WORCESTER - On a windy morning on Lake Quinsigamond, the nationally-ranked Smith rowing team kicked off its spring portion of the schedule by competing for the Jennifer McLaughlin Cup against Colby, Wesleyan, and WPI.

Race Details: Floating start / No lane lines

Results
Varsity 8
1. Colby - 6:43.5
2. Smith - 6:45.89
3. Wesleyan - 6:47.43
4. WPI - 6:59.7

Second Varsity 8
1. Wesleyan - 6:57.2
2. Smith - 7:07.2
3. Colby - 7:19.8
4. WPI - 7:38.01

Third Varsity 8
1. Wesleyan - 7:00.3
2. Smith - 7:08.6
3. Smith B - 7:12.9
4. Colby - 7:19.8

Varsity 8 - Maddy Beer (Seattle, WA/Seattle Preparatory School), Ruby Williams (Tallahassee, Fla./Leon), Julia Beyer (Ardmore, Pa./Friends' Central School), Nadia Grinyuk (Scarborough, ME/Scarborough), Sox Whitin (Fleming Island, FL/Fleming Island), Kathleen Bacigalupi (Saint Paul, MN/Highland Park), Zeynep Akdora (Dallas, TX/Highland Park), Jackie Wiechmann (Washington DC/Jackson-Reed), Anna Boden (Seattle, WA/Holy Names Academy)

Second Varsity 8 - Iris Bibeau-Leveillee (Providence, RI/The Lincoln School), Lou Varni, Bea Money (South Kent, CT/Hebron Academy), Leni Hicks-Dutt (Newton, MA/Brimmer and May School), Riley Amos (Palo Alto, CA/Palo Alto), Ellie Chungath (Des Moines, IA/Theodore Roosevelt), Lucie Gundersen, Olive Sterry (Montclair, NJ/Montclair), Rayna Rose (Brookline, MA/Brookline)

Third Varsity 8 - Zoe Schwartz (Wolfeboro, NH/Brewster Academy), Megan Lee (Princeton Junction, NJ/West Windsor-Plainsboro), Eleri Flanigan (Centennial, CO/Cherry Creek), Sophia Eastman (Indiana, PA/Homer Center Junior Senior High School), Grace Morris (Pawling, NY/Canterbury School), June Murray (Alameda, CA/Alameda), Steph Krieger (Durham, NC/Durham Academy), Gabby Tebo (Bainbridge Island, WA/Bainbridge), Eleanor Madley (Los Angeles, CA/Archer School for Girls)

Fourth Varsity 8 - Madigan Pillsbury (Gill, MA/Northfield-Mount Hermon), Emma Moyle (Dodgeville, WI/Dodgeville), Sienna Barney-Yapo (Boston, MA/Boston Latin School), Emery Hess (Nashville, TN/Harpeth Hall School), Roz Larsen (Santa Monica, CA/Santa Monica), Ella Peerenboom (Sherwood, OR/Sherwood), Sylvia Nunn (Chapel Hill, NC/East Chapel Hill), Kaia West (Portland, ME/Portland), Roberta Samson (Toronto, ON, CA/Parkdale Collegiate Institute)

Up Next
The Bears return to the water next Saturday in New York against Hamilton, Skidmore, Middlebury and RIT.

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