Shelton, CT – The Vassar College Women's Rowing team rounded out a strong 2024-25 season on Sunday at the Pio-Stag cup hosted by Sacred Heart. The Varsity 8 boat led the way for the Brewers with a third-place finish.
 
Competing on the Lower Housatonic River, Sunday's event featured a slight incoming tide and a tail wind building to eight miles per hour.
 
Vassar's Varsity 8 entry of Kathleen Brawley (Seattle, WA), Dorien Laurens (Atlanta, GA), Iiris Lepmets (Tallin, Estonia), Madeleine Stewart (Greenville, NY), Naomi Meyers (Hamilton, NY), Isabella Zumbolo (North Oaks, MN), Sitota Blomquist (River Forest, IL), Bridgette Nally (Chapel Hill, NC) and coxswain Taylor Frazier (Roanoke, VA) completed the race in a time of 7:39.6, finishing third and four seconds ahead of Sacred Heart's 3V boat.
 
The Brewers had a pair of entries on Sunday in the B/C 4 race with the 'A' boat placing third in a field of six boats and the 'B; boat placing fifth. The 'A' entry of Laurens, Brawley, Zumbolo, Nally and coxswain Sofia DeRose (Hoboken, NJ) turned in a time of 8:45, while the 'B' boat of Lily Littrell (Milwaukee, WI), Lyndon Briggs (Lexington, NC), Blomquist and Meyers along with coxswain Frazier finished in a time of 9:07.1.