STANFORD, Calif. – Seven members of Stanford women's rowing will compete in the World Rowing Under 23 Championships in Plovdiv, Bulgaria July 19-23.
Competing for the United States will be senior Christine Cavallo, sophomore Emily Delleman, senior Alie Rusher, junior Elizabeth Sharis and senior Leigh Warner. Cavallo, who won three Intercollegiate Rowing Association Championships with the Stanford lightweight rowing program, will row in the bow seat of the United States entry in the women's quadruple sculls. Delleman will also compete for the U.S. in the women's quadruple sculls, rowing in the two-seat. Rusher will stroke the women's four. Sharis will serve in the bow seat of the women's double sculls. Warner will serve as the coxswain for the United States women's eight.
USRowing will begin heat racing in the women's quadruple sculls on July 19 against Germany, France and Romania. The U.S. women's four will begin heat racing on July 19 against Germany, Spain, Romania and Denmark. The women's double sculls event will begin with heat racing on July 20, when the U.S. will face Greece, Norway, Japan and Moldova. The U.S. women's eight will begin heat racing on July 20 against Italy, Denmark and Russia.
Junior Stephanie Grauer will represent Canada in the eight and the women's eight. Grauer will serve in the six-seat for Canada, which will begin heat racing on July 20 against Great Britain, Germany and Belarus.
Sophomore Meg Saunders will represent Great Britain in the women's four. She will stroke the four, which will begin heat racing on July 19 against Australia. Italy, New Zealand and Poland.
Five Cardinal rowers were members of Stanford's varsity eight this past season, with four of the five – Warner, Rusher, Sharis and Grauer – in the Cardinal's top boat all year. Warner has coxed Stanford's varsity eight each of the last two seasons. Stanford's varsity eight captured second place at the NCAA Championships May 28 in New Jersey. Delleman, who competed in several regattas in the varsity eight during the regular season, rowed in the three seat of Stanford's second varsity eight at the NCAA Championships. She helped guide the boat to a ninth-place finish at the NCAA's.
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