Rowing is not your typical team sport, especially in the Midwest when most teams are in the East Coast. Drake rowing seniors Gabrielle Brodek (Hampden, Maine), Kerstin Donat (Vilsbiburg, Germany) and Sarah Larson (Watertown, S.D.) went from never holding an oar in their life to pros on the water. With an open recruiting process, Brodek, Donat and Larson decided to continue their athletic stature with a completely new sport.
"Everyone was in the same boat as us (pun intended)," Larson said. "The coaches sent out an informational email to the incoming freshman girls and I just stuck with it and loved it.