Aidan Garvey '26 Recruiting Profile

My name is Aidan Garvey and I was introduced to rowing in September of 2024. Before this fall, all I knew of rowing was from the erg machine in the fitness room of the recreation center in my town. Going into my junior year I was in search of a sport to do in the fall. I no longer play football, and soccer didn't give me the same sense of fulfillment that football did. People always told me that I should try rowing because of my strength and success in other sports that require intense physicality, but I always overlooked it. I think this was because rowing is an exclusive sport in a way, and I never thought that I, from a rural town in Vermont, would end up in a shell with 3 teammates competing on a Saturday morning in October to see how fast we can row. In the few months that I have known the sport of rowing, I have found a desire to get better at it every day like no other sport before. I look forward to going head-to-head against the erg in my garage, to getting on the water and dropping the oar in for the first stroke. I loved how humbling of an experience it was to do my first 2k test within my first 2 weeks of practice at school.

In my short time with rowing, I have decided that I would like to pursue rowing in college. I would like to be in a competitive rowing environment, as competition is important to me and is part of who I am.