Whittney Henry

Whittney Henry

Player Profile

Class:
Senior

Hometown:
Mathews, Va.

High School:
Mathews

2008: Bow seat of the Varsity Eight and five seat of the Varsity Lightweight Eight ... beat a long list of competitors to finish 9-2 on the season in the Varsity Eight ... won the Murphy Cup to contribute to the second consecutive team points title ... won the Knecht Cup, which qualified the entire team to compete for the first time ay the prestigious Women's Eastern Sprints ... led the Bison to the third Patriot League Championship in as many years with a staggering almost 15-second victory over Navy, earning the Boat of the Year accolades for the third year in a row ... won the ECAC Metro Championship for the second year in a row and contributed to another sweep of the varsity events and the team points title ... raced an incredible stroke-for-stroke race with Dartmouth to the line at Eastern Sprints to finish just 0.1 second out of first, garnering second in the Petite Final and leading the Bison to an eighth-place finish out of 18 teams ... earned Bison Athlete of the Week Honors in April after the Patriot League victory ... beat Buffalo and Lehigh in Varsity Lightweight Eight and helped Bucknell to a fourth-place finish at the IRA National Championship Regatta ... named a CRCA Lightweight All-American for the second consecutive year ... traveled to England and raced at the Reading Amateur Regatta and the Henley Women's Regatta ... defeated Boston University in the Elite Eight final at the Reading Amateur Regatta.

2007: Bow of the Varsity Eight ... recorded a nearly flawless 8-1 record ... rowed five-seat in the 2007 national championship varsity lightweight eight at IRA Regatta ... won the boat, team and Patriot League Boat of the Year titles at the Patriot League Championship, defeating Navy by over five seconds ... won the ECAC Metro Regatta in the Varsity Eight and contributed to the Overall Points Trophy for Bucknell by defeating perennial power UMass and up-and-coming crews from Rhode Island and Buffalo ... won the Murphy Cup Regatta, contributing to the Women's and Overall Points Trophy for Bucknell ... beat Georgetown, Rhode Island and Boston College ... won the Head of the Charles from the bow seat in the Collegiate Four race to mark Bucknell's first win at the prestigious event ... won the Varsity Lightweight event at Bucknell's Erg Armageddon ... honored as Damon's Athlete of the Week in the Varsity Eight after winning the Patriot League Championship ... part of squad that finished the year ranked second in the NCAA Mid-Atlantic Region ... named to All-Patriot League team ... awarded First Team All-Region honors for the NCAA Mid-Atlantic Region ... earned Lightweight All-America honors.

2006: Seven seat of the Second Varsity Eight ... competed as the Lightweight Eight at the IRA Regatta ... made program history by winning the Murphy Cup Regatta ... raced competitively with perennial power Princeton Lightweights ... defeated crews from Colgate, West Virginia, and Cincinnati at home ... second at the Patriot League Championships to contribute heavily to the team title ... silver medal in the JV Eight at the Dad Vail Regatta ... qualified for the Grand Final at the IRA Championships and finished sixth, the best performance by a Lightweight Eight in program history ... won the Women's Novice Lightweight event at Bucknell's Erg Armageddon ... honored as one of Bucknell's Lewisburg Hotel Bison Athletes of the Week in April as well as an Athlete of the Month at the April Women's Sports Luncheon.

High School: Varsity letterwinner in cross country, volleyball and rowing ... multiple gold medals in Lightweight and Junior Fours at Stotesbury Regatta and Canadian Schoolboy Regatta ... second at Scholastic Nationals in Junior Fours in 2003 ... attended Virginia Girls State ... Chesapeake Bay Governor's School Program ... National Merit Scholar.

Personal: Full name is Whittney Amber Henry ... born Feb. 4, 1987 Henrico, Va. ... daughter of Chris and Tammy Henry ... brother Chris ... considering major in biology.

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