{"id":3267,"date":"2025-07-22T14:25:55","date_gmt":"2025-07-22T18:25:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/student-affairs\/?p=3267"},"modified":"2025-07-23T09:18:51","modified_gmt":"2025-07-23T13:18:51","slug":"all-american-tier-leads-group-of-four-uri-club-crew-members-to-earn-postseason-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/student-affairs\/news\/2025\/07\/all-american-tier-leads-group-of-four-uri-club-crew-members-to-earn-postseason-awards\/","title":{"rendered":"All-American Tier leads group of four URI club crew members to earn postseason awards"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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URI club crew members (from left to right) Raymond Chichalski, Carly Tier, Chris Grivers, and David Canavan earned American Collegiate Rowing Association (ACRA) honors in 2024\u201325, highlighted by Tier, who became URI’s fifth All-American.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

KINGSTON, R.I. \u2013 July 22, 2025 \u2013 After a successful season that included strong showings at two of the biggest regattas in collegiate rowing, the University of Rhode Island\u2019s club crew team closed out 2024\u201325 with an All-American selection for the fourth consecutive season in addition to a handful of regional award-winners.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Junior Carly Tier earned American Collegiate Rowing Association (ACRA) Second Team All-American honors, joining two-time honoree Shannon Gerspach (2024 and 2023), John Mannion (2022), Carl Neff (2017), and Joe Martinez (2017) as one of five All-American selections in the program\u2019s history.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A Conshohocken, Pennsylvania, native, Tier was also one of four Rams to earn ACRA All-Northeast Region honors alongside junior Raymond Chichalski and seniors David Canavan and Chris Grivers. Sixth-year head coach Tim Nesselrodt earned ACRA Northeast Region Coach of the Year honors for the second consecutive season.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWhile these awards are meaningful, what matters most to me is the support behind them,\u201d Tier said. \u201cI\u2019m incredibly grateful to both my teammates and my coaches \u2013 their guidance and encouragement have shaped me into a stronger athlete and better person.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI am especially grateful for the girls I rowed with in our freshman four, Evyn Anderson, Riley Eldridge, and Santana Walter. We experienced our first taste of victory together, and sharing the past three years with them has made every moment since then even more meaningful.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n

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URI club crew head coach Tim Nesselrodt, center, earned ACRA Northeast Region Coach of the Year honors for the second consecutive season.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

ACRA is one of three governing bodies for collegiate rowing in the United States, overseeing more than 120 club crew programs in six regions. All varsity crew programs \u2013 including URI\u2019s men\u2019s and women\u2019s varsity rowing teams \u2013 compete in either the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) or International Rowing Association (IRA).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe\u2019re defined as a club, but we operate, move, and act as a varsity program. That\u2019s how we conduct ourselves,\u201d Nesselrodt said. \u201cOur rowers put in a ton of work and in a lot of ways almost have to work harder than their varsity equivalents because a lot of those student athletes are paid to be there through scholarships and gear packages. Our rowers pay to be here, fundraise, and train at the caliber of a Division I athlete. They continue to step up year after year.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As an All-American selection, Tier finished 2024\u201325 as one of the top 24 rowers in the nation, continuing a remarkable career at URI that includes a women\u2019s small boat national championship at the 2023 ACRAs alongside teammates Riley Eldridge, Evyn Anderson, Santana Walters, and coxswain Ben Stamm.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This past season, Tier and women\u2019s coxswain Grivers led URI\u2019s women\u2019s varsity eight crew, which made history in the fall by becoming the program\u2019s first women\u2019s eight to qualify two years in a row for the Head of the Charles regatta in Boston, the world\u2019s largest three-day regatta that attracts more than 11,000 competitors annually and includes both varsity and club teams. In addition to a fifth-place finish at the season-opening Head of the Snake regatta in Shrewsbury, Massachusetts in the fall, the women\u2019s varsity eight closed out the academic year with a strong spring, finishing first at the Patriot Cup in Connecticut; second at the Jefferson Dad Vail Regatta in Cherry Hill, New Jersey (the third year in a row the women have medaled at the Vails); and eight at the ACRA National Championships in Oak Ridge, Tennessee.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI\u2019ve been lucky enough to be surrounded by dedicated athletes who continuously push one another to be the best version of themselves,\u201d Tier said. \u201cI\u2019m also thankful to have held a seat in the women\u2019s eight for the past two years, surrounded by powerful women whose drive and resilience are truly inspiring. Rowing at URI has been one of the most rewarding aspects of my college experience, and I\u2019m proud to be a part of a team that feels more like a community. As I head into my senior year, I\u2019m excited to continue building on everything we\u2019ve accomplished so far and help set the team up for continued success. Hopefully, it can mean as much to others as it has meant to me.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Chichalski of Tenafly, New Jersey, and Canavan of Cumberland, Rhode Island, led the men\u2019s varsity eight crew, which finished fourth at the Jefferson Dad Vail and competed in the Head of the Charles and the Southern Intercollegiate Rowing Association (SIRA) Championship Regatta, also in Tennessee.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cOne of the big pushes we\u2019ve made in recent years is to be more competitive in the eights,\u201d Nesselrodt said. \u201cHistorically, we\u2019ve done well in the fours. We\u2019ve won national titles in the men\u2019s heavyweight varsity four and the women\u2019s novice four. Now we\u2019re starting to become more competitive in the eights and have really made a nice climb over the past couple of years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt\u2019s a new push and a bigger challenge, but if you don\u2019t have everyone on the same page, you won\u2019t see the kind of progress we\u2019ve seen. Our rowers have really answered the bell.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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KINGSTON, R.I. \u2013 July 22, 2025 \u2013 After a successful season that included strong showings at two of the biggest regattas in collegiate rowing, the University of Rhode Island\u2019s club crew team closed out 2024\u201325 with an All-American selection for the fourth consecutive season in addition to a handful of regional award-winners. Junior Carly Tier […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5297,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/student-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3267","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/student-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/student-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/student-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5297"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/student-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3267"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/student-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3267\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3297,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/student-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3267\/revisions\/3297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/student-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/student-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/student-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}