PHILADELPHIA – The Collegiate Rowing Coaches Association (CRCA) has announced its 2024-25 All-America teams in women's rowing, and recent University of Pennsylvania graduate Brooke Caragher was recognized as an honorable mention All-America.
 
Caragher is just the second rower in program history to earn All-America recognition from the CRCA in two different seasons, as she also received honorable mention laurels in 2023-24 as a junior. The other is Samy Morton, who was a second-team selection in 2021-22 and a first-team pick in 2022-23.
 
Each year the coaches of the CRCA recognize the outstanding student athletes in each Division. Criteria for the award include:
  *The student-athlete must meet all eligibility rules as defined by her institution.
  *The student-athlete must have rowed at least 75% of the season's races in the varsity boat
  *The student-athlete must be nominated by her institution
  *The Head Coach of the student-athlete's institution must be a member in good standing of the CRCA
 
The CRCA also has announced its Scholar Athletes for the 2024-25 women's rowing season at the NCAA Division I level, and for the fifth straight year Penn reached double figures as 12 women were honored. That is two shy of the program record of 14, set in 2023. Marren Burgess, Cami Edwards, Makeda Harrison, Ella Kalmbach, Christina Kamenev, Cypress Kaulbach, Natasha Kobelsky, Sophia Pappano, Georgia Sackrey, Caroline Schuldt, Caroline Soska and Ella Valencia are this year's honorees. Pappano and Soska are now three-time honorees while Edwards, Kamenev, Schuldt and Valencia were named for the second time.

In order to be named a CRCA Scholar Athlete, student-athletes must achieve the criteria described below:
  *The student-athlete has met all eligibility rules as defined by her institution
  *The student-athlete is in her second, third or fourth year of eligibility
  *The student-athlete rowed in her institution's NCAA or IRA eligible boat(s) for a minimum of 75 percent of the current spring races or racing in a regional conference event.
  *The student-athlete has had a 3.5 cumulative GPA or higher for her career (through the fall semester/quarter for the current competition year)

Under first-year head coach Bill Manning, Penn enjoyed another successful campaign as the Quakers advanced to the NCAA Championship for the fourth straight season.