President

Sarah Whitley

president@standrewboatclub.org.uk

Sarah joined St Andrew in 1981 after returning to Edinburgh to work after University and rowed with the club throughout the 1980s. She was instrumental in ensuring equal access for women to social events at the club and also organised the first St Andrew Sprint Regatta at Lochore Meadows in Fife. After having a break from rowing to raise a family, she became involved in coaching the Junior Section in 2008 and gradually returned to rowing. She was elected president in 2017 and re-elected for another five-year term in 2022.

Captain

Lindsay Flockhart

captain@standrewboatclub.org.uk

Lindsay got involved in rowing in 2012 when he started helping with the junior section while trying to row himself. He eventually started coaching the following year and coached the junior section until 2021 when he took over coaching the senior women’s squad. Lindsay became captain of the club in 2015 helping guide it through a large growth in membership and also building our amazing new boat house and training facility. He has been a junior development coach for Scottish Rowing since 2017.

Secretary

Barbara Millns MBE

secretary@standrewboatclub.org.uk

Barbara learnt to row in 2002 at the age of 50, and was a member of the GB adaptive squad from 2006-2008. She has won medals at National Indoors, and is a three times gold medalist at British Masters. In 2023, Barbara was appointed joined the Appeals Panel and was appointed a member of the Anti-Doping Panel for Scottish Rowing. She qualified as an umpire in 2018.

Treasurer

Robert Young

treasurer@standrewboatclub.org.uk

Robert Young is our club Treasurer – a role he is well suited for as he has an adversion to spending money. Robert started rowing in 2017 and has taken part in local, national and international regattas, collecting an impressive haul of Masters medals.

Chair Building Working Group

Rob Bradley

Robert learned to row 1988 at Aberdeen. After a 28-year gap, he rejoined the sport here at SABC in 2018. He became a trustee in 2020, with a focus on safety. He supports the LTR programme and coxes a variety of canal-based squads as he rebuilds his fitness to return to active rowing after an operation in 2023.

Chair of Fund Raising Working Group

Colin Moore

Colin learnt to row in 2023, spurred on by watching his daughter Anna flourish and compete with SABC. Having joined the club as a member, Colin became a trustee in 2024 to support the ongoing running of the club. As someone who has taken up rowing in their 50s, Colin rows with enthusiasm rather than style and is keen to support other members in achieving their goals. Outside rowing, Colin Is a consultant in cardiothaoracic anaesthetics at the Royal Infirmary.

Chair of History Group

Neil MacFarlane

Neil learned to row at George Watson’s in 1969. After leaving school he rowed for Edinburgh University, competing in the Ladies Plate crew at Henley Royal in 1976. From 1982 to 1989, he gained his first coaching experience with the EUBC Women’s Novice squad. In 1984, he qualified as an umpire. He joined SABC in 1989 to get back in a boat again, and has rowed in the masters’ squad off and on since then. In 2010, he was recruited to the SABC junior coaching group, where he continues to make a brilliant contribution. Neil is chair of the Scottish Rowing’s Racing Control Committee, dealing with Rules of Racing, competition calendar, recruitment and training of umpires.

Social Events Co-ordinator

Susan Branigan

Susan got into rowing in university when she was more or less thrown into an 8+ to cox on the beautiful Corrib river in Galway. She joined the Watsons Mummies rowing squad in 2005, coached by John Munro. After a break, she joined SABC in September 2017. As Membership Secretary, she makes sure everyone gets a warm welcome and good start to their time with our club. As a Trustee want to do my bit to ensure we keep growing and going from strength to strength, while as a rower, want to keep winning a medal or two here and there and enjoying the awesome training programme with a fantastic bunch in the meantime.

Senior Women’s Co-ordinator

Maia Hely

Maia learnt to row with Glasgow University Boat Club and won medals for the university, Scotland and GB. She joined St Andrew Boat Club in 2023 upon graduating and becoming an electronics engineer in Edinburgh. She has enjoyed returning to training and competition and being part of a like-minded community at SABC.

Governance Monitoring

Joanna Collins

Jo learnt to row at university in 1990. Having found she was rather on the short side for rowing, she turned to coxing and hasn’t looked back. She joined St Andrew in 2000, and spent some time on the committee before starting a family, having met her husband at the club. Jo now focuses on coxing masters crews, as well as being a Scottish Rowing umpire, and became a trustee in 2024.

Welfare and Child Protection

Caera Innes

Caera learned to row with Glasgow University Boat Club and has had experience rowing for clubs in the UK and overseas in New Zealand and Australia. She joined SABC in 2024 and has enjoyed being a part of the club so much that even though she now lives in Glasgow, she commutes to train with the Senior Squad. Outside of rowing she is a student teacher and has taken on the role of Child Welfare Protection Officer for the club.