March 16, 2010
MADISON, Wis.--USRowing has announced its list of invitees who will participate in the Women’s U23 National Team Camp. Of the 26 athletes selected nationwide, two Badgers found their way on the list.
Senior openweight rowers Grace Latz and Vicky Opitz will be representing the Cardinal and White at the Camp.
Last season, the duo's varsity eight crew finished no worse than third in its four regular season races, and 16th at the NCAA championship last spring.
A Jackson, Mich., native, Latz was a 2008 CRCA Scholar-Athlete and a 2008 and 2009 All-Academic Big Ten representative. She will be a part of the sweep rowers’ squad at the camp.
A Middleton, Wis., native, Opitz will be on the sculling rowers’ squad.
This camp will select the open women’s eight and four to compete at the 2010 FISA U23 World Championships scheduled for July 22-25th in Brest, Belarus. The camp also plans to select open women’s pair, four without coxswain and double sculls to compete at U23 Trials June 22-25th at Mercer Lake, NJ.
Rowers are being invited specifically for sweep and sculling, however, they may be asked to cross-over sweep to sculling or sculling to sweep as necessary.
With the ice on Lake Mendota thinning, the women are eager to get back on the water. The team will head west and compete in an exhibition race against Portland State on Friday, March 26, in Gold River, Calif., in preparation for the regular season.
The Wisconsin women’s rowing team gets underway Saturday, April 3, when the team participates in the Stanford Invitational in Redwood City, Calif. in its first competition of the regular season.
