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Lee, Packard Selected to Represent U.S. at 2023 World Rowing Championships
7/11/2023 2:50:00 PM | Rowing
DURHAM – Recent Duke graduate Megan Lee and incoming freshman Avery Packard were selected to represent the United States at the 2023 World Rowing Championships, as USRowing announced the Under 19 and Under 23 National Team rosters on Monday.
Lee will stroke the women's eight at the 2023 World Rowing Under 23 Championship held in Plovdiv, Bulgaria July 19-23 and Packard will compete in the women's double sculls at the 2023 World Rowing Under 19 Championship in Paris, France August 2-6.
The U23 regatta will offer 22 boat classes including the men's and women's single sculls, lightweight single sculls, double sculls, lightweight double sculls, quadruple sculls, lightweight quadruple sculls, pair, lightweight pair, four, four with coxswain and eight. The U.S. has entries in 17 of the 22 events.
The U.S. will have crews competing in 12 events at the U19 championship including the men's and women's single sculls, quadruple sculls, pair, four with coxswain, and eight, as well as the women's double sculls and men's four.
Lee was one of 67 athletes invited to attend USRowing's 2023 Under 23 National Team selection camps this summer. She joined teammate Morgan Linsley to represent the Blue Devils at the U23 women's sweep selection camp in Oklahoma City, Okla., led by Oklahoma's rowing head coach Sarah Trowbridge. The Natick, Mass., native has been a four-year member of Duke's Varsity Eight lineup and led the Blue Devils to a 14th-place finish in the 2023 NCAA Championships, their best finish in program history, to close out her final season in Durham. This will mark her second appearance in the U23 championship after placing eighth in the women's pair with teammate Sue Holderness in Varese, Italy last summer.
Packard claimed her spot on the 53-person roster of the U19 National Team after a convincing first-place finish in the women's double sculls during the National Team Trials in Sarasota, Fla., in June. The pair clocked a time of 7:24.60, finishing more than seven seconds ahead of the second-place boat from Redwood Scullers rowing club. Packard joins the Blue Devils from Brookline, Mass., and attended Brookline High School. The incoming freshman also competes for the Cambridge Boat Club, where she collected numerous medals in the women's 2x, including gold in the 2022 Head of the Charles and silver in the 2023 Youth National Championship.
U23 Women's Eight
Victoria Grieder (c) (Windermere, Fla./Rutgers University)
Megan Lee (s) (Natick, Mass./Duke University)
Hannah Heidveld (7) (New Brunswick, N.J./Rutgers University)
Mia Levy (6) (Des Moines, Iowa/Yale University)
Evan Park (5) (Bend, Ore./Oregon State University)
Lale Edil (4) (Arcadia, Okla./University of Oklahoma)
Dahlia Levine (3) (Ardmore, Pa./Brown University)
Lauren Day (2) (Seattle, Wash./United States Naval Academy)
Olivia Vavasour (b) (Saratoga Springs, N.Y./Brown University)
U19 Women's Double Sculls
Avery Packard (Brookline, Mass./Cambridge Boat Club)
P.J. Balazy (Carlisle, Mass./Cambridge Boat Club)
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Lee will stroke the women's eight at the 2023 World Rowing Under 23 Championship held in Plovdiv, Bulgaria July 19-23 and Packard will compete in the women's double sculls at the 2023 World Rowing Under 19 Championship in Paris, France August 2-6.
The U23 regatta will offer 22 boat classes including the men's and women's single sculls, lightweight single sculls, double sculls, lightweight double sculls, quadruple sculls, lightweight quadruple sculls, pair, lightweight pair, four, four with coxswain and eight. The U.S. has entries in 17 of the 22 events.
The U.S. will have crews competing in 12 events at the U19 championship including the men's and women's single sculls, quadruple sculls, pair, four with coxswain, and eight, as well as the women's double sculls and men's four.
Lee was one of 67 athletes invited to attend USRowing's 2023 Under 23 National Team selection camps this summer. She joined teammate Morgan Linsley to represent the Blue Devils at the U23 women's sweep selection camp in Oklahoma City, Okla., led by Oklahoma's rowing head coach Sarah Trowbridge. The Natick, Mass., native has been a four-year member of Duke's Varsity Eight lineup and led the Blue Devils to a 14th-place finish in the 2023 NCAA Championships, their best finish in program history, to close out her final season in Durham. This will mark her second appearance in the U23 championship after placing eighth in the women's pair with teammate Sue Holderness in Varese, Italy last summer.
Packard claimed her spot on the 53-person roster of the U19 National Team after a convincing first-place finish in the women's double sculls during the National Team Trials in Sarasota, Fla., in June. The pair clocked a time of 7:24.60, finishing more than seven seconds ahead of the second-place boat from Redwood Scullers rowing club. Packard joins the Blue Devils from Brookline, Mass., and attended Brookline High School. The incoming freshman also competes for the Cambridge Boat Club, where she collected numerous medals in the women's 2x, including gold in the 2022 Head of the Charles and silver in the 2023 Youth National Championship.
U23 Women's Eight
Victoria Grieder (c) (Windermere, Fla./Rutgers University)
Megan Lee (s) (Natick, Mass./Duke University)
Hannah Heidveld (7) (New Brunswick, N.J./Rutgers University)
Mia Levy (6) (Des Moines, Iowa/Yale University)
Evan Park (5) (Bend, Ore./Oregon State University)
Lale Edil (4) (Arcadia, Okla./University of Oklahoma)
Dahlia Levine (3) (Ardmore, Pa./Brown University)
Lauren Day (2) (Seattle, Wash./United States Naval Academy)
Olivia Vavasour (b) (Saratoga Springs, N.Y./Brown University)
U19 Women's Double Sculls
Avery Packard (Brookline, Mass./Cambridge Boat Club)
P.J. Balazy (Carlisle, Mass./Cambridge Boat Club)
To stay up to date with Blue Devils rowing, follow the team on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook by searching "DukeROW".
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