Wisconsin Badgers

Awards: Academic All-Big Ten (2019)

2018-19: Coxed the second varsity eight to a 12th-place finish at the NCAA championships (May 31-Jun 2) …coxed second varsity eight to fourth place at Big Ten championships (May 19)…coxed the second varsity eight to a second place finish behind No. 7 Princeton while defeating No. 14 Rutgers and Columbia at the Princeton Regatta (April 27) ... coxed the second varsity eight at the Big Ten Double Dual, topping both No. 13 Iowa and No. 20 Indiana (April 13) ... coxed the second varsity eight at the Pac-12 Invite, defeating No. 11 USC and dropping races to No. 1 Cal and No. 3 Stanford (March 30-31) ... coxed the second varsity eight and placed third at the Cardinal Invitational (March 17)

2017-18: Coxed the varsity four to a 15th-place finish at the NCAA championships (May 26) ... guided the varsity four to fourth place at the Big Ten championships (May 13) ... took first place with the varsity four at Princeton/Syracuse (April 28) ... placed fifth at the Clemson Invitational with the varsity four (April 14) ... coxed the varsity four to first place at the Frozen/Sunshine Regatta (March 31)

High School: Coxed at Sammamish Rowing Association all four years of high school … earned three varsity letters … placed first at the 2015 U.S. Rowing Northwest Championship in the women’s lightweight four … competed at the 2016 and 2017 U.S. Rowing Youth nationals in the women’s varsity eight … placed fourth at the 2015 Youth Nationals in the women’s lightweight four … two-time competitor at Head of the Charles in the women’s youth eight, including a top-ten finish in 2015
 
Personal: Parents are Michael Smith and Tinku Basu … sister Samantha played four years of Division III soccer at Carnegie Mellon University … intends to major in finance
 
Reason for choosing UW-Madison: I wanted to go out of state and Madison felt like home. The school offers a great academic and athletic environment that I knew was right for me