Background
Relph was born on 14 November 1989 in Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, England.
Relph was born on 14 November 1989 in Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, England.
She attended the Welbeck Defence Sixth Form College on an Army scholarship and planned to join the Royal Engineers as an Engineering Officer. She studied at the University of Birmingham and graduated in 2011 with a Bachelor of Science degree in physics. In November 2010 she finished second in the British Indoor Championships.
In 2011 she competed at the at World Championships held at Lake Bled, Bled, Slovenia. They completed the one kilometre course in a time of three minutes, 27.10 seconds, finishing nearly five seconds ahead of the second placed Canadian boat. The result meant that Great Britain qualified a boat for the 2012 Summer Paralympics in London.
The crew repeated their gold medal result at the Munich World Cup event in 2012.
The Great Britain LTAM4+ crew retained their World Champions crown in August 2013 at Chungju, South of Korea. Relph, along with Riches and new crew members Oliver Hester, James Fox and cox Oliver James, took gold in a time of 3min 16.12sec, ahead of Italy (silver) and South Africa (bronze)
She was selected along with Riches, Smith, Roe and van den Broeke, to represent Great Britain at the 2012 Summer Paralympics in the mixed coxed four event.
Victory at Aiguebelette qualified the Great Britain LTAM4+ boat for the Rio de Janeiro Paralympic regatta in September 2016.
She won the gold medal in the Legs Trunk and Arms mixed Coxed Four (LTAMix4+) event alongside crewmates Naomi Riches, David Smith, James Roe and Lily van den Broecke, the cox. The event took place from 31 August to 2 September at Eton Dorney, where team Great Britain won the gold medal. In 2014 Relph and crewmates Hester, Fox, James and Grace Clough successfully defended their LTAM4+ World Champion status in Amsterdam with the same crew going on to repeat this feat at the 2015 World Championships at Aiguebelette, France, defeating the American crew by.26 of a second in the Final.
Relph was appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire (Administration Member of the Order of the British Empire) in the 2013 New Year Honours for services to rowing.
