She is the first local to make the New Zealand Junior team in a couple of seasons, with the last being Jackie Gowler and Georgia Nugent-O'Leary of Nga Tawa Diocesan School and Aramoho Wanganui RC, with Gowler following in the footsteps of her Olympian sister Kerri Gowler.
Collegiate's other trialist Jonte Wright did not make the boy's part of the squad.
Three other locals attended the trials and two of them – Whanganui High School's Niamh Monk and Collegiate's Catherine Pearce, were selected in the North Island Under 18 team, who took on South Island Under 18 in a series of races last Thursday and Friday.
South Island won the regatta overall.
Collegiate's Blake Hogan, an Under 16 double scull champion at the secondary school champs, was unsuccessful in breaking into the Under 18 squad.