Jessica Levy

Jessica Levy.

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Jessica Levy was recruited to row for UB by word of mouth. One of her club coaches at Row New York, where she’d been rowing for four years, spoke to one of the new assistant coaches at UB and said she should take a look at this one. Good call.

Jessica, from Little Neck in Queens, N.Y., signed with a partial athletic scholarship that she says made a real difference in her ability to attend UB. In return, UB now has a powerful varsity oar. By her own assessment, Jessica is still improving her technique and getting stronger.

When she’s not training, she’s studying, any minute she can—between classes, between class and practice, after practice, nights. That’s how she’s making a record off the water: a 3.9 GPA as an economics major.