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Career Accolades

  • WIRA Varsity 8+ champion (2023, 2024)
  • Two-time IRA Varsity 8+ runner-up (2023, 2024)

As a Junior (2024-25)

  • Rowed in the No. 3 seat in the Varsity 8+ boat at the Head of the Charles

As a Sophomore (2023-24)

  • IRA Varsity 8+ runner-up
  • WIRA Varsity 8+ champion
  • Rowed in the No. 4 seat in the Varsity 8+ boat at the IRA National Championships
  • Part of the Varsity 8+ boat in all but one competition
  • Rowed in the No. 3 seat of the 4+ boat that won the Head of the Charles, the Card's first victory at the regatta since 2018

As a Freshman (2022-23)

  • IRA Varsity 8+ runner-up 
  • WIRA Varsity 8+ champion
  • Rowed in the No. 5 seat on the Varsity 8+

International/National Competition

  • Selected to the 2022 USRowing U23 World Championships roster
    • Lightweight women’s double sculls, 10th place

Prior to Stanford

  • Graduate of Middleton High School in 2021
  • Took a gap year to train at the OKC Olympic Training Center with OKC High-Performance rowing team coached by Reilly Dampeer
    • 2022 US National Selection Regatta Senior lightweight 1x finalist
    • 2021 USRowing Summer National Championships lightweight 1x national champion
    • 2021 Summer Nationals senior lightweight 2x bronze medalist
    • 2021 USRowing Youth Nationals W2- fourth-place 
  • Rowed for the Mendota Rowing Club (2019-2020) and the Camp Randall Rowing Club (2020-2021)
    • Captain for the 2019 season
  • Also spent time as an Olympic weightlifter after retiring from competitive ice hockey after eight years
    • 2018 Wisconsin State ice hockey AAA champion
    • 2019 Olympic Weightlifting Youth Nationals competitor
    • 2019 Olympic Weightlifting Youth State Championships silver medalist
    • Olympic weightlifting 59kg youth state record-holder

Personal

  • Parents are Edward and Theresa Ruszkiewicz
  • Has two siblings, Emma and Maddie
  • Mother, Theresa, ran cross country at St. Norbert's College and father, Edward, played soccer at UW-LaCrosse
  • Sister, Emma, played soccer at UW-Whitewater 
  • Sister, Maddie, runs cross country at the University of Colorado-Colorado Springs
  • National Honor Society member
  • Awarded the 2021 CRCC Steve Schafer Award
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