Megan Mirabella

Photo by: Beverly Schaefer

Class:
Senior
High School:
Mount St. Joseph Academy
Hometown:
North Wales, Pa.

At Princeton — 2018: earned Academic All-IRA honors … coxed the 1V to a silver medal at Eastern Sprints, Princeton’s best finish at Sprints since 2011 … led 1V to a bronze medal at the IRA Championships … helped Princeton reclaim the Class of 1999 Cup against historic rival Harvard. 2017: coxed the 1V to a bronze medal at both the Eastern Sprints and the IRA Championships; it was Princeton's first 1V medal at IRAs since 2011 … member of the IRA All-Academic team … helped Princeton medal at the Knecht Cup. 2016: coxed the 1V through the full season, including in both the EAWRC Sprints and IRA championships regatta … boat took fourth at Sprints and sixth at IRAs … retained the Class of 2006 Cup against Georgetown. 2015: coxed the 1V to a return to the medal stand at Eastern Sprints with a bronze medal … placed fourth at the IRA national championships and challenged for a medal most of the race despite coming from the repechages … upset defending national champion Radcliffe to reclaim the Class of 1999 Cup … retained the Class of 2006 Cup over Georgetown … reached as high as No. 2 in the national poll.

Before Princeton — coxed the V8+ to gold at the 2014 Stotesbury Cup Regatta … won silver medal at the 2014 SRAA National Championships … competed in the 2012 Women’s Henley Regatta in England … raced in the 2013 Head of the Charles and in the 2014 USRowing Youth National Championships … AP Scholar with Distinction … Diocesan Scholar nominee … National Honor Society and Spanish Honor Society member … received the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Award for High Achievement on the SAT … National Merit Scholarship winner.

Personal — born Jan. 28, 1996 … daughter of John and Maureen Mirabella … has an older sister Katie and three younger siblings: Connor, Declan and Erin … Katie rows for the Princeton women’s lightweights … enjoys running, baking and color-coding … may study political science.