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Rowing Finishes Fourth At ACC Championship

The University of Notre Dame Rowing Team finished fourth at the 2024 Atlantic Coast Conference Championships, held on Lake Wheeler outside Raleigh, North Carolina, on Saturday, May 18. The Irish were led by third-place finishes from the First Varsity Four and First Varsity Eight. 

The third-place 1V8 finish marks the best for the program at the ACC Championship since four consecutive second-place finishes from 2014-17. 

Isalina Colsman was named the ACC Newcomer of the Year, becoming the first from the program to earn the honor since Emily Stinebaugh in 2017. Junior Natalie Hoefer earned first-team All-ACC accolades, while classmate Margaret Newell landed on the second team.

All five Notre Dame boats qualified for the Grand Final on Saturday morning, with the 1V4, 2V4, 1V8 and 3V8 all finishing second in their respective heats to gain a lane advantage in the finals. 

Syracuse, which tied with Virginia for overall points in the regatta with 90, earned the tiebreaker by virtue of their first-place finish by the 1V8. The Syracuse ACC title breaks a streak of 13 consecutive ACC Championships posted by Virginia. 

20224 ACC Rowing Final Team Standings

  1. Syracuse, 90 pts (wins tie breaker)
  2. Virginia, 90
  3. Duke, 78
  4. Notre Dame, 68
  5. Miami FL, 52
  6. Clemson, 41
  7. North Carolina, 37
  8. Louisville, 21
  9. Boston College, 17

1V4 – 

Sara Louser, Christina Henning, Scarlett Quinn, Grace Hartzell, Elise Jones (coxswain)

Saturday, Grand Final

  1. Duke – 7:05.130
  2. Virginia – 7:11.290
  3. Notre Dame – 7:14.693
  4. Syracuse – 7:18.690
  5. Clemson – 7:19.257
  6. North Carolina – 7:27.080

Friday, Heat 1

  1. Duke – 7:27.191
  2. Notre Dame – 7:34.089
  3. Clemson – 7:36.823
  4. Louisville – 7:57.093
  5. Boston College – 8:08.905

1V8 – 

Allison Fick, Margaret Newell, Christina Steinki, Keelin Klocke, Neev Gamble, Isalina Colsman, Avery Ericksen, Natalie Hoefer, Annmarie Wallis (coxswain)

Friday, Heat 1

  1. Syracuse – 6:35.199
  2. Notre Dame – 6:42.203
  3. Miami FL – 6:45.897
  4. North Carolina – 6:50.285
  5. Boston College – 6:54.729

Saturday, Grand Final

  1. Syracuse – 6:09.814
  2. Virginia – 6:15.514
  3. Notre Dame – 6:18.877
  4. Duke – 6:21.764
  5. Miami FL – 6:23.427
  6. Clemson – 6:26.797

2V4 – 

Michaela Carroll, Eleanor  Walsh, Audrey Burri, Elsa Bixby, Margaret Abbott (coxswain)

Friday, Heat 1

  1. Virginia – 7:36.392
  2. Notre Dame – 7:52.602
  3. North Carolina – 8:06.634
  4. Boston College – 8:24.228

Saturday, Grand Final

  1. Virginia – 7:11.110
  2. Duke – 7:11.770
  3. Syracuse – 7:12.626
  4. Clemson – 7:28.406
  5. Notre Dame – 7:32.160
  6. North Carolina – 7:36.136

2V8 – 

Maya Fister, Courtney French, Morgan Rice, Grayson Conway, Julia Clavi, Victoria Gordon-Brown, Lily Crook, Molly Hackett, Grace Collins (coxswain)

Friday, Heat 1

  1. Syracuse – 6:45.564
  2. Miami FL – 6:50.604
  3. Notre Dame – 6:54.662
  4. North Carolina – 6:58.098
  5. Boston College – 7:13.462

Saturday, Grand Final

  1. Syracuse – 6:19.406
  2. Virginia – 6:31.320
  3. Duke – 6:27.753
  4. Miami FL – 6:33.373
  5. Notre Dame – 6:37.130
  6. Louisville – 6:41.380

3V8 – 

Eleanor Teglia, Reyna Lewis, Clodagh McEvoy-Johnston, Elizabeth Tessen, Emma Hopsicker, Esther Prantil-Evans, Claire Macy, Francesca Taylor, Joyce Kang (coxswain)

Friday, Heat 1

  1. Duke – 6:58.966
  2. Notre Dame – 7:05.916
  3. North Carolina – 7:07.532
  4. Clemson – 7:09.066
  5. Louisville – 7:35.406

Saturday, Grand Final

  1. Virginia – 6:35.011
  2. Syracuse – 6:38.985
  3. Duke – 6:42.378
  4. Notre Dame – 6:53.538
  5. Miami FL – 6:56.008
  6. North Carolina – 6:56.071

2024 All-ACC Rowing Team

ACC Coach of the Year: Luke McGee, Syracuse

ACC Newcomer of the Year: Isalina Colsman, Notre Dame

ACC Crew of the Year: Syracuse V8 – Cox – Caileigh Grimes (cox), Emmie Frederico, Ellie-Kate Hutchinson, Alena Criss, Zoe Acosta, Kamile Kralikaite, India Aikens, Aphrodite Gioulekas, Izabela Krakic

First Team

  • Emmie Frederico, Syracuse
  • Kamile Kralikaite, Syracuse
  • Aphrodite Gioulekas, Syracuse
  • Caileigh Grimes, Syracuse (coxswain)
  • Katherine Kelly, Virginia
  • Lauren Benedict, Virginia
  • Lena Mills, Duke
  • Natalie Hoefer, Notre Dame
  • Aaliah Dawson, Miami

Second Team

  • Alena Criss, Syracuse
  • Nora Grabcheski, Virginia (coxswain)
  • Kathryn Nash, Duke
  • Margaret Newell, Notre Dame
  • Constance Stirling, Miami
  • Emerey Sampson, Clemson
  • Madelaine Johnson, North Carolina
  • Claire Carver-Ritter, Louisville
  • Lauren Meath, Boston College

The Irish will now wait to see if they are an at-large selection in the NCAA Championship. The 2024 Division I rowing selection show will be on NCAA.com at 5 p.m. ET on Tuesday, May 21.