Aidan Lawlor
Hometown: Congers, NY
Height: 5’11(3/4)” || Weight: 250 lbs
Class of 2025 || Bisweptual
Aidan has been a rower for 7 years now. He will most likely be found in the erg room playing music at a respectful level. Aidan likes when boat goes vroom vroom fast…
Benjamin Alejandro
Hometown: Chantilly, VA
Height: 5’10” || Weight: 165 lbs
Class of 2023 || Bisweptual
Ben is a Geographic Information Science major set to graduate in the Fall of 2023. He is an avid skier and LEGO enjoyer. Ben started to row his senior year of college, Fall 2022. In high school he was a starter for the tennis team all 4 years and won States in the Virginia 6A division. He also did riflery and trap shooting in high school. Off the water you can find Ben cooking a feast, watching scary movies, napping in the library, or causing some sort of mischief on campus.
Bryan Giordano
Hometown: Warwick, NY
Height: 5’8” || Weight: 165 lbs
Class of 2026 || Port
Charles Puckhaber
Hometown: Cheshire, CT
Height: 6’0” || Weight: 173 lbs
Class of 2026 || Port
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Christopher Tovar
Hometown: Wilton, CT
Height: 5’10” || Weight: 160 lbs
Class of 2024 || Bisweptual
Viva Los Lighties
Connor Denecour
Hometown: Colchester, CT
Height: 5’10” || Weight: 150 lbs
Class of 2026 || Port
Norge.
Damini Lakshmipathy
Hometown: Glastonbury, CT
Height: 5’6”
Class of 2025 || Coxswain
Damini is currently majoring in molecular and cell biology. She rowed for three years for the Glastonbury HS girls team and became a coxswain her senior year due to injuries. She spent the past summer coxing at Riverfront and Central CT rowing. She loves wearing crocs, never typing correctly, eating bad ramen, and taking pictures of people with the 0.5 lens.
Dominic Parciasepe
Hometown: Middletown, CT
Height: 6’1” || Weight: 215 lbs
Class of 2023 || Bisweptual
Dom is a Senior majoring in Environmental Engineering. He rowed for 3 years in high school, most notably competing at the Head of The Charles Regatta in his school’s Varsity 8. He joined the team during his second semester at UConn and is ready to continue his journey as a rower for many years to come. Outside of rowing you can see him directly impacting the local fish population.
Donald Dinkins III
Hometown: New Haven, CT
Height: 6’2” || Weight: 235 lbs
Class of 2026 || Bisweptual
Ay wassup, hello. Donald is a Sophomore studying Illustration and Animation at UConn. He rows Starboard, Port (new) and sculls on the side. Donald's not bad at erging either.
Erik Austin
Hometown: Coventry, CT
Height: 6’2” || Weight: 190 lbs
Class of 2025 || Starboard
Erik is a transfer student who joined the team in spring 2022. His major is psychological science, and he rowed for CLCR all four years of high school and now get to row on that same lake for UCONN.
Harrison Zhao
Hometown: Monroe, CT
Height: 6’0” || Weight: 160 lbs
Class of 2026 || Bisweptual
I’m a computer science student who loves to row and play piano!
Jack Norton
Hometown: Trumbull, CT
Height: 6’2” || Weight: 225 lbs
Class of 2026 || Bisweptual
Jack is a Mechanical Engineering major who rowed all four years of high school. When not rowing, Jack enjoys art, skiing, and coaching E.O. Smith High School Crew.
James Byrne
Hometown: Norwalk, CT
Height: 6’2.5” || Weight: 190 lbs
Class of 2025 || Bisweptual
James joined UConn Men’s Crew in Fall of 2023 with 7 years of prior rowing experience. He graduated from Fairfield Prep Crew in 2020 and was awarded the Coach’s award. For the past three summers he has been a Master’s and JV/Novice coach at Maritime Rowing Club in Norwalk, CT. If not rowing James can be found: Drinking chocolate milk.
John Quinn
Hometown: Brookfield, CT
Height: 6’1” || Weight: 160 lbs
Class of 2026 || Port
John is a Special Education major. This is his second year with UCMC. After winning a medal at nationals, he’s gotten hungry. He’s since incorporated ergometers and creatine into his diet. Meet him on the isle of Catan, he will settle circles around you.
Katie Laeger
Hometown: Bainbridge Island, WA
Height: 5’2”
Class of 2025 || Coxswain
Katie is a biology major. She joined the team fall of her freshman year and has yet to escape. When not deskeging boats she enjoys reading, coaching for CLCR, and beating her teammates at Catan.
Luke Withstandley
Hometown: Greenwich, CT
Height: 6’0” || Weight: 180 lbs
Class of 2025 || Bisweptual
Luke Withstandley is stuttering his way to get a bachelors in Natural Resources with a concentration in fisheries and wildlife, and a minor in Fine Arts with a concentration in ceramics. This is Luke’s 3rd year rowing for UCONN and his 7th year rowing overall. He is looking forward to rowing more for UCMC. Some of Luke’s hobbies include hiking, boat building, and doing research on invasive species (which he does not like). He can give you some cool animal facts if you ever ask him or want to know something interesting about animals.
