Beardsley, Gaggini Named to Academic All-Patriot League Rowing Team
5/23/2024 10:45:00 AM | Women's Rowing
LEWISBURG, Pa. – Bucknell seniors Haley Beardsley and Juliette Gaggini were named to the Academic All-Patriot League Rowing Team on Wednesday. Beardsley's selection follows her Second Team All-Patriot League citation earlier this week, while Gaggini becomes only the 10th rower in league history to make the Academic All-Patriot League squad three times.
Gaggini made history this spring by becoming the first Bucknell coxswain to lead the Varsity Eight all four years. She was a First Team All-Patriot League honoree after leading the V8+ to a stunning gold-medal performance at the 2022 PL Championships, and she was also a Second Team All-Patriot League honoree after the V8+ took home silver medals in 2021.
Off the water, Gaggini was a double major in English literary studies and environmental studies, and she graduated earlier this month with a 3.90 cumulative grade-point average. She was recently an undergraduate research assistant working on environmental regulations and policies surrounding the proposed construction of a chemical recycling plant in neighboring Northumberland County. Last year she interned with Bank of America as a global risk analyst in regulatory relations, and in 2022 she spent the fall semester studying English at Cambridge University in England, where she penned a dissertation on the representation of women and gender in Chaucerian literature.
Gaggini, who is a member of Phi Beta Kappa and Mortar Board honor societies, joins former teammate Caroline Brandt as the only Bison to make the 11-person Academic All-Patriot League Team three times. Other three-time honorees are Boston University's Emma Quirk, Colgate's Natalie Bauman, Georgetown's Christina Johnson, Lehigh's Leah Paulson, MIT's Erin Meyer and Veronica Toro, and Navy's Julia Arthur and Jacqueline Penichet.
Beardsley competed in Patriot League Championships as a junior and senior after learning to row as a novice during her freshman spring at Bucknell. She rowed in the Varsity Eight in 2023, and then this year she was asked to handle the all-important stroke seat in the Second Varsity Eight. She earned Second Team All-Patriot League honors after piloting a young crew to the Grand Final and a sixth-place finish last week on the Cooper River.
A first-generation college student, Beardsley graduated with a 3.92 GPA in English literary studies with minors in digital humanities and women and gender studies. As an undergraduate, she worked on the editorial team with the Bucknell University Press, and she led a team of researchers tasked with digitizing Heresies Magazine, an on-campus publication that was printed from 1977-93. She attended the Digital Humanities International Conference in Graz, Austria last year, and her studies also took her to Bath, England to study the works of Jane Austen and to Spain for the Camino de Santiago pilgrimage.
Boston University's Anna Dechantsreiter was selected as the 2024 Patriot League Scholar-Athlete of the Year, and she was joined on the Academic All-Patriot League Team by Beardsley, Gaggini, Boston University's Lulu November, Georgetown's Kennedy Watson, Holy Cross' Isabella Bokan, Lehigh's Gabriella Pontoriero, Loyola's Daniella Niedermeyer, and Navy's Tenlea Radack and Maeve Swick.
Gaggini made history this spring by becoming the first Bucknell coxswain to lead the Varsity Eight all four years. She was a First Team All-Patriot League honoree after leading the V8+ to a stunning gold-medal performance at the 2022 PL Championships, and she was also a Second Team All-Patriot League honoree after the V8+ took home silver medals in 2021.
Off the water, Gaggini was a double major in English literary studies and environmental studies, and she graduated earlier this month with a 3.90 cumulative grade-point average. She was recently an undergraduate research assistant working on environmental regulations and policies surrounding the proposed construction of a chemical recycling plant in neighboring Northumberland County. Last year she interned with Bank of America as a global risk analyst in regulatory relations, and in 2022 she spent the fall semester studying English at Cambridge University in England, where she penned a dissertation on the representation of women and gender in Chaucerian literature.
Gaggini, who is a member of Phi Beta Kappa and Mortar Board honor societies, joins former teammate Caroline Brandt as the only Bison to make the 11-person Academic All-Patriot League Team three times. Other three-time honorees are Boston University's Emma Quirk, Colgate's Natalie Bauman, Georgetown's Christina Johnson, Lehigh's Leah Paulson, MIT's Erin Meyer and Veronica Toro, and Navy's Julia Arthur and Jacqueline Penichet.
Beardsley competed in Patriot League Championships as a junior and senior after learning to row as a novice during her freshman spring at Bucknell. She rowed in the Varsity Eight in 2023, and then this year she was asked to handle the all-important stroke seat in the Second Varsity Eight. She earned Second Team All-Patriot League honors after piloting a young crew to the Grand Final and a sixth-place finish last week on the Cooper River.
A first-generation college student, Beardsley graduated with a 3.92 GPA in English literary studies with minors in digital humanities and women and gender studies. As an undergraduate, she worked on the editorial team with the Bucknell University Press, and she led a team of researchers tasked with digitizing Heresies Magazine, an on-campus publication that was printed from 1977-93. She attended the Digital Humanities International Conference in Graz, Austria last year, and her studies also took her to Bath, England to study the works of Jane Austen and to Spain for the Camino de Santiago pilgrimage.
Boston University's Anna Dechantsreiter was selected as the 2024 Patriot League Scholar-Athlete of the Year, and she was joined on the Academic All-Patriot League Team by Beardsley, Gaggini, Boston University's Lulu November, Georgetown's Kennedy Watson, Holy Cross' Isabella Bokan, Lehigh's Gabriella Pontoriero, Loyola's Daniella Niedermeyer, and Navy's Tenlea Radack and Maeve Swick.
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