2017-18 Women's Rowing Roster
Roster
Connery, Danielle

Danielle Connery
- Class:
- Junior
- High School:
- Yarm School
- Hometown:
- Middlesborough, UK
Bio
2019: Named to Academic All-Big Ten during the spring season … Made three appearances on the varsity four boat and competed on the second varsity four at the Big Ten Championships … Finished with times of 7:50.5 and 8:10.41 at the Ivy League Double Dual … Finished with times of 7:35.55 and 7:56.82 at the Big Ten Double Dual … Took third at the Dale England Cup with a time of 8:59.87 … Took seventh at Big Ten’s with a time of 7:56.061.
2018: Academic All-Big Ten … Started the season in the third varsity four at the Oak Ridge Cardinal Invitational, (3/17-18), defeating Tennessee … Racing in the third varsity four at Ohio State (3/31), fell to stalwarts Virginia, Michigan and the host Buckeyes … Picked up a pair of wins at the Big Ten Double Dual (4/6), defeating both Iowa and Indiana by open water in the third varsity four … At the Big Ten/ACC Challenge in the third varsity four (4/21), fell to both Ohio State and Notre Dame … Raced to a bronze-medal finish at the Big Ten Championships in the third varsity four (5/12), behind Ohio State and Michigan.
2017: Opened the season with in the varsity four at the Oak Ridge Cardinal in the varsity four, posting a pair of third-place finishes in the first two sessions (3/11). Was behind Virginia and Notre Dame in a time of 7:51.070 in the morning, and behind Minnesota and Clemson (7:54.263) in the afternoon ... On Sunday at Oak Ridge (3/12), was fourth behind Virginia, Michigan, and Tennessee in a time of 7:56.439 ... Competed at Rutgers in a pair of untimed 500- meter pieces (3/24)... In the varsity four, rowed at Princeton with Brown in the day after the B1G opener (3/25). Finished third behind No. 10 Princeton and No. 5 Brown in a time of 8:03.6 ... In a Big Ten Double Dual at Indiana (4/1), helped the varsity four to a time of 7:36.30 in the afternoon to have open water over both Indiana and Kansas and was just over eight seconds off the pace of Iowa in the morning session (7:34.02) ... Hosting a Big Ten Double Dual on Lake Ovid (4/8), rowed in the varsity four which clocked a morning time of 7:38.8 behind No. 11 Wisconsin ( 7:18.82), but avenged a loss to Minnesota earlier in the season by downing the Gophers by just over a length in the afternoon (7:29.82- 7:36.99) ... In the third four, raced twice on the Charles River in Cambridge, Mass. (4/22-23) against several Boston-area crews, and started the weekend with a convincing win (7:40.709) over two entries from Radcliffe and one from Northeastern ... Took a win in the Sunday race (7:37.0), outpacing Radcliffe by 19 seconds (7:56.2) and nearly a full minute ahead of Radcliffe's fourth varsity four (8:31.6)... In the third varsity four, crossed the finish line in a time of 7:34.502 at the Big Ten Championships, about a half a length of open water behind fourth-place Wisconsin (7:34.502).
2016: Finished third to Minnesota and Central Florida in the final race at the Oak Ridge Cardinal Invitational (3/12-13) (8:18.369) ... Had a pair of third-place finishes in the varsity four at the Big Ten/ACC Double Dual in Columbus (4/2), six seconds behind second-place Clemson in the afternoon and 20 seconds behind top-ten crews from Virginia and Michigan in the morning session (7:45.2) ... Had a rough outing in the second varsity four at the Big Ten Double Dual in Princeton, NJ (4/9), falling to both Rutgers (8:21.9) and Ohio State (9:24.4) by open water ... At the Clemson Invitational (4/16-17), raced in the 2V8 and took fifth place (7:15.9), less than a length out of fourth in the Saturday morning session, and then was sixth behind several ranked crews in a stacked Saturday evening race ... Finished third to No. 3 Ohio State and No 16. Syracuse (4/24) in a three-boat second varsity eight race in Columbus, clocked in a time of 6:45.5 ... Finished third behind No. 10 Michigan and (RV) Louisville in the varsity four (4/30), racing on Belleville Lake in Ann Arbor ... Earned a seventh-place finish at the Big Ten Championships in Indianapolis in the second varsity four, in a time of 7:57.330 ...
