2010 STANFORD CREW 2010 STANFORD CREW 2010 Stanford Crew Quick Facts General Information Team Information Credits: The 2010 Stanford Crew media guide was Location: Stanford, CA 94305 2009 Pac-10 Team Finishes: Second (Women); written and edited by Aaron Juarez. Photography by David Enrollment: 15,140 (6,812 Undergraduates) Third (Men) Gonzales, Kyle Terada, Marc Abrams, Daniel R. Harris, and Hector Garcia-Molina. Design by Maggie Oren of MB Founded: 1891 2009 NCAA Championship (Women): NCAA Design. Nickname: Cardinal Champion (Team & I Eight) Colors: Cardinal and White 2009 IRA Regatta National Finishes (Men & LW): Conference: Pacific-10 Third (Men); Third (LW) President: John Hennessy Home Site: Stanford Rowing And Sailing Center Faculty Representative: Ellen Markman Media Relations Athletic Director: Bob Bowlsby Table of Contents Asst. Media Relations Director/Rowing Contact: Senior Women’s Administrator: Beth Goode Quick Facts ...................................................................1 Aaron Juarez Stanford Women – NCAA Champions .........................2-3 Sport Administrator: Ray Purpur Office Phone: (650) 725-7277 2010 Crew Camps ...................................................... 4 Coaching Staff E-Mail: [email protected] 2010 Women’s Roster ................................................. 5 Director of Rowing/ Men’s Head Coach: Craig Media Relations Office: (650) 723-4418 Women’s Outlook ........................................................ 6 Amerkhanian (10th Year) Media Relations Fax: (650) 725-2957 Women’s Coaching Staff .......................................... 7-8 Men’s Asst. Coach: Pete Giese (Fourth Year) Athletics Website: www.gostanford.com Women’s Student-Athlete Profiles .......................... 9-18 2010 Men’s Roster .................................................... 19 Women’s Head Coach: Yasmin Farooq (Fourth Men’s Outlook ........................................................... 20 Year) Media Information Men’s Coaching Staff ................................................ 21 Vaclav Kacir (Third Year), Women’s Asst. Coaches: Interview requests for players and coaches must Men’s Student-Athlete Profiles ............................. 22-28 Nate Rooks (Second Year) be coordinated with the Stanford Athletics Media 2010 Women’s Lightweight Roster ............................ 29 Lightweight Head Coach: Al Acosta (Ninth Year) Relations office. Visit www.gostanford.com Women’s LIghtweight Outlook ................................... 30 Lightweight Asst. Coach: Katie Sweet (Third Year) for news releases, player profiles, and updated Women’s Lightweight Coaching Staff ........................ 31 Rowing Office Phones: 650-269-5396 schedules and results. Women’s Lightweight Student-Athlete Profiles ..... 32-36 (Men); 650-387-8969 Stanford in International Competition ........................ 37 (Women); 650-269-0600 (LW) Redwood Shores ....................................................... 38 Stanford at the 2008 Beijing Olympics ...................... 39 Stanford University .............................................. 40-41 Athletic Director Bob Bowlsby ................................... 42 Principles that Guide Us ............................................ 43 Stanford’s National Championships ...................... 44-45 2010 Schedules ........................................... Back Cover 2010 LACROSSE MEDIA GUIDE WWW.GOSTANFORD.COM • 1 2010 LIGHTWEIGHT ROSTER 2010 STANFORD CREW 2010 Stanford Lightweight Crew Roster Name HT YR Hometown High School Alex Cours 5-8 Fr. Rossmoor, CA Los Alamitos Caitlin Eggleston 5-2.5 Fr. Redmond, WA Holy Names Academy Kit Evans 5-5 Fr. Washington, DC Woodrow Wilson Senior Liz Fenje 5-4 Fr. Victoria, BC, Canada St. Michael’s University School Anna Garbier 5-6 So. Watertown, MA Middlesex School Natalie Goodis 5-5 Jr. Los Angeles, CA Marlborough Kristin Goodsell 5-7 So. Montclair, NJ Montclair Karyn Haitz 5-6 So. Long Beach, CA Long Beach Polytechnic Katherine Heflin 5-4 Jr. Silver Lake, KS Choate Rosemary Hall Melissa Hesselgrave 5-7 So. Riverside, CA Jurupa Valley Cassidy Horn 5-8 So. Los Angeles, CA Harvard Westlake School Felicia King 5-8 Fr. Scotts Valley, CA Pacific Collegiate School Amy Kirkham 5-7 So. Larchmont, NY Mamaroneck Jennifer Kuang 5-5 Fr. Richmond, CA El Cerrito Mariel Lanas 5-1 So. Short Hills, NJ Millburn Laura Lynch 5-5 So. Rome, GA Darlington School Caitlin Morgan 5-7 Fr. Fairfax, CA Sir Francis Drake Tierney O’Rourke 5-3 Fr. Portland, OR Jesuit Merissa Ren 5-2 So. San Juan Capistrano, CA St. Margaret’s Episcopal School Luisa Russell 5-1 Fr. Bellevue, WA Newport Anne Rutherford 5-7 Jr. Piedmont, CA Bentley School Gretchen Stumhofer 5-5 Jr. Corpus Christi, TX Texas Academy of Mathematics And Science Genevieve Tuveson 