May 27, 2007

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NCAA Rowing Championships

OAK RIDGE, Tenn. - Top-three showings in all three petite finals earned the Lady Vols a program-record ninth-place finish at the 2007 NCAA Rowing Championships on Melton Hill Lake.

Tennessee got its best showing from the Second Eights group that took second in the petite final to finish eighth in the country. The group of freshman coxswain Katie Ross (Saratoga Springs, N.Y.), freshman Mary Beth Dreusike (Huntington Station, N.Y.), sophomore Kate Brownlee (North Gower, Ontario), junior Leah Smelser (Macon, Ga.), sophomore Caroline Howell (Davenport, Iowa), freshmen Laura Miller (Columbus, Miss.) and Kate Snider (Ramona, Calif.) and juniors Kendra Warren (Franklin, Tenn.) and Genevieve Collins (Dallas, Texas) surged over the final 500 meters to take the runner-up position behind Southern California. The Lady Vols pushed the Trojans, finishing just a second in back of USC. Yale came in third, a half-length behind Tennessee.

The First Eights crew, ranked 10th in the country coming in to the weekend, bettered that by a spot in the final race of the year for UT. The shell, powered by senior coxswain Stephanie Davis (Martin, Tenn.), sophomore Erin-Monique Shelton (Upper Hutt, New Zealand), juniors Renee Brittle (Dublin, Va.) and Krista Gearing (Fenwick, Ontario), senior Rachel Mayberry (Woodbridge, Va.), juniors Jessica Ayers (Alpharetta, Ga.) and Nina Dobratz (Portland, Ore.), senior Sarah Hutcheson (Orlando, Fla.) and junior Mary Jones (Huntsville, Ala.) charged ahead in the final 500 meters to overtake No. 7 Stanford and finish third in the petite final. Minnesota (6:43.53) edged Dartmouth (6:43.95), who just held off the Orange and White's entry.

The first Division I race of the day saw the Big Orange rank third in the Fours petite final. Tennessee's crew of freshman Roshauna Singh (Vienna, Va.), senior Kristen Galloway (Knoxville, Tenn.), freshman Erin Gray (Wuerzburg, Germany), senior Heather Hill (Knoxville, Tenn.) and junior Marisa Mohan (San Diego, Calif.) tied the program's best finish at nationals with a 7:54.18 time, a half-length better than Ohio State. Southern California took the race with a more than five-second advantage over Minnesota.

Brown captured its fifth national title despite not winning a final today. Virginia took its second Fours crown, while the Second Eights (Minnesota) and First Eights (Yale) both were won for the first time by those programs. The Bears won the team trophy with a four-point advantage over the Cavaliers.

2007 NCAA Championships
Melton Hill Lake - Oak Ridge, Tenn.
Final Results - Division I Only
Sunday, May 27