020-23)

Personal: Daughter of Catherine Boulton and Thomas Murphy... Has four siblings -- Patrick, Thomas, Niamh, and Conor Murphy... Father is a former professional rugby union player for the Queensland Reds and served as captain of the varsity rugby team at the University of Cambridge... Mother is a former Australian women's national rugby union player (Wallaroo #38) and holds the record for the most tries scored in a single domestic interstate match with six... Majoring in Economics and International Business