Hartford, Conn. - October 3, 2021 - Competing for the second time in as many days, the Mount Holyoke College rowing team took part in the Head of the Riverfront 2021, hosted at Riverside Park in Hartford, Conn. on Sunday.

The Lyons had two boats compete in the Women's Open 8, as the boat that featured Jaya Nagarajan-Swenson (Berkeley, Calif.) as the coxswain led the Lyons with a time of 16:47.54, good for a 13th-place finish. Just two spots behind in 15th was the boat that was led by coxswain Dara Weingarten (Niskayuna, Calif.), clocked in at 17:11.65.

Also in Mount Holyoke's top boat was  Celeste Keep (Bolton, Mass.), Emma Waldron (Pittsburgh, Pa.), Simran Kaur (Hanover, N.H.), Jocelyn Greer (Athens, N.Y.), Liv Romanowsky (Simsbury, Conn.), Claire Papendick (North Tonowanda, N.Y.), Jill Slatch (Gansevoort, N.Y.), and Ellie Mohn (Exeter, Conn.).

Weingarten's boat consisted of Claire Gabel (Watertown, Mass.), Meghan French (Cortlandt Manor, N.Y.), Piper LaPointe (Norfolk, Mass.), Autumn Lee (Memphis, Tenn.), Anna Karns (Sullivan, Maine), Celina Krantz (Seattle, Wash.), Katherine Dailey (Camden, Maine), and Amy Wang (Beijing, China).

Mount Holyoke also had a team led by coxswain Miranda Hull (Baltimore, Md.) compete in the Women's Open Novice 8 and finish third overall. Also in Hull's boat was Dina Markovich-Koyfman (Seattle, Wash.), Lilla Carroll (Birmingham, Ala.), Karis Knoll (Miami, Fla.), Lora Jushchenko (Montclair, N.J.), Celine Falcon-Geist (Northfield, Minn.), Katherine Delamere (Sherman, Conn.), Mackenzie Windus (Little Genesee, N.Y.) and Arin Rinvelt (Ann Arbor, Mich.).

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Photo courtesy of Len Greer.