FAIRFAX, Va. – The Old Dominion Rowing team competed in the Head of the Occoquan on Saturday. The competed in four races on the day.
The first event was the Varsity 8+, the team placed third out of 12 teams. The team featured Libby Guindon as the coxswain and her crew was Nicole Knight, Jinjoo Noh, Kendall Freeman, Helen Schuette, Maddie Enns, Jay Weber, Sydnee Blackburn and Lucy Brennan finished with a time of 18.36.21.
The JV 8+ team featured Ellie Gortz as the coxswain and her crew was Callie Crook, Olivia Kruse, Sophie Sherman, Gillian Battersby, Bekah Kimman, Afton Stahl, Haven Habhab and Lillian Copeland took fourth out of six teams with a time of 19:23.68.
The varsity 4+ team took second place out of 20 teams. The team featured Savannah Hartlvoe as the coxswain and her crew was Austin Douglas, Lily Baumann, Kruse and Copeland with a time of 21:24.54.
The JV 4+ team of Bella Peycelon as the coxswain and her crew will be Catherine Wilson, Kaila Smith, Cierra Velvis and Grace Sanhofer-Adams took fourth out of five teams with a time of 24:07.28.
"We had a really good end of fall racing today. I'm proud of the whole team as everyone did what they had to do to help progress our team forward towards our goals," said head coach Brian Conley.
"The team mixed veterans with the novices for the first time this fall. We based our lineups strictly based on their most recent erg score and it gave some members of the team an opportunity to step up in athletic ways, leadership ways and to build some relationships they hadn't had the chance to do before in a practice setting. We had two boats walk away with some hardware. The Varsity 8+ took bronze behind a strong Georgetown team. The Varsity 4+ had the best finish of the day walking away with a silver behind Georgetown and ahead of West Virginia."
"We have a great group that really puts in the effort and I'm looking forward to winter training knowing the group is setting themselves up for a great spring," said Conley.
ODU Rowing Competes In Head Of The Occoquan
