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Program-Record 13 Blue Devils Named to All-ACC Academic Team
6/14/2021 2:09:00 PM | Rowing
DURHAM – The All-ACC Academic Rowing Team was announced Monday, with a program-record 13 Blue Devils included on this year's squad.
Duke's 13 honorees surpass the program's previous record of 10 selections in 2008 and 2019. Among the selections were graduate student Tara Fagan, seniors Savannah Herbek and Ema Kuczura, juniors Grace Butero, Sydney Johnson, Gabriella Salvati and Amelia Shunk, sophomores Rivca Chaver, Megan Lee and Emilie Lijesen, and freshmen Erin Heyeck, Brenna Morley and Ithika Senthilnathan.
It marks the first All-ACC Academic nod for 11 team members, while Kuczura and Shunk each earned their second career recognition (2019). With a majority of last year's campaign shortened due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the ACC did not release an All-Academic Team in 2020.
The award also comes as the second academic achievement in the last week for eight Blue Devils, as Butero, Chaver, Herbek, Johnson, Kuczura, Lee, Salvati and Shunk were each named Scholar-Athletes by the Collegiate Rowing Coaches Association (CRCA) on Wednesday, June 9.
Fagan caps off a stellar career in Durham with her first career All-ACC Academic honor. In five seasons with the Blue Devils, the coxswain from Annapolis, Md., was twice tapped to an All-ACC team while also twice earning a spot on the ACC Academic Honor Roll. This spring, she guided the Varsity Eight boat to a pair of ACC Crew of the Week nods and a silver medal at the ACC Championship, where she was named second-team all-conference. Fagan received her master's degree in Management Studies in May.
Johnson and Salvati also follow up All-ACC status with academic recognition. The pair who sat three seat (Salvati) and four seat (Johnson) in the V8 boat were both named to the All-ACC First Team after a silver medal-winning effort at the conference regatta.
The Blue Devils have had at least four selections to the All-ACC Academic Team each year since 2008. Duke's 13 honorees were the second-most in the conference behind Virginia's 14.
Duke All-ACC Academic Team Selections
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Duke's 13 honorees surpass the program's previous record of 10 selections in 2008 and 2019. Among the selections were graduate student Tara Fagan, seniors Savannah Herbek and Ema Kuczura, juniors Grace Butero, Sydney Johnson, Gabriella Salvati and Amelia Shunk, sophomores Rivca Chaver, Megan Lee and Emilie Lijesen, and freshmen Erin Heyeck, Brenna Morley and Ithika Senthilnathan.
It marks the first All-ACC Academic nod for 11 team members, while Kuczura and Shunk each earned their second career recognition (2019). With a majority of last year's campaign shortened due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the ACC did not release an All-Academic Team in 2020.
The award also comes as the second academic achievement in the last week for eight Blue Devils, as Butero, Chaver, Herbek, Johnson, Kuczura, Lee, Salvati and Shunk were each named Scholar-Athletes by the Collegiate Rowing Coaches Association (CRCA) on Wednesday, June 9.
Fagan caps off a stellar career in Durham with her first career All-ACC Academic honor. In five seasons with the Blue Devils, the coxswain from Annapolis, Md., was twice tapped to an All-ACC team while also twice earning a spot on the ACC Academic Honor Roll. This spring, she guided the Varsity Eight boat to a pair of ACC Crew of the Week nods and a silver medal at the ACC Championship, where she was named second-team all-conference. Fagan received her master's degree in Management Studies in May.
Johnson and Salvati also follow up All-ACC status with academic recognition. The pair who sat three seat (Salvati) and four seat (Johnson) in the V8 boat were both named to the All-ACC First Team after a silver medal-winning effort at the conference regatta.
The Blue Devils have had at least four selections to the All-ACC Academic Team each year since 2008. Duke's 13 honorees were the second-most in the conference behind Virginia's 14.
Duke All-ACC Academic Team Selections
| Name | Concentration(s) |
| Grace Butero | Evolutionary Anthropology |
| Rivca Chaver | Statistics, Computer Science |
| Tara Fagan | Masters of Management Studies |
| Savannah Herbek | Biology |
| Erin Heyeck | Undeclared |
| Sydney Johnson | Psychology |
| Ema Kuczura | Public Policy, Global Health |
| Megan Lee | International Comparative Studies |
| Emilie Lijesen | Neuroscience |
| Brenna Morley | Undeclared |
| Gabriella Salvati | Biology |
| Ithika Senthilnathan | Undeclared |
| Amelia Shunk | International Comparative Studies |
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