Meet the Trustees
Sarah Whitley
President
Sarah joined St Andrew in 1981 after returning to Edinburgh to work after University and rowed with the club throughout the 1980s. She was instrumental in ensuring equal access for women to social events at the club and also organised the first St Andrew Sprint Regatta at Lochore Meadows in Fife. After having a break from rowing to raise a family, she became involved in coaching the Junior Section in 2008 and gradually returned to rowing. She was elected president in 2017 and re-elected for another five-year term in 2022.
Barbara Millns
Secretary
Barbara learnt to row in 2002 at the age of 50, and was a member of the GB adaptive squad from 2006-2008. She has won medals at National Indoors, and is a three times gold medalist at British Masters. In 2023, Barbara was appointed joined the Appeals Panel and was appointed a member of the Anti-Doping Panel for Scottish Rowing. She qualified as an umpire in 2018.
Rob Bradley
Safety Officer
Robert learned to row 1988 at Aberdeen. After a 28-year gap, he rejoined the sport here at SABC in 2018. He became a trustee in 2020, with a focus on safety. He supports the LTR programme and coxes a variety of canal-based squads as he rebuilds his fitness to return to active rowing after an operation in 2023.
Julia Belgutay
Julia learned to row at St Andrew in 2019, aged 35, and fell in love with the sport immediately. In the time since, she has been in winning crews at local regattas, as well as British Masters, and has competed at Henley Women’s Regatta and World Masters. She has been the Women’s Vice Captain for the last two seasons.
Susan Branigan
Susan is the Membership Secretary and a trustee. She got into rowing in university when she was more or less thrown into an 8+ to cox on the beautiful Corrib river in Galway. She joined the Watsons Mummies rowing squad in 2005, coached by John Munro. After a break, she joined SABC in September 2017. As Membership Secretary, she makes sure everyone gets a warm welcome and good start to their time with our club. As a Trustee want to do my bit to ensure we keep growing and going from strength to strength, while as a rower, want to keep winning a medal or two here and there and enjoying the awesome training programme with a fantastic bunch in the meantime.
Lindsay Flockhart
Captain
Lindsay got involved in rowing in 2012 when he started helping with the junior section while trying to row himself. He eventually started coaching the following year and coached the junior section until 2021 when he took over coaching the senior women’s squad.
Lindsay became captain of the club in 2015 helping guide it through a large growth in membership and also building our amazing new boat house and training facility.
He has been a junior development coach for Scottish Rowing since 2017.
Robert Young
Treasurer
Robert Young is our club Treasurer – a role he is well suited for the role as he has an adversion to spending money. Robert started rowing in 2017 and has taken part in local, national and international regattas, collecting an impressive haul of Masters medals.
Iain Wilson
Iain first joined the club in 1985. A former club captain, he was secretary for many years and coaches the senior men. Besides a 10-year ‘sabbatical’ in the early 90’s, Iain has been rowing competitively since he was a schoolboy in Windsor. Through the years, he has gathered a collection of medals covering the domestic, national, and international scenes.
Neil MacFarlane
Neil learned to row at George Watson’s in 1969. After leaving school he rowed for Edinburgh University, competing in the Ladies Plate crew at Henley Royal in 1976. From 1982 to 1989, he gained his first coaching experience with the EUBC Women’s Novice squad. In 1984, he qualified as an umpire. He joined SABC in 1989 to get back in a boat again, and has rowed in the masters’ squad off and on since then. In 2010, he was recruited to the SABC junior coaching group, where he continues to make a brilliant contribution. Neil is chair of the Scottish Rowing’s Racing Control Committee, dealing with Rules of Racing, competition calendar, recruitment and training of umpires.
Alison Harrison
Alison learnt to row at university and to scull in London. She moved to Edinburgh and SABC in the 1990s and was on the Scottish Rowing Executive. After some time off with children, she took up junior coaching when her eldest daughter started rowing. Her dream of a quad with her three daughters remains just that as the middle one prefers rugby.