PRINCETON, N.J. — Columbia sophomore Liza Ray has been invited to participate at the 2018 Under 23 Lightweight Women's National Team Selection Camps this summer. The lightweight women's camp will select the lightweight women's quadruple sculls crew that will race at the 2018 World Rowing Under 23 Championships, July 25-29, in Poznan, Poland.

"Liza is one of the most motivated athletes on the team," first-year head coach Emerson Curry said. "She works incredibly hard and I think she's going to do well. She's a bit of a smaller athlete so she has an opportunity to row lightweight … It means a lot. I think it shows the type of athlete that can be successful at this level."

Ray is one of eight athletes nationwide selected for the Quad Camp – six additional athletes were waitlisted. The Miami, Florida native has spent her first two years at Columbia in the Varsity Eight crew. She led the crew to a bronze medal at the 2017 Eastern Sprints, as well as qualifying for the Grand Finals at the 2017 Ivy League Championship.

Ray's selection makes for two consecutive years a member of the Columbia women's rowing team has been invited to National Team Selection Camp. Last season, Charlotte Buck was one of 23 rowers nationwide invited to Sweep Camp.

Selection camp begins in early June.

CAMP ATHLETES
Sophia Denison-Johnston – UCLA
Olivia Farrar – Harvard
Isabella Garcia-Camargo – Stanford
Janice Hagerman – Boston U.
Grace Joyce – Wisconsin
Brigid Kennedy – Harvard
Molly Pierce – Notre Dame
Liza Ray – Columbia

CAMP WAITLIST
Agathe Denis – Wisconsin
Grace D'Souza – Wisconsin
|Sarah Maietta – Boston U.
Elizabeth Martin – MIT
Caroline O'Brien – Georgetown
McKayla Wood – Delaware