Caroline O'Connor

Caroline is selected as cox of the women's eight for the 2009 World Championships in Poznan.

She was cox of the women's eight for the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games and finished 5th and has been coxing the eight for the 2009 Word Cup Series. 

Caroline has coxed the women's eight for the past three seasons winning bronze at the 2007 World Championships in Munich. Leading up to the Championships she coxed the eight during the World Cup series, always reaching the A Final and winning silver followed by a 5th and 4th place.  In the 2008 World Cup series she coxed the eight to a 5th and 6th place before winning a bronze in Poznan.

She learnt to cox at Oxford Brookes University in 2001. She became National Champion in the women's coxed four in 2002 and in 2004 was the men's eight cox at the World University Championships.

Caroline went on to be part of the women's eight which performed so well at the 2005 World Championships in Japan, finishing 5th.

Following that, she finished 6th in Munich and 4th in Lucerne during the 2006 World Cup Series.

At the 2006 World Championships at Eton the GB women's eight finished 8th.

She graduated from Oxford Brookes in Human Biology in 2004 and has put her career as a science teacher on hold for the time being to concentrate on coxing.

Caroline is Lottery Funded through UK Sport.