Kendall Brodie

In 2019 Kendall was again selected to steer the Australian men's eight for the 2019 international representative season. The eight placed 5th at the World Rowing Cup II in Poznan and 6th at WRC III in Rotterdam. Brodie was then selected to cox the Australian men's eight at the 2019 World Rowing Championships in Linz, Austria. The eight were looking for a top five finish at the 2019 World Championships to qualify for the Tokyo Olympics. The eight placed second in their heat and fourth in the final and qualified for Tokyo 2020.

Brodie was educated at Presbyterian Ladies College, Sydney where she took up rowing. Her senior coxing was from Sydney Rowing Club. In 2018 was the vice-captain at Sydney Rowing Club and on the board of directors. She was awarded a scholarship with the New South Wales Institute of Sport. In 2014 she coxed a Sydney Rowing Club four which took silver in the coxed four national title at the Australian Rowing Championships.

In 2017 FISA announced a number of new rule changes, including voting for coxswains to become gender neutral. In 2018 Australian selection processes embraced this new policy resulting in Kendall Brodie being selected to steer the Australian men’s senior eight for the international representative season of 2018. The Australian men's eight with Brodie in the stern started their 2018 international campaign with a fifth placing at the World Rowing Cup II in Linz, Austria. In an Australian selection eight and racing as the Georgina Hope Rinehart National Training Centre, in honour of Rowing Australia patron, Gina Rinehart, Brodie won the 2018 Grand Challenge Cup at the Henley Royal Regatta. The fourth Australian men's eight to ever do so. The following week at the World Rowing Cup III in Lucerne, Brodie steered the Australian eight to silver medal in a thrilling 0.14 second finish behind Germany. The stage was set for the close competition that played out at the 2018 World Championships in Plovdiv. In their heat the Australian eight finished 5/100ths of a second behind the USA and then in the final, Germany dominated and took gold but 2/10ths of a second separated 2nd through to 4th and the Australians took silver, a bowball ahead of Great Britain with the US out of the medals and just another bowball behind. Brodie came home with a silver world championship medal.

She was first selected to represent New South Wales in the women's eight contesting the Queen's Cup in the Interstate Regatta within the 2013 Australian Rowing Championships. For six consecutive years from 2013 to 2018 she coxed New South Wales senior women's eights in the Queen's Cup. In 2019 she coxed the New South Wales men's senior eight to victory in the King's Cup.

Kendall Brodie (born 21 November 1991 in Sydney) is an Australian national champion and national representative rowing coxswain who won a silver medal at the 2018 World Championships. In 2018 she became the first Australian female coxswain to steer a representative Australian male crew under the FISA gender-neutral coxswain selection policy initiated in 2017.