2018-19 Women's Rowing Roster
Roster
Faucher, Meaghan

Meaghan Faucher
- Height:
- 6-0
- Class:
- Senior
- High School:
- Detroit Country Day
- Hometown:
- Brighton, Mich.
Bio
2019: Named to Academic All-Big Ten during the spring season … Earned first team All-Big Ten at the 2019 Big Ten Rowing Championships ... Stroke for the varsity eight at all six regattas … Had a season-best time of 6:29.17 in the finals of the Lake Wheeler invitational on April 27 … Turned in a time of 6:36.54 in the morning heat at Lake Wheeler … Finished sixth at the Big Ten Championship regatta with a time of 6:35.124 … Opened the season with time of 6:37.9 and 6:44.48 at the Ivy League-Big Ten Double Dual … Varsity eight finished in 6:31.82 ad 6:52.36 at the Big Ten Double Dual on April 13 … Took third at the Dale England Cup with a time of 7:21.5 … Defeated Louisville on May 5 finishing with a time of 6:36.53.
Summer 2018: Earned a bronze medal at the World University Rowing Championships in Shanghai in the US women’s eight …
2018: CRCA National Scholar-Athlete … Big Ten Distinguished Scholar … Academic All-Big Ten … Rowed the entire season in the varsity eight Opened the season in the seven seat at the Oak Ridge Cardinal Invitational, (3/17-18), defeating boats from Miami, Minnesota, Clemson, and Tennessee … Fell to both Harvard/Radcliffe and Yale in the Big Ten/Ivy League Double Dual (3/24) … Went up against stiff competition at the Pac-12 Challenge (3/31), racing in the four seat against USC, Cal, and Stanford … Split the day of action at the Big Ten Double Dual (4/6), falling to Iowa before rebounding with a half-length win over Indiana … Raced at the Big Ten/ACC Challenge (4/21), defeating San Diego twice and falling to Duke and Notre Dame … Raced to a seventh-place finish in the seven seat at the Big Ten Championships (5/12).
Fall 2017: Rowed in the Head of the Charles with the Spartan varsity eight, finishing 25th in the Championship Eights.
2017: A 2017 CRCA National Scholar Athlete... A 2017 Academic All-Big Ten Selection ... Opened the season with strong performances at the Oak Ridge Cardinal in the varsity eight, finishing second to Virginia in a time of 6:38.751 and defeating Notre Dame and West Virginia in the morning session and posting a heat victory in a time of 6:38.388 over Minnesota, Clemson, and the Mountaineers in the afternoon (3/11) ... On Sunday at Oak Ridge (3/12), was third behind a pair of nationally ranked crews in Michigan and Virginia, but finished ahead of Tennessee in a time of 6:35.053 ... Posted a commanding victory in the opening Big Ten race of the season in the varsity eight at Rutgers, defeating the Scarlet Knights by more than 23 seconds (6:53.6) ... In the varsity eight, rowed at Princeton with Brown in the day after the B1G opener (3/25). No. 10 Princeton won the race in a time of 6:28.5, No. 5 Brown was a half-length behind in a time of 6:30.9, and MSU was a seat behind the Bears, clocked in 6:31.5, less than six-tenths of a second off their pace... In a Big Ten Double Dual at Indiana (4/1), put up a great fight in the varsity eight against No. 14 Iowa, which crossed in a time of 6:30.06 with MSU just two seats back (6:31.49), then posted a time of 6:28.80, the fastest time of any boat in any session on the day, to defeat both IU and Kansas ... Hosting a Big Ten Double Dual on Lake Ovid (4/8), rowed in the varsity eight and finished just .0.88 seconds behind No. 11 Wisconsin, (6:28.41 - 6:29.29), but rebounded with a 13-second victory over Minnesota in a time of 6:34.04 ... In the Varsity Eight, earned Big Ten Boat of the Week honors after a strong weekend of racing on the Charles River in Boston (4/22-23). held off Northeastern at the finish on Saturday, out-sprinting the Huskies in the final 400 and , edging ahead by a bowball at the final horn (6:25.618 - 6:25.948). On Sunday, the V8 consistently built a lead over the first 1500 meters and finished in 6:34.2, about a seat of open water over No. 16 Radcliffe, ( 6:39.1), and. Boston College was 14 seconds behind ... In the varsity eight at the Big Ten Championships (5/14), was about a second behind fifth-place Wisconsin at the finish, in a time of 6:23.855. Made significant gains on the Badgers throughout the race -- MSU was behind the UW entry by open water at the 1000-meter mark, but was just 1.2 seconds behind the Badgers at the final horn.
Fall 2016: Rowed in the four seat of the varsity eight at the prestigious Head of the Charles Regatta, and helped the Spartans to a 15th-place finish in the Women's Championship Eights ...
2016: In the novice eight, was six seats back on No. 7 Michigan (7:08.2) to finish third behind the Wolverines and No. 4 Virginia in the morning session of the Big Ten/ACC Challenge in Columbus, but bounced back with an open-water win over the Wolverines and a four-seat victory over Clemson in the afternoon session, clocked in a time of 7:18.5 ... Had a strong effort in the novice eight at the Big Ten Double Dual in Princeton NJ (4/9), defeating both host Rutgers (7:25.1) and Ohio State (7:36.3) by open water... Was the top-finishing novice eight entry in their Saturday morning race at the Clemson Invitational, open water ahead of Michigan; the Spartans were fourth overall in a time of 7:25.7, behind Virginia, Texas, and Louisville ... Was the only novice entry in a field of third varsity boats in the evening session at Clemson, and was clocked in a time of 7:04.27, behind 3Vs from Virginia (6:48.8), Washington State (6:52.9) and four seats of open water behind host Clemson (6:58.0)... Took second in the novice eight boat behind Syracuse (4/24), six seconds behind the Orange in a time of 6:48.9 and a length ahead of host Ohio State in Columbus ... In the novice eight at Michigan (4/30), took second (7:03.61) behind Louisville and a length ahead of host Michigan ... At Big Ten Championships in the novice eight, (5/15), finished sixth in a time of 6:57.190, a length behind fourth-place Iowa and about seven seats behind Ohio State ...
