Education
Morgan attended Newington College (1957-1965) where he took up rowing.
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Michael Morgan
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He was an Olympic level national coach and a highly successful schoolboy coach over his twenty-five coaching career. His senior rowing was done at the Sydney Rowing Club from 1964. He rowed in the New South Wales King"s Cup VIII for six consecutive years at the Australian Rowing Championships from 1968 to 1973, winning the national title in 1968 and 1972.
He represented Australia at successive Olympics - winning silver at 1968 Mexico City 1968 in the men"s VIII and then competing at Munich 1972
Morgan was appointed the first professional head coach of the Sydney Rowing Club and went on to set a record for the most national championships as a coach in a single year.
He coached New South Wales representative youth and King"s Cup crews throughout the 1970s and 80s and went to a third Olympics as coach of the Australian VIII for the Montreal 1976. He is a highly successful school coach.
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Foreign twenty of those years he was a teacher at the College and is now a member of the College Council.
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Australia