Cambridge, Mass. (July 6) – The MIT men's heavyweight and men's lightweight crew teams saw a total of 32 student-athletes earn Empacher-Intercollegiate Rowing Coaches Association (IRCA) Scholar Athlete accolades. The men's heavyweight program tallied 14 awards while the men's lightweight squad collected 18.
 
In order to be named an IRCA Scholar Athlete, rowers and coxswains must have met the following criteria: athletes from all IRCA member schools are eligible; athletes must be in second year or more of eligibility; athletes must have competed in their program's top three boats during the current season or raced at the 2023 IRA Championship; and athletes must have a minimum 3.50 cumulative GPA through the fall semester.
 
MIT Men's Heavyweight Crew Honorees:
Christian Duessel (So., Dallas, Texas)
Max Feenstra (So., Greenwich, Conn.)
Caden Gradek (So., Mercer Island, Wash.)
Blake Hudspeth (So., Dallas, Texas)
Andrew LeBlanc (So., Epping, N.H.)
Ryan McTigue (Jr., Old Lyme, Conn.)
Chris Noga (Sr., Lafayette, Calif.)
Jack O'Leary (So., Richmond, Va.)
Cooper Price (So., Austin, Texas)
Peter Scott (Sr., Cos Cob, Conn.)
Charles Sloane (So., Needham, Mass.)
Angela Su (Sr., Newton, Mass.)
Ben Urquhart (Sr., Lansing, Mich.)
Cal Wilson (So., Skillman, N.J.)
 
MIT Men's Lightweight Crew Honorees:
Sam Boshar (Sr., Andover, Mass.)
Stephen Alexander Brennan (So., Miami, Fla.)
Sam Costa (Sr., Cambridge, Mass.)
Cameron Dougal (So., Indian Orchard, Mass.)
Nick Dow (Jr., Old Greenwich, Conn.)
Eric Hong (So., Issaquah, Wash.)
Yicheng Huang (So., Clifton Park, N.Y.)
Jakob Jarczynski (Sr., Sarasota, Fla.)
Amirabbas Kazeminia (Sr., Tehran, Iran)
Alice Martynova (Sr., Los Gatos, Calif.)
Rick Ono (Sr., Boston, Mass.)
Marc Rizk (So., London, United Kingdom)
Dylan Robinson (So., Hong Kong, Hong Kong)
Aden Rothmeyer (Sr., Anchorage, Alaska)
Kevin Shao (Sr., West Hills, Calif.)
Richard Sollee (Sr., Jacksonville, Fla.)
Andrew Stoddard (Sr., Piedmont, Calif.)
Julian Zulueta (Sr., Miami, Fla.)
 
Boshar, Costa, Jarczynski, Kazeminia, LeBlanc, Martynova, McTigue, Ono, Rothmeyer, Scott, Shao, Sollee, Stoddard, Su, and Zulueta each received their second IRCA Scholar Athlete Award.
 
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