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Open Crew Earns Five All-Americas; Dauphiny Named National Coach Of Year
June 07, 2011 | Women's Rowing - Open
The fastest boat in the nation took home six national individual honors, including five Collegiate Rowing Coaches Association (CRCA) first-team All-America selections. Head coach Lori Dauphiny, who has guided Princeton to 159 victories and four EAWRC titles over 15 years, was named the National Coach of the Year.
The quintet of Princeton rowers who earned the CRCA first-team All-America honors were seniors Ashton Brown, Emily Reynolds, Michaela Strand and Lauren Wilkinson, as well as junior coxswain Lila Flavin. Brown and Wilkinson both earned first-team All-America honors last season; Wilkinson, a 2011 Von Kienbusch honoree, was also a second-team All-America selection in 2008.
Each of the four seniors have been integral parts of a varsity boat that has been one of the best in the nation for more than two years. With a perfect 2011 regular season, Princeton has now won 27 consecutive varsity eight races; the four were both second-team All-Ivy League selections in 2010 when the Tigers placed second at EAWRCs, and they helped Princeton to a third-place team finish at the NCAA Championships.
This season, they helped put together the fastest boat in women's collegiate rowing. The Tigers went 13-0 and won both the EAWRC title and the NCAA title; the latter gave Princeton its second individual varsity eight national championship in the last six seasons. Flavin was the lone newcomer to the boat, though she filled some very big shoes; she replaced 2010 coxswain and team co-captain Ariel Frost, and she did so without Princeton missing a beat.
Dauphiny, who also earned National Coach of the Year honors in 2006, has guided Princeton to every NCAA Championship regatta since the inaugural event in 1997, and her team's performance in 2011 can rank with any in program history. The Princeton first varsity won the national championship by 1.5 seconds, and her team placed fourth overall.