Charlotte (Lottie) Burgess
At the 2011 World Rowing U23 Championships in Amsterdam, Lottie raced in the lightweight women's quadruple scull, finishing 5th.
Lottie sculled comfortably to a silver medal in the lightweight women's single scull at the 2010 FISU World University Rowing Championships, just behind Elaine Waser from Swizterland who reached the finals of all 3 Senior World Cup Regattas this year, but ahead of the sculler from France who competed at the World Rowing Championships in 2006. A month earlier Lottie raced in the lightweight women's double scull at the 2010 World Rowing U23 Championships in Brest, Belarus finishing 6th.
Encouraged by her friends who were already hooked, she took up rowing at school when it was given as an option for PE lessons. Lottie gained her first international vest when she competed in the GB v France J16 Match, winning gold in the women's eight. She represented GB again in the 2008 Coupe de la Jeunesse racing in the women's double scull. She won the J18 single scull event at Women's Henley that year.
She was a member of the GB squad that competed in the 2009 Australian Youth Olympic Festival, where she won gold in the women's quad, bronze in the lightweight women's double and took 4th in the eight. At the BUCS Regatta in 2009 she won in the lightweight women's single scull.
Lottie has just taken her second year exams at the University of Reading where she is studying Real Estate. She is really enjoying student life and the independence of living away from home, however she loves to go home to her mum's cooking and to ride the family's horse Benji.




