NEW HAVEN, Conn. – Twelve student-athletes from the Yale women's crew team have earned CRCA Scholar-Athlete honors, the organization announced on Tuesday afternoon.

"These scholar-athletes exemplify the discipline, work ethic, and the give and take it takes to succeed at the highest level," said Marnie Stahl, CRCA Executive Director. "Their achievements reflect the best of collegiate athletics. I would also like to add a very large thank you to our Awards Committee, Margaret Dail, Sarah Hudnall and Sam Sarff for all their work this awards season."

The 12 recipients are:

Mackenzie Ealson, Environmental Studies
Hope Galusha, Cognitive Science
Sofia Garcia, Economics and Math
Ailish Harkin, Undeclared
Maeve Heneghan, Mechanical Engineering
Anna Keating, Economics
Mia Levy, English
Maddie Moore, History of Science and Medicine
Stine Hojager Nielsen, Mechanical Engineering
Olivia Schnur, Psychology and History
Alexa von der Schulenburg, Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology
Lindsey Williams, Environmental Studies

To be eligible for the accolade, student-athletes must be in at least their second year of eligibility and maintaining an average cumulative GPA of 3.50 or higher. Additionally, student-athletes must have rowed in their institution's NCAA eligible boats for a minimum of 75 percent of the current spring races or race in an NCAA Boat at their conference or NCAA Championship.