Buckeyes Bound for Florida for Big Ten Invite

Big Ten Invitational
Dates: April 15-16
Location: Nathan Benderson Park/Event Info
Schedule: Friday and Saturday
Heat Sheets: Friday/Saturday
Results: Twitter (@OhioStateWROW), HereNow.com
Teams: Wisconsin (host), Iowa, Indiana, Minnesota, Ohio State, Michigan, Michigan State, Rutgers, Notre Dame, Dartmouth, Washington State, Tennessee, Virginia, Duke, Brown, Stanford

COLUMBUS, Ohio— The No. 9 Ohio State women’s rowing team travels this weekend for the second time this season. The Buckeyes will take part in the Big Ten Invitational in Sarasota, Florida.

The regatta will be divided into two sessions Friday and one Saturday. The first session Friday begins at 8:30 a.m., the afternoon session starts at 2:15 p.m. The first race Saturday starts at 8:30 a.m.

Ohio State is racing its fourth regatta of the season and second on the road. The Buckeyes won 15-of-16 races last weekend in the Ohio State Invitational at the Griggs Reservoir. Click HERE for complete results.

The Buckeyes played host to the Big Ten/ACC Regatta April 2 vs. Duke and Virginia. Click HERE for those results. Ohio State traveled to Camden, N.J., in the season opener to face Princeton and Brown. For results from that event, go HERE.

This is the third season under the direction of head coach Kate Sweeney, who guided the Buckeyes to a sixth-place finish at the 2021 NCAA Championships and to a second-place finish at the Big Ten Championships last year.

During the offseason, six Buckeyes participated in the Tokyo Olympics. Three of those performers are rowing for the Buckeyes this season. Alessandra Montesano took the 2021 season off from collegiate competition to row for Italy at the Olympics. Incoming freshmen Maria and Anetta Kyridou rowed for Greece. For more on the Buckeyes at the Olympics, click HERE.

Also back for the 2022 Buckeyes are 2021 All-Americans Rachel DeWitte and Jessy Vermeer. The duo, along with the departed Leonie Heuer, were 2021 College Rowing Coaches Association Pocock All-America squad members a season ago.

The Ohio State Athletics Hall of Fame added another former Buckeye rower to its roster last fall when Amanda Purcell was inducted. The former walk-on rowed for Ohio State from 2003-05 and became a first team Pocock All-America as a senior. For more on her career and induction into the Athletics Hall of Fame, go HERE.

Ohio State held its annual Scholar Athlete banquet April 11. A total of 788 Buckeyes were honored with 73 coming from the rowing team. For more on the event, click HERE.

Ohio State Lineups
2N8
C: Yassmina Compy
S: Maddie Reents
7-Alex Gluntz
6-Kira Katterle
5-Morgan Miller
4-Alexa Isaac
3-Darby Pethrick
2-Alyssa Zehner
B: Danielle Mathews

1N8
C: Regan McElwee
S: Carlotta Wolff
7-Taylor Benedict
6-Jillian Johnson
5-Emma Hall
4-Lydia Stute
3-Jenna Unkefer
2-Erika Linton
B: Maggie Livingston

3V4
S: Savannah Sellers
3-Leondra Hogrefe
2-Katie Visci
B: Grace Wallace
C: Mia Mulhearn

2V4
S: Amelie Sens
3-Liz Paul
2-Kristen Devolve
B: Mary Jaskoviak
C: Kaitlin Pang

1V4
S: Alaina Hawthorn
3-Megan McNutt
2-Noah Fletcher
B: Megan Murphy
C: Charli Ulmer

2V8
C: Katie Hinton
S: Grace Pabst
7-Jamie Harris
6-Alessandra Montesano
5-Paige Wheeler
4-Natalie Chourova
3-Gabrielle Schmidt
2-Tess Thompson
B: Morgan Zahner

1V8
C: Divya Batchu
S: Anetta Kyridou
7-Pau Koster
6-Jessy Vermeer
5-Maria Kyridou
4-Emma Wilson
3-Rachel DeWitte
2-Ollie Clotten
B: Katelyn Bartos

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