5-4 So. Tallahassee, FL Chiles 2010 CREW MEDIA GUIDE WWW.GOSTANFORD.COM • 29 LIGHTWEIGHT CREW OUTLOOK 2010 STANFORD CREW STANFORD LIGHTWEIGHT WOMEN LIGHTWEIGHTS WANT 2010 TO BE THE YEAR The Cardinal Lightweights enjoyed another fine year in 2009, captur- The Cardinal Lightweights open the 2010 spring racing season at home on ing their third straight Pacific Coast Rowing Championships and matching March 23 against Saint Mary’s and Santa Clara. Stanford then travels to San its highest-ever national finish with a third-place effort at the IRA National Diego for the San Diego Crew Classic before returning to Redwood Shores to Championships at Lake Natoma. host Princeton, Tulsa and Wisconsin. The Cardinal will get final tune-ups on the The lightweights, despite being edged out of the silver medal at the IRAs, East Coast against Harvard and MIT and at home against California. still proved itself one of the top crews in the nation, and had two of its row- The Cardinal will then go into postseason mode beginning with the Pacific ers, Katherine Heflin and Gretchen Stumhofer, named to the CRCA Pocock Coast Rowing Championships at Lake Natoma on May 15. The Lightweights Lightweight All-America Team. will end the season at the IRA National Championships at Cherry Hill, N.J. from With the graduation of senior team captains Maria Petrakis and Jessica June 3-5. Weigel, the Lightweights will rely on the leadership of returning rowers such as Heflin, Stumhofer, and sophomores Kristin Goodsell, Anna Garbier, Genevieve Tuveson, and Karyn Haitz. 30 • WWW.GOSTANFORD.COM 2010 CREW MEDIA GUIDE LIGHTWEIGHT COACHING STAFF 2010 STANFORD CREW Al Katie Acosta Sweet Head Coach Assistant Coach Ninth Season Third Season Al Acosta is in his ninth season as head coach of the Stanford Lightweight Women’s Katie Sweet enters her third year as an assistant coach with the Stanford Lightweight Crew. Crew. Under Acosta’s tutelage, the Stanford Lightweights are coming off of a 2009 season Last season, Sweet helped guide the lightweight eight to the boat’s third-straight Pacific which saw them capture their third straight Pacific Coast Rowing Championship and Coast Rowing title and a third-place national finish at the IRA National Championships. finish third at the IRA National Championships. Sophomores Katherine Heflin and Two lightweight rowers, sophomores Katherine Heflin and Gretchen Stumhofer, were Gretchen Stumhofer were named to the CRCA Pocock Lightweight All-America Team to named CRCA Pocock Lightweight All-Americans. highlight the team’s efforts. In 2007-08, Sweet, in her first year with the Cardinal, helped guide the lightweight eight In 2007-08, Acosta’s lightweights achieved victory at the Newport Autumn Rowing to a third-place national finish at the IRA Regatta as well as repeating as Pacific Coast Festival as well as capturing the A.W. Coggeshall Cup at the San Diego Crew Classic champions. for the second year in a row. The lightweights then continued their roll, winning at the Prior to joining the Stanford staff, Sweet coached for Green Lake Junior Crew in Seattle. Knecht Cup Regatta, repeating as Pacific Coast champions, and finishing the year with a There, she helped the lightweight women to consecutive national invitations in 2006 and third-place national finish at the IRA Regatta, the program’s best-ever finish. 2007. In 2006, her lightweight women’s 8+ won the Northwest Regional Championships. For his efforts in guiding the Stanford Lightweights to the best national finish in program Sweet brings to Stanford experience as a lightweight rower at both the collegiate and history as well as its numerous victories over the course of the season, Acosta was international level. At the University of Wisconsin, she was a four-year letterwinner in honored by the College Rowing Coaches’ Association as the Lightweight Rowing Coach rowing and served as captain of the lightweight team in 2005. While at Wisconsin, Sweet of the Year. twice won a national championship with the lightweight eight boat. As a national team Prior to coaching at Stanford, Acosta was the head coach at one of the nations top junior member in 2006, she placed fifth in the lightweight women’s quad at the FISA World clubs, the Oakland Strokes. While with the Strokes, Acosta coached the women’s team Championships. for three years and the men’s team for the last five years. Under Acosta’s leadership, the With a bachelor’s in kinesiology, Katie plans to earn her clinical doctorate in Physical Oakland Strokes grew from an average membership of 40 athletes to an annual average Therapy. of 160 juniors. Acosta’s crews have won numerous titles and medals. These victories include the San Diego Crew Classic, Opening Day Regatta in Seattle, California State Championships, and the USRowing