Henley Royal Regatta has added Grace Prendergast, Gerritjan Eggenkamp, Cameron Nichol, Elise Sherwell, and William Stonor as new Stewards for 2025.
Prendergast will bring her experience racing for New Zealand. At the Tokyo Olympics she won gold in the women’s pair and silver in the women’s eight. She is also a five-time World Champion and a 15-time national champion. She is currently a consultant at The Search, which specializes in finding leaders in the people, talent, and marketing spaces.
“Henley was always a highlight of my year as a rower and has continued to play a special part in my life since retiring from professional rowing,” Prendergast told the HRR communications team. “It is a massive honor to have been made a Steward and a privilege to join a group of people who I have looked up to for years.”
Eggenkamp first competed internationally as a Dutch rower at the 1993 Junior World Championships. In 2002 he became the first Dutch rower to race at the Boat Race, with a seat in the winning Oxford crew. Eggenkamp competed at five World Championships on the Dutch Senior Team and two Olympics. He was a member of the men’s eight that won Olympic silver in Athens in 2004.
He serves as a partner at private equity fund Avedon Capital Partners. Eggenkamp is on the World Rowing Executive Committee, and since September of 2018, he has been the Treasurer.
Along with Prendergast and Eggenkamp, Nichol joins the new Henley Stewards as an Olympian for Great Britain, a two-time World Championship silver medalist, founder of RowingWOD, and a medical doctor. He serves as an NHS partner general practitioner at Runnymede Medical Practice as a general practitioner at Prime Health.
“I’m incredibly proud, grateful and humbled to be asked to serve as a Steward,” remarked Nichol. “The Regatta, and rowing itself, hold a special place in my heart and I commit to giving my very best to the rowers, the members and everyone attending. I can’t wait to contribute to the next chapter of HRR.”
Another rower for Team Great Britain, Sherwell, competed with Thames Rowing Club, Leander Club and Thames Valley Skiff Club. She was on team GB for 12 years and competed in three Olympics. In 2004 and 2008 she won Olympic bronze medals. She has also won bronze at two World Championships. Sherwell is an avid cycler. She is currently an associate solicitor for a commercial property team in Chichester, England.
“Henley is one of the biggest regattas in the world and to be a part of it (forever) is something my younger rowing self would have never thought would be possible,” said Sherwell. “Rowing was everything to me when I was in my 20s and to be able to spend time back in that world with some of my best friends and incredible teammates is going to be fantastic! Sport has given me so much over the years, now it is time to give back.”
Stonor, 8th Baron Camoys, is a hereditary peer and a Conservative member of the House of Lords. His relative Thomas, 3rd Baron Camoys, was a member of the town of Henley when the Regatta was introduced in 1839. William will be the eighth Stonor to serve as a Steward.
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