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Dad Vail
Regatta
May 10-11, 2002
ECAC Metro-Avaya
Regatta
May 12, 2002
Blue Hens
Place Fourth at Dad Vail; Capture Lightweight Eights
Title
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Fay
Schmid was part of the winning Lightweight Varsity
Eights crew at Dad Vail
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PHILADELPHIA -- The University of
Delaware women's rowing team capped a successful weekend by
placing fourth in the team standings at the Dad Vail Regatta
on the Schuylkill River in Philadelphia Saturday and placing
second at the ECAC Metro-Avaya Regatta Sunday at Lake Mercer
in West Windsor, NJ.
At the Dad Vail Regatta, one of the
nation's oldest and most prestigious rowing regattas,
Villanova captured the women's point title with 21 points
followed by Massachusetts and Boston College with 20 points,
and Delaware fourth with 16 points. A total of 47 teams
competed. Delaware, which won the team title in 2001, placed
third in 1999 and second in 2000.
At the ECAC Metro-Avaya Regatta Sunday,
Massachusetts took the women's team title with 79 points
while Delaware was second with 61 points and Villanova was
third with 60 points.
Highlighting the Dad Vail for Delaware
was the Lightweight Varsity Eights team that won the title
for the second straight year. Delaware's team of Dana
Hammond, Denise Burke, Fay Schmid, Laura Muto, Lisa Hardy,
Susan Krause, Tory Yanakos, Stef Lazorick, and Dana
Lohr won the finals with a time of 7:08.8. Rhode Island
was second at 7:14.0 followed by Villanova, Penn State,
Georgia Tech, and Colorado.
Delaware's Varsity Heavyweight Eights
team of Alli Garwood, Lauren Heller, Elizabeth McInturff,
Lissa Kutz, Dawn Hussnatter, Betsy Ferry, Kylie Campbell,
Laura McDonald, and Erin Quimby placed third in
the petite final and eighth overall with a time of 6:57.0.
Connecticut won the race and was sixth overall with a time
of 6:50.6.
Also for the Hens, the Junior Varsity
Eights team of Carolyn Serey, Jessica Colpo, Erinn
Batykefer, Jessica Ayers, Jen Suminski, Leanna Ferrand,
Danah O'Connor, Janice Brown, and Alison Conway
placed sixth in the finals with a time of 7:06.6. Boston
College took the title with a time of 6:56.8 followed by
Massachusetts, Purdue, Saint Joseph's, and
Connecticut.
Delaware's Novice Eights team of
Stacey Atsaides, Emily McElwain, Kathleen Servis, Lauren
Fretz, Hannah Evans, Stefanie Schneider, Meredith Bullamore,
Courtney Bull, and Maureen Gillen also placed
sixth in the finals with a time of 7:20.3. Purdue won the
race with a time of 7:01.2 followed by Saint Joseph's,
Central Florida, Boston College, Buffalo, and Delaware.
The Blue Hens also competed in two other
events at Dad Vail as the Varsity Heavyweight Fours team of
Kat Campagnini, Andrea Placke, Elizabeth McGarry,
Elizabeth Harris, and Lyra Sawzin placed third in
its heat with a time of 7:32.1 (Indiana won the heat in
7:31.0) and the Varsity Lightweight Fours team of Alexis
Klair, Nicole Ferrari, Liz Florin, Lindsay Greco, and
Susan Carbine was fifth in its heat with a time of
8:40.3. The University of Georgia won the race in
7:51.4.
At the ECAC Metro-Avaya Regatta Sunday,
Delaware was second in the Novice Heavyweight Eights
(7:34.2), second in the Varsity Fours (no times available),
third in the Junior Varsity Heavyweight Eights (7:45.4), and
third in the Varsity Heavyweight Eights (7:15.9).
Delaware's Novice Heavyweight Eights team
consisted of Atsaides, McElwain, Servis, Fretz, Evans,
Schneider, Bullamore, Bull, and Gillen, the Varsity Fours
team consisted of Campagnini, Placke, McGarry, Harris, and
Sawzin, the JV Eights team was comprised of Serey, Colpo,
Batykefer, Muto, Suminski, Ferrand, O'Connor, Brown, and
Conway, and the Varsity Heavyweight Eights team included
Garwood, Heller, McInturff, Kutz, Hussnatter, Ferry,
Campbell, McDonald, and Quimby.
Fairfield won the Varsity Fours,
Massachusetts won the Varsity Eights (6:58.4), St. Joseph's
won the Novice Eights (7:32.4), and Massachusetts won the
Junior Varsity Eights (7:33.1).
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