Brooke Ruszkiewicz Season 2023-24

Career Accolades

• WIRA Varsity 8+ champion (2023)

As a Freshman (2022-23)

• IRA Varsity 8+ runner-up 
• WIRA Varsity 8+ champion
• Rowed in the No. 5 seat on the Varsity 8+

International/National Competition

• Selected to the 2022 USRowing U23 World Championships roster
  • Lightweight women’s double sculls, 10th place

Prior to Stanford

• Graduate of Middleton High School in 2021
• Took a gap year to train at the OKC Olympic Training Center with OKC High-Performance rowing team coached by Reilly Dampeer
  • 2022 US National Selection Regatta Senior lightweight 1x finalist
  • 2021 USRowing Summer National Championships lightweight 1x national champion
  • 2021 Summer Nationals senior lightweight 2x bronze medalist
  • 2021 USRowing Youth Nationals W2- fourth-place 
• Rowed for the Mendota Rowing Club (2019-2020) and the Camp Randall Rowing Club (2020-2021)
  • Captain for the 2019 season
• Also spent time as an Olympic weightlifter after retiring from competitive ice hockey after eight years
  • 2018 Wisconsin State ice hockey AAA champion
  • 2019 Olympic Weightlifting Youth Nationals competitor
  • 2019 Olympic Weightlifting Youth State Championships silver medalist
  • Olympic weightlifting 59kg youth state record-holder

Personal

• Parents are Edward and Theresa Ruszkiewicz
• Has two siblings, Emma and Maddie
• Mother, Theresa, ran cross country at St. Norbert's College and father, Edward, played soccer at UW-LaCrosse
• Sister, Emma, played soccer at UW-Whitewater 
• Sister, Maddie, runs cross country at the University of Colorado-Colorado Springs
• National Honor Society member
• Awarded the 2021 CRCC Steve Schafer Award