Lauren Still Named Second Team All-America
CORVALLIS – Oregon State rower Lauren Still was among the honorees when the Collegiate Rowing Coaches Association (CRCA) announced the 2015 Pocock All-America award winners Monday.
These awards recognize the outstanding performances of rowers and coxswains on the national level in women's collegiate rowing.
For Still, a senior from Grants Pass, Ore., the award puts a cap on a stellar two-year rowing career at Oregon State. As a junior in 2013-14, Still, who is majoring in fisheries and wildlife sciences, learned to row joining the Beavers’ novice program and worked her way into the Varsity 8 crew early that season en route to earning the Pac-12 Conference’s Newcomer of the Year award. This season, Still earned Pac-12 All-Conference honors and helped power Oregon State’s V8 to a pair of upset wins over then-No. 17 Louisville at the Oregon State Classic in April. The Beavers’ top crew ranked as high as No. 17 in the nation at midseason.
General requirements for nominating a student-athlete for CRCA post-season honors are:
· The student-athlete must meet all eligibility rules as defined by her institution
· The student-athlete must have rowed at least 75% of the current spring season's races in the varsity boat (before and including May 19, 2015)
· The student-athlete must be nominated by her institution
· The Head Coach of the student-athlete's institution must be a member in good standing of the CRCA
The nominated student-athletes are then selected to 1st and 2nd teams based on the following criteria:
· Strength of finish of the institution's varsity eight within the country
· Coach comments
· 2k erg score
2015 Pocock All-America Teams (from Pac-12 Schools)
First Team
Kendall Chase, California
Fiona Gammond, Washington
Inger Kavlie, California
Lindsay Meltz (cox), California
Ingvild Roenningen, California
Katie Toothman, Stanford
Jordan Watson, Washington State
Second Team
Sarah Dougherty, Washington
Jacinta Edmunds, California
Nicole Hare, Washington State
Ellie Parker, Stanford
Lauren Still, Oregon State
Madara Strautmane, USC
