Aidan Wrenn-Walz
2023-24 (at Harvard)
• CRCA National Scholar Athlete
• Rowed six seat of the Club 8+ at the Head of the Charles Regatta
• Rowed bow seat of the 1V8 at the Princeton Chase
• Rowed two seat of the 1V8 at the Ivy/BIG 10 Regatta
• Rowed seven seat of the 2V8 in a win vs. BU/Dartmouth/Northeastern
• Rowed seven seat of the 2V8 vs. Cornell and Princeton
• Rowed six seat of the 2V8 vs. Brown and Columbia
• Rowed two seat of the 1V8 vs. Yale
• Rowed four seat of the 1V8 at the Ivy League Championships
2022-23 (at Harvard)
• CRCA National Scholar Athlete
• Won the Collegiate gold medal rowing bow seat of the Championship 2x at the Head of the Charles Regatta
• Rowed two seat of the 2V4 vs. Cornell and Princeton
• Rowed two seat of the 1V4 vs. Yale and Notre Dame
• Stroked the 1V4 to a bronze medal finish at Eastern Sprints
• Stroked the 1V4 at the Ivy League Championships
2021-22 (at Harvard)
• Rowed four seat of the Championship 8+ at the Head of the Charles Regatta
• Did not compete in the spring season due to foot injury
2020-21 (at Harvard)
• Did not compete due to 2020-21 season cancelation by the Ivy League
Background
• Graduated from Washington-Liberty High School in 2020 as Valedictorian
• Four-year letterwinner and two-time Captain (2018-20) of Washington-Liberty Women’s Crew
• Two-time Virginia State Champion (2016, 2019) and Most Valuable Player award recipient (2019, 2020)
• 2019 Washington Post All-Met, First Team recipient
• Represented the United States in the Women’s 4+ at the 2019 World Rowing Junior Championships in Tokyo, Japan, placing fourth
• First woman to make a U.S. National Team in program’s fifty-year history
• Stroked the Women’s Varsity 8+ to a first place finish at the 2019 Virginia State Rowing Championships, which was the first win in the category for W-L in 30 years
• Placed fifth in the Youth Women’s Single at the 2019 Head of the Charles Regatta
• Placed first in the Junior Women’s 2k at the 2019 and 2020 Mid-Atlantic Erg Sprints
• Four-time Tailhook Educational Foundation Scholarship recipient
• Earned Summa Cum Laude and won the Philo Sherman Bennett Prize for senior thesis, “Testing the Bocca della Verità: Political Misinformation Consumption and Italy’s Declining Public Confidence in Democratic Institutions”
• Member of Potomac Boat Club from 2013-Present and founding member of the PBC Juniors Program
Personal
• Aidan Walker Wrenn-Walz
• Born in Washington, D.C.
• Daughter of Penelope and Chad
• Mother, Penelope, rowed at the University of Wisconsin
• Stepfather, Chad, rowed at the United States Naval Academy and represented the U.S. at the 1991 Pan-American Games in Havana, Cuba
• Enjoys analyzing and tracking idiosyncratic data trends, with a particular focus on the adoption of AI technologies in nations other than the United States
• Chose UVA to fulfill a childhood dream of being a Hoo