2020-21 Women's Rowing
Roster
Mary Martha Kennedy
- Height:
- 6-0
- Class:
- Graduate Student
- High School:
- Cooperstown Central
- Hometown:
- Mount Vision, N.Y.
2021 (Senior): Did not compete … Big Ten Distinguished Scholar … Academic All-Big Ten
2020: Pocock All-America Nominee ... Academic All-Big Ten Selection …. Big Ten Distinguished Scholar … CRCA Scholar-Athlete ... Season was canceled due to Covid-19.
2019: Named Academic All-Big Ten during the spring season … Sat in the varsity eight boat for five events … Was in the second varsity eight boat during the Big Ten Championships … 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 … 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 … Took fifth at the Big Ten Championships with a time of 6:42.497 as a member of the second varsity eight.
2018: Opened the season with strong performances in the novice eight at the Oak Ridge Cardinal Invitational, (3/17-18), finishing second to Virginia twice and winning its second racing session with open water over Minnesota, Clemson, and Tennessee … In the novice eight, split races against Ivy League foes in Columbus, (3/31), racing to an open-water win over Harvard/Radcliffe before falling by five-tenths of a second to Yale in the afternoon … Went up against stiff competition at the Pac-12 Challenge (3/31), racing in the second varsity eight in races against USC, Cal, and Stanford … At the Big Ten Double Dual (4/6), fell to Iowa in the morning race before rebounding with a half-length win over Indiana in the afternoon in the second varsity eight … Raced at the Big Ten/ACC Challenge in the second varsity eight (4/21), defeating San Diego twice and downing Notre Dame, but falling to Duke … Raced to a eighth-place finish at the Big Ten Championships in the second varsity eight (5/12).
Prior to MSU: Two-year varsity letter winner in cross country and track during her sophomore and senior years at Cooperstown Central School … Received All-Section and All-State awards in cross country her senior year … Member of the cross country League and Section Champion team … Team and Individual League Champion and Individual Section Title during her senior year … Three-year scholar athlete … Member of the National Honor Society and Leadership for Athletes … Attended Virginia Tech for a year.
Personal: Born on July 9, 1998 in Oneonta, New York … Daughter to Owen and Mary K. Kennedy … Sister to Owen, John, Monica, Pauline, Bobby and Edmund … Father played football at the Catholic University of America … Hobbies include raising dairy cattle, playing the violin, sailing and helping run the family's beef farm … Majoring in animal science.
