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2 0 1 3 U S C W OMEN ’ S R O W ING 2007 Pac-10 Champions • 4 Individual Pac-12 Titles • 5-time Jessop-Whittier Cup Winners • 23 All-Americans For release: May 27, 2013 University of Southern California Sports Information • 3501 Watt Way • HER103 • Los Angeles, Calif. • (213) 740-8480 • Fax: (213) 740-7584 Asst. Director (Women’s Rowing): Jeremy Wu • Office:(213) 740-3807 • Cell: (213) 379-3977 • E-mail: [email protected] No. 1 USC Takes Top-End Power to Indy Brickyard 2013 SCHEDULE 2013 NCAA WOMEN’S ROWING CHAMPIONSHIPS CRCA Ranking: No. 1 Eagle Creek Park | Indianapolis, Ind. Friday-Sunday, May 31-June 2 APRIL Hosted by Notre Dame and the Indiana Sports Corporation 6 40th San Diego Crew Classic 8 a.m. 7 40th San Diego Crew Classic 8 a.m. Weather Update: Twitter @IndSportsCorp 20 Lake Natoma Invitational 8 a.m. Web Stream: www.NCAA.com/LiveSchedule 21 Lake Natoma Invitational 8 a.m. Website: www.NCAA.com MAY LOS ANGELES – The top-ranked USC women’s rowing team will put its horsepower 4 at UCLA (Dual) 8 a.m. to the test against the nation’s best crews when it heads to Indianapolis (Eagle 18 Pacific Coast Rowing Champ. 8 a.m. Creek Park) for the 2013 NCAA Division I Women’s Rowing Championships, this 19 Pac-12 Championships (P12N) 9 a.m. weekend (May 31-June 2). 21 NCAA Selection Show (NCAA.com) 2 p.m. 31 NCAA Championships 8 a.m. ET The Women of Troy make their fifth consecutive team appearance in the NCAA championships; the program’s seventh team bid. The Trojans return to the site JUNE of their first NCAA championship regatta under head coach Zenon Babraj who 1 NCAA Championships 8 a.m. ET guided the varsity eight to a sixth-place finish at Eagle Creek Park in 2003. It is the 2 NCAA Championships 8 a.m. ET 15th consecutive appearance at the national championships for the Trojan V8. All times PST unless noted USC received the Pac-12’s automatic qualifier bid for the second time in program history and has all the pieces in place to contend for the program’s first-ever national title. The Trojans finished fifth twice (2007 and 2011) and had one boat win an individual national title—the 1998 varsity four. The Trojan V8+ has earned bronze twice at the NCAA championships (2007 and 2012) while the USC 2V8+ enjoyed its best finish in school history at sixth place in 2011. CRCA/USROWING COACHES POLL TEAM (FIRST-PLACE VOTES) PTS. PREV. The team championship is composed of 22 teams. Eleven conferences were 1 USC (22) 473 1 awarded automatic qualification and the remaining 11 slots were filled with at- 2 California 449 2 large selections to complete the championship field. Teams qualifying for the 3 Ohio State (2) 429 3 championship as an automatic qualifier or as an at-large are required to field two 4 Washington 416 4 boats of eight rowers and one boat of four rowers. For the I Eights, II Eights, and 5 Princeton (1) 381 7 Fours, all 22 boats will be seeded into four heats. 6 Virginia 372 5 7 UCLA 364 6 Joining USC as automatic qualifiers were Boston University (Colonial Athletic 8 Harvard 285 8 Association); Gonzaga (West Coast Conference); Marist (Metro Atlantic Athletic 9 Yale 284 9 Conference); Navy (Patriot League); Notre Dame (Big East Conference); Ohio 10 Stanford 270 10 State (Big Ten Conference); Oklahoma (Conference USA); Princeton (The Ivy 11 Notre Dame 241 11 League); Rhode Island (Atlantic 10 Conference), and Virginia (Atlantic Coast 12 Brown 237 12 Conference). 