SU Women Race at Clemson

story courtesy of SU Athletics

CLEMSON, S.C. - The Syracuse women’s rowing spring racing season began on a positive note Saturday with strong finishes at Clemson. The Tigers hosted the Orange, Boston University, Iowa, Indiana, Marist and Purdue at its Lake Hartwell race course after SU used the preceding week to train in South Carolina. “The races went about as I expected they would,” head coach Justin Moore said. “It is a challenge for us to find the right balance during this week of training, our first on the water, between rowing a high volume of base miles and prepping for a race against top 20 competition.” The Orange varsity 8+ finished third out of seven in a time of 6:51.57, behind Clemson and Indiana’s dead heat first-place time of 6:46.21. The five-second gap, marked a 10-second improvement from the Orange’s time vs. Clemson last season and a 5-second improvement vs. Indiana. Last season, the Orange finished five seconds behind BU, but finished 10 seconds ahead of the fifth-place Terriers in this season’s race. The varsity 8+ boat was comprised of Allison Todd, Emma Karpowicz, Maggie McCrudden, Anna Kasycki, Miranda Williams, Emma Basher, Carmen Failla, Tiffany Macon and Caroline Habjan. “I felt the fatigue of the double-training sessions may evidence itself in the later portions of the race and this was the case,” Moore said. “I feel good about what we did in the first 1,000 meters of the race. We showed that we have the speed to compete. Now we have to work on executing a full race.” The second varsity 8+ finished third in its race as well with a time of 6:55.57, behind first-place Iowa (6:52.81) and third-place Clemson (6:53.31). The first varsity 4+ posted a second-place finish for SU in a time of 8:02.89, behind Clemson (7:51.46). The Orange’s varsity 4+ was comprised of Samantha Hart, Macey Miller, Ashley Marsh, Laura Adams and Sienna DeSantis. Syracuse’s novice 8+ also finished second behind Clemson (7:11.30) in a time of 7:18.56. “With the youth of our group, we feel that our learning curve is going to be steep and that there are much faster and more complete races ahead of us,” Moore said. The Orange returns home to host Boston University, Cornell and Rutgers on Saturday at the James A. Ten Eyck Memorial Boathouse.