Women's Rowing | 10/3/2016 3:20:00 PM
GENEVA, NY – RIT women's crew competed on Saturday at William Smith College's Challenge on the Canal. Participating crews included Canisius College, Ithaca College, St. John Fisher College and the University of Rochester. The Tigers fielded two varsity eights and a novice eight, racing against the clock on the 4.4-kilometer Cayuga-Seneca Canal course.
The varsity eight of
Francesca Scumaci (Fairport, NY/Fairport),
Amy Guthrie (Essex Junction, VT/Essex),
Lauren Asselmeyer (Poughquag, NY/Arlington) Colleen Ryan (Pittsford, NY/Pittsford Sutherland),
Tiffany Cao (Buffalo, NY/Hutchinson Central Technical),
Taylor Blackwell (Pittsford, NY/Pittsford Sutherland),
Claire Thomas (),
Emma Will (Squantum, MA/Woodward School for Girls) and
Colleen Albert (Burlington, CT/Lewis S. Mills) recorded a time of 16:36 for second place, seven seconds behind first place Division I Canisius. William Smith rounded out the top three with a time of 16:57.
RIT's second varsity 8 also finished second to Canisius, who posted a winning time of 17:40. Powered by
Kysa Willemsen (Sarnia, Ontario/St. Christopher),
Mickyla Schnupp (Fairport, NY/Fairport),
Catherine Evans (Sharon, PA),
Danielia Reeves (Montego Bay, Jamaica/Hillel Academy),
Casey Mazza (Grosse Pointe, MI/University Liggett School),
Delanie Kneeland (Windham, NH/Windham),
Debbie Kunz (Owego, NY/Owego),
Gia Quinn (Henniker, NH/John Stark Regional) and
Emma Kohler (Manlius, NY/Fayetteville-Manlius), the Tigers recorded a time of 18:43, seven seconds ahead of third place Ithaca.
The women's novice races were broken into recruit eights and walk-on eights. Led by coxswain Willemsen, RIT's walk-on eight of
Jacqueline Corson (Powell, OH/Dublin Coffman),
Melissa Gould (),
Clarissa Brown (),
Svea Elisha (),
Regina Chartier (),
Olivia Sanders (),
Chiara Young (Sherman, NY/Panama) and
Brook Fitzpatrick () earned a first place finish in their racing debut with a time of 19:28. William Smith's walk-on eight was second, almost a minute behind the Tigers, and St. John Fisher third. Rochester won the recruit eights with a time of 17:31, finishing ahead of Ithaca and William Smith's recruit eights.
The Tigers are back on the water Saturday at the Head of the Genesee in Rochester, NY.
