Women's Rowing's Capelli, Rueppel Earn All-Ivy Honors

ITHACA, N.Y. — Cornell women's rowing senior

Isabella Capelli and junior

Elise Rueppel received All-Ivy League honors, the Ivy League announced Thursday morning (May 21), based on the results from last weekend's 2026 Ivy League Women's Rowing Championships at Cooper River Park in Pennsauken Township, N.J.

Capelli, a native of Diablo, Calif., earned First Team All-Ivy recognition. The senior served as one of Cornell's two captains this season and stroked the Big Red's 1V8+ throughout the spring campaign. First Team honors were awarded to three members of the championship-winning 1V8+, two members of the second-place boat, and one member each from the third-through-eighth place boats and the coxswain of the first-place 1V8+.

Rueppel was named to the Second Team All-Ivy and earned Academic All-Ivy honors. A native of Dover, Mass., Rueppel was recognized for her achievements in the classroom and on the water, maintaining a cumulative grade-point average of 3.822 while majoring in earth and atmospheric sciences.

2026 WOMEN'S ROWING ALL-IVY AWARDS

**Coaching Staff of the Year: **Princeton

First Team All-Ivy

Laoise O'Donohue, Princeton

Phaedra Van der Molen, Princeton

Nicole Dunn, Princeton

Lindsay Saunders, Princeton

Harriet Drake Lee, Yale

Christina Bourmpou, Yale

Mary Claire Warren, Brown

Addison Luce, Columbia

Áine Ley, Dartmouth

Lindsey Brail, Harvard

Silvia Harrop-Lopez, Penn

Isabella Capelli, Cornell

Second Team All-Ivy

Joely Cherniss, Princeton

Natalie Meyer, Princeton

Nicole Martinez, Yale

Imogen Cabot, Yale

Hope Galusha, Yale

Sadie Bell, Brown

Holly Crews, Brown

Jackie Zatsiorsky, Columbia

Caroline Phipps, Dartmouth

Jenna Kempster-Taylor, Harvard

Christina Kamenev, Penn

Elise Rueppel, Cornell