ROW | SMC Opens Spring Season at Sac State Invite

Saturday, March 9

Rancho Cordova, Calif

ALL DAY

Saint Mary's College of California

Sacramento State Invitational

Photo by: Saint Mary's Athletics / Tod Fierner

ROW | SMC Opens Spring Season at Sac State Invite

3/8/2019 10:58:00 AM | Women's Rowing

MORAGA, Calif. – The Saint Mary's women's rowing team officially begins their 2019 spring season this weekend, competing at the Sacramento State Invitational at Lake Natoma.

The list of colleges competing are: Sacramento State, Saint Mary's, Portland, UC San Diego, Humboldt State, Orange Coast College and Mills College

The Gaels' lineups will look like this:

Varsity Eight- coxswain Emma Bangs, 8 Olivia Rooney, 7 Olivia Pells, 6 Emily Millbrath, 5 Keyshana Luscombe-Shockley, 4 Kelsey Shinn, 3 Katrina Heffernan, 2 Emily Sprigings, 1 Jennifer Faulkner

Second Varsity Eight- coxswain Emily Roque-Reinosa, 8 Katie Boselli, 7 Reilly Schindler, 6 Emily Ferbet, 5 Ruthie Karlberg, 4 Holly Ediger, 3 Emily Pelster, 2 Katie Pecoraro, Torie Dawson

Varsity Four- coxswain Katie Baxter, 4 Sedonia Estacio, 3 Brooklyn Cassel, 2 Caroline MacMahon, 1 Elizabeth Blue

Novice Four- coxswain Cara Gutierrez, 4 Jessica Ponce, 3 Bianca Guzman, 2 Emma Thomas, 1 Kendall Keyser

Saint Mary's was recently picked to finish fifth in the WCC in the Preseason Coaches' Poll ahead of Creighton and Santa Clara. The Gaels had two players land on the All-WCC Preseason team: junior Kelsey Shinn and sophomore Emily Sprigings. For the full release, click here.

The Sac State Invitational kicks off a busy month for the rowing team as they compete in three races this month. On March 30, SMC will host their only event of the Spring when they face Santa Clara in Orinda. The next two weekends they will head to San Diego and Portland respectively before the Western Intercollegiate Championships April 27-28. The regular season will then come to a close at the West Coast Conference Championship on May 18.

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