Sooji Kang
Sooji Kang
  • Height:
    5' 4"
  • Year:
    2020
  • Hometown:
    Columbus, Ohio
  • High School:
    Columbus Academy
  • Position:
    Coxswain
  • Major:
    Economics

Bio

Collegiate Career Honors:

  • 2020 CRCA/Pocock All-America Nominee

2019-2020 (Senior):

  • Coxed the Women's Collegiate 8+ 'A' to finish second at the Head of the Charles.
  • Spring season cancelled.

2018-2019 (Junior):

  • Coxed the Women's Collegiate 8+ 'A' to finish 10th at the Head of the Charles.
  • Coxed the Varsity 8+ to finish second at the NEWMAC Championships.
  • Coxed in the Varsity 8+ to finish third at the New England Rowing Championships.
  • Coxed the Varsity 8+ to to finish second in the finals of the National Invitational Collegiate Regatta.
  • Coxed the Varsity 8+ to advance to the finals of the NCAA Championships.
  • Coxed the Varsity 8+ to finish third in the NCAA Championships. 

2017-2018 (Sophomore):

  • Coxed the Women's Collegiate 8+ 'B' to finish 20th at the Head of the Charles.
  • Coxed the Second Varsity 8+ to finish first at the Seven Sisters Championship.
  • Coxed the Third Varsity 8 to finish first at NEWMAC Championships.
  • Coxed the Third V8+ to take home bronze at the New England Rowing Championships.
  • Coxed the Third Varsity 8 to finish 6th at the National Invitational Collegiate Regatta.

2016-2017 (First Year):

  • Coxed the Fourth Varsity 8 to finish first at the NEWMAC Championships.
  • Coxed the Novice 8+ to take gold at the National Invitational Rowing Championships.

Before Wellesley: Attended the Columbus Academy... graduated in 2016... was a three-sport athlete in lacrosse, bowling, and crew... was the Varsity Coxswain of her high school crew team in her junior spring and senior fall seasons... has been a coxswain for about four years.

Personal: Daughter of Catherine and Dennis Kang... born in Columbus, Ohio... has one sibling, Inji Kang... chose to attend Wellesley because of its emphasis on both academic and athletic excellence.