The Stetson University women's rowing team, which is on its way to Pennsauken Township, NJ for the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference championship this weekend, had 14 student-athletes named to the MAAC Women's Rowing All-Academic team.
 
To be eligible for the MAAC All-Academic Team, a student-athlete must complete two semesters at their institution and hold a cumulative grade point average of 3.20 on a 4.0 scale.
 
Overall, there were 210 student-athletes from the 10 members of the MAAC in women's rowing. Stetson's representatives on the team were:
 

NAME	HOMETOWN	YEAR	MAJOR
Regan Armstrong	Clermont, Fla.	Jr.	Environmental Studies
Brianna DeJoie	Hollis, N.H.	So.	Psychology and Communications
Leniza Dever	Davie, Fla.	Sr.	Communication and Media Studies
Sarah Dittmann	Poughkeepsie, N.Y.	Sr.	Marketing
Karirose Engel	Sanford, Fla.	Gr.	MBA
Madison Geib	Vienna, Va.	So.	Social Science
Grace Hunter	St. Louis, Mo.	So.	Environmental Science
Maggie Mason	Powell, Ohio	Sr.	Management
Samantha Nivison	Winter Park, Fla.	Sr.	Health Sciences
Jordan Sagl	Littleton, Mass.	So.	Management
Channing Scott	Granger, Ind.	Sr.	Management
Amanda Shaffer	Pittsburgh, Pa.	So.	Accounting
Germaine Smart-Marshall	Vineland, N.J.	So.	Biology
Ava Underdahl	Allen, Texas	So.	Biology

 
 
The MAAC rowing championship will be held out of Cooper River Park this Sunday, with heat races scheduled to begin at 9:20 a.m. Per Camden County, N.J., regulations, no spectators will be allowed at the event, but all races will be broadcast live on ESPN3.
 
Stetson has three boats scheduled to race for MAAC titles – the Varsity 8, led by Dittmann as the coxswain, the Junior Varsity 8, with Armstrong at the controls, and the Varsity 4, with Underdahl in command.
 
Dittmann's Varsity 8 boat includes rowers Smart-Marshall, Hannah Hardey, Shaffer, Mallory Holland, Scott, Engel, Sarah-Kate Rines and Nivison. Armstrong's junior varsity crew includes Cailin Mitchell, Kara Mammola, Geib, DeJoie, Frances Del Toro, Melody Summers, Sagl and Chloe Sandy.
 
The Varsity 4 crew includes Ashley Winans, Gianna Robinson, Hunter and Rebecca Naser.
 
"We are graduating our largest senior class and they have all made a huge impact on the program," Stetson coach Katie Thurstin said. "They arrived on campus to discover there was a new coaching staff and a new direction for the program. We asked them directly, 'Do you want to be girls who row boats or Division I athletes who make history at Stetson?' They all had a tough choice make, to stay and step up to the challenge or to transfer. We are very grateful each one of them chose to stay because we wouldn't be where we are without them."
 
Those senior members of the Stetson team include: Dittmann, Scott, Nivison, Rines, Mason, Anna King, Cecilia Fernandez, Dever and Armstrong.
 
Racing will begin on Sunday morning with a pair of heat races for the V4 boats, followed by two heat races for the JV 8 boats and then two heat races for the Varsity 8 crews.
 
There will be a break in the action from the end of the heats, around 10:20 a.m., until the finals begin at 12:30. Racing will conclude with the Varsity 8 Grand Final at 1:20 p.m. with an awards ceremony scheduled for 2 p.m.
 
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