“Once upon time I was a rower. But now I’m going to tell you that I am not a rower anymore. I am a cox.”

Dooly started out rowing as bow seat – he sat happily in the back of the boat, far from the cries of his coxswain up front. As Dooly saw it, his coxswain did her thing while he did his: “I didn’t really care what she (the coxswain) was doing to be honest. All I cared about was going in the water, and I sit bow and row. I wanted to get fitter, have my six packs too”. However, this was about to abruptly change for Dooly when he was thrown into being the team’s new coxswain.