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Mary Ciardiello
- Class:
- Senior
- Hometown:
- Fair Haven, N.J.
- High School:
- Rumson-Fair Haven
- Major:
- Electrical and Computer Engineering
Honors & Awards
Senior (2026):
Junior (2025):
Sophomore (2024):
Freshman (2023):
Additional Info:
- Big Ten Boat Of The Week (May 5, 2026 - V4)
- Big Ten Boat of the Week (Apr. 1, 2026 - 2V8)
- Big Ten Boat of the Week (Mar. 25, 2026 - 2V8)
Senior (2026):
- Captured silver with the Varsity 8 at the 2026 Big Ten Championships, one of seven total and six silver at the championships (5/17)
- Won the opening heat with the Varsity 8 at the 2026 Big Ten Championships to advance to the grand final (5/15)
- Named to Big Ten Boat of the Week with the Varsity 4 following Women's Eastern Sprints (5/5)
- Champion in the grand final with the Second Varsity 8 ahead of #9 Brown and #23 Dartmouth at the Women's Eastern Sprints (5/2)
- Won the prelim heat with the Varsity 4 at the Women's Eastern Sprints (5/2)
- Won the Ivy League Invitational with the Varsity 4 ahead of #6 Princeton and Cornell in the afternoon session (4/11)
- Finished third with the Varsity 4 behind #7 Virginia and #9 Brown in the morning session of the Ivy League Invitational (4/11)
- Runner-up with the Second Varsity 8 behind #3 Yale and ahead of #16 Penn in the morning session at the Doc Hosea Invitational (3/29)
Junior (2025):
- Captured the Island Challenge Cup at the 2025 Henley Royal Regatta, outlasting 43 other entries while winning five head-to-head races on the one-mile, 550-yard course on the River Thames
- Won C final race by 2.4 seconds with the 2nd Varsity 8 at the 2025 NCAA Championships, scoring 20 points to help Rutgers to an eighth-place national finish
- Runner-up with the 2nd Varsity 8 at the 2025 Big Ten Championships, helping Rutgers to medal in all seven races and its highest finish at the championship with a second-place result
- Finished second in the grand final with 2nd Varsity 8 at the 2025 Eastern Sprints, helping Rutgers to a second-straight team title and seven total medals
- Big Ten Invitational champion with 2nd Varsity 8
- Doc Hosea champion with 2nd Varsity 8, helping Rutgers to the team title behind five grand final top finishes ahead of No. 12 Penn
- Big Ten/Ivy Dust Up champion with 2nd Varsity 8 ahead of No. 11 Penn, helping Rutgers to six race victories
Sophomore (2024):
- Finished 14th place in the country competing in the 2nd Varsity 8, contributing to a 14th place team finish at the NCAA Championships (6/2)
- Finished 2nd place with the 2nd Varsity 8 at the 2024 Big Ten Rowing Championship (5/19)
- Finished second with the 2nd Varsity 8 in the grand final of the Eastern Sprints (5/5)
- Finished second with the Varsity 4 in the second session of the Big Ten Invitational (4/19)
Freshman (2023):
- Placed third with 3rd Varsity 4B at the Big Ten-Ivy Double Duals (3/25)
- Finished third with the Novice 8 in the first, second and third session of the Big Ten Invitational (4/7), (4/8)
- Placed first with Novice Eight in session 2 and 3 at the Ivy League Invitational (4/13)
- Finished second with Novice 8 at Eastern Sprints (4/30)
- Finished 6th place with the Novice 8 at the 2023 Big Ten Rowing Championship, contributing to a 4th place team finish (5/14)
Additional Info:
- Rowed in high school
Rutgers Women's Rowing 2026 Big Ten Championship Highlights
Wednesday, May 20
Rutgers Women's Rowing Rings The Bell
Wednesday, October 22
Rutgers Athletics Launches the Athletic Excellence Fund
Monday, October 06
R Fund, Knights of the Raritan are YouKnighted | Million Dollar Match
Friday, February 28
