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EMU's First Varsity Eight Earns Back-to-Back CAA Boat of the Week Nod

RICHMOND, Va. (EMUEagles.com) - The Eastern Michigan University women's rowing team's First Varsity Eight boat was once again named the Colonial Athletic Association's Boat of the Week, the league office announced Tuesday, April 16. This is the Eagles' second weekly honor this season, now claiming two of the three total weekly awards handed out by the CAA so far in 2019.

The Varsity Eight continued its success from the Cooper Invite with a second-place finish in the A Final of the Mason Invitational, April 14. The CAA's top-finishing boat was made up of seniors Christa Maddick (Stockbridge, Mich.