2025 Women's Rowing - Open Roster
Covin, Sara
Sara Covin
- Class:
- Senior
- High School:
- Head-Royce School
- Hometown:
- Piedmont, Calif.
Bio
Awards:
CRCA Second-Team All-America (2024)
Ivy League 1V Gold Medal (2024, 2025)
Ivy League 2V Silver Medal (2023)
Ivy League Varsity Four B Silver Medal (2022)
First-Team All-Ivy (2024, 2025)
CRCA Scholar Athlete (2022, 2023, 2024, 2025)
CSC Academic All-District Team (2025)
2025: Coxed the 1V all season ... Helped the 1V retain the Class of 1987 Trophy vs. Brown along with the boat's 10th consecutive Class of 1975 Cup over Harvard and Cornell ... Led the Tigers' 1V over Penn ... Corralled a gold medal for the 1V at the Ivy League Rowing Championships ... Finished the season with a victory in the Petite Final at the NCAA Rowing Championships.
2024: Coxswain for the 1V all season … Helped the Tigers to a win over Brown for the Class of 1987 Trophy … Earned the boat’s ninth straight Class of 1975 Cup with a decision over Harvard … Also led the 1V to a win over USC and Rutgers … Corralled the 1V’s 12th consecutive Eisenberg Cup with a victory over Yale … Took down Columbia for the Hewitt-Dauphiny Cup along with Northeastern and Notre Dame … Beat Penn to end the regular season … Paced the 1V to the top time at the Ivy League Championships, earning the program the Sally P. Shoemaker Trophy and the NCAA automatic bid … Rowed the 1V to fourth place at the NCAA Rowing Championships.
2023: Coxswain for the 2V all year … Led the 2V over Rhode Island, Radcliffe, Cornell, Texas and Penn … Helped the 2V become one of only two boats to defeat Texas since April of 2019 … Paced the 2V to silver at the Ivy League Championships, helping the program win its fourth straight Ivy crown and third consecutive Ivy League team title … Rowed at Henley Royal Regatta.
2022: Coxed the varsity fours … Led the Varsity Four B to second at the 2022 Ivy League Championships.
Before Princeton:
Head-Royce School: Senior captain who helped the squad to the women’s team points trophy at the Southwest Regionals in 2018 … Squad also collected third in the V8+ and V4+ and sixth at nationals in 2019 … National Honor Society … Student Government Treasure …. Yearbook Editor in Chief … Participated in Kale on Wheels (donating farmers’ market produce to food centers).
Personal: Daughter of Beth and David Covin … Has two brothers, Reid and Jack .. Has a dog, Teddy ... Father, David, rowed at Princeton.
CRCA Second-Team All-America (2024)
Ivy League 1V Gold Medal (2024, 2025)
Ivy League 2V Silver Medal (2023)
Ivy League Varsity Four B Silver Medal (2022)
First-Team All-Ivy (2024, 2025)
CRCA Scholar Athlete (2022, 2023, 2024, 2025)
CSC Academic All-District Team (2025)
2025: Coxed the 1V all season ... Helped the 1V retain the Class of 1987 Trophy vs. Brown along with the boat's 10th consecutive Class of 1975 Cup over Harvard and Cornell ... Led the Tigers' 1V over Penn ... Corralled a gold medal for the 1V at the Ivy League Rowing Championships ... Finished the season with a victory in the Petite Final at the NCAA Rowing Championships.
2024: Coxswain for the 1V all season … Helped the Tigers to a win over Brown for the Class of 1987 Trophy … Earned the boat’s ninth straight Class of 1975 Cup with a decision over Harvard … Also led the 1V to a win over USC and Rutgers … Corralled the 1V’s 12th consecutive Eisenberg Cup with a victory over Yale … Took down Columbia for the Hewitt-Dauphiny Cup along with Northeastern and Notre Dame … Beat Penn to end the regular season … Paced the 1V to the top time at the Ivy League Championships, earning the program the Sally P. Shoemaker Trophy and the NCAA automatic bid … Rowed the 1V to fourth place at the NCAA Rowing Championships.
2023: Coxswain for the 2V all year … Led the 2V over Rhode Island, Radcliffe, Cornell, Texas and Penn … Helped the 2V become one of only two boats to defeat Texas since April of 2019 … Paced the 2V to silver at the Ivy League Championships, helping the program win its fourth straight Ivy crown and third consecutive Ivy League team title … Rowed at Henley Royal Regatta.
2022: Coxed the varsity fours … Led the Varsity Four B to second at the 2022 Ivy League Championships.
Before Princeton:
Head-Royce School: Senior captain who helped the squad to the women’s team points trophy at the Southwest Regionals in 2018 … Squad also collected third in the V8+ and V4+ and sixth at nationals in 2019 … National Honor Society … Student Government Treasure …. Yearbook Editor in Chief … Participated in Kale on Wheels (donating farmers’ market produce to food centers).
Personal: Daughter of Beth and David Covin … Has two brothers, Reid and Jack .. Has a dog, Teddy ... Father, David, rowed at Princeton.
Princeton Athletics 2023-24 Highlights
Tuesday, June 04
Highlights from 2022 Gary Walters ’67 PVC Awards Banquet
Wednesday, June 22
Princeton Athletics 2021-22 Highlights
Monday, June 06
Thank You for Roaring Forward on TAGD 2021
Wednesday, December 01
