2016-17 Women's Lightweight Rowing Roster

Lucy Tasker

  • Height 5-3
  • Class Freshman
  • Hometown Orangeburg, N.Y.
  • Highschool Tappan Zee High School

Biography

2016-17: Helped the third lightweight eight place second at the Eastern Sprints with a time of 7 minutes, 8.87 seconds (April 30) … led the freshman/novice eight to second place in each of the boat’s three races at Grand Valley State University (April 23) … coxed the novice eight to a first place finish in the grand final of the Knecht Cup (April 9) … guided the novice collegiate eight to second place at Head of the Rock (Oct. 9) … placed sixth with an open eight at the Milwaukee River Challenge in the Fall (Sept. 17) … also raced at Milwaukee with a four, placing 14th

High School: Competed four years in rowing … granted 2015-16 U.S. Rowing Scholastic Honor Roll … participant of the 2014 and 2015 Youth Nationals in lightweight double sculls … rowed at the 2016 Youth Nationals in the open four sculls … also ran cross country … completed the 2016 Sri Chinmoy marathon (Aug. 28, 2016) 

Personal: Parents are Renata Chaplynsky and Mark Tasker … has one sister, Sofia … intended major is computer science

Reason for choosing UW-Madison: “Academics”