Career Accolades
- WIRA Varsity 8+ champion (2023)
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