2025 Men's Rowing - Lightweight Roster
Reuben Cook
- Class:
- Junior
- Hometown:
- Dunedin, New Zealand
- High School:
- Otago Boys High School
IRCA Second-Team All-America (2024, 2025)
IRA 1V Gold Medal (2023)
IRA 1V Silver Medal (2024)
IRA Men's Lightweight Crew of the Year (2023)
Eastern Sprints 1V Gold Medal (2023)
Eastern Sprints 1V Bronze Medal (2024, 2025)
First-Team All-Ivy (2023)
2025: Raced with the 1V all season … helped the Tigers finish fourth in the Grand Final at IRAs … part of the 1V that won bronze and helped Princeton finish second in the team standings at Eastern Sprints … led the 1V to wins over Penn, Columbia, Yale, Navy and Georgetown
2024: Rowed on 1V … Helped the 1V retrain the Murtaugh Cup over Navy … Earned the Campbell Cup over No. 8 Columbia and the Diamond Challenge Cup over No. 6 Dartmouth … Led the 1V to the Platt Cup for the first time since 2018 with a win over No. 2 Cornell … Retained the Fosburg Cup over Georgetown for the seventh straight season … Paced the 1V to a win over Yale … Corralled a bronze medal at Eastern Sprints … Nabbed a silver medal at the IRA National Championships, the 1V’s second straight medal.
2023: Rowed on the 1V that lost just once all season … Helped the Tigers regain Murtaugh Cup vs. No. 5 Navy and retain the Fosburgh Cup vs. No. 7 Georgetown … Paced Princeton over Columbia for the Campbell Cup and took down Mercyhurst/MIT/Penn … Secured Diamond Challenge Cup over No. 9 Dartmouth/Delaware with the 1V … Defeated No.5 Penn/No. 8 Georgetown to corral the Wood-Hammond Cup … Dropped No. 4 Yale/No. 5 Harvard to bring home the Goldthwait/Vogel Cups … Helped Princeton’s 1V to Eastern Sprint’s gold, the program’s first since 2010 … Paced the 1V as it won its first IRA gold since 2010 … The 1V’s IRA victory led Princeton to secure the IRA’s President Cup, its first since 2010.
Before Princeton:
Otago: Two-time captain … Team's Rower of the Year twice … Stroke on the school's 8+ boat three years (2019-21) … On the single scull and quad boat that went undefeated and was New Zealand South Island Champions as a junior … Team won New Zealand U-18 title … Won gold at the 2020 U-17 Single Sculls South Island Secondary Schools event … Secured Crew of the Year and Club Captain Cup twice … Spirit Shield Award in 2020 … Shield for Excellence in Rowing and Academics … Best Senior Oarsmen Trophy and Outstanding Senior Oarsmen twice … Service to Rowing Award in 2021 … Lettered in Soccer, Cricket and Cross Country.
Academic: ODT Class Act Recipient, Deputy Head Boy of School in 2021 … Three-time Academic Blues … First in Classes' Physical Education twice … Second in Class Biology (2020) … First in Class Wood Technology (2017) and First in Class Mathematics (2019).
Rowing: New Zealand's U-23 National Team in 2022 … New Zealand 1,000m ERG 15-16 lightweight record … Earned silver at the U-22 Single Sculls National Championship and bronze at the Premier Single South Island Championship … Picked up silver at the Men's Club Single Scull race in the 2021 New Zealand Rowing Championships.
Personal: Son of Sharron Bennett and Greg Cook … Has a sister, Josie.
