{"id":214583,"date":"2026-03-11T09:10:22","date_gmt":"2026-03-11T09:10:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/214583\/"},"modified":"2026-03-11T09:10:22","modified_gmt":"2026-03-11T09:10:22","slug":"sacramento-states-varsity-eight-named-the-wcc-crew-of-the-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/214583\/","title":{"rendered":"SACRAMENTO STATE\u2019S VARSITY EIGHT NAMED THE WCC CREW OF THE WEEK"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n                    &#13;<br \/>\n                        Story Links&#13;<br \/>\n                        &#13;<\/p>\n<p>                     SACRAMENTO &#8212; Sacramento State&#8217;s varsity eight has been named the West Coast Conference Crew of the Week after the boat&#8217;s performance at the season-opening Sacramento State Invitational on Lake Natoma.<\/p>\n<p>Racing with winds zipping between 9-12 miles per hour and a flow rate of 1,500 cfs, Sacramento State&#8217;s top boat finished ahead of three WCC schools.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Hornets posted a 2,000-meter winning time of 6:55.3. That finish was five seconds faster than Saint Mary&#8217;s second place time of 7:00.3. The Hornets also finished comfortably ahead of Portland (7:08.5) and Santa Clara (7:22.3) in the four-boat field.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The team&#8217;s boat consisted of six seniors, two juniors and a sophomore.<\/p>\n<p>The Hornets have now earned the weekly honor three times since joining the WCC a year ago.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Sacramento State returns to the water this Saturday when it hosts the Hornet Invitational on Lake Natoma.<\/p>\n<p>Sacramento State&#8217;s Lineup<\/p>\n<p>Cox &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/hornetsports.com\/sports\/womens-rowing\/roster\/manindar-verbrugge\/10755\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"10755\" target=\"_blank\">Manindar VerBrugge<\/a><br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nstroke &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/hornetsports.com\/sports\/womens-rowing\/roster\/kaylee-godwin\/10735\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"10735\" target=\"_blank\">Kaylee Godwin<\/a><br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n7 &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/hornetsports.com\/sports\/womens-rowing\/roster\/katherine-macias\/10743\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"10743\" target=\"_blank\">Katherine Macias<\/a><br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n6 &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/hornetsports.com\/sports\/womens-rowing\/roster\/ella-holmes\/10738\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"10738\" target=\"_blank\">Ella Holmes<\/a><br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n5 &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/hornetsports.com\/sports\/womens-rowing\/roster\/daria-okhremtchuk\/10748\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"10748\" target=\"_blank\">Daria Okhremtchuk<\/a><br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n4 &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/hornetsports.com\/sports\/womens-rowing\/roster\/ruth-brooks\/10731\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"10731\" target=\"_blank\">Ruth Brooks<\/a><br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n3 &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/hornetsports.com\/sports\/womens-rowing\/roster\/mackenzie-murray\/10746\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"10746\" target=\"_blank\">Mackenzie Murray<\/a><br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n2 &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/hornetsports.com\/sports\/womens-rowing\/roster\/nieka-marais\/10745\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"10745\" target=\"_blank\">Nieka Marais<\/a><br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nbow &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/hornetsports.com\/sports\/womens-rowing\/roster\/harper-waring\/10756\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"10756\" target=\"_blank\">Harper Waring<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; Story Links&#13; &#13; SACRAMENTO &#8212; Sacramento State&#8217;s varsity eight has been named the West Coast Conference Crew&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":214584,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[121,123,122],"class_list":["post-214583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sacramento","tag-sacramento","tag-sacramento-headlines","tag-sacramento-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214583","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=214583"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214583\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/214584"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}