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Fremd High School

High School: Track & Field

Novice Year (2023-2024): Coxed the MN4+ at Music City, Lubbers, MACRA, & ACRA. Coxed the MN8+ at Head of the Rock & Bald Eagle, Bronze in the MN8+ at ICRI

Favorite Memory:

“Sun bathing during Spring Break and racing at ACRA”

Personal: Member of Liquid Rocketry, Tau Beta Pi, & Illini Jiu Jitsu. Aaditya can climb any tree in the world!

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Haas Hall Academy

Novice Year (2023-2024): Raced in the MN4+ at Lubbers, MACRA, & ACRA. Raced in the MN8+ at Head of the Rock, Bald Eagle & Lubbers, Bronze in the MN8+ at ICRI.

Favorite Memory:

“Rowing with just my left leg at Lubbers because my footplate had cracked clean off and still getting second was cool.”

Personal: Andrew enjoys sewing & photography. Proud Top 100 Beyonce listener in the world.!

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The Hill School

Novice Year (2023-2024): Raced in the MN8+ at Music City & Bronze in the MN8+ at Bald Eagle. Bow of the MN4+ at ACRA.

2nd Year (2024-2025): Raced the V8+ at Head of the Rock & Lubbers. Bow of the M2x at ICRI& of the M4X at ACRA.

Favorite Memory:

“Spring Break, lunch dates with Josh, giving Tommy his daily hug, & hanging out with my favorite sophomores (Reese, Matt, Sean, & Ethan)”

Personal: Ben practices with a yo-yo and likes playing Pokémon on his 3DS. He can speak 5 languages!

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Evanston Township High School

High School: 2 years of Rowing with ETHS, Football, Math Team

Novice Year (2023-2024): Raced the MN8+ at Head of the Rock ,Bald Eagle, & MACRA, Bronze in the MN8+ at ICRI

Favorite Memory:

“Rigging days with Sean, Matt, & Reese. ”

Personal: Member of the chess team. Ethan has an internship with a law firm. He has 3 dogs & 2 cats!

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Galatia High School

Novice Year (2023-2024): Raced the MN8+ at Head of the Rock ,Bald Eagle, & MACRA, Bronze in the MN8+ at ICRI. 2 Seat of MN4+ at ACRA.

Favorite Memory:

“Hanging out with the team! ”

Personal: Member of the Social Gaming Club. Jack enjoys hiking, cooking, & reading. He once accidentally swam with dolphins once."

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Lane Tech High School

Favorite Memory:

“Sean’s car running out of gas on the way back to campus & inducing a team bonding activity.”

Personal: Member of Mentors in Medicine & conducts undergraduate research. Jakub enjoys surfing & his longest wave surfed is 7 seconds!

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St. Ignatius College Prep

High School: Rowed 4 years for St. Ignatius, DECA

Novice Year (2023-2024): 6 seat of MV8+ at Head of the Rock. Raced in the MN4+ at Music City, Lubbers, & MACRA. Stroke of the MN8+ at Head of the Rock & Bald Eagle. Bronze in the MN8+ and M2- at ICRI

Favorite Memories:

“Morning naps in the pair with Sean and hanging out with Reese everyday.”

Personal: Member of ACSE & Earthquake Engineering Research Institute. Matthew has worked as a bee keeper for the past 2 summers. He thinks there’s nothing better than a crisp ginger ale after a long day.

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Naperville North High School

High School: Volleyball

Novice Year (2022-2023) : Raced in the MN8+ at ICRI, Head of the Rock, Bald Eagle, MACRA, & ACRA. Raced the MX8+ at Redhawk Sprints.

2nd Year (2023-2024): Raced in the M2V8+ at Music City and Bald Eagle. Studied abroad in Singapore during the Spring Semester.

Favorite Memory:

“ My novice Year spring break training trip to Georgia.”

