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Oct. 21, 2007

BOSTON - Competing at the prestigious Head of the Charles Regatta for the ninth straight year, the nationally ranked University of Louisville rowing program earned an impressive ninth-place finish in its first ever appearance in the Championship 8+ event on Sunday afternoon on the Charles River.

The Cards' crew, which included sophomore coxswain Ashley Edwardson, sophomore Anastasia Prokopenko, freshman Kristin Falovo, junior Mallory Hamman, junior Anna Ardiel, sophomore Kelly Traynor, senior Breanne O'Connor, junior Allison Pelette and senior Kathryn Hagglund, covered the three-mile course in a time of 16 minutes, 38.073 seconds to finish ninth overall in the field of 39 and seventh among collegiate crews.

The US Rowing Princeton Training Center won the Championship 8+ title with a time of 15:26.572, followed by the London Training Center in second at 15:39.412. The University of Michigan was third overall and the highest finishing collegiate crew with a time of 16:21.651, followed by Yale in fourth at 16:22.225 and Tennessee in fifth at 16:26.994.

"I'm really proud of the effort from our team today in their first appearance in this championship level race," said Cards' head coach Laura Fogt. "The conditions and weather were perfect for rowing and it was a great race and a great event as always. Our rowers did a fantastic job and I'm proud of the way they represented the University of Louisville.

The Head of the Charles, hosted by the Cambridge Boat Club, is the largest two-day regatta in the world annually drawing nearly 300,000 spectators and 7,000 athletes to the banks of the Charles River.

Up next, the Cards will compete at the Head of the Chattahoochee Regatta on Nov. 3-4 in Chattanooga, Tenn.

Head of the Charles Regatta - Boston, Mass.
Sunday Results


Championship 8+ (39 entries; 3-mile course)
1 	US Rowing Princeton Train. Ctr 	15:26.572
2 	London Training Center 	 	15:39.412
3 	University of Michigan	 	16:21.651
4 	Yale University 	 	16:22.225
5 	University of Tennessee 	16:26.994
6 	Brown University 	 	16:27.500
7 	Stanford University 	 	16:37.640
8 	Radcliffe Crew 	 	 	16:38.044
9 	UNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE 	16:38.073
10 	Vesper Boat Club 	 	16:45.791
11 	Clemson University	 	16:49.010
12 	Northeastern University 	16:51.433
13 	University of Minnesota 	16:53.101
14 	Boston University 	 	16:57.191
15	Cornell University	 	16:58.531
16	Dartmouth College	 	17:08.288
17	U.S. Naval Academy	 	17:09.669
18	University of Pennsylvania	17:10.284
19	Dartmouth College	 	17:13.256
20	Brown University	 	17:15:867