Mahmoud Salha
Hometown: Stonington, CT
Height: 6’0” || Weight: 210 lbs
Class of 2025 || Starboard
Mahmoud is Biology major on the Pre-Med track. He rowed all 4 years of high school at Stonington High School. He competed in CPSRA spring championships for 2 consecutive years, and his team his senior year went undefeated. He is glad he has found an opportunity to be a competitive rower at UConn. This season the goal is to make boat go fast. #UC250s
Marcus Yancoskie
Hometown: Naugatuck, CT
Height: 6’1” || Weight: 180 lbs
Class of 2024 || Bisweptual
Rows the boat gently down the stream.
Mary Ferguson
Hometown: Wallingford, CT
Height: 5’2”
Class of 2026 || Coxswain
Mary is a novice coxswain and is getting her B.S. in Geosciences with a minor in Women, Genders, and Sexuality Studies.
Nicolas Michel
Class of 2024 || Port
Nirvaan Vyas
Hometown: Fairfield, CT
Height: 5’10” || Weight: 178
Class of 2025 || Starboard
Nirvaan is a junior chemical engineer and an alumni of the Saugatuck Rowing Club.
Paul Gageonea
Hometown: Storrs, Mansfield, CT
Height: 5’8.5” || Weight: 165
Class of 2026 || Port
Paul is undecided about his major. In high school he was on the E.O Smith rowing team where he fell in love with rowing. Paul’s vessel to get to classes is a 2011 stick shift VW Golf GTI. Some of what Paul will do for entertainment may include ripping a 10k, going on a nice bike ride and photography. During the cold winter months, you will find him on the slopes on a pair of twin tip or carving skis. He may be bilingual but I wouldn’t trust him rowing starboard without significant time to prepare.
Thomas Paricio
Hometown: Barrington, RI
Height: 5’8” || Weight: 165 lbs
Class of 2025 || Starboard
Thomas is a Junior majoring in Economics of Sustainable Development and Management. This is his second year rowing and his second year rowing for UConn Men's Crew. When he's not rowing he can be found being a silly goose.
Sarah Pesak
Hometown: Oxford, CT
Height: 5’7”
Class of 2025 || Coxswain
Sarah is a statistics major. In high school, she rowed for about 1 year at Great River Rowing and learned to row at Yale Community Rowing. She joined the team Fall 2022 to try coxing and loved the experience! In her free time you can find her reading about math, enjoying a nap, watching a scary movie, or going on a nature walk (she refuses to hike).
Shane Petroccione
Hometown: Monroe, NY
Height: 5’8” || Weight: 165 lbs
Class of 2026 || Starboard
God chose me for the boat. I am nothing but a vessel for a higher power. Combined, my oar and I are the perfectly crafted instrument used by the lord to win seat races.
2023-2024 Novice Roster
Advaith (Adi) Pradeep
Hometown: Bangalore, India
Height: 6’5” || Weight: 250 lbs
Class of 2026 || Port
Adi is a Biological Sciences major on the pre-med track and this is his first year rowing for the UConn Men's Crew Heavyweights. His favorite part of being on the team is waking up at 4:30 AM everyday to row with da boys.
Anna McGinley
Hometown: Ashford, CT
Height: 5’3”
Class of 2026 || Coxswain
Anna joined the team in the spring of her freshman year and had been coxing for three years prior. She enjoys coaching for the E.O. Smith Crew team, crocheting, and raising chickens.
Bryan Moores
Hometown: Westminster, MA
Height: 5’6” || Weight: 140 lbs
Class of 2027 || Bisweptual
Bryan is a freshman undecided major but wants to go into Digital Media and Design. He played Ice hockey, track and field, soccer and cross country in his Massachusetts high school. In his off season he was in charge of his school's ping pong club and in a school based news station club. He loves Star Wars, Legos and Military history. He was called out and joined UConn Men's Crew after thinking it wouldn't be to hard of a sport... he was wrong but still enjoys rowing.
Christian Thompson
Hometown: Ridgefield, CT
Height: 5’7” || Weight: 150 lbs
Class of 2027 || Starboard
Love me a body of water.
John Disbrow
Hometown: Southbury, CT
Height: 6’4” || Weight: 162 lbs
Class of 2024 || Port
John is a senior and is new to rowing.
Jonathan Lierman
Class of 2027 || Port
Julia Sarni
Hometown: Glastonbury, CT
Height: 5’3”
Class of 2027 || Coxswain
Julia is a freshman majoring in Finance. She coxed for four years on her high school rowing team. She loves skiing in the winter and spends her summers on Block Island.
Katherine Patrick
Class of 2026 || Coxswain
Madison Dunn
Hometown: West Haven, CT
Height: 5’4” || Weight: 103 lbs
Class of 2025 || Coxswain
Madison is a third year English major. This is her first year coxing and it has been very fun. In her free time you can find her scrolling on her iPhone, dusting her extensive knick-knack collection, or staring at a blank wall contemplating the human existence. She did theater in high school and has no idea how she got here.
Mason Sibley
Class of 2025 || Starboard
Nicholas Wong
Hometown: South Windsor, CT
Height: 5’11” || Weight: 167 lbs
Class of 2026 || Starboard
lives, breathes, and sleeps in the gym
Samuel Gannotti
Hometown: North Stonington, CT
Height: 5’11.5” || Weight: 145 lbs
Class of 2027 || Bisweptual
I am a mechanical engineering major. This is my first time rowing, and I am thoroughly enjoying it. By senior year I will be big.