Llama Crew is inspired by the incredible athletes who live the sport of rowing every day. Their strength, leadership, and determination on the water showed us what it truly means to be powerful, confident, and fearless. These rowers reminded us that every seat in the boat matters and that true success comes from teamwork, resilience, and lifting each other up.
Llama Crew celebrates that spirit. It’s about strength with style, confidence with purpose, and creating a space where girls can feel bold, seen, and unstoppable. This brand exists to honor the athletes who inspired it and to remind every girl that her voice, her strength, and her place in the boat matter.
Who Inspires Llama Crew
Girls Making Waves On The Water and Beyond It
Because making waves isn’t just about speed. It’s about who you are and how you show up.
Strength Beyond Size
Meet Emerson
Emerson Elliott is a top ranked student and elite rower who competes and excels at the highest levels both academically and athletically. Ranked in the top 10 of her class, she brings discipline, focus, and intensity to everything she does.
On the water, Emerson has established herself as one of the most competitive young athletes in rowing, earning a national medal, multiple top ten national finishes, and a Varsity Sculling State Championship. She has consistently raced up in top boats and delivered results against the strongest competition in the country.
What sets Emerson apart is not just her results but how she achieves them. Often underestimated because of her height, she has built her success on technical precision, relentless work ethic, and the ability to move boats with power beyond expectation. She proves, race after race, that performance not size defines an athlete.
Driven, resilient, and fiercely competitive, Emerson is not just chasing success, she is redefining it.
Command & Drive
Meet Mia & Lily
Mia and Lily are the kind of duo that defines a boat. As coxswain, Mia leads with confidence and intensity, known for the way she pushes her crew and keeps them locked in from start to finish. Lily, in the stroke seat, sets the rhythm everyone follows, bringing consistency, focus, and a quiet determination that holds the boat together.
What sets them apart is their trust in each other. They’ve built a connection that turns eight individuals into one unified crew, where every stroke is intentional and every voice matters.
When a video of them went viral, it captured more than just a race. It showed the discipline, energy, and presence they bring every time they’re on the water.
Mia and Lily aren’t just strong athletes. They are leaders, teammates, and the kind of rowers who raise the standard for everyone around them—and they’re making waves.
Rising With Purpose
Meet Noelle
Noelle Murray is an emerging force in U.S. rowing, quickly establishing herself as a competitor on both national and international stages. She has raced at the USRowing Youth National Championships with a nationally competitive crew, gaining experience at the highest level of junior competition.
Selected through the A Most Beautiful Thing Inclusion Fund, Noelle trained at an elite international sculling camp at Craftsbury Outdoor Center, where she developed her technical skills alongside a diverse group of athletes from around the world while building confidence and resilience.
Noelle stands out through consistency and execution. Quiet but powerful, she leads through her work ethic and reliability, earning multiple gold medals and delivering in key moments.
Off the water, she excels in a rigorous academic schedule while pursuing her goal of studying criminology and becoming an FBI profiler. Driven and focused, Noelle is building her future while helping expand opportunity and representation within the sport.
The Dirt Pair
Meet Maija and Anna
Maija and Anna Andert are emerging as one of the top junior duos in U.S. rowing, rapidly turning early results into sustained success at the highest levels of competition. After placing seventh at the USRowing Youth National Championships in their first season together, they confirmed their rise with a gold medal performance at Head of the Hooch, establishing themselves among the nation’s most competitive crews.
Following elite training experience at Penn AC, they continue to build the speed, consistency, and racing edge required to contend for top finishes at nationals, with their sights firmly set on the podium.
Anna brings precision, versatility, and a selfless commitment to the boat, elevating crew performance through her execution. Maija sets the tone with intensity and drive, pushing standards and delivering powerful, results-driven racing. Together, they create a dynamic combination of control, speed, and competitive edge.
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