Shelley Pearson will be part of the Harvard Varsity Eight as Harvard seeks another strong team performance as it competes for league titles Sunday at the Eastern Association of Women’s Rowing Colleges Championships on the Cooper River in Camden, N.J. Racing begins at 8 a.m. and continues through the heavyweight varsity eight grand final at 4:55 p.m.
The 2009 EAWRC Sprints saw six of Harvard’s eight entries, including all five heavyweight varsity boats, take home medals. The heavyweight varsity eight and varsity four B and lightweight second varsity eight led the way with silver medals. Of the Harvard’s two non-medaling entries, one placed fourth and the other won its petite final.
Harvard varsity eight entered Sprints seeded fourth but placed second, less than a second behind champion Yale. Harvard finished in 6:22.861, knocking off the favored Brown crew and a Princeton squad that had defeated the Black and White in the dual season and in the Sprints morning heat.
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