Rebecca Braak

Class:
Senior
High School:
Hellgate HS
Hometown:
Missoula, Mont.

2014-15 • Senior Season: CRCA All-Region First Team...All-Big Ten First Team...Academic All-Big Ten...paced Second Varsity Eight at the Head of the Mississppi (10/5)...competed with the First Varsity Eight and the First Varsity Four boats during the Head of the Rock (10/12)...defeated Boston College, Georgetown, and Notre Dame with the 1V8 at Head of the Charles (10/19)...continued to pace with 1V8 at the Oak Ridge Cardinal Invite (3/15) and the Oregon State Classic (4/4)...at the Big 10 Double Dual (4/11) helped add to Minnesota's sweep over Rutgers with 1V8...finished the season pacing with 1V8 at the Clemson Invite (4/18 & 19), Devil's Lake Challenge (5/2) and the Big 10 Championship (5/16 & 17).

2013-14 • Junior Season: Academic All-Big Ten ... posted wins over Dayton, West Virginia and Alabama with the First Varsity Eight at the Oak Ridge Invite (3/15-16) ... placed first against Dartmouth and Rutgers in the 2V8 at the Boston Challenge (4/5-6) ... also placed second ahead of Boston University ... competed against Michigan and Michigan State in the 2V8 at the Big Ten Double Dual (4/12) ... placed second behind Wisconsin with the 2V8 in the lone home dual of the year on Lake Phalen (5/4) ... finished fifth at the 2014 Big Ten Championships in the 2V8 (5/18)

2012-13 • Sophomore Season: Academic All-Big Ten, Named Minnesota's Most Valuable Rower... member of the 1V8 that was twice named the Big Ten Boat of the Week (3/12, 3/26)...defeated Kansas State, Oklahoma and Tulsa at the Oklahoma Invite (3/9-10)... defeated Tennessee in a road dual (3/24)... posted second, third and fourth-place finishes in three races at the Clemson Challenge (4/20-21)... defeated No. 14 Wisconsin and Michigan State at Wisconsin (5/5)...finished Fifth at the Big Ten Championships (5/19).

2011-12 •Freshman Season: Defeated Buffalo and Kansas and competed against Notre Dame, Duke and Virginia's V8 in the Oak Ridge Invitational (3/17-18) ... Defeated Indiana as 1V8 in the Big Ten Double Dual (4/7) ... Raced in the Virginia Invitational as V8 (4/14-15) ... Raced against Wisconsin as 1V8 in the Home Dual vs. Wisconsin (4/29) ... placed fifth in the Big Ten Championships 1V8 (5/13) ... named Minnesota's Most Improved Rower