Will Chance

Photo by: Beverly Schaefer

Class:
Senior
Hometown:
Lufkin, Texas
High School:
Lufkin

At Princeton — 2018: earned IRA All-Academic honors … rowed in the 1V and helped Princeton post Top-5 finishes at both the IRA national championships (5^th) and Eastern Sprints (4^th); boat came within one second of a silver medal at Sprints … helped 1V post 7-3 regular-season record and retain both the Navy-Princeton Rowing Cup and the Childs Cup. 2017: rowed in the gold medal-winning 2V at Eastern Sprints; boat flipped regular-season results against Harvard and Yale to take gold … moved to the 1V for the IRA Championships and helped Princeton finish fourth, which included a win over California … split time between the 1V and 2V during the season and helped Princeton retain the Navy-Princeton Rowing Cup and the Childs Cup … earned IRA All-Academic honors. 2016: rowed in the 5 seat of the 2V and won a silver medal at both the IRA national championships and Eastern Sprints … defeated both Washington and California in the IRA championship final … helped the 2V go 7-1 throughout the season; only losses during the season came against Harvard … member of the IRA All-Academic team. 2015: rowed in the 3-seat and helped the 2V to a silver medal at the IRA Championships; Tigers led the race through 1500 meters before falling in a thriller to Washington … won gold at the Eastern Sprints in the 2V and helped Princeton win the Rowe Cup (team points title) for first time since 2005; it was the first Princeton 2V gold at Sprints since 1999 … rowed in the Ladies Plate Challenge competition at the Royal Henley Regatta … competed in the 2V during the regular season and helped the boat go 8-0.

Before Princeton — posted some of the top erg results of the recruiting class despite having minimal racing experience; began rowing in March, 2013 … training for six weeks in New Zealand during the summer of 2014 … Vice President of Student Council … National Honor Society President … AP Scholar with Distinction … Golden Anvil Award Recipient (for outstanding service to the community) … National Merit Scholarship Program Finalist.

Personal — born July 18, 1995 … son of Jeff and Rebecca Chance … has a younger sister Caroline … enjoys reading, and is the founder and executive director of Books That Benefit, Inc. a 501(c) 3 not-for-profit corporation that focuses on encouraging underprivileged kids to grow to love reading in order to benefit them academically … may study Operations Research and Financial Engineering.