WEST POINT WOMEN CREW WIN NATIONAL TITLE  – May 29, 2009

WEST POINT, N.Y. – The West Point Women’s Varsity Four won the national championship at the American Collegiate Rowing Association championships in Oak Ridge, Tenn., May 23-24.  .

Following a strong showing in the preliminaries, the West Point women advanced directly to the finals where they outlasted competition that included crews from Cincinnati, Colorado and Oklahoma City College.  Cadets Lauren Bullis, Sonja Butler, and Katie Wilson, all in the Class of 2011, and Laura Yuengert and coxswain Murphy Pfohman, both in the Class of 2012, competed for West Point.

The West Point Women’s Novice Four placed second trailing Northwestern by 0.3 seconds, while the Men’s Novice Four placed third and the Men’s Varsity Four placed tenth.

Cadets also earned individual honors.  Cadet Ian Cruickshank, Class of 2010, earned First Team ACRA Academic All-American honors for the Northeast Region by maintaining a GPA greater than 3.9.  Cadets Phillip Baweja, Nicholas Glenn and Phillip Rangitsch, all in the Class of 2010, and Amanda Fort, a recent graduate from the Class of 2009, were named to the Academic All-American Second Team

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