Background
Potts was born in Chertsey, Surrey, and educated at Winchester College and the University of Edinburgh (studying architectural history).
Potts was born in Chertsey, Surrey, and educated at Winchester College and the University of Edinburgh (studying architectural history).
University of Edinburgh. Winchester College; Trinity Hall.
He coxed the men"s four, men"s lightweight eight and women"s eight at the 1994 Commonwealth Regatta representing Scotland. After going up to Trinity Hall, Cambridge University at the end of 1994, he was winning coxswain in the record-breaking CUWBC crew at the 1995 Women"s Boat Race. This was quickly followed by coxing Trinity Hall British Columbia to the headship in the May Bumps.
In 1998 he steered the record-breaking Cambridge Blue Boat in the Boat Race.
Gold came in 2000 at Zagreb in the same boat class with Dunn, Smith and Toby Garbett and Steve Williams. Potts" rowing career finished in 2000 coinciding with the completion of his doctoral thesis on "The Development of the Playhouse in Seventeenth-Century London".
Potts is now a writer and broadcaster, and had a brief acting part in the Australian soap opera Neighbours in 2004. Since 2013 he has been a director of New York based solar finance company Open Energy Group.
World Rowing Championships Medals: 1 Gold, 1 Silver (Great Britain) World Championships.