On April 18 and 19, Clemson Crew took on Melton Hill Lake in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, for the annual championship regatta of Southern collegiate rowing teams, at the SIRA Regatta. The club team took home three medals overall, as well as a heap of A- and B-final finishes across both the men’s and women’s squads.
The women’s side of the club team performed the unthinkable, winning its third consecutive SIRA title in the women’s varsity 8+ category. The cup will stay in Clemson, where it has been earned over the past three seasons, in what has been an unusual year for the women’s team.
“We had 7 varsity women rowers and had to bring up a novice just to make an 8+,” rower Hattie Segelken explained. “Because we had only the exact amount we needed, we could barely practice our lineup until the two weeks leading up to SIRA, so it was pretty stressful.”…