UM's Cordner Named To 2008 All-South Regional Team
May 28, 2008
CORAL GABLES, Fla. – University of Miami junior rower Laura Cordner has been named to the Collegiate Rowing Coaches Association (CRCA) All-South Region First Team for the 2008 season.<?xml:namespace prefix=”o” ns=”urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office”?>
The awards recognize the outstanding performances of rowers from each of the five Division I regions, organized into first and second-team selections.
“Our staff is incredibly proud of how far Laura has progressed this year,” head coach Robbie Tenenbaum said. “Not only is she a champion on the water, but she’s successful in the classroom and a leader in our locker room. We are certainly looking forward to her senior leadership next season.”
Cordner, a native of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, was also recently named to the All-ACC team for the second straight season. She has been a key part of UM’s 1st Varsity Eight crew that earned wins over Indiana and Eastern Michigan earlier in the spring before placing fourth at last month’s ACC Championship in Clemson, S.C.
Two weeks ago at the 2008 Aramark Sprints/Central and South Region Championships in Oak Ridge, Tenn., Cordner led the Varsity Eight crew to a win in the “C” championship race in a time of 6:51.200. The crew placed 13th overall in a field of 22, moving up four spots from the crew’s 17th place finish last year at the sprints.
Cordner rows alongside teammates Shira Kharrazi (coxswain), Louise Parry (stroke), Kelly Amsler, Emily Wingrove, Sarah Medland, Bethany Krawec, Monika Sajincic and Tara Eddings (bow) in the Varsity Eight boat.
Fourth-ranked University of Virginia placed a team-high three athletes and coxswain on the All-South first team and an additional athlete on the second team.
All-South Regional Team
1st Team 2nd Team
Jennifer Cromwell, University of Virginia Katrin Sydlik, University of Virginia
Kelsie Chadoin, University of Virginia Elizabeth Robb, Clemson University
Lauren Hutchins, University of Virginia Meg Bendik, Clemson University
Suzanne Van Fleet, Clemson University Kendra Warren, University of Tennessee
Jessica Leidecker, Clemson University Mallory Hamman, University of Louisville
Erin-Monique Shelton, University of Tennessee Bryn Crawford, University of Alabama
Libuska Bruncvikova, University of Tennessee Danielle Reed-Hudson, Stetson University
Kristin Falovo, University of Louisville
Laura Cordner, University of Miami Coxswain
Krystina Sarff, University of Central Florida Elise Roenick, Clemson University
Elisabeth McIntee, University of North Carolina
Coxswain
Caitlin Mixter, University of Virginia
