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Tulsa Rowing Signs Two Athletes During Early Period
12/3/2004 12:00:00 AM | Rowing
Dec. 3, 2004
Tulsa, Oklahoma - Tulsa Head Rowing Coach Kevin Harris announced today the signing of rower Allison Bridge from Mathews, Va., and coxswain Jordan Haggard of Tulsa, Okla., to National Letters-of-Intent during the early signing period.
Bridge is a 5'9" rower who comes to Tulsa from the Mathews High School Rowing Team. MHS is one of the smallest, but most successful high school rowing programs in Virginia. In her four years of rowing for Mathews and the club rowing team, Mobjack RC, Bridge has earned two gold medals at the Stotesbury Cup Regatta, the largest high school regatta in the world with over 4,000 participants. Bridge also successfully stroked her boats to gold medals at the Canadian Schoolboy Championships, the American Scholastic Rowing Association Championships, and the Canadian Henley. Bridge is an honor student at MHS and will seek an English degree at The University of Tulsa.
"Allison is a great find for our rowing team," Harris said. "She has stroked some very fine boats in her high school career and her coach, Tim Ulsacker, has a lot of faith in her abilities. She rows with a passion that comes from rowing on a small team that has to compete and win against teams that are bigger and supposedly faster. That is why she fits our team so well. Her experiences fit the Tulsa image of being a small but mighty rowing team."
Haggard is a 5' 1" coxswain at the Tulsa Rowing Club. She has coxed both boy's and girl's boats at the TRC and has developed into their leading coxswain. Haggard has been a member of the Tulsa Rowing Club's Junior Program for two years. She has been instrumental in team victories throughout the Midwest and has coxed the Youth 4+ at the Head of the Charles in 2003 and 2004. Jordan will graduate from Jenks High School, and by signing with Tulsa she has become the first-ever local rower to sign an NLI to TU. Haggard will pursue Art as her course of studies at Tulsa.
"I think Jordan is a great young woman," Harris said. "Her coach, Neil Bergenroth, told us that she had a lot of potential when she joined the team as an 11th grader. It's been a real pleasure watching her develop and help our local juniors become a cohesive rowing team. I believe that she will be a real asset to us and will definitely make next year's freshman class better. Moreover, I am thrilled that we could sign a talented local athlete."
The University of Tulsa Women's Rowing Team is in its off season. TU hits the water again on March 13, 2005, against the Creighton University Bluejays. TU and Creighton will be competing for the brand new Lawless Cup named in honor of President Emeritus Bob Lawless and his wife Marcy. The regatta will start at approximately 9:00 a.m. on Zink Lake in Tulsa.
