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2008-09 Women's Rowing Roster

Kristen Youngs

  • Height 5-5
  • Class Sophomore
  • Highschool Coppell (Texas)
  • Hometown Coppell, Texas

Biography

Captured the inaugural American College Rowing Association lightweight single national championship ... 2007-08: Won the American College Rowing Association lightweight single title with a time of 9:05.84 ... took four medals in Head of Texas Regatta ... won open double with time of 3:53.1 ... second in mixed open double ... took second in lightweight single ... High school: National champion in lightweight double as a senior … lettered three times in track and field and once in cross country … district runner-up in pole vault … finished top 10 in the district cross country meet … set high school pole vault record … member of the Dallas Rowing Club … coached by Ashless Branan … Personal: Majoring in journalism and kinesiology … daughter of Debbie and Barna Youngs … born Oct. 3, 1988 in Dallas.

 

More on Kristen:

Last book I read: Lance Armstrong’s Autobiography

Favorite team: USA

Favorite video game: Dance Dance Revolution

Reason I picked OCU: Rowing, nice school, nice people

My prediction for the upcoming season: Greatness