Daniel Elliott '24 Recruiting Profile

Once I joined the team, it became clear that my size enabled me, even as a relatively new rower, to make a positive contribution to the team. This year, my first full year of rowing, our team was our category’s winner at the Head of the Weir and at Icebreaker, and placed second at the VCB Youth Row. Then, right after we finished the fall race season and had begun  training for the CRASH-B tournament in March, I fell and broke my shoulder, leaving me unable to row until the very end of Feburary. Four months of physical therapy later, I am entirely healed, have resumed training, and am driving hard to prepare for the last two races of the season and get to CRASH-B next year.

In the meanwhile, I am taking my role as senior team member and next year’s co-captain of the Stuyvesant rowing team very seriously. I am leveraging the teaching experience I gained teaching kids test prep and computer science to teach the newer members of our team everything they need to know to not only begin rowing but also continue improving their pace and stroke once on the water. I’m looking for a college rowing program that will be a good fit for me athletically as well as academically. I believe I not only have the strength, skills, and drive to continuously improve to compete at the college level, but also have the work-ethic and team-building experience to make an impact on your program. I hope you will consider me.