Career Highlights

  • Pac-12 Champions- Team (2023)
  • NCAA Champion- Team (2023)
  • NCAA Champion- Second Varsity Eight (2023)

As a Freshman (2022-23) • NCAA Champion (Team, Second Varsity Eight) • Pac-12 Champion (Team) 

  • Coxed the varsity four boat to a second-place finish at the San Diego Crew Classic
  • Spent the majority of the regular season coxing the Cardinal's second varsity eight boat
  • Coxed the second varsity eight boat to three top-two finishes at the Big-10 Invite (Fri AM, Fri PM, Sat AM)
  • Coxed the second varsity eight boat to a victory over California at the Big Row
  • Coxed the second varsity eight boat to top finishes against Iowa and SMU at the Pac-12 Challenge
  • Coxed the second varsity eight boat that finished second at the Pac-12 Championships
  • Coxed team and second varsity eight boat to national championship victories, Stanford's first since 2009

International Competition

  • Selected to the 2021 USRowing Under 19 National Team Selection Camps
    • Part of 2021 CanAmMex squad that raced at the 2021 Summer Nationals (CanAmMex canceled due to Covid-19 pandemic)
    • Coxed the CanAmEx Women’s 8+ that finished in first place
    • Coxed the CanAmEx Women’s 4+ that earned a first-place finish

Prior to Stanford

  • Graduate of Notre Dame Academy
  • Placed third in the Women’s U17 4+ at 2019 Club Nationals
  • Placed fourth in the Women’s 8+ at 2021 Youth Nationals
  • Placed second in the Women’s 4x+ at the 2021 Head of the Charles Regatta

Personal

  • Parents are Kara and Mike Kennedy

Why Carolyn Kennedy Chose Stanford

  • “I chose Stanford to be surrounded by awesome people who are going to push me to be the best version of myself in the classroom and on the water. I also wanted to escape the cold Massachusetts winters!”