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Tar Heels Earn Top-10 Finishes At Head Of The Chattahoochee
November 5, 2006 | Women's Rowing
Nov. 5, 2006
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. - The North Carolina rowing team raced at the Head of the Chattahoochee Regatta Saturday and Sunday, taking top-10 finishes in both the Championship Eights and the Championship Fours races and finishing second in Open Pairs.
On Saturday, Tar Heel eights finished seventh (16:10.5) and 15th (16:28.4) in their race. The lineup for UNC's A boat was Shannon Wilson (coxswain), Lisy McIntee, Megan McMullin, Adriann Spinks, Christin Cotten, Mary Sasson, Ruby Woodside, Emily Williams and Laura Rock. In the UNC B boat were Vashti Chandler (coxswain), Maegan Wareham, Megan Mitzel, Eugenia Delbono, Priscilla Poor, Sarah Low, Chandler Sours, Liz Gardner and Katie Wood.
Tennessee won the race in a time of 15:35.7, followed by Tennessee's B boat,?Central Florida, Clemson, SMU, Cincinnati and UNC. In the eighth through 10th spots were Kansas, Duke and Central Florida's B boat.
In the Championship Fours race, UNC boats finished seventh (17:32.5), 15th (17:56.4) and 22nd (18:45.3). The lineup for UNC's A boat was Wilson (coxswain), McIntee, McMullin, Spinks and Cotten. In the B boat were Chandler (coxswain), Woodside, Mitzel, Rock and Williams. In the C boat were Jasmine Miller (coxswain), Kathryn Winz, Maeghan Sill, Layne Johnson and Cari Gleisner.
"I'm very, very pleased with the performance across the board from the team," UNC coach Sarah Haney said. "We saw what we did at the Head of the Charles and stepped up the intensity these past few weeks, and it's evident in our race results.
"Coming in seventh bested our ninth place finish last year in the varsity eight, so we feel pretty good about where we placed and where our level of competition is. The same thing in the fours - we followed behind some really fast teams and beat some fast teams, so we felt good about where those boats stacked up."
On Sunday, Lisy McIntee and Adriann Spinks raced in the Open Pairs, finishing second in their first race together. "They had only had one little practice together," Haney said. "I'm really proud of them for picking it up and having a good race."
Assistant coach Stephen Arthur-Wong also raced over the weekend, winning the men's championship singles on Sunday. He rowed in the men's master's eight on Saturday, winning that race as part of the Florida Athletic Club team.
For complete results, go to www.headofthehooch.org.
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