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Duke Rowing: 2023 Season Preview
3/16/2023 3:23:00 PM | Rowing
DURHAM- The Duke rowing team gears up for the 2023 season and looks to earn its fourth consecutive trip to the NCAA Championships in May.
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The Blue Devils will compete in four regattas during the regular season, across four different states in a five-week stretch.
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Duke kicks off the season with two days of action in the Oak Ridge Invitational in Oak Ridge, Tenn., on Saturday, March 18.
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BUILDING IN THE OFFSEASON
RETURNING TO THE LINEUP
NEW TO THE CREW
THREE EVENTS, THREE STATES, THREE WEEKS
THE COOKE CARCAGNO CAMPAIGN
OLYMPIANS ON STAFF
To stay up to date with Blue Devils rowing, follow the team on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook by searching "DukeROW".
#GoDuke
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The Blue Devils will compete in four regattas during the regular season, across four different states in a five-week stretch.
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Duke kicks off the season with two days of action in the Oak Ridge Invitational in Oak Ridge, Tenn., on Saturday, March 18.
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BUILDING IN THE OFFSEASON
- The Duke rowing team opened its fall schedule with five boats competing in the Princeton 3-Mile Chase and the Rivanna Romp in November.
- In the Princeton 3-Mile Chase, the Blue Devils placed two boats in the top-25 of the Women's Open 8+, a field consisting of 60 entrants from 16 different teams.
- The team wrapped up the fall slate at the Rivanna Romp in Charlottesville, Va. The annual regatta featured crews from host Virginia, UCF, Louisville, North Carolina and Navy. Duke raced five boats in the Varsity 4+, placing three in the top-10, in a field of 28 entrants from six schools.
RETURNING TO THE LINEUP
- Thirty-three Blue Devils from last year's squad return for another season, including 17 of 23 that competed in the 2022 NCAA Championships.
- Seniors Megan Lee, Lauren Sizemore and Caeley Tierney have been named team captains ahead of the 2023 season. Lee and Sizemore both served as captains last season, while Tierney is named captain for the first time in her career.
NEW TO THE CREW
- Seventeen Blue Devils have already made their collegiate rowing debut during the fall slate – freshmen Roslyn Bellscheidt, Vaya Chhabra, Nora Conaty, Sophie Gower, Sophia Greco, Mia Khamish, Grace Matos, Justine Medveckus, Lena Mills, Francesca Morland, Mary Claire Morrison, Scarlet Perry, Chelsea Proutt, Morven Thomson, Athena Wemmert and Chloe Zollman.
- Seven other new faces are set to join them in freshmen Ava Liebmann, Amy Phan, Erin Temple and Alex Weber, sophomore Ari Solomon and graduate students Roxanne Rutherford and Nicole Posesorski.
THREE EVENTS, THREE STATES, THREE WEEKS
- The Blue Devils hit the road for the month of April to compete in three events across three different states in a three-week span.
- The Duke schedule features two ACC/Big 10 matchups with the ACC/Big 10 Double Dual in Monticello, Va. on April 1 and two days of racing at the Big 10 Invitational in Sarasota, Fla., April 7-8.
- The following week, Duke makes the short trip to Raleigh, N.C., to compete in the Lake Wheeler Invitational, hosted by North Carolina on April 21-22.
THE COOKE CARCAGNO CAMPAIGN
- Head Coach Megan Cooke Carcagno has led the Blue Devils to their most successful campaigns in program history in eight years at the helm of the rowing team.
- Duke has qualified for the NCAA Championships four times (2016, 2019, 2021, 2022), remained ranked in the CRCA top 20 since March of 2019Â and finished within the top three in the ACC Championship five times (2016, 2018, 2019, 2021, 2022), including second-place showings in 2016, 2019 and 2021.
- In 2016 and 2019, Cooke Carcagno's efforts were recognized with ACC Coach of the Year honors.
- The spring saw a bronze-medal performance at the ACC Championship in Clemson, S.C., as Duke tallied 82 team points just behind Syracuse's 83 points.
- The Second Varsity Four boat became just the second crew in program history to win a gold medal at the ACC regatta, clocking a time of 7:11.587. The Varsity Four collected silver, while the Varsity Eight and Second Varsity Eight each earned bronze in their respective Grand Finals. It was the third year in program history where every athlete medaled at the event.
OLYMPIANS ON STAFF
- Micah Boyd, an Olympic and World Championships medalist, rejoined the staff in August after serving as an assistant coach from 2018-20. Boyd was a multi-time member of the United States national team, including when he won the bronze medal at the 2008 Olympic Games as a member of the men's eight and also secured a bronze medal at the 2005 World Championships with the men's coxed pair.
- Hamish Bond, a decorated Olympian and world record holder, joined the Duke rowing staff as a volunteer coach in August. Bond hails from New Zealand and represented his home country in four Olympic Games - 2008, 2012, 2016 and 2020. In the 2012 Olympics, Bond and his teammate Eric Murray set a World Best Time for the men's coxless pair at 6:08.5 and won the gold medal in the final by almost six seconds. Bond and Murray returned to the Olympics stage in 2016 at the Rio do Janeiro Games, securing another gold medal in the coxless pair category. Bond made one final Olympic appearance in 2020 with the men's eight team and claimed another gold medal with a time of 5:24.64.
- Simon Carcagno spent seven years in elite training as a member of the U.S. national team from 2002-2008. He represented the U.S. as an alternate on two Olympic teams, one Pan-Am team and seven senior national teams. Carcagno's accomplishments on the national team include winning the world championships in the lightweight eight in 2008, capturing the silver medal at the Pan American Games lightweight four in 2007, placing third in the lightweight pair in 2003, and taking second in the lightweight pair at the Munich and Lucerne world cups in 2004. Carcagno was also part of the duo that was the first-ever U.S. finalist in the lightweight pair at the World Championships in 2002.
To stay up to date with Blue Devils rowing, follow the team on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook by searching "DukeROW".
#GoDuke
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