ROSEMONT, Ill. – No. 14 Rutgers rowing's Second Varsity 4 has been named the Big Ten Boat of the Week for its performance at the Big Ten/Ivy League Dust Up on Saturday, March 23 on the Cooper River in South Jersey.
It marks the first Boat of the Week honor of the season for the Scarlet Knights, and the ninth for the program since its first appearance in the conference's weekly awards in 2018.
Rutgers' Second Varsity 4 beat out the competition from No. 8 Penn and No. 19 Harvard to win its race in Session II of the event on Saturday. The Scarlet Knights crossed by 18.5 seconds in front of third-place No. 8 Penn, and with a bit of open water (4.7 seconds) ahead of second-place No. 19 Harvard. In the morning session, the boat finished with open water ahead of No. 11 Ohio State, only behind No. 5 Yale.
The winning boat from Session II was coxswained by
Maxine Prawl and rowed by (stroke to bow)
Louise Dinard, Vanessa Karayiannis, Katherine French and
Louise Liemberg. The morning session boat was coxed by
Megan Cherichello and rowed by (stroke to bow)
Catherine Garvey, Libby Snyder, Karolina Matracz, and
Louise Liemberg.
The Second Varsity 4 boat and the rest of the Scarlet Knights return to action on Sat., March 30 at the Doc Hosea Invitational back on the Cooper River in Cherry Hill.
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