Barber Named to 2017 Pocock All-America Team

BLOOMINGTON, Indiana – The Collegiate Rowing Coaches Association (CRCA) announced the 2017 Pocock All-America honors on Tuesday and Indiana senior Emily Barber was named to the second team. She becomes the seventh rower in IU history to be named an All-American and the fourth different IU rower in the last four years.

Barber, a native of Zionsville, Indiana, was named First Team All-Region last week and brought home First Team All-Big Ten honors at the Big Ten Championships after helping the Hoosiers 1V8 to a third place finish. That finish also propelled Indiana to its fourth consecutive appearance in the NCAA Championships, where the team placed 12th.

This also marks the fourth consecutive season that Indiana has had an All-America honoree and it is the ninth time overall that Indiana has had an All-American. The complete list of IU rowing All-Americans is as follows:

Laura Lazaridis – 2005 (2nd Team)
Laura Lazaridis – 2006 (2nd Team)
Ellie Benson – 2008 (2nd Team)
Asja Zero – 2012 (2nd Team)
Meradith Dickensheets – 2014 (1st Team)
Meradith Dickensheets – 2015 (1st Team)
Alice Wright – 2015 (2nd Team)
Rebecca Brougher – 2016 (2nd Team)
Emily Barber – 2017 (2nd Team)

The All-American awards recognize the outstanding performances of rowers and coxswains on the national level in women's collegiate rowing. General requirements for nominating a student-athlete for CRCA post-season honors are:
-The student-athlete must meet all eligibility rules as defined by her institution
-The student-athlete must have rowed at least 75% of the current spring season's races in the varsity boat (before and including May 19, 2017)
– The student-athlete must be nominated by her institution
– The Head Coach of the student-athlete's institution must be a member in good standing of the CRCA

The nominated student-athletes are then selected to 1st and 2nd teams based on the following criteria:
– Strength of finish of the institution's varsity eight within the country
– Coach comments
– 2k erg score

2017 Division I Pocock First Team All-America Award Winners
Ieva Adomaviciute – Washington State University
Shannon Barry – University of Texas
Dorothee Beckendorf – University of California, Berkeley
Elise Beuke – University of Washington
Erin Boxberger – University of Notre Dame
Kendall Brewer – University of Michigan
Gia Doonan – University of Texas
Katy Gillingham – University of Washington
Stephanie Grauer – Stanford University
Georgie Howe – Princeton University
Filippa Karrfelt – Stanford University
Inger Kavlie – University of California, Berkeley
Ida Kruse – Ohio State University
Lily Lindsay – Yale University
Cicely Madden – Brown University
Rowan McKellar – University of California, Berkeley
Ruth Narode – Stanford University
Brooke Pierson – University of Washington
Karle Pittsinger – University of Washington
Georgia Ratcliff – University of Virginia
Miriam Soufi – University of Texas
Kate Wright – University of Michigan

2017 Division I Pocock Second Team All-America Award Winners
Uche Anyanwu – University of San Diego
Emily Barber – Indiana University
Erin Briggs – University of Virginia
Charlotte Buck – Columbia University
Claire Collins – Princeton University
Louisa Freeman – University of Michigan
Morgan Grastorf – University of Iowa
Kristi Harrison – University of Louisville
Marie Jacquet – University of California, Los Angeles
Ljiljana Josic – University of Texas
Kalia Krichko – University of Michigan
Phillippa Lovelard – University of Texas
Jessica Michaels – Yale University
Jen Mundelius – Brown University
Savannah Moody – Southern Methodist University
Kate O'Brien – Yale University
Kendall Ritter – University of California, Berkeley
Maria Schmid – University of Wisconsin
Hattie Taylor – Syracuse University
Stephanie Williams – Oregon State University

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Players Mentioned

Emily Barber

Rebecca Brougher

Alice Wright

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