Summer 2018: Earned a bronze medal at the World University Rowing Championships in Shanghai in the US women’s eight …
2018: CRCA National Scholar-Athlete … Big Ten Distinguished Scholar … Academic All-Big Ten … Rowed the entire season in the varsity eight Opened the season in the seven seat at the Oak Ridge Cardinal Invitational, (3/17-18), defeating boats from Miami, Minnesota, Clemson, and Tennessee … Fell to both Harvard/Radcliffe and Yale in the Big Ten/Ivy League Double Dual (3/24) … Went up against stiff competition at the Pac-12 Challenge (3/31), racing in the four seat against USC, Cal, and Stanford … Split the day of action at the Big Ten Double Dual (4/6), falling to Iowa before rebounding with a half-length win over Indiana … Raced at the Big Ten/ACC Challenge (4/21), defeating San Diego twice and falling to Duke and Notre Dame … Raced to a seventh-place finish in the seven seat at the Big Ten Championships (5/12).
Fall 2017: Rowed in the Head of the Charles with the Spartan varsity eight, finishing 25th in the Championship Eights.
2017: A 2017 CRCA National Scholar Athlete... A 2017 Academic All-Big Ten Selection ... Opened the season with strong performances at the Oak Ridge Cardinal in the varsity eight, finishing second to Virginia in a time of 6:38.751 and defeating Notre Dame and West Virginia in the morning session and posting a heat victory in a time of 6:38.388 over Minnesota, Clemson, and the Mountaineers in the afternoon (3/11) ... On Sunday at Oak Ridge (3/12), was third behind a pair of nationally ranked crews in Michigan and Virginia, but finished ahead of Tennessee in a time of 6:35.053 ... Posted a commanding victory in the opening Big Ten race of the season in the varsity eight at Rutgers, defeating the Scarlet Knights by more than 23 seconds (6:53.6) ... In the varsity eight, rowed at Princeton with Brown in the day after the B1G opener (3/25). No. 10 Princeton won the race in a time of 6:28.5, No. 5 Brown was a half-length behind in a time of 6:30.9, and MSU was a seat behind the Bears, clocked in 6:31.5, less than six-tenths of a second off their pace... In a Big Ten Double Dual at Indiana (4/1), put up a great fight in the varsity eight against No. 14 Iowa, which crossed in a time of 6:30.06 with MSU just two seats back (6:31.49), then posted a time of 6:28.80, the fastest time of any boat in any session on the day, to defeat both IU and Kansas ... Hosting a Big Ten Double Dual on Lake Ovid (4/8), rowed in the varsity eight and finished just .0.88 seconds behind No. 11 Wisconsin, (6:28.41 - 6:29.29), but rebounded with a 13-second victory over Minnesota in a time of 6:34.04 ... In the Varsity Eight, earned Big Ten Boat of the Week honors after a strong weekend of racing on the Charles River in Boston (4/22-23). held off Northeastern at the finish on Saturday, out-sprinting the Huskies in the final 400 and , edging ahead by a bowball at the final horn (6:25.618 - 6:25.948). On Sunday, the V8 consistently built a lead over the first 1500 meters and finished in 6:34.2, about a seat of open water over No. 16 Radcliffe, ( 6:39.1), and. Boston College was 14 seconds behind ... In the varsity eight at the Big Ten Championships (5/14), was about a second behind fifth-place Wisconsin at the finish, in a time of 6:23.855. Made significant gains on the Badgers throughout the race -- MSU was behind the UW entry by open water at the 1000-meter mark, but was just 1.2 seconds behind the Badgers at the final horn.
Fall 2016: Rowed in the four seat of the varsity eight at the prestigious Head of the Charles Regatta, and helped the Spartans to a 15th-place finish in the Women's Championship Eights ...
2016: In the novice eight, was six seats back on No. 7 Michigan (7:08.2) to finish third behind the Wolverines and No. 4 Virginia in the morning session of the Big Ten/ACC Challenge in Columbus, but bounced back with an open-water win over the Wolverines and a four-seat victory over Clemson in the afternoon session, clocked in a time of 7:18.5 ... Had a strong effort in the novice eight at the Big Ten Double Dual in Princeton NJ (4/9), defeating both host Rutgers (7:25.1) and Ohio State (7:36.3) by open water... Was the top-finishing novice eight entry in their Saturday morning race at the Clemson Invitational, open water ahead of Michigan; the Spartans were fourth overall in a time of 7:25.7, behind Virginia, Texas, and Louisville ... Was the only novice entry in a field of third varsity boats in the evening session at Clemson, and was clocked in a time of 7:04.27, behind 3Vs from Virginia (6:48.8), Washington State (6:52.9) and four seats of open water behind host Clemson (6:58.0)... Took second in the novice eight boat behind Syracuse (4/24), six seconds behind the Orange in a time of 6:48.9 and a length ahead of host Ohio State in Columbus ... In the novice eight at Michigan (4/30), took second (7:03.61) behind Louisville and a length ahead of host Michigan ... At Big Ten Championships in the novice eight, (5/15), finished sixth in a time of 6:57.190, a length behind fourth-place Iowa and about seven seats behind Ohio State ...
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Sunday, May 18
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Thursday, April 10
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Monday, April 22
Spartans All-Access: Rowing Winter Training
Monday, January 22