Last season, the Redhawks made a splash at their first WIRAs as a varsity program, as the varsity 8+ qualified for the grand finals race and the novice 8+ won the petite finals. In their first heat, the varsity 8+ defeated San Diego State and the novice 8+ defeated Humboldt State. In their victorious petite finals race, the novice 8+ defeated Humboldt State, UC San Diego, UC Davis, and Oregon with a time of 7:28.5.
On Saturday, the Seattle U varsity 8+ will compete in heat two (event 17) at 10:40 a.m. vs. Saint Mary’s, Sacramento State, and San Diego State with Stanford, Portland, Loyola, and Santa Clara competing in heat one (event 16). The novice 8+ will compete in heat two (event 23) vs. Sacramento State, Santa Barbara, Orange Coast, and Sonoma State at 11:40 while Gonzaga, Portland, UCSD, Oregon, and UC Davis will compete in heat one (event 22).
The novice 8+ petite final will take place at 4:10 pm on Saturday while the novice 8+ grand final (10:10 a.m.), varsity 8+ petite final (11:20 a.m.) and varsity 8+ grand final (12 noon) will take place on Sunday.
Lineups for each race are as follows:
Varsity Eight: cox – Jolie Kawasaki, stroke – Kelsey Hopkins, 7 – Darian Borst, 6 – Fallon Sullivan, 5 – Mariana Osuna, 4 – Kaitlyn Hammond, 3 – Sara Haugen, 2 – Sinclair Ball, bow – Hana Wilder
Novice Eight: cox – Liesl Bower-Jernigan, stroke – Kailyn Zimmer, 7 – Meghan Ricci, 6 – Katy Chiswell, 5 – Rachel Wong, 4 – Jill Nakaso, 3 – MacKenzie Gaddy, 2 – Maddi Lynch, bow – Selyna Villareal
Stay tuned to GoSeattleU.com, Seattle U Athletics on Facebook, @su_wrow and @su_athletics on Twitter, and suwomensrowing on Instagram for the latest updates throughout the weekend. Live stats for each day are on the women’s rowing schedule page at GoSeattleU.com or by clicking HERE (Saturday) and HERE (Sunday).
After competing this weekend, the squad will finish the 2014 season, their second as a varsity program, at the Opening Day Regatta on the Montlake Cut in Seattle on May 3.