Rowing Kicks Off 2008 Season with the Metro Cup SaturdayRowing Kicks Off 2008 Season with the Metro Cup Saturday

Rowing Kicks Off 2008 Season with the Metro Cup Saturday

Feb. 28, 2008

ORLANDO, Fla. (www.ucfathletics.com) - UCF's 2008 spring rowing season gets underway Saturday when the Knights travel to Winter Park for the annual Metro Cup with Rollins College. The regatta opens up at 9 a.m. on Lake Maitland.

The Knights' novice 4+ and novice lightweight 4+ will be the first to hit the water. UCF also will compete in the novice 8+ and varsity 8+, as well as send out two lightweight 4+ boats in the varsity 4+ events. The novice 8+ will compete in the varsity race and features coxswain Callie Waers, Katelyn Dawes, Christine Rubino, Samantha Fahed, Tracy Brock, Ashley Stowe, Alyssa Feliciano, Caitlin Bernier and Ashley Gleason.

The lightweight 8+ boat that will race in the varsity 8+ will include coxswain Hillary Trupp, Liz Robinson, Michelle Carter, Lauren Schueler, Taylor Wiatt, Gilly Powell, Kathleen Noble, Samantha Maticka and Briana Lively-Poley.

Saturday's weather conditions should be relatively ideal on the water, with only a slight chance of rain and wind reaching up to eight miles an hour.

In last year's Metro Cup, UCF took three of four events from Rollins, including the novice 8+, lightweight 4+ and the lightweight 8+.

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