He is a dual Olympian, an Olympic and Commonwealth Games silver medalist who competed over a seventeen-year period at the elite level.

He took Great Britain's lightweight women's sculling crews to Olympic and World Championship gold medals in 2012 and 2016.

[1] He was first selected to state representation in the 1980 Victorian youth eight who won the Noel F Wilkinson Trophy at the Interstate Regatta within the Australian Rowing Championships.

[1] In 1986 while living in Sydney and rowing under his national coach Rusty Robertson he raced the President's Cup as the New South Wales state representative.

In 1989 he was selected in Victoria's senior eight to contest the King's Cup, although that year's race was cancelled due to a cyclone.

The Australians won their heat by a length and led at the first three marks in the final till the experienced West Germans, the current World Champions, slipped under their guard in an outside lane to win by 0.43 seconds.

[4] Lovrich and Reedy stayed together in 1985 in the quad and still coached by Robertson, were joined by John Bentley and Richard Powell.

[5] The following year at the 1986 Commonwealth Games Reedy competed in Australia's double scull with Brenton Terrell and won the silver medal.

[5] Reedy had enormous success as a coach of Victorian state representative crews at the annual Interstate Regatta.