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2024-25 Men's Heavyweight Rowing Roster

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Duncan Ayles

  • Class Senior
  • Hometown Westwood, Mass.
  • High School Noble and Greenough School

Biography

At Navy
Honors: 2023 & 2024 IRCA Scholar-Athlete
2025: Elected as team captain
2024: Staple in the second varsity eight crew, appeared in all seven races, including both the Eastern Sprints and IRA National Championship.
2023: Raced in all seven contests, four times with the second varsity eight, twice with the third varsity and once with the first crew ... Member of the 3V8 at the Eastern Sprints and 2V8 at the IRA National Championship.
2022: Competed in all eight regattas as a freshman, including six regular season contests and both the Eastern Sprints and IRA National Championship ... Initially saw time in the fourth varsity eight boat (two races) before moving up to the third varsity eight (three races) and finally the second varsity to round out the year.

Prior to Navy
Two-sport athlete at Noble and Greenough School; earned four varsity letters each for rowing and basketball ... Served as a two-year basketball team captain, while captaining the rowing team as a senior ... Rowed to a gold medal at the 2021 USRowing Youth National Championship in the Men's Coxed Four for N&G ... Competing with Community Rowing Inc. (CRI) at the 2018 Royal Canadian Henley Regatta, won gold in the U-17 Coxed Four classification ... Rowed along Navy LWT Andy Fichtel ('25) at CRI.

Personal
Son of David and Honoria ... Sisters Maddie ('19) and Allee ('20) played field hockey at Brown University

Historical Player Information

  • 2021-22Freshman

  • 2022-23Sophomore

  • 2023-24Junior

  • 2024-25Senior