Aileen Crowley’s selection for next month’s Olympics is a historic first for Muckross Rowing Club.

Although currently a member of Old Collegians Boat Club in Dublin where she is currently based she has become the first former female member of Muckross Rowing Club to get selected to represent Ireland in the Olympic Games.

She joins Muckross members Paul Griffin (Athens 2004, Beijing 2008), Sean Casey (Beijing 2008) and Cathal Moynihan (Beijing 2008] as an Olympian.

Crowley and her teammate Monika Dukarska (Killorglin RC) who will race in the Womens Pair.

Team Ireland has officially selected thirteen rowers to compete across six boats at the Olympic Games in Tokyo this summer. The strength and depth in Irish rowing has been to the fore over the past number of years, with the Irish squad travelling to Tokyo as some of the most successful rowers on the circuit, containing multiple World and European Champions and medallists. The Olympic Rowing Regatta takes place in the Sea Forest Waterway near Tokyo and runs from July 23 until July 30.
“This is great news today with the formal selection of the Irish rowers who will race at the Tokyo Olympics, across a record six boats which have been qualified for the Games postponed from last year,” Tim O’Shea, Muckross Rowing Club’s PRO.
“We are especially delighted for Aileen Crowley former junior rower and Irish Championship winner with Muckross RC and her partner and fellow Killorglin native Monika Dukarska (Killorglin RC) who will race in the Womens Pair.
Aileen becomes the fourth rower and first female rower to have rowed with Muckross and be selected for an Olympic Games.”