SEATTLE – This week in Seattle Pacific University Athletics, the SPU women's rowing team takes part in the Windermere Cup, an event signifying the opening of Seattle's boating season with races throughout the Montlake Cut on Friday evening and Saturday.

WOMEN'S ROWING
May 1-2
at The Windermere Cup – watch – live results – regatta info

FROM THE COACH
"Our team is super excited about Windermere," head coach Kenzie Waltar said. "It's like the Christmas of rowing. It's so fun. There's really no other race like it. Being a Seattle school, we get to participate in this truly great spectacle. This year we get two nights. That's not always the case. To  have more athletes out there. I tell them every year it's going to be really loud because this is the only course where you've got spectators throughout the entire course because you've got the log boom with all the yachts, and then you've got the cut. It's such a great atmosphere, and we love to be a part of it."

ABOUT THE FALCONS

• The Falcons competed at the WIRA Championships, featuring close races throughout the weekend-long event.
• SPU went bow-to-bow-to-bow with Cal Poly Humboldt and Puget Sound for second place in Sunday's Varsity 8+ race.
  • The final difference between the three shells was just less than two-tenths of a second (0.192, to be precise).
  • The Lumberjacks earned second place with a time of 6:57.781, the Loggers earned third with a 6:57.825, and the Falcons finished fourth with a time of 6:57.973.
• The Varsity 4+ shell competed in the petite final last Sunday, taking third place in the race with an 8:09.22.
  • The Falcons improved their time from Saturday's qualifying races by 22 seconds during the petite final.
• The Novice 4+ boat also saw an improvement from Saturday to Sunday at the WIRAs, going 23 seconds faster in their second race of the weekend.
• The Falcons will race two shells at this weekend's Windermere Cup.
• SPU has also been invited to Friday's Windermere Cup Twilight Sprints for the first time.
  • Those races on the Cut begin at 8:00 p.m.

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