{"id":365715,"date":"2025-11-09T00:49:12","date_gmt":"2025-11-09T00:49:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/365715\/"},"modified":"2025-11-09T00:49:12","modified_gmt":"2025-11-09T00:49:12","slug":"lights-open-campaign-in-san-diego-stanford-cardinal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/365715\/","title":{"rendered":"Lights Open Campaign in San Diego &#8211; Stanford Cardinal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>SETTING THE SCENE<br \/><\/strong>Stanford lightweight rowing opens its 2025-26 with its sole event of the fall calendar, racing at the San Diego Fall Classic on Sunday, Nov. 9. The first races of the day are scheduled for 7:45 a.m.<\/p>\n<p><strong>A YEAR AGO\u00a0<br \/><\/strong>The second year under the leadership of associate head coach <a href=\"https:\/\/gostanford.com\/staff\/lizzy-houston\" title=\"Lizzy Houston\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Lizzy Houston<\/a>, Stanford finished sixth in the Commissioner\u2019s Cup standings at the IRA National Championships. Stanford\u2019s IRA Championship lineups featured 12 underclassmen, setting a strong foundation for the future of the Cardinal program.<\/p>\n<p>At the IRA Championships, the double sculls duo, which included returning sophomore <a href=\"https:\/\/gostanford.com\/sports\/lightweight-rowing\/roster\/player\/channing-brook\" title=\"Channing Brook\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Channing Brook<\/a>, posted Stanford\u2019s top finish of the regatta with a fourth-place time of 7:49.47. The varsity four, which contained returners <a href=\"https:\/\/gostanford.com\/sports\/lightweight-rowing\/roster\/player\/kate-mettauer\" title=\"Kate Metteauer\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kate Metteauer<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/gostanford.com\/sports\/lightweight-rowing\/roster\/player\/hannah-peters\" title=\"Hannah Peters\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Hannah Peters<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/gostanford.com\/sports\/lightweight-rowing\/roster\/player\/helen-pruitt-kennet\" title=\"Helen Pruitt-Kennett\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Helen Pruitt-Kennett<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/gostanford.com\/sports\/lightweight-rowing\/roster\/player\/maddy-dodge\" title=\"Maddy Dodge\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Maddy Dodge<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/gostanford.com\/sports\/lightweight-rowing\/roster\/player\/zadie-diniz\" title=\"Zadie Diniz\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Zadie Diniz<\/a>, followed with a seventh-place finish in 7:41.92, while the varsity eight clocked a 6:41.16 to take sixth, which held returners <a href=\"https:\/\/gostanford.com\/sports\/lightweight-rowing\/roster\/player\/marrisa-chow\" title=\"Marrisa Chow\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Marrisa Chow<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/gostanford.com\/sports\/lightweight-rowing\/roster\/player\/campbell-mclellan\" title=\"Campbell McClellan\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Campbell McClellan<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/gostanford.com\/sports\/lightweight-rowing\/roster\/player\/grace-padula\" title=\"Grace Padula\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Grace Padula<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/gostanford.com\/sports\/lightweight-rowing\/roster\/player\/lauren-koester\" title=\"Lauren Koester\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Lauren Koester<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/gostanford.com\/sports\/lightweight-rowing\/roster\/player\/sophia-ramaraju\" title=\"Sophia Ramaraju\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sophia Ramaraju<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/gostanford.com\/sports\/lightweight-rowing\/roster\/player\/elle-rosenfeld\" title=\"Elle Rosenfeld\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Elle Rosenfeld<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>WELCOME TO THE FARM<br \/><\/strong>Stanford welcomed a talented class of seven freshmen to the program: <a href=\"https:\/\/gostanford.com\/sports\/lightweight-rowing\/roster\/player\/juliet-bohn\" title=\"Juliet Bohn\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Juliet Bohn<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/gostanford.com\/sports\/lightweight-rowing\/roster\/player\/lily-carr\" title=\"Lily Carr\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Lily Carr<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/gostanford.com\/sports\/lightweight-rowing\/roster\/player\/francesca-krywosa\" title=\"Francesca Krywosa\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Francesca Krywosa<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/gostanford.com\/sports\/lightweight-rowing\/roster\/player\/mia-padovano\" title=\"Mia Padovano\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Mia Padovano<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/gostanford.com\/sports\/lightweight-rowing\/roster\/player\/amelie-requejo\" title=\"Amelie Requejo\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Amelie Requejo<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/gostanford.com\/sports\/lightweight-rowing\/roster\/player\/claire-steiner\" title=\"Claire Steiner\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Claire Steiner<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/gostanford.com\/sports\/lightweight-rowing\/roster\/player\/maddie-wu\" title=\"Maddie Wu\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Maddie Wu<\/a>. Additionally, <a href=\"https:\/\/gostanford.com\/staff\/maecy-rickman\" title=\"Maecy Rickman\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Maecy Rickman<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/gostanford.com\/news\/2025\/09\/12\/lightweight-rowing-adds-rickman-as-assistant-coach\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">joined the program<\/a> as assistant coach.<\/p>\n<p><strong>YEAR THREE FOR HOUSTON<br \/><\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/gostanford.com\/staff\/lizzy-houston\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Lizzy Houston<\/a> enters her third season at the helm of the Cardinal lights, looking to build on last season&#8217;s success. Her tenure on the Farm has included a runner-up finish at the 2024 IRA National Championships, including a national title for the Varsity 4+, and a sixth place finish in 2025.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SETTING THE SCENEStanford lightweight rowing opens its 2025-26 with its sole event of the fall calendar, racing at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":365716,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5134],"tags":[5229,1582,276,3549,7264,63443,176981,1366,3972,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-365715","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-diego","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-california","11":"tag-san-diego","12":"tag-sandiego","13":"tag-stanford","14":"tag-stanford-athletics","15":"tag-stanford-cardinal","16":"tag-stanford-university","17":"tag-united-states","18":"tag-united-states-of-america","19":"tag-unitedstates","20":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","21":"tag-us","22":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115516995233509406","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365715","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=365715"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365715\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/365716"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=365715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=365715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=365715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}