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Spring Senior Spotlight: Alaena Roberds, Women's Crew
4/21/2020 9:57:00 AM | Women's Crew
Brown University athletics will be recognizing the senior student-athletes who had their spring seasons canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Two senior student-athletes will be featured each weekday on Brownbears.com and various social media platforms, starting on Wednesday, April 1, through the end of May.
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Name: Alaena Roberds
Hometown: Kirkland, Wash.
Sport: Women's Crew
Concentration: Applied Mathematics; Environmental Science
Accolades: 2020 team captain … Two-time CRCA Scholar-Athlete (2018, 2019) … 2019 silver medalist with the first varsity eight at the Ivy League Championship … 2018 bronze medalist with the second varsity eight at the Ivy League Championship … 2017 silver medalist with the A varsity four at the Ivy League Championship … Three-time participant at the NCAA Championships (2017, 2018, 2019).
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Favorite experience as a Brown student-athlete?
"Winning Ivies as a team my freshman year." (The Bears won the Ivy League's team points trophy in 2017 with 81 points, topping Princeton (76), Yale (71), Penn (50), Radcliffe (46), Columbia (29), Cornell (23), and Dartmouth (15))
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Favorite class at Brown?
"I really loved this Environmental History course taught by Bathsheba Demuth, titled From the Colombian Exchange to Climate Change."
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Name: Alaena Roberds
Hometown: Kirkland, Wash.
Sport: Women's Crew
Concentration: Applied Mathematics; Environmental Science
Accolades: 2020 team captain … Two-time CRCA Scholar-Athlete (2018, 2019) … 2019 silver medalist with the first varsity eight at the Ivy League Championship … 2018 bronze medalist with the second varsity eight at the Ivy League Championship … 2017 silver medalist with the A varsity four at the Ivy League Championship … Three-time participant at the NCAA Championships (2017, 2018, 2019).
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Favorite experience as a Brown student-athlete?
"Winning Ivies as a team my freshman year." (The Bears won the Ivy League's team points trophy in 2017 with 81 points, topping Princeton (76), Yale (71), Penn (50), Radcliffe (46), Columbia (29), Cornell (23), and Dartmouth (15))
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Favorite class at Brown?
"I really loved this Environmental History course taught by Bathsheba Demuth, titled From the Colombian Exchange to Climate Change."
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