Special achievements by UCC student celebrated at Rowing Ireland awards night 

Congratulations this week to Adam Murphy, a Quercus Scholar at University College Cork, on an exciting few months, and his achievements below were highlighted in a UCC post. 

The second-year Business Information Systems (BIS), Cork University Business School (CUBS) student, recently celebrated a win at the Irish Indoor Rowing Championships with the fastest overall time, and a personal best time.

Adam learned to row at Shandon Boat Club, and won a men’s double sculls bronze medal at the World U23 Rowing Championships in Canada, with University of Galway student Brian Colsh, and earlier last year in July he won the men’s senior double sculls title for UCC at the Irish National Rowing Championships with Quercus Alumni Ronan Byrne.

He was among those celebrated at the recent Rowing Ireland Olympic celebration and awards night at Fota Island Resort in Cork.

As a World Championship medallist, Adam received a special presentation at the event, which was also an Olympic celebration.

Adam said: ‘I am happy to be back studying Business Information Systems at Cork University Business School full-time. I took time off college to focus on qualifying a boat for the Paris Olympics. Unfortunately, this wasn’t successful, but I have benefited from the intense training as I have never been fitter or stronger. Despite the disappointment of not qualifying for the Paris Olympics, winning the U23 World medal and the Irish Indoor Rowing Championships has been an inspiring few months. My goals are to progress my studies in BIS at CUBS and ultimately try to qualify a boat and compete at the Next Olympics in Los Angeles.’

Best of luck to Adam on his continuing journey in international rowing.