
|
May 27, 2006
For Immediate Release
Contact: Carole
Grills
(413) 585-2703
SMITH CREW TAKES FOURTH AT NCAA CHAMPIONSHIP
Princeton, NJ: The Smith College crew finished in fourth
place today at the NCAA Division III National Championship held at the Finn
Caspersen Rowing
Center in West
Windsor, New Jersey. Williams
College won the event for the second
time while defending champion Ithaca College
took the silver and Trinity College (CT) finished third.
The Petite
Final was held first with the Smith II crew finishing fourth with a time of
7:00.7150 behind the I boats of Lewis & Clark (6:55.9580), Colby (6:57.9510)
and Puget Sound (6:58.4210). The second boat for Trinity finished 5th
(7:03.4590) while Ithaca II took sixth (7:10.9290).
The Grand
Final followed the Petite race with eight seconds separating all six boats. Ithaca
I took the varsity race in a time of 6:46.3730 followed by the Williams I and
Williams II boats (6:46.7240, 6:48.9770).
Trinity I finished fourth in a time of 6:51.8710, just 1.5 seconds in
front of Tufts I (6:53.3030). The
Pioneers finished in last place in a time of 6:54.0940.
The
champion is decided by totaling the points scored by each boats place of finish.
Champion Williams scored 21 points, followed by Ithaca
with 15, Trinity 13 and Smith 12.
Smith I
Coxswain – Liz Fishback ’07, Pittsburg,
PA
8 - Kristina Latta-Landefeld ’07, Toledo,
OH
7 – Leigh Eubank ’06, Concord,
NH
6 – Eliza van Lennep ’09, Rindge,
NH
5 - Amy Schapansky ’06, Kamloops,
BC
4 – Jessica Michalak ’07, Erie,
PA
3 – Jeana Lee ’07, Santa Cruz,
CA
2 - Kim Paull ’07, Edison, NY
1– Amy Clement ’06, Sacramento,
CA
Smith II
Coxswain - Missy Wong '08, Portsmouth, OH
8 - Sara Vorhies '06, Austin, TX
7 - Samantha Cote '07, Saco, ME
6 - Elisa Hitt '06, Needham, MA
5 - Annie Coppock '06, Rutland, VT
4 - Emily Taylor '08, North Rose, NY
3 - Liz Higgins '06, East Falmouth, MA
2 - Margaux Buchanan '07, Bridgeport, CT
1 - Lauren Carpenter '08, East Hartford, CT
|