Five Wolverines Earn CRCA All-Central Region Honors
5/27/2008 12:00:00 AM | Rowing
ANN ARBOR, Mich. -- A quintet of University of Michigan women's rowing team members were selected to the All-Central Region team, the Collegiate Rowing Coaches Association announced on Tuesday (May 27). Sunior/junior Karen Colwell(Pawcatuck, Conn./Stonington) and sophomore Lori Gordon(Winchester, Mass./Newman Prep) were tabbed for the first team, while junior coxswain Laura Dunn(Andover, Mass./Pomfret School [Conn.]), sophomore Adrienne Mecham(Lake Stevens, Wash./Lake Stevens) and junior Cate Trumble(Dalkeith, Western Australia/Presbyterian Ladies College) were named to the second team.
Furthermore, Colwell, sophomore coxswain Margaret Deinek(Grosse Pointe, Mich./Grosse Pointe South), senior Caitlin McAllister(Kalamazoo, Mich./Loy Norrix) and junior Kate Strzalkowski(St. Catharines, Ontario/St. Catharines Collegiate) were named CRCA Scholar Athletes.
Colwell, Gordon, Mecham, Trumble and Dunn have been mainstays in the Michigan first varsity eight throughout the spring season. The boat's third-place showing at the Central/South Region Sprints on May 18 earned it a bid to the 2008 NCAA Championships, which will be held May 30-June 1. Colwell was an All-Central Region second team selection in 2007, when she was also in the first varsity eight. Mecham, the 2007 Big Ten Freshman of the Year, Gordon, and Trumble are in their second season in the first varsity eight as well, while this is Dunn's first year in the top boat.
CRCA Scholar Athletes were required to have competed in NCAA eligible boats (first varsity eight, second varsity eight, first varsity four) for at least 75 percent of the season. Deinek and Strzalkowski have been primarily in the second varsity eight, while McAllister has spent the majority of the season in the first varsity four. Additionally, they had to earn a grade-point average at or above 3.5. The student-athlete also had to be in at least her second academic year.
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