13 Michigan 155 13 14 Wisconsin 147 14 Pac-12 champion California topped all at-large selections and was joined by 15 Columbia 146 15 fellow Pac-12 crews from UCLA, Stanford, Washington, and Washington State. 16 Cornell 115 17 Brown, Cornell, Harvard, Michigan, Wisconsin, and Yale rounded out the 22-team 17 Washington State 112 18 championship field. 18 Clemson 82 16 19 Louisville 79 19 Preliminary heats are set to begin on Friday, May 31, at 9:10 a.m. CT. Preliminary 20 Minnesota 66 20 repechage races are set to start at 3:50 p.m. on the same day. Semifinals will take place on Saturday, June 1, starting at 8:30 a.m. C (places 13-18) and D (places Others receiving votes: Duke 50, Oklahoma 43, Oregon 19-22) finals start at 8:30 a.m. on Sunday, June 2, and petite and grand finals in all State 16, Pennsylvania 14, Syracuse 14, Dartmouth 5, three events are set for 10 a.m. on the final day. Michigan State 2, Miami 1, Iowa 1, Texas 1 as of May 15, 2013 2013 USC WOMEN OF TROY VARSITY CREW Name Pos. Ht. Yr. Hometown (Prev. School) Shelby Adair Port/Star 5-7 So. Manhattan Beach, Calif. (Mira Costa HS) Marlena Adamska Port 5-11 Sr. Wloclawek, Poland (K.K. Baczynski) Iskra Angelova Port 5-9 Sr. Sofia, Bulgaria (Vladimir Stoychev Sport School) Jennah Blau Coxswain 5-0 Sr. Tampa, Fla. (H.B. Plant HS) Hannah Bowen Port 5-9 Sr. Escondido, Calif. (San Pasqual HS) Erica Christianson Port 6-1 Jr. Duarte, Calif. (Duarte HS) Darian DiCianno Starboard 5-11 Fr. Lafayette, Pa. (Mount St. Joseph Academy) Miranda Due Port/Star 5-7 So. Broken Arrow, Okla. (Okla. School of Science and Math) Keret Einaste Starboard 6-2 Fr. Pärnu, Estonia (Pärnu Koidula Gymnasium) Paige Fernandes Coxswain 5-0 So. Tampa, Fla. (H.B. Plant HS) Ivana Filipovic Port 6-1 Sr. Novi Sad, Serbia (Svetozar Markovic HS) Deirdre Fitzpatrick Port 5-11 Fr. Cheshire, Conn. (Sacred Heart Academy) Kellyn Freire Coxswain 5-2 So. Long Beach, Calif. (Loyola Marymount) Lindsay Gibson Port/Star 5-11 Fr. Roswell, Ga. (Roswell HS) Katherine Gleadow Port 5-9 So. Vancouver, B.C. (Crofton House School) Melanie Grindle * Starboard 5-8 Sr. Hanalei, Hawai’i (Kula HS) Krisztina Gyimes Port/Star 6-0 So. Gyor, Hungary (Budapest Business School) Kamali Houston Port 5-10 Fr. Sacramento, Calif. (St. Francis HS) Elaine Krebs Port 5-8 So. Woodridge, Ill. (Benet Academy) Lauren Liedel Port/Star 5-8 So. Vienna, Va. (National Cathedral School) Jelena Miladinovic Starboard 5-11 Jr. Novi Sad, Serbia (Gimnazija Isidora Sekulic) Vineta Moca Port 5-8 Jr. Tukuma Nov, Latvia (Murjanu Sport Gymnasium) Kajsa Olsson Starboard 6-0 Jr. Stromstad, Sweden (Stromstad Gymnasium) Tanya Ouyang Coxswain 5-2 Sr. San Francisco, Calif. (Drew HS) Caroline Sederowsky Starboard 5-9 Sr. Djursholm, Sweden (Beverly Hills HS) Rebecca Shaffer Port 6-0 Jr. Boston, Mass. (Mt. St. Joseph Academy) Madara Strautmane Port 6-0 Fr. Riga, Latvia (Murjanu Sports Gymnasium) Elizabeth Turner * Starboard 5-11 So. Chute-a-Blondeau, Ontario (Vankleek Hill Collegiate Institute) Vanessa Tyson Starboard 6-1 Sr. Lancaster, Calif. (Orange Coast College) Eglit Võsu Port 5-9 So. Pärnu, Estonia (Pärnu Sutevaka Humanitarium HS) Madelyn Walters Port 5-11 Jr. Orleans, Mass. (Connecticut) Jelena Zelenovic Starboard 6-1 Sr. Novi Sad, Serbia (Svetozar Markovic HS) NOVICE CREW Name Pos. Ht. Yr. Hometown (Prev. School) Abigail Becker Port 5-6 Fr. Dallas, Texas (The Hockaday School) Sara Bilimoria Starboard 5-9 Fr. Chicago, Ill. (Glenbrook South HS) Stephanie Chen Coxswain 5-3 Fr. Hillsboro, Ore. (Century HS) Jordyn Chesley Starboard 5-10 Fr. Gaithersburg, Md. (Gaithersburg HS) Victoria Dea Port 5-6 Fr. DeBary, Fla. (DeLand HS) Lydia Etters Port 5-8 Fr. Oceanside, Calif. (Escondido Charter HS) Katherine Griffith Starboard 5-10 So. Westlake Village, Calif. (Oaks Christian HS) Cathy Ji Starboard 5-5 Fr. Rockville, Md. (Thomas Wootton HS) Emily Jordan Port 5-6 Fr. Long Beach, Calif. (The Thacher School) Nikki Kloss Port/Star 5-8 Fr. Cinnaminson, N.J. (Cinnaminson HS) Chiara Nosse Starboard 5-9 So. Carlsbad, Calif. (Pacific Ridge School) Miya Okado Port 5-4 Fr. Leonia, N.J. (Leonia HS) Bryn Olason Port 5-10 Fr. Bainbridge Island, Wash. (Bainbridge HS) Shelby Penfield Port/Star 5-7 Fr. Darien, Conn. (Darien HS) Tatjana Perrin Starboard 5-10 Fr. Kailua, Hawai’i (Kamehameha Schools) Katherine Plaxe Port/Star 5-10 Fr. San Diego, Calif. (Francis Parker HS) Michelle Popelka Port 5-7 Fr. Alameda, Calif. (Moreau Catholic HS) Alexa Rucks Port 5-7 So. Northbrook, Ill. (Glenbrook North HS) Cameron Steurer Coxswain 5-2 Fr. Dallas, Texas (Greenhill School) Jaclyn Walles Coxswain 4-11 Jr. Manhattan Beach, Calif. (Venice HS) Renee Wang Port 5-6 Fr. Saratoga, Calif. (Phillips Exeter Academy) Christina Yang Coxswain 5-4 Fr. Northridge, Calif. (Harvard-Westlake HS) Valerie Yu Starboard 5-4 Fr. Arcadia, Calif. (Arcadia HS) COACHES AND STAFF Head Coach Zenon Babraj, 11th year (Academy of Physical Education ‘78) Assistant Coach Ligita Kaviere, fourth year (USC ‘08) Assistant Coach/Novice Megan Biging, second year (USC ‘07) Director of Operations Doug Thiemann Athletic Trainer David Borchardt 2012-13 USC WOMEN’S ROWING | RACE NOTES PRONUNCIATION GUIDE 2013 USC QUICK FACTS Adair ................................................ aid-AIR Kloss ................................ sounds like GLOSS UNIVERSITY INFORMATION Adamska ............ mar-LEN-uh uh-DUM-ska Liedel ......................... sounds like EYE-DELL Location ......................................... Los Angeles, California Angelova ........... EES-kra ung-hell-OH-vuh Miladinovic ...yell-AY-nuh mla-din-oh-VICH Founded ........................................................................ 1880 Babraj ............................. ZEN-enn bah-BRY Moca ........................ vee-NET-uh MO-cha Enrollment ...................... 38,000 (17,500 undergraduates) Bilimoria ............................ bill-im-OR-ee-uh Nosse ....................... key-ARR-uh NOSS-ee Campus Size ........................................................ 150 Acres Blau .................................... sounds like OW Okado ....................... MEE-uh oh-KAH-doh President ................................................. Dr. C.L. Max Nikias Chesley ........................................... JORD-in Olason ............................ BRIN OH-less-enn Athletic Director ...............................................