Zara Collisson

Class:
Junior
Position:
Port/Starboard
Height:
5-10
Hometown:
Sydney, Australia
High School:
Canberra Girls' Grammar School

At Michigan
• Team Captain (2024)
• CRCA Athlete of the Year Finalist (2023)
• Two-time Pocock/CRCA All-American (first team, 2023; second team, 2024)
• Big Ten Athlete of the Year (2024)
• Member of three Big Ten Championship Teams (2021, '23, '24)
• Three-time Big Ten Champion (2021, 2V8; 2023,'24, 1V8)
• Two-time All-Big Ten (first team, 2023-24)
• Won a gold medal for Australia (4+) at the 2023 U23 World Championships in Plovdiv, Bulgaria
• Represented Australia (8+) at the 2024 U23 World Championships in St. Catharine's, Ontario, Canada
• Two-time member of the Big Ten Boat of the Week (April 11, 2023; April 2, 2024) following the 1V8's performance at the Big Ten Invitational and Big Ten-ACC Duals
• Three-time Academic All-Big Ten (2022-23-24)
• Enrolled at the College of Literature, Science, and the Arts (LSA), majoring in Sociology

Senior (2023-24)
• Big Ten Athlete of the Year
• Named to the inaugural CRCA Athletes to Watch List ahead of the spring season
• Rowed in the seventh seat of the 1V8 as it timed 6:53.5 over Virginia in the morning and 6:40.4 to beat Duke in the afternoon at the Big Ten-ACC Challenge (March 30)
• Rowed in the seventh seat of the 1V8 as it timed 6:30.8 against Michigan State (April 6)
• Helped the 1V8 finish second against Texas (April 13) in 6:08.1 (+5.2) from the seventh seat
• Finished second (6:23.720) and first (6:29.927) from the seventh seat of the 1V8 on the first day of the Big Ten Invitational (April 19)
• Placed second (6:24.693) with the 1V8 in the seventh seat on the second day of the Big Ten Invitational (April 20)
• Won a gold medal in 6:17.859 from the fifth seat of the 1V8 to help the team win the Big Ten Championship (May 19)
• Rowed in the second seat of the 1V8 as it placed third in the Petite Final (6:20.834) at the NCAA Championship (May 31-June 2), ninth overall, to help the team finish seventh

Junior (2022-23)
• From the 1V8's sixth seat, timed 7:02.7 against Duke (March 31) and 6:44.07 against Virginia (April 1) at the ACC-Big Ten Double Dual
• On the first day of the Big Ten Invitational (April 7), placed second from the fourth seat of the 1V8 in 6:23.920 behind Stanford and over SMU, Indiana; won the afternoon race against Duke, Iowa, and UCLA in 6:21.374
• On the second day of racing at the Big Ten Invitational (April 8), helped the 1V8 finish third in 6:14.527 from the fourth seat, ahead of Ohio State and behind Stanford and Brown
• Member of the Big Ten Boat of the Week (April 11) following the 1V8's performance at the Big Ten Invitational
• Rowed in the fourth seat of the 1V8 as it timed 6:21.922 against Texas (April 15)
• On Senior Day against Louisville (April 30), helped the 1V8 to an 18-second win from the sixth seat
• Won gold from the sixth seat of the 1V8 (6:21.292) to help the team win the Big Ten Championship (May 14)
• From the sixth seat, rowed with the 1V8 to finish ninth overall (third, Petite Final) with a time of 6:33.818 at the NCAA Championship (May 26-28) to help the team place 11th

Sophomore (2021-22)
• Rowed in the fourth seat of the 1V8 in a scrimmage against Indiana (March 25)
• From the 1V8's third seat, helped sweep Virginia in 6:49.4 and Duke in 6:56.5 at the ACC-Big Ten Challenge (April 2)
• Rowed the 1V8's third seat, and timed 6:17.4 against Texas (April 9)
• Rowed in the third seat of the 1V8 on the first day of the Big Ten Invitational (April 15), timing 6:27.901 to win the morning heat over Rutgers, Virginia and 6:26.148 for second to Brown (-.703) in the afternoon
• Placed second to Stanford with the 1V8 (6:10.330) in the third seat on the second day of the Big Invitational (April 16)
• On Senior Day against Louisville (May 1), rowed the 2V8 to a win from the third seat with a time of 6:44.4
• Fourth seat of the 12th-place 2V8 (sixth, Petite Final) at the NCAA Championships (May 29), which timed 6:42.784 to help the team finish 10th

Freshman (2020-21)
• Made her varsity debut in the sixth and fourth seats of the1V8 boat which earned victories over No. 16 SMU, Louisville (6:22.281), Clemson (6:27.402, 2nd) and Notre Dame (6:18.550, 2nd) at the Louisville Cardinal Invitational (March 13-14)
• In Columbus (March 27), sat in bow seat the 1V8 defeat Indiana and Iowa (6:41.1) in the morning and beat MSU, finishing second to Ohio State in the afternoon (7:07.49)
• Competed in the 1V8 at the Big Ten vs. ACC Regatta (April 3), rowing in the fourth seat of the 1V8 to place second to No. 10 Duke in 6:49.48 and in the third seat while finishing second to No. 3 Virginia in 7:05.47, beating Michigan State twice
• Against Iowa and Louisville (May 2), rowed from the second seat of the 1V8 which beat Louisville and Iowa with a time of 6:36.95
• Rowed in the fourth seat for the 2V8 as it won a gold medal in 6:37.713 at the Big Ten Championships at Eagle Creek (May 16)
• Helped the team place fourth at the NCAA Championships (May 28-30), and rowed in the third seat for the sixth-place 2V8 which timed 6:36.314.

Prep
• Graduated from Canberra Girls' Grammar School in Canberra, Australia
• Awarded Full Rowing Colours in 2019
• Named SportsWoman of the Year (2016) at the Australia International School of Singapore
• Vice Captain in both cross country and soccer in 2019
• Won two gold medals at New Zealand Lake Karapiro Christmas Regatta (2018) in U17 eight and coxed quad scull
• Silver medal recipient at U16 World Virtual Indoor Rowing Sprints (1km, 2019)
• Won gold at the 2019 U19 Australia Indoor Rowing Championships
• Scored a pair of silver medals at the 2019 U19 Australian National Championships in the U19 coxed four and schoolgirl coxed four

Personal
• Daughter of Caroline and Jim Collisson