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Hilary Epes                  Class: Senior Hometown: Buffalo, N.Y. High School: Buffalo Seminary Experience: 2V

AT TENNESSEE: FALL 2010: Won three medals in fall competition...Ended the fall on a high note, capturing first place with the Collegiate 8+ boat at the Head of the Hooch Regatta on Nov. 6...Competed with the eights in the prestigious Head of the Charles Regatta on Oct. 24 in Boston, finishing in 10th place...Started off the fall in style with a gold medal with the eights and a bronze medal with the fours at the Chattanooga Head Race.

2009-10: Spent the majority of the spring season rowing with the 2V8+ boat...Opened the season with three straight wins over Minnesota, Alabama and Dartmouth...Helped push the second eights to a second place finish at the Lake Natoma Invitational...Took home a Conference USA championship as part of the 2V8+ at the 2010 Aramark Sprints...A member of the 2V8 shell that captured the C Final at the 2010 NCAA Championships...In the fall, earned a silver and two bronze medals in the Championship 8+ divisions...Competed in the Championship 4+, finishing in third- and fifth-place at the Chattanooga Head Race and Rivanna Romp, respectively.

2008-09: Rowed primarily in the top varsity eight shell during the spring season...Part of the crew that beat Alabama by 12 seconds...Took home six medals during spring campaign...Helped push her 2V8+ boat to the win in the B Finals at the season-ending South/Central Aramark Sprints...Led the rookies with five medals in the fall...Earned a silver in the champ 8+, bronze in the champ 4+ and silver in the pair in her first collegiate action at the Chattanooga Head Race...Took silver again in the championship 8+ at the Head of the Tennessee...Teamed with fellow freshman Paula Coughlin again to collect bronze in the pair at the Head of the Tennessee...Finished fifth in the champ 4+ at the Rivanna Romp to close out the fall.

HIGH SCHOOL: Graduated from Buffalo Seminary in Buffalo, N.Y., in 2008...A three-year rowing letterwinner with the Red Hawks...Served one year as a captain...Won gold in the junior 4+ at scholastic nationals with "Sem" as a junior...Took home silver in the senior 4+ at scholastic nationals in Oak Ridge, Tenn., as a senior...Traveled to Cincinnati, Ohio, for U.S. Youth Nationals in 2008...Named varsity crew MVP as both a junior and a senior...Earned first-team all-state honors in 2007...Competed with West Side Rowing Club for three years...Earned bronze medals in the junior 8+ and junior 4+ events at U.S. Club Nationals in 2007 with West Side...Part of the sixth-place women's youth 8+ shell at the 2007 Head of the Charles...Also earned two varsity letters in swimming at Buffalo Sem.

PERSONAL: Pursuing a degree in global studies...Participated in the Ski Club, International Club, Model U.N. and Math Club at Buffalo Sem...Enjoys snowboarding, canoeing, hiking, reading and listening to music in her spare time...Has several former teammates competing at other colleges including Frances McGuire of Cornell and Sasha Bailey of Buffalo...Aspires to work with poor children in Africa after graduation...Has two siblings, Calder, 22 and Robin, 17...Hilary Morgan Epes was born on May 6, 1990, in Buffalo, N.Y., to Charles Epes and Amy Lund.