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2021-22 Women's Lightweight Rowing Roster

Molly Sacks

  • Class Senior
  • Hometown Brookline, Mass.
  • High School Brookline
  • Concentration Applied Mathematics
  • House Affiliation Kirkland

Biography

Senior • 2022
Rowed in the second seat on the Varsity Eight boat in the race against Princeton and Georgetown (Apr. 2) … Helped her crew record a 9.0 second victory over Georgetown to secure the Class of 2004 Cup … Rowed in the second seat on the Varsity Eight boat at the Knecht Cup Regatta (Apr. 9-10) … Helped the crew finish second behind No. 3 Stanford in the lightweight eight event while defeating cross-town rival Boston University by .2 seconds … The crew also placed fourth in the main varsity eight petite final, falling off the pace by only 5.14 seconds … Sat in the second seat on the varsity eight boat in the Lina Muri Cup race vs. Boston University and MIT on the Charles River (Apr. 16) … Helped the boat place second, defeating MIT by more than 30.0-seconds with a time of 8:14.4 … Rowed in the second seat on the varsity eight boat in an exhibition race against Bates on the Charles River (Apr. 23) … Rowed from the second seat on the varsity eight boat at Eastern Sprints (May 1) … Helped the crew finished in third place in the grand final with a time of 6:39.920, defeating BU and Wisconsin … Rowed from the second seat on the varsity eight boat at the IRA National Championships (June 3-5) … Helped Radcliffe register a fifth-place finish on Mercer Lake

Junior • 2020
Did not compete due to season cancelation.

Sophomore • 2019 
Sat two seat in lwt eight B at the Head of the Charles (Oct. 20-21) ... Rowed stroke in V2x againt Georgetown (Mar. 30) ... Stroke in 2x against Princeton (Apr. 6) ... Sat bow for both second varsity eight and lwt four B at the Knecht Cup (Apr. 13-14) ... Bow in varsity four at the Beanpot (Apr. 27) ... Sat bow for varsity four at the Eastern Sprints Championships (May 5) ... Was bow in 4+ at the IRA National Championships (May 31-June 2).

Freshman • 2018 
Was two seat in third varsity eight win over Princeton ... Second seat in novice four at Knecht Cup ... Two seat in second varsity four against BU and MIT ... Two seat in third varsity eight that placed third at Eastern Sprints.

Before Harvard
Three-year letterwinner in lacrosse...Captained lacrosse in 2017...MIAA 2016 Girls’ Lacrosse Team Sportsmanship Award...2017 Brookline Youth Lacrosse Award...2017 Brookline Society of Women Engineers Award, Highest Honors...2018 YMCA Camp Nellie Huckins Leadership Award...Father Peter Sacks graduated from Harvard in 1981, Mother Deborah Jacobs (class of ‘81) swam for Harvard

Historical Player Information

  • 2017-18First-Year

  • 2018-19Sophomore

  • 2019-20Junior

  • 2021-22Senior