POUGHKEEPSIE, New York - The Marist women's rowing team will compete on the Cooper River in Cherry Hill, New Jersey for the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference Championships. The regatta will be held on Sunday, May 15. Â
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- For the 2021Â MAAC Championship, Marist women's rowing successfully defended its title and won.Â
- The Red Foxes had secured their second consecutive title, sweeping the Varsity 4, Varsity 8 and Second Varsity 8 Grand Finals for 54 points.
- This was Marist's 12th title in program history.
- Head Coach/Director of Rowing Tom Sanford was named MAAC Coach of the Year.
- The Marist Women's Rowing team last competed on May 1 in the Women's Eastern Sprints in Worcester, Massachusetts.Â
- the V8 placed fourth with a time of 6:48.06, two seconds ahead of Cornell, which earned this crew a place in the petite final, vying for a top 12 finish. Our 2V8 placed fifth in the heat with a time of 7:18.07 as did the V4 in its heat in a time of 8:17.08.
- The 2V8 It also placed us four seconds ahead of Colgate and more comfortably over Holy Cross. This crew finished 14th in the event after being seeded 15th.Â
- In the final race of the day for Marist, our V8 raced to a time of 7:18.4. This crew learned more about the importance of having to race aggressively in all conditions and came out of the day a better crew for it. Heading into the regatta this crew was seeded 15th and ended up 12th overall, after accomplishing its goal of making the second level final by knocking out the higher seeded Cornell crew in the heat.Â
V8Â
Katie Moody, Kassie Nicholson, Gabby Insero, Natalia Miklos, Lydia Giguere, Summer Starrett, Emma Jauch, Lauren Muhr, and Ashley Surette.Â
2V8Â
Abigail Cieplinski, Genevieve Anderson, Caroline Voorhis, Elizabeth Kelly, Avalon Johnson, Jennifer Ligouri, Rebecca Paul, Hilary Anderson, and Francesca D'Ugo.
V4Â
Phoebe Castellano, Casey Hodge, Jessica Zygmunt, Sophia Ledda, and Emily Liguori,