Former members of the University of Wisconsin women’s rowing team, Grace Latz and Sophia Vitas, as well as Ben Ruble and Dariush “Tim” Aghai from the men’s rowing team, represented the United States at the 2017 World Rowing Championships in Sarasota-Bradenton, Florida.
Recent 2016 Wisconsin graduate, Sophia Vitas, raced in the women’s eight, just two seats away from 2011 graduate Grace Latz who sits at seven seat. Although the two Badgers missed each other by a year in the Porter Boathouse, they share commonalities from their separate experiences of wearing the Wisconsin “W.”
Both women walked on to the Wisconsin women’s rowing team, and each came out of it with a profound commitment to consistently striving for improvement.