Kaylynn Fry
Australian rower
Kaylynn Maree Fry is an Australian former rowing coxswain. She was a nine-time national champion, a representative at World Championships, a 1996 Olympian and Commonwealth Games gold medallist.
Club and state rowing
Fry was educated at Methodist Ladies' College, Melbourne where she was introduced to rowing and coached by Australian national and senior Victorian coxswain Susie Palfreyman. Fry coxed an MLC crew which won the 1984 Victorian Public Schools' women's four.
Fry's senior coxing was with the Melbourne University Ladies Boat Club. During her Australian Institute of Sport scholarship years she rowed from the Canberra Rowing Club.
She first made state selection for Victoria in 1982 steering the senior women's four who contested and won the ULVA Trophy at the Interstate Regatta. She coxed further Victorian women's crews who won the ULVA Trophy in 1985 and 1987.
In 1982 and 1985 in MUBC colours she steered women's fours to national championship titles at the Australian Rowing Championships. In 1985 she was one of the first recipients of a scholarship to the Australian Institute of Sport.
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