Men's crew races to 3rd at MAAC championships, women take 5th
Daniel Keenan
Issue date: 4/29/08 Section: Sports
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Staff Writer
The Loyola rowing team competed last Sunday in the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference Championship on Lake Mercer in New Jersey. Despite a novice men and women's crew, the Greyhounds displayed strong performances throughout the regatta, as the men's team ended the day third overall while the women finished fifth.
Facing off against a strong, scholarship-funded Marist team, the boats that Loyola fielded at the championship displayed the power of smaller rowing programs, despite finishing second to Marist in almost every race on the men's side.
"We fielded a squad of 38 athletes total--coxswains men and women versus our opponents' squads of 50-70 and we still showed our team to be second fastest in all but one category of the races we entered," said head coach Al Ramirez. "Our finish placings and the time differentials between Marist's winning boats, Loyola's second place boats, and the rest of the field clearly show our crews to be the second fastest team of the tournament."
The women's varsity eight, rowed by Nicole Yaeger, Kelly McDermott, Meghan Fregeau, Daisy Carter, Sheila Marsicovetere, Moriah Duval, Nina McHugh and Liz Staub, finished second to Marist in the 2,000 meter race, at 8:02.71.
"After hitting one of our best starts of the season, we were able to hold a slight lead during the first 300 meters of our race," said stroke seat and women's team captain Nicole Yaeger.
"The rest of the race remained a dogfight, but we managed a satisfying second place finish behind Marist. The distance between our two crews was much tighter than our race with them had been last week at the Knecht Cup. This crew has been vastly improving each week; we have been working hard to make this the strongest Women's varsity eight Loyola has ever seen. This was a great performance."
Devin Marsicovetere, stroke of the men's varsity eight, coxed by Genevieve Dalton, was overall pleased with the boat's performance in their event, which was also rowed by Marc Hesse, Nick Miano, Cody Kishur, Dennis Delany, Dan Reardon, Zach Reichenbach and Jack Vitanovec.
"As a boat we are stronger than we have ever been and that definitely shows in the results as we are able to put up against bigger squads, both this weekend and throughout the whole season. There is a lot of dedication here, and we are all really looking forward to the rest of the championship season," Marsicovetere said.
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Dave
posted 4/29/08 @ 6:09 PM EST
So does this mean that because last year Iona came second in the women's varsity eight, varsity four and varsity light four (behind Marist but ahead of Loyola) they should have claimed to have been the second fastest women's program in 2007 despite coming third to Loyola on points?
Are Marist men really a scholarship funded program given that they compete at the ECAC National Invitational Regatta which is by definition a non-scholarship program? I would just describe them simply as faster than anyone else in the MAAC and good luck to all the other MAAC schools in their continued efforts to catch them. (Continued…)
rower
posted 5/02/08 @ 10:20 PM EST
hmm yes they are clearly the second fastest team out there, but they came in third? after a team with only 35 rowers and whose men don't get scholarships. (Continued…)
Rower 2
posted 5/02/08 @ 11:15 PM EST
I must agree with "rower." How does the "second" fastest team come in third and fifth? They should have come in second or first in all the events that they entered in order for this to have some shred of truth, but this was clearly not the case. (Continued…)
rower 3
posted 5/27/08 @ 8:51 PM EST
To clarify, Marist is not a scholarship funded team.
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