Laura D’Urso Named to 2011 CRCA All-America Second Team

June 8, 2011

CLEMSON, SC – Clemson freshman Laura D’Urso was named to the 2011 CRCA All-America Second Team. These awards recognize the outstanding performances of rowers and coxswains on the national level in women’s collegiate rowing.

The native of Dunross, Culdaff, Ireland was a member of Clemson’s 1st Varsity 8, the 2011 ACC Crew-of-the-Year. D’Urso was also named to the All South District first team and was an All-ACC recipient at the 2011 ACC Championships.

2011 CRCA Pocock All America AwardsFirst-Team Tessie Allen, Brown University Ashton Brown, Princeton University Olivia Coffey, Harvard University Laura Cowel, Michigan State University Anna Dawson, Stanford University Emily Dreissigacker, Dartmouth College Ivana Filipovic, University of Southern California Tessa Gobbo, Brown University Mary Jeghers, University of California, Berkeley Casey Kelsey, Brown University Kara Kohler, University of California, Berkeley Elle Logan, Stanford University Stephanie Madner, Yale University Felice Mueller, University of Michigan Kristine O’Brien, University of Virginia Emily Reynolds, Princeton University Erika Roddy, Stanford University Corinna Sharick, Washington State University Michaela Strand, Princeton University Maria Wilgotsson, University of Southern California Lauren Wilkinson, Princeton University Lila Flavin, coxswain, Princeton University

Second Team Allison Courtin, Brown University Ulrike Denker, Ohio State University Rebecca Donald, University of PennsylvaniaLaura D’Urso, Clemson University Natalie Eisermann, University of Michigan Elise Etem, University of California, Berkeley Taylor Goetzinger, Cornell University Alex Japhet, Duke University Vanessa Kleiss, University of Wisconsin Kellie Lapointe, Michigan State University Kristina Lofman, University of California, Berkeley Grace Luczak, Stanford University Maureen McAuilffe, George Mason University Caroline Nash, Yale University Christine Roper, University of Virginia Claudia Schiwy, Ohio State University Veronica Townsend, Northeastern University Jennifer Vander Maarel, University of Texas, Austin Lenka Vrecnikova, University of Southern California Sarah Wolff, Washington State University Ellie Smith, coxswain, Brown University