Worcester, Mass. - May 2, 2022 - The Mount Holyoke College rowing team competed at the New England Rowing Championships, hosted at Regatta Point Park on Saturday.
In the women's varsity eight, the Lyons took fifth overall in the second heat of the day, clocking in a time of 6:56.546. This result secured a position in Final No. 3, which the Lyons took third in with a time of 7:02.456. This boat was led by coxswain Jaya Nagarajan-Swenson (Berkeley, Calif.), who led a team of Celeste Keep (Bolton, Mass.), Emma Waldron (Pittsburgh, Pa.), Simran Kaur (Hanover, N.H.), Lilla Carroll (Birmingham, Ala.), Piper LaPointe (Norfolk, Mass.), Ellie Mohn (Exeter, Conn), Jill Slatch (Gansevoort, N.Y.) and Reeve Haefele (Rockville, Md.).
In the women's second varsity eight, the Lyons took fifth in the first heat with a time of 8:07.078. From there, Mount Holyoke competed in Final No. 3 and crossed in 7:47.503 to secure a fourth-place finish. In this boat was Jennifer Butler (Knoxville, Tenn.) as the coxswain, followed by Claire Gabel (Watertown, Mass.), Caroline Odlin-Brewer (South Portland, Maine), Meghan French (Cortlandt Manor, N.Y.), Winnie Liang (Brooklyn, N.Y.), Wendy Wang (Beijing, China), Dina Markovich-Koyfman (Seattle, Wash.), Arin Rinvelt (Ann Arbor, Mich.), and Katherine Dailey (Camden, Maine).
The Lyons will close out the 2021-22 season on Sunday, May 8 at the National Invitational Rowing Championships, hosted back at Regatta Point Park.
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