Lifelong Palisadian Catherine Reibel, one of the most highly-recruited high school rowers in the nation, has accepted admission to Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut. Reibel, a senior honors student at Marlborough High, turned down offers from Notre Dame, UCLA, Cal, Pennsylvania, Cornell and Virginia, among others. Reibel was a standout basketball player in the Palisades Recreation Center league before winning an Amateur Athletic Union bronze medal and being selected a Youth Basketball of America National Championship All-Tournament selection. She led Marlborough to the CIF Southern Section Division IV championship and was an Academic-Athlete Award winner as both a freshman and a sophomore before a series of knee injuries ended her promising career prematurely. Reibel then switched her focus to rowing and, after less than a full year of competition, earned a seat on the U.S. Junior National Rowing team, which placed fourth out of 36 teams at the famed Royal Canadian Henley Regatta in the summer. Reibel trains with fellow Palisadians Nicole Eisenberg and Ariadne Reynolds under the tutelage of club coach Zohar Abramovitz at Marina Aquatic Club in Marina Del Rey. While part of the same team, the girls row on different boats. The size of a crew depends largely on the size, physique, strength and endurance of the individual rowers. Reibel sits in the fourth seat of her boat, smack dab in the middle, because of her long, powerful strokes. Reibel’s boat placed fifth at a regatta in Lake Natoma in Sacramento last fall. Reibel competes in regattas year round.
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