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High School: Rowed for Mercer Junior Rowing Club. 2005 USRowing Youth Nationals second place lightweight 8+. 2005 CRASH-Bs third place lightweight junior women. 2005 Junior National Team selection camp. Stroked MJRC 2006 Northeast Regional Champions Varsity 8+. 2006 second place Henley Regatta Junior Women's 8+. AP scholar with distinction. Member of Spanish National Honor Society. Graduated with high honors (in top-20 of class).
Personal: Undeclared major. Spent last summer working at Princeton University Firestone Library. Has a pet yellow lab named Martha. Favorite book is Love in the Time of Cholera. Favorite TV show is Curb your Enthusiasm. Favorite foods are sushi, coffee. Grandfather Raymond Ozckauski played football for University of Pennsylvania. Brother, Nick, attends UC Berkeley. Also has a sister, Mary, 16. Parents are Susan and Joseph Conlon. Born in Trenton, NJ.
Other colleges I considered: Yale, Princeton, Harvard, Cornell, University of Virginia, MITWhy I chose to come to Stanford: Stanford offered the best combination of academic and athletic opportunities as well as the chance to experience life in a completely different place.
What I love most about rowing for Stanford: I love the small size of the team and the feeling that everybody wants to be here. I also feel like all of the hard work we do is purposeful and that everyone believes in our potential to improve as a team.