Bishop Ireton's senior girls 4+ boat placed 4th in the National semifinals Friday at Princeton, New Jersey, just missing a qualifying finish for the championship race. It marked the first ever appearance by an Ireton boat in the Nationals semifinals. Crew of Mandy Howells, Clara Candalor, Sara Woodruff, Cecilia Baxter and JR Famisan is pictured above.
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 The Womens Senior 4+ finished 4th in the semifianls, just missing a chance to advance to the finals race, which sees the top three finishers move on. The boat finished 13th overall, second to only one other team from the metro DC area. This is the first time Bishop Ireton has advanced at the US National championship, held in Princeton, New Jersey.  They qualified a boat in the 2008 Nationals, a first for the program that year.  The crew of Mandy Howells, Clara Candalor, Sara Woodruff, Cecilia Baxter and JR Famisan led the first 4-boat contingent ever from the growing and rapidly improving program under head coach Ryan Gibson.