Kerry Grundlingh

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Class:
Freshman
High School:
St. Mary’s School, Waverley
Hometown:
Johannesburg, South Africa

Awards:
Ivy League First Varsity Gold Medal (2025)
Ivy League Second Varsity Bronze Medal (2024)

2025: Appeared on the 1V and 2V ... Rowed on the 2V that beat Brown, Harvard and Cornell ... Led the Tigers' 1V over Penn ... Grabbed gold for the 1V at the Ivy League Rowing Championships ... Finished the season with a victory in the Petite Final at the NCAA Rowing Championships with the 1V.

2024: Rowed on the 2V all season … Paced the 2V over Brown, Harvard, Rutgers, USC, Columbia, Northeastern, Notre Dame and Penn during the regular season … Helped the 2V to bronze at the Ivy League Championships … Corralled sixth overall for the 2V at the NCAA Rowing Championships.

Before Princeton:
St. Mary’s Rowing Club: Winner of the 2020 Single Sculls event at the U16 South African Championships and the 2021 Open Category Single Sculls event at the Gauteng Championships … Selected to compete for South Africa at the 2021 (2x) and 2022 (4x) Junior World Rowing Championships … Helped team win the 2021 South African Schools’ Boat Race … Club finished South African School Champions three straight years …. Won Sports Honor at school in 2021 … Collected South African Sports Honors twice … Earned Club awards for Most Improved Rower in 2021, Best 2000m ERG time twice and Best Rower in 2022.

St. Mary’s School: Lettered in netball in 2019 … St. Mary’s Leadership program … Columnist for school newspaper … Cultural Enrichment program … Academic Honors in 2021, 2022 … Placed in top 1 percent of candidates national for final exams in Math and Geography.

Personal: Daughter of Debbie and Francois Grundlingh … Has a brother, James