2018: Academic All-Big Ten … Started the season in the third varsity four at the Oak Ridge Cardinal Invitational, (3/17-18), defeating Tennessee … Racing in the third varsity four at Ohio State (3/31), fell to stalwarts Virginia, Michigan and the host Buckeyes … Picked up a pair of wins at the Big Ten Double Dual (4/6), defeating both Iowa and Indiana by open water in the third varsity four … At the Big Ten/ACC Challenge in the third varsity four (4/21), fell to both Ohio State and Notre Dame … Raced to a bronze-medal finish at the Big Ten Championships in the third varsity four (5/12), behind Ohio State and Michigan.
2017: Opened the season with in the varsity four at the Oak Ridge Cardinal in the varsity four, posting a pair of third-place finishes in the first two sessions (3/11). Was behind Virginia and Notre Dame in a time of 7:51.070 in the morning, and behind Minnesota and Clemson (7:54.263) in the afternoon ... On Sunday at Oak Ridge (3/12), was fourth behind Virginia, Michigan, and Tennessee in a time of 7:56.439 ... Competed at Rutgers in a pair of untimed 500- meter pieces (3/24)... In the varsity four, rowed at Princeton with Brown in the day after the B1G opener (3/25). Finished third behind No. 10 Princeton and No. 5 Brown in a time of 8:03.6 ... In a Big Ten Double Dual at Indiana (4/1), helped the varsity four to a time of 7:36.30 in the afternoon to have open water over both Indiana and Kansas and was just over eight seconds off the pace of Iowa in the morning session (7:34.02) ... Hosting a Big Ten Double Dual on Lake Ovid (4/8), rowed in the varsity four which clocked a morning time of 7:38.8 behind No. 11 Wisconsin ( 7:18.82), but avenged a loss to Minnesota earlier in the season by downing the Gophers by just over a length in the afternoon (7:29.82- 7:36.99) ... In the third four, raced twice on the Charles River in Cambridge, Mass. (4/22-23) against several Boston-area crews, and started the weekend with a convincing win (7:40.709) over two entries from Radcliffe and one from Northeastern ... Took a win in the Sunday race (7:37.0), outpacing Radcliffe by 19 seconds (7:56.2) and nearly a full minute ahead of Radcliffe's fourth varsity four (8:31.6)... In the third varsity four, crossed the finish line in a time of 7:34.502 at the Big Ten Championships, about a half a length of open water behind fourth-place Wisconsin (7:34.502).
2016: Finished third to Minnesota and Central Florida in the final race at the Oak Ridge Cardinal Invitational (3/12-13) (8:18.369) ... Had a pair of third-place finishes in the varsity four at the Big Ten/ACC Double Dual in Columbus (4/2), six seconds behind second-place Clemson in the afternoon and 20 seconds behind top-ten crews from Virginia and Michigan in the morning session (7:45.2) ... Had a rough outing in the second varsity four at the Big Ten Double Dual in Princeton, NJ (4/9), falling to both Rutgers (8:21.9) and Ohio State (9:24.4) by open water ... At the Clemson Invitational (4/16-17), raced in the 2V8 and took fifth place (7:15.9), less than a length out of fourth in the Saturday morning session, and then was sixth behind several ranked crews in a stacked Saturday evening race ... Finished third to No. 3 Ohio State and No 16. Syracuse (4/24) in a three-boat second varsity eight race in Columbus, clocked in a time of 6:45.5 ... Finished third behind No. 10 Michigan and (RV) Louisville in the varsity four (4/30), racing on Belleville Lake in Ann Arbor ... Earned a seventh-place finish at the Big Ten Championships in Indianapolis in the second varsity four, in a time of 7:57.330 ...
Prior to MSU: Attended Yarm School in Yarm, England ... Winner of the IM2 quad at Nottingham Head of the Trent and of the IM2 eights at the Durham Regatta as a senior ... Won the novice women's eights at the Durham Regatta as a sophomore ... Fastest women's boat at the tees long distance skulls head in 2014.
Personal: Born Oct. 1, 1995 in Ipswich, England ... Daughter of Paul and Ruth Connery ... Plans to major in Spanish ... Father, Paul, played basketball at the University of New Mexico.
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