Gina Biascoechea and Shannon Stief of the Everett Rowing Association have been invited to the upcoming USRowing Junior Women’s National Team selection camp in New London, Conn.
Biascoechea, a junior at Archbishop Murphy High School in Everett, and Stief, a junior at Mukilteo’s Kamiak High School, will be among the 49 athletes competing for spots on the U.S. teams that will travel to the World Rowing Senior and Junior Championships, July 22-27 in Linz/Ottensheim, Austria.
Six athletes at the selection camp, including Cara Linnenkohl of Redmond and Seattle’s Lake Union Crew, were members of the U.S. team that won the bronze medal at the world junior championships last year.
Biascoechea and Stief, both 17, are members of the Everett Rowing Association’s junior women’s varsity eight team, which placed fifth at last year’s U.S. junior national championships.
Biascoechea attended the Junior Women’s National Team Selection Camp in 2007 where she was chosen to be a member of the U.S. Junior High Performance Rowing Team. As part of that team she trained and participated in regattas in a number of locations in the northeast U.S., including the Olympic Training Center at Lake Placid. In addition, the team went to Berlin and trained with the German Junior National Team. Biascoechea, who has been rowing since 2005, lives in Everett.
Stief started with The Everett Rowing Association in the spring of 2006, during her freshman year of high school. She was part of the women’s eight that placed second in the 2007 Club National Championship Regatta.
Rower honored: Junior Erin Bean, who rows for Western Washington University, was named last week to the Great Northwest Athletic Conference At-Large Academic All-Star Team.
Bean, who is from Lynnwood and attended Meadowdale High School, has a 3.27 grade-point average in recreation.
Softball
Crosson honored: Krista Crosson of Loyola-Chicago was named the Horizon League Pitcher of the Week for April 28-May 4.
Crosson, a junior right-hander from Lake Stevens, was 1-0 with a 0.00 earned-run average for the week.
Golf
Koppenberg honored: Jake Koppenberg of Western Washington University was named last week to the Golf Coaches Association of America’s NCAA Division II West Region all-star team.
Koppenberg, a junior from Everett, set a school record with his 71.3 scoring average and earlier in the season was named the Great Northwest Athletic Conference Player of the Year.
Lacrosse
Snohomish claims division title: Sayre Creighton scored six goals and Mikaela Trott added three to lead the Snohomish girls varsity lacrosse team to a 27-5 win over Maple Valley on Wednesday.
With the win, Snohomish improved to 12-0 and clinched first place in the division.
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