STANFORD, Calif. – Six Stanford women’s rowing student-athletes were named Collegiate Rowing Coaches Association (CRCA) Scholar-Athletes, the group announced.
Seniors Emily Grundman (International Relations), Simone Jacobs (Science, Technology and Society), Ellie Parker (Mechanical Engineering) and Hope Sheils (International Relations), and sophomores Alie Rusher (undeclared) and Leigh Warner (undeclared) were each honored by the CRCA.
To be eligible, student-athletes must have a cumulative grade-point average of 3.5 or better, be in their second, third or fourth year of eligibility, and have rowed in 75 percent of the program’s spring races.
Grundman and Parker earned CRCA Scholar-Athlete recognition for the third straight year, while Jacobs and Sheils were honored for the second straight season
Jacobs was the stroke, Parker rowed in the five seat, Rusher rowed in the bow seat and Warner served as the coxswain of the Cardinal’s varsity eight that finished third in the Grand Final at the NCAA Championships.
Grundman rowed in the two seat of the second varsity eight that placed ninth and Sheils rowed in the bow seat of the varsity four that captured fourth place at the NCAA Championships.
Stanford placed fourth as a team in last week’s NCAA Championships at Lake Natoma in Gold River, California, highlighted by the Cardinal’s third-place finish in the varsity eight Grand Final.