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Matthew Waddell
- Height:
- 6-4
- Class:
- Senior
- Hometown:
- Pukekohe, Aukland (New Zealand)
- Last School(s):
- St. Paul’s Collegiate School
Honors & Awards:
International:
Senior (2026):
- 2026 IRCA Scholar-Athlete
- 2025 Weaver-James-Corrigan-Swofford Postgraduate Scholarship Award
- 2025 IRCA Scholar Athlete
- 2025 MPSF All-Academic Team
- 2024 IRCA Scholar Athlete
- 2024 Pac-12 Spring Academic Honor Roll
International:
- Won silver for New Zealand in the men's eight at the 2025 U23 World Championships.
- Placed fifth in the men's coxed four at the U23 World Rowing Championships in Plovdiv, Bulgaria.
Senior (2026):
- Rowed in the 2V8+ that defeated the Oregon State 2V8+ and the V8+ that defeated the Santa Clara V8+ at the Redwood Shores Invitational.
- Rowed in the 2V8+ that defeated the Wisconsin 2V8+ and the Oregon State V8+ at the California Classic.
- Rowed in the 2V8+ that defeated Yale in a dual at the Princeton Invitational, and took second place against Yale, Brown and Syracuse and in a head-to-head with Princeton.
- Rowed in the 2V8+ at the Washington dual.
- Rowed in the 2V8+ that defeated Stanford at the Big Row.
- Rowed in the 2V8+ that took second place at the MPSF Championship.
- Rowed in the 2V8+ that took fifth place in the grand final at the IRA National Championships.
- Rowed in the 2V8+ that defeated Santa Clara, Drexel and Oregon State at the Redwood Shores Invitational.
- Rowed in the 2V8+ that defeated Brown at the Redwood Shores Challenge.
- Rowed in the 2V8+ at the Washington duel.
- Rowed in the 3V8+ that finished second at the MPSF Championships.
- Rowed in the 3V8+ that finished third in the grand final at the IRA Championships.
- Rowed in the 3V8+ that defeated UCSD and Santa Clara at the Las Vegas Invitational.
- Rowed in the 3V8+ that defeated Wisconsin and Oregon State at the Pac-12 Challenge.
- Rowed in the 3V8+ in the dual against Washington.
- Rowed in the 3V8+ that placed second at the Pac-12 Championships.
- Rowed in the 3V8+ the finished third in the grand final at the IRA National Championships.
- Rowed in the freshman 8+ that defeated the Santa Clara V8+, UCLA V8+ and UCSD V8+ at the California Challenge Cup.
- Rowed in the freshman 8+ that won the Derek Guelker Memorial Cup and placed second in the Anderson Borthwick Memorial Trophy final at the San Diego Crew Classic.
- Rowed in the freshman 8+ that defeated the San Diego V8+, Santa Clara V8+ and Orange Coast College V8+ at the Ebright Invitational.
- Rowed in the freshman 8+ that defeated the Huskies in the Washington dual.
- Rowed in the freshman 8+ that placed first at the Pac-12 Championships.
- Rowed in the 3V8+ that won the Stewards Cup and IRA Championship.
Monday, December 01
Monday, November 11
Tuesday, May 16
Thursday, December 15
