Overview
Stockton Women's Rowing competed six times during the 2025-26 academic year and also faced some bad luck as two regattas were canceled due to weather, including the team's lone home event, the Battle at Brigantine.
Head coach
Chris O'Brien received contributions from a balanced roster, with rowers from all four classes playing roles in the team's success under the direction of three young coxswains. Of the team members who were in the varsity eight at least five times, three were sophomores and two apiece were juniors or seniors.
The Ospreys won gold medals in the varsity eight at the Knecht Cup and frosh/novice four at the Head of the Schuylkill as well as a bronze medal in the varsity eight at the Dad Vail Regatta for the third straight year. Stockton finished fourth at the Mid-Atlantic Rowing Conference Championships as well.
Awards
Ashley Timm: All-MARC First Team
Olivia Wagner: All-MARC Second Team, CRCA Scholar Athlete, MARC All-Academic Team
Maddy Mehler: All-MARC Novice
Megan Baldwin: CRCA Scholar Athlete, MARC All-Academic Team
Maria Fazio: CRCA Scholar Athlete, MARC All-Academic Team
Sydney Rowand: CRCA Scholar Athlete, MARC All-Academic Team
Reese Weirick : CRCA Scholar Athlete, MARC All-Academic Team
Highlights
- Breanna Blisard, Maggie Dunn, Sydney Rowand, Olivia Wagner, Ashley Timm and coxswain Thalia Gonzalez were the mainstays who rowed in the varsity eight at all six meets, while Giavonna Terruso-Emmons competed in the V8 five times. Timm and Wagner received all-conference honors for the first time in their careers.
- Dunn, Terruso-Emmons, Wagner, Timm, Blisard, Rowand, Gonzalez and Reilly Deschenes were members of the Stockton V8 that won both gold at the Knecht Cup and bronze at the Dad Vail Regatta.
- Deschenes and Reese Weirick each were in the varsity eight four times. Weirick rowed for gold-medal V8 at the Knecht Cup. Megan Baldwin was in the varsity eight three times, including the Dad Vail Regatta where Stockton captured the bronze medal.
- Ixanna Torres, Lex Zang, Keira Kenney, Gabriella Nguyen and Mackenzie Sutton competed in the second varsity eight four times apiece. Sutton and fellow freshman Sam Moore each rowed in some races and served as coxswains in others.
- Maria Fazio and freshman Eliza Leonardo-Paczkowski each rowed in the 2V8 three times and the four once.
- Five freshmen, Nguyen, Torres, Moore, Maddy Mehler and coxswain Gianna Feliciano made impressive debuts as they combined to win a gold medal in the frosh/novice four at the season-opening Head of the Schuylkill in October. Mehler later received an all-conference novice accolade.
- Moore joined fellow rookies Julia Emer, Estrella Figueroa and Alexa Shallcross as the nucleus of the young crew in the fours.