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Women’s Crew History<br />

A<br />

ITHACA COLLEGE<br />

women’s varsity program was initiated at <strong>Ithaca</strong> in spring 1975.<br />

Competing under club status, the Bombers captured the 1976 Dad Vail<br />

varsity 8 title the first year women’s races were offered at the regatta.<br />

Jerry Dietz, a member of the bronze medal-winning men’s heavyweight 8<br />

as an undergraduate, guided <strong>Ithaca</strong> to the crown in his first year as women’s<br />

coach. Although women’s rowing grew nationally over the next few years,<br />

<strong>Ithaca</strong> claimed the Dad Vail championship again in 1979, coached by Julie<br />

Rife, the stroke of the 1976 crew. Peg Mallery, who rowed in <strong>Ithaca</strong>’s top<br />

crew in 1981 and 1982 before transferring, competed for the U.S. national<br />

team in the inaugural 1986 Goodwill Games and in the 1988 Olympic<br />

Games in Seoul, South Korea.<br />

In 1983 women’s crew became a varsity sport at <strong>Ithaca</strong> <strong>College</strong>. After<br />

several inconsistent years, coach Jocelyn Kearing guided <strong>Ithaca</strong>’s women’s<br />

varsity to the first two of what is now 18 consecutive winning seasons.<br />

Included in that run are four New York State small-school titles. The state<br />

championship first raced in 1990 and now includes nearly 30 colleges<br />

and universities. A key performer in the emerging women’s program was<br />

Becky Metz Robinson. After two letter winning seasons with the Bombers,<br />

Robinson made the national team in 1991. A year later she was a finalday<br />

cut from the 1992 U.S. Olympic team. She returned to help coach the<br />

Bombers and in 1995 became the first crew program representative to be<br />

inducted into the <strong>Ithaca</strong> <strong>College</strong> Athletic Hall of Fame.<br />

The first NCAA-sponsored championship regatta for women was held<br />

in 1997. A women’s four from <strong>Ithaca</strong> qualified for the all-division event<br />

and placed fourth in the petite final and 10th overall. Mary Obidinski ’97,<br />

a member of that crew who was inducted into <strong>Ithaca</strong>’s Hall of Fame last<br />

NCAA CHAMPIONSHIPS<br />

ALL-DIVISION<br />

Year Site Event Place<br />

1997 Sacramento, Calif. Women’s 4 10th of 16<br />

1998 Lake Lanier, Ga. Women’s 8 16th of 16<br />

2001 Gainesville, Ga. Women’s 8 17th of 19<br />

DIVISION III<br />

2002 Indianapolis, Ind. Women’s V8 & 2V8 4th of six<br />

2003 Indianapolis, Ind. Women’s V8 & 2V8 3rd of six<br />

2004 Sacramento, Calif. Women’s V8 & 2V8 1st of six<br />

2005 Sacramento, Calif. Women’s V8 & 2V8 1st of six<br />

2006 West Windsor, N.J. Women’s V8 & 2V8 2nd of six<br />

2007 Oak Ridge, Tenn. Women’s V8 & 2V8 5th of six<br />

2008 Sacramento, Calif. Women’s V8 & 2V8 3rd of seven<br />

OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT AWARD<br />

1982 Patty McCann<br />

1983 Alme Grabowski<br />

1984 Mary Broggi<br />

1985 Leslee Tocci<br />

1986 Becky Metz<br />

1987 Becky Metz/Eileen Urtz<br />

1988 Marsha Leibowitz<br />

1989 Christa Godston/<br />

Michelle Pirozzi<br />

1990 Maggie Daley<br />

1991 Carol Jacobi<br />

1992 Margery Elson<br />

1993 Jen Schatz<br />

1994 Jodi Moore<br />

1995 Jen Devlin/Laura Lennon<br />

1996 Pam Hasse/<br />

Mary Obidinski<br />

1997 Mandy Flier<br />

1998 Julie Ward<br />

1999 Valerie Sudnick/<br />

Brenna Wiberg<br />

2000 Beth Greene<br />

2001 Laura Whiting<br />

2002 Liz Jackstadt<br />

2003 Alison Bliznick<br />

2004 Leslie Nichols<br />

2005 Jacy McFall<br />

2006 Stephanie Knabe<br />

2007 Jessica Krug<br />

2008 Danielle Llopiz<br />

Crew 2009 3

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