Notables
- No. 2 Stanford opens its 2025 spring racing slate Saturday, traveling to Oak Ridge, Tenn. to battle No. 3 Tennessee on Milton Lake.
- Racing schedule (all times PT):
- 5 a.m.- 2V4
- 5:15 a.m. - V4
- 5:30 a.m.- 2V8
- 5:45 a.m.- V8
- WATCH OUT » Three Cardinal were named to watch lists prior to the start of spring racing.
- Senior rower Iris Klok was named to the 2025 Preseason ACC Rowing Watch List. The ACC Watch List consists of one student-athlete from each program, nominated by their respective schools. The ACC is the only conference with a preseason rowing watch list. Klok enters her senior season after three incredibly successful seasons with the Cardinal, including three conference championships and an NCAA team and boat championship in 2023. The Pac-12's 2022 Newcomer of the Year has spent two seasons in Stanford's Varsity Eight Boat (2022, 2024) and a year in the Cardinal's Second Varsity Eight Boat (2023) and is fresh off a junior campaign that included CRCA First Team All-America honors. The Amsterdam native boasts an impressive collegiate rowing resume that she'll look to continue in the Cardinal's inaugural season in the ACC.
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- Stanford women's rowing placed two athletes on the Collegiate Rowing Coaches Association (CRCA)'s 2025 Athletes to Watch List. Senior Julietta Camahort and junior Célia Dupré were two of 23 athletes nationally to be recognized by the coaches association, and Stanford was one of only seven schools to have more than one athlete added to the list.
- Dupré rejoins the Cardinal after spending a year training and competing in the 2024 Summer Olympics. The Plan-les-ouates, Geneva, native earned a fourth-place finish at the summer games as a part of Switzerland's Quadruple Sculls boat. In her freshman season at Stanford, Dupré was a part of the varsity eight boat that secured the Cardinal's first national championship title (team and boat) since 2009.
- Camahort enters her senior campaign with the Cardinal after a junior season that saw her earn an NCAA boat title with the second varsity eight boat and a runner-up team finish at the 2024 NCAA Championships. She was also critical in Stanford's third consecutive Pac-12 Championship team win as part of the Cardinal's second varsity eight boat, recording the program's first conference championship in the second varsity eight boat since 2014.
- Stanford women's rowing placed two athletes on the Collegiate Rowing Coaches Association (CRCA)'s 2025 Athletes to Watch List. Senior Julietta Camahort and junior Célia Dupré were two of 23 athletes nationally to be recognized by the coaches association, and Stanford was one of only seven schools to have more than one athlete added to the list.
- Fall Racing Recap » Stanford Women’s Rowing closed its fall racing schedule Sunday morning, sending 10 boats to compete at the annual San Diego Fall Classic on Mission Bay in San Diego.
- Stanford sent four eights boats: “No Name”, “Elle Logan”, “Sam Magee”, and “Attacker”, five fours boats: “Thunderdome”, “Wild Card”, “Amigos”, “IB”, and “Academic Weapon”, and one quad boat.
- The Cardinal’s four eights boats earned four of the top six finishes in the Women’s Open 8+ race, with “No Name” finishing first, "Elle Logan" second, "Sam Magee" third, and "Attacker" placing sixth. Stanford bested crews from UC Irvine, Cal Poly, UC San Diego, UC Santa Barbara, and the University of San Diego.
- Stanford’s quad boat placed first in the Women’s Masters 4x race, topping crews from Rio Salado Rowing Club, Newport Aquatic Center, Channel Islands Rowing Club, San Diego Rowing Club and Community Rowing of San Diego.
- The day ended with the Cardinal’s five fours boats recording the top five finishes in the Women’s Open 4+. “Thunderdome” placed first, followed by "Amigos", "Wild Card", "Academic Weapon" and "IB" with the second, third, fourth and fifth-place finishes, respectively.
- 2024: Year in Review » The Cardinal continued its reign as one of the nation’s best rowing teams throughout the 2024 season, winning its third straight Pac-12 Championship and registering its fourth consecutive top-two finish and seventh top-six finish at the National Championships in so many years.
- Second Varsity Eight National Champions » Stanford enters the 2025 season off its second consecutive national championship win in the second varsity eight races. Seven of the nine athletes in the boat return to the Cardinal's 2025 roster.
- STUDENT Athlete » Then-senior Belle Battistoni was named Pac-12 Women's Rowing Scholar-Athlete of the Year for 2024. Battistoni became the Cardinal's eighth Pac-12 Scholar-Athlete of the Year and fourth straight honor, following Annabelle Bachmann (2023), Nicole Pofcher (2022), Grace McGinley (2021), Naomi Cornman (2015), Ali Fauci (2014), Mariele Higgins (2012), and Erika Roddy (2011). Stanford finished its time in the Pac-12 conference as the only school to win the women's rowing scholar-athlete award four years in a row since the honor was created for the 2007-08 academic year.
- Third Straight End-of-Year Sweep » 2024 saw the Cardinal sweep the end-of-year awards from the Pac-12 for the third straight season. Luise Bachmann earned her first Pac-12 Athlete of the Year honor, while Matilda Drewett was named the Pac-12 Women's Rowing Newcomer of the Year and head coach Derek Byrnes was selected as the Pac-12's Coach of the Year. Drewett, alongside Annika Jeffery, Lucy Burrell and Fiona Mooney earned All-Pac-12 accolades for their strong performances this season. Bachmann, Drewett, Jeffery, Burrell and Mooney headline Stanford's 2025 squad looking to bring back the NCAA trophy back to The Farm.
- UP NEXT » No. 2 Stanford plays hosts to two ACC foes for racing action on its home course at Redwood shores. The Cardinal welcomes No. 11 Syracuse and No. 13 Virginia to the Bay Area for racing on April 12-13.