Personal: Member of AMA, Wishmakers, & Zero2One

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Lake Park High School

High School: Tennis & Volleyball

Novice Year (2023-2024): Raced in the MN4+ at Music City, Lubbers, MACRA, & ACRA. 6 seat of the MN8+ at Head of the Rock & Bald Eagle, Bronze in the MN8+ at ICRI

Favorite Memory:

“Successfully teaching Matt how to ski with Sean.”

Personal: Member of Illini Fighting Hunger. Reese claims to be the Cubs biggest fan! Loves hiking, fishing, & traveling. He has three labradoodles!

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Modern School Vasant Vihar

Novice Year (2023-2024): Bow seat of the MN8+ at Head of the Rock & Bald Eagle, Bronze in the MN8+ at ICRI

Favorite Memory:

“Ike Breakfast aka “IkeFest” with the team after morning erg sessions.”

Personal: Member of ActGreen, Creative Director of Illinois Solar Decathlon. Saarthak loves to cook, especially making pasta from scratch! Avid Instagram Reels doom-scroller.

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Unity High School

High School: Soccer & Wrestling

Novice Year (2023-2024): Raced the MN8+ at Music City, Head of the Rock, Bald Eagle, & Lubbers.

Favorite Memory:

“Hanging out with the team during Spring Break.”

Personal: Member of Film Score Orchestra, Illini Speech & Debate, Illini 4000, Tea & Company, & the Hospitality Management Association. Santiago’s favorite hobby is writing and is working on his novel.

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Lane Tech High School

High School: Rowing with Chicago Rowing Foundation, 4X 3V Midwest Champion

Novice Year (2023-2024): 5 seat of the MV8+ at Head of the Rock. Raced in the MN4+ at Music City Head Race, Lubbers, & MACRA. 7 seat of the MN8+ at Bald Eagle & Lubbers, Bronze in the M2- at ICRI. 3 seat of the M4x at ACRA.

Favorite Memory:

“Team bonding during Spring Break & driving a launch at IJRI.”

Personal: Member of Phi Alpha Theta. Sean is a proud Eagle Scout and worked as a Mountain Biking Instructor at an overnight scout camp in Michigan. There’s nothing he loves more than a fresh Dunkin blueberry muffin!

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Lakeview Academy

High School: Lake Lanier Rowing Club

Novice Year (2023-2024): Raced in the M2V8+ at Music City.

2nd Year (2024-2025): Raced in the V8+ at Head of the Rock & Lubbers. Stroked the M2- at Music City Head Race & ACRA. Raced the M4x at ICRI.

Favorite Memory:

“All the fun team bonding over spring break! My favorite part was the men’s team mustache competition.”

Personal: Massive Taylor Swift fan and Hello Kitty enthusiast. He says: “I love building LEGOS and playing video games (especially Fortnite).”

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Bartlett High School

High School: Played 4 years of baseball, 4 years of marching band.

Novice Year (2021-22): 1st place in the U23 500m at Crash-B’s. Raced in the MN8+ at Head of the Rock.

Sophomore Year (2022-2023): Raced in the MV8+ at Head of the Rock, Bald Eagle, and Redhawk (1st). Served as Men’s Team Captain. Raced in the MV8+ Class of ‘22 at ACRA.

Junior Year (2023-2024): Served as Men’s Team Captain. Raced in the MV8+ and M2- at Music City. Raced in the men’s collegiate coxed 4 Todd Tisdale at Head of the Charles. Raced in the M2- and MV8+ at Bald Eagle.

Senior Year (2024-2025): Raced in the MV4+ at Head of the Charles. Also raced in the MV4+ at the John Ferriss regatta (2nd).

Favorite Memories:

Novice Year: Racing in bucket hats at Head of the Rock and going to the bass pro shop pyramid on the way home from spring break.

Sophomore Year: Having a cat in his hotel room at spring break.

Junior Year:

Personal: Vice president of the Illini Cubers club. Plays trombone.