Annabel Ritchie

Annabel Ritchie is a New Zealand lawyer and registered civil union and marriage celebrant.

Background

Richie was born in Geraldine, New Zealand. Ritchie attended Linwood High School before transferring to Rangi Ruru Girls' High School in Christchurch New Zealand for her final years of High School.

Ritchie is a graduate from University of Washington, USA, and also have a law degree from Victoria University, Wellington, New Zealand.

She has 2 siblings. Her sister has represented New Zealand in three sports and brother an age group regional rep. Ritchie's extended family also includes representatives on the international stage in hockey, umpiring, equestrian/horse racing and golf.

Other

In 1995 Rangi Ruru Girls School U17 four crew (Ritchie, Ross, Hunt and Gardiner) were selected to compete in the New Zealand U19 rowing team against Australia. In 1996 Ritchie and Ross combined with high school rivals Rose Wallace and Stacy Worsnop (Gisborne Girls High) to make the New Zealand U19 coxless four to compete at the Junior World Championships, Scotland, where the Jude Hamilton coached crew won a bronze medal.[1]

The at the age of 20 she moved to the University of Washington, USA, and was part of the crew which won back-to-back gold medals at Pac-10 Championships and Varsity 8 at the NCAA Rowing Championships. In 2001 Ritchie was named PAC-10 Newcomer of the year following the conference championships.[2] The crew remained undefeated during the 2002 season, and held onto the NCAA Championship title for the second year in a row.[3] The Husky crew had a star-studded lineup, including Athens Olympic Silver medalists and Beijing and London Gold medalists Mary Murray (nee Whipple) and Anna Cummins (nee Mickelson) (USA), and Olympians Rika Geyser (South Africa) and Canadian Nicole Borges.

Ritchie has given back to sports, coaching at Rangi Ruru, St Peters School and Wakatipu High. In 2014, Rtchie was given life membership honors to the Wakatipu Club in recognition of her contributions to high school program (having coached boys teams to 3 National School titles, 1 silver and 3 bronze medals - and 19 South Island Secondary school medals in four years).

She currently resides in Queenstown, and works as an Environmental lawyer at Andersons Lloyd. She is actively involved in community activities and youth mentoring. In 2009 Ritchie and fellow lawyer, Katy Baxter, and ASB representative, Joel Peasey, started a networking group for young professionals in Queenstown [4]

In 2013 Ritchie was registered as an independent NZ marriage and civil union celebrant.[5]

References

  1. ↑ Rachel Quarrell (1996). "WORLDS '96 Competitors List". The Rowing Service.
  2. ↑ "Annabel Ritchie University of Washington Profile". University of Washington.
  3. ↑ "Annabel Ritchie profile". University of a Washington.
  4. ↑ http://www.odt.co.nz/your-town/queenstown/62013/new-group-targets-younger-workers
  5. ↑ http://greenebon.wix.com/annabel-celebrant
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