Rowing NZ
Kaye Surgenor with her world record-breaking son Robbie Manson, who this year retired from elite rowing, while his mum became more and more involved in coaching the sport.
She’s raised the world’s fastest rower. Now Kaye Surgenor is diving deeper into coaching the sport – and taking her mothering skills with her. All the while Kaye Surgenor was raising her three sons, she wanted to return to the sport she loves. And when her youngest, Karl Manson, took up rowing, followed by his older brother, Robbie, that was the catalyst for Surgenor to take the plunge. She’d been a good rower herself, a winner at Maadi Cup secondary school level, and national champion with the Canterbury and Wairau clubs.