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Dad Vail Championship
Bison Crew Squads Shine at the Dad Vail Regatta
5/13/2002 8:00:00 AM | Women's Rowing
May 13, 2002
PHILADELPHIA - Bucknell was well-represented at the 2002 Dad Vail Regatta Saturday, May 11, on the Schuylkill River.
Competing in the final day of the nation's largest collegiate regatta, the Bison had a pair of boats earn silver medals. In the women's varsity four, Lisa Baranik, Julie Engel, Rebecca Newman, Jill Harrington and coxswain Nicole Tomlin separated themselves from the field with Dowling College early in the race and battled stroke for stroke for the last thousand meters. With a time of 7:20.9, the crew finished just one second behind Dowling for the gold, and defeated its nearest competitor, Northwestern, by over eight seconds. Forty boats participated in the event.
For Engel, it was her second straight year of winning a Dad Vail silver medal.
Also earning a silver was the women's varsity pair of Emily Smith and Joan Wendler. The crew came from behind to place second among 18 boats. With a time of 8:18.2, the pair defeated rivals Penn State and NYU to pick up its third Dad Vail medal in as many years.
The women's novice squad also experienced success. The novice lightweight eight of Rachel Trusheim, Kelly Landis, Jill Pompeii, Lauren Donnelly, Vi Ngo, Sarah Dickinson, Meiko Nevels, Lauren Ewald and coxswain Jaclyn Shull won the gold in a competitive four boat field. This was the first ever gold medal for a novice crew from Bucknell at the Dad Vail.
The Bucknell crew teams' season officially ended on Sunday with the Eastern Sprints, held on the Cooper River in Camden, N.J. The women's novice lightweight eight was the only boat to participate for Bucknell, and it captured the bronze in a four-boat race, finishing behind Princeton and Wisconsin and ahead of Georgetown.
