ODU Rowing Ready To Compete In The American Athletic Conference Championships On Sunday

NORFOLK, Va. – The Old Dominion rowing team is set to compete in the American Athletic Conference Rowing Championships on Sunday, May 14 in Oak Ridge, Tennessee on Lake Melton.
 
Old Dominion will be entering three boats, 2 varsity 8 boats and a varsity 4 boat. 
 
The first boat to race for the Monarchs will be the varsity 4 at 9:15 a.m. The boat will feature Libby Guindon as the coxswain and her crew is as follows Kelly Bailey, Gillian Battersby, Bekka Kimman, and Gabby Cook. 
 
The second varsity 8 will race at 9:30 a.m. The coxswain is Ellie Gortz her crew is made up of Emma Spinelli, Ainsley Diesi, Afton Stahl, Lauren Norris, Haven Habhab. Marie Ahern, Mary Rust, and Jenna Protacio. 
 
The final race will feature the first varsity 8 boat starting at 9:45 a.m. The crew is made up of Sydnee Blackburn, Lily Baumann, Maddie Enns, Jay Weber, Anniemarie Hoff, Lucy Brennan, Kinley Zink, Sophia Bespalova and the coxswain is Illianna Romanzo. 
 
"The conference championships are what we train for all year.  The past few weeks, all our boats have found a good amount of speed consistently.  We've talked a lot about staying internal and focus on the process of rowing the race," said head coach Brian Conley.  "If we can execute everything like we've done in practice, I see a good day in Oak Ridge for the Monarchs.  It's a short day so we only get one chance at this just like everyone else, bringing the "A" game is what we need to do from stroke one. I'm excited to see what this group will do!"