Career Accolades

  • WIRA 4+ champion

As a Freshman (2022-23)

  • The stroke on the 4+ boat that captured the WIRA championship
  • No. 4 seat on the 4+ boat that placed seventh at the IRA Championships
  • Competed on the Varsity 8+ in the No. 2 seat vs. Princeton

Prior to Stanford

  • Graduate of Saint Anthony High School
  • Rowed for Long Beach Junior Crew
    • Team captain, 2021-22
    • 2019 Southwest Regional Youth Championship 
      • Lightweight women’s double | Bronze medal
      • Lightweight women’s 8+ | 6th place
      • Lightweight women’s 4+ | Stroke seat
  • 2019 USRowing Youth Nationals lightweight women’s double | 3rd place, C final
  • 2019 Head of the Charles 4x+ | 21st place
  • 2021 USRowing Youth Nationals lightweight women’s 4x | 6th place

Personal

  • Parents are Barbara Smith and Terence Burnham
  • Has two siblings, Violet and Ivy
  • Cousin, Rhiannon Flewelling,  swam at Michigan State
  • Cousin, Lindsey Van, is considered a women’s ski jumping pioneer, sued to get ski jumping into the Olympics, 2009 world champion
  • Great uncle, John Ecker, played for John Wooden at UCLA 
  • Heide Rosendahl, great aunt by marriage, won two gold medals in track and field (long jump, 4x100 relay) and silver in the modern pentathlon, all at the 1972 Munich Olympics for Germany
  • Member of the National Honors Society
  • Model United Nations Captain
  • A.P. Scholar with distinction