2016-17 Men's Crew (Heavyweight)

Robert Hurn

  • Height 6-5
  • Weight 187
  • Class Senior
  • Hometown Brisbane, AUS
  • Highschool Anglican Church Grammar School

Biography

Notes: Four-year member of the first varsity boat… Won every dual sprints race… Captured 19 of 20 dual races overall… Two-time EARC Sprints Champion… 2016-17 captain.

2016-17 (Senior): No. 2 seat of first varsity… Won Albert Cup, Olympic Axe and Blackwell Cup.

2015-16 (Junior): Rowed in No.2 seat for boat that won the Men''s Championship 8+ at the Head of the Charles Regatta, Yale’s first championship at that event... Helped Yale win EARC Sprints title for second straight year… Finished second at IRA Nationals… Rowed in school’s first championship at the San Diego Crew Classic.

2014-15 (Sophomore): Rowed two-seat in EARC Sprints Championship boat… Dual-season wins over Brown, Dartmouth, Columbia, Penn, Cornell, Princeton and Harvard... Finished 7th at IRAs... Helped Elis beat Harvard at the 150th Yale-Harvard Regatta... Rowed two-seat in the Varsity that beat Washington to win the Ladies Challenge Plate at Henley Royal Regatta.

2013-14 (Freshman): Rowed in the Varsity No. 4 seat with dual seasons wins over Brown, Dartmouth, Columbia, Penn, Princeton and Cornell... Rowed in the Varsity that finished 6th at Sprints and 6th at IRAs.

National Team: 2016 summer rowed No. 7 seat for U23 Great Britain and earned silver at World Championships in Rotterdam, Netherlands… Rowed for Australia''s junior men''s coxed four that finished 11th at the 2012 Junior World Championships in Plovdiv, Bulgaria... Rowed for Australia''s junior men''s coxed four that finished 7th at the 2013 Junior World Championships in Trakai, Lithuania...

Before Yale: Captain of his high school rowing team... Stroked the first eight that won the Head of the River in 2012.

Personal: Born in Glasgow, Scotland… Moved to Brisbane, Australia… Member of Trumbull College... Son of Stan and Catherine... Has two brothers... Has a 35" vertical jump... Physics major… Will row at Cambridge while earning masters in nuclear engineering… Aspires to row at the 2020 Olympic Games for Great Britain… Worked with Yale professor of physics Charles Baltay as part of research group on dark energy.