Meg Saunders Season 2020-21

Career Accolades

• Three-time CRCA All-American (2018, 2019, 2021)
• CRCA All-America nominee (2020)
• Two-time All-Pac-12 Team (2018, 2021)
• Three-Time CRCA Scholar-Athlete (2019, 2020, 2021)
• Pac-12 All-Academic Second Team (2019)
• Two-time Pac-12 Academic Honor Roll (2020, 2021)

As a Fifth Year (2020-21)

• All-America first team
• CRCA National Scholar Athlete
• All-Pac-12
• Pac-12 Spring Academic Honor Roll
• Rowed in the 2 seat with the varsity eight in a sweep over Cal at the Big Row
• Rowed in the 2 seat with the varsity eight in wins over USC and UCLA in Los Angeles
• Helped team & varsity eight to second place at Pac-12s as the bow
• Bow with second-place varsity eight at NCAAs, helping Stanford take second place overall

As a Senior (2019-20)

• CRCA All-America nominee
• CRCA Scholar-Athlete
• Pac-12 Academic Honor Roll
• Third overall and third among collegiate teams in the championship eights at the Head of the Charles
• 2020 Great Stanford Bake Off Champion
• Most of season canceled

As a Junior (2018-19)

• CRCA All-America Second Team
• CRCA Scholar-Athlete
• Pac-12 All-Academic Second Team
• Member of the varsity eight, which placed fourth at NCAA Championships and second at Pac-12 Championships

As a Sophomore (2017-18)

• CRCA All-America First Team
• All-Pac-12 Team
• Member of the varsity eight, which placed fourth at NCAA Championships and second at Pac-12 Championships

As a Freshman (2016-17)

• Member of the varsity eight (bow), which placed second at NCAA Championships
• Member of the second varsity eight, which placed third at Pac-12 Championships

International Competition

• Represented Great Britain at the under-23 Worlds in the eight, placing fourth
• Represented Great Britain in the four at the World Rowing Under-23 Championships in Bolivia, placing sixth in the A Final

Prior to Stanford 

• 2016 graduate of St. James Senior Girls School
• Won gold in the South of England indoor rowing championships
• Two-time qualifier for the Henley Royal Regatta
• Reached the semifinals of the 2015 Henley Royal Regatta in the eight and double
• Advanced to the quarterfinals of the 2014 Henley Royal Regatta in the quad
• Captured gold in the single in the 2014 British Championships
• Won gold in the single at the 2014 Junior Interregional Regatta

Personal

• Born in London, England
• Daughter of Oliver and Yolanda Saunders
• Has a brother, Peter

Why Meg Chose Stanford

• "The decision to come to Stanford was more or less a no-brainer. When I was considering schools, I was looking for the opportunity to pursue a high level of academics and athletics, a place where I’d be surrounded by diverse, hardworking, and genuinely inspiring people, and a campus that was more than a two hour journey away from home. There is no school in the world that fills this criteria to a higher degree than Stanford.”