NEWPORT NEWS, Va. – The Atlantic 10 announced the all-conference teams for women’s rowing and two Dayton Flyers received honors.

Senior Katherine Bruening earned a First Team selection, while junior Sadie Wonders received a spot on the Second Team.

For both UD rowers, it marks the second consecutive season they earned all-conference selections. However, last year Bruening was a Second Team selection and Wonders was on the First Team.

Bruening has been a member of Dayton’s Varsity 8 the previous three seasons. The Beachwood, Ohio native worked has her way up on the depth chart and is one of Dayton’s strongest rowers.

Wonders also has been in the Varsity 8 for three spring seasons. She was on UD’s Varsity 8 again this year at the A-10 Championship.

Both Bruening and Wonders helped the Flyers placed in fifth at the 2012 Atlantic 10 Women’s Rowing Championship. UD recorded 35 points and had all four boats advance to the Grand Final. The Varsity 8 finished in third with a time of 7:08.02, less than a second away from second place.   

Up next for the Flyers is the Aberdeen Dad Vail Regatta which runs May 11 and 12 in Philadelphia.

The league honored 20 student-athletes with each competing institution garnering at least one award winner. Rhode Island, as the 2012 champion and George Washington as the runner-up led the field with four selections each.

2012 Atlantic 10 Rowing All-Conference First Team
Kari Tomeny, Rhode Island
Lindsay Stephenson, Rhode Island
Caitlin Dowd, Rhode Island
Anna Kaminski, George Washington
Maryann Grunseth, George Washington
Emily Boucher, Massachusetts
Kendall Bennett, Massachusetts
Taylor Wasserleben, Temple
Allison Boc, Temple
Katherine Bruening, Dayton
Ariana McDevitt, Saint Joseph’s
Celine Egraz, Fordham

Second Team
Megan O’Brien, Rhode Island
Bethany Grim, George Washington
Megan Culberson, George Washington
Michaela Streitfield, Massachusetts
Joanna Sutor, Temple
Sadie Wonders, Dayton
Rachael Thornton, Duquesne
Katie Hunt, La Salle