Tara Rigney

Rigney was schooled at Loreto Kirribilli in Sydney where she took up rowing.[4][5] Her senior club rowing has been from the Sydney University Boat Club.[6]

Rigney's state representative debut for New South Wales came in 2019 when she was selected in the state women's youth VIII which raced and won the Bicentennial Cup at the Interstate Regatta.[7]

In 2021 following a dominant performance at the New South Wales state titles,[8] she was selected as the NSW senior women's sculling representative for the Interstate Regatta. She won that national title, the Nell Slatter trophy.[9] At that same regatta she won an Australian Championship title in the double scull with Amanda Bateman[10] and in a quad scull contesting the 2021 open women's quad title, she finished in second place.[11]

Rigney made her Australian representative debut in 2019 when she was picked for the World Rowing U23 Championships in Sarasota in a coxless pair. That crew finished in tenth place.[12][13]

By the time of national team selections in 2021 for the delayed Tokyo Olympics, Rigney's strong performances at that year's Australian Championships saw her selected to join Amanda Bateman who had already qualified Australia's double scull boat class during the 2019 international representative season.[14] Bateman & Rigney placed third in their heat, fifth in the semi-final and won the petite final for an overall seventh place finish at the Olympic regatta.[15] They were coached by Ellen Randall.

In March 2022 Rigney was selected in the sculling squad of the broader Australian training team to prepare for the 2022 international season and the 2022 World Rowing Championships. [16]

• Tara Rigney at Rowing Australia
• Tara Rigney at Olympics.com
• Tara Rigney at Olympedia