2022-23 Women's Rowing Roster
Roster
Maxson, Annika

Annika Maxson
- Class:
- Graduate Student
- High School:
- Huntington Beach
- Hometown:
- Huntington Beach, CA
Bio
2023 Second Team All-American
2023 All-ACC First Team
2022-23
Fall Season: Six-seat for varsity 8 that finished eighth at the Head of the Charles... Six-seat for the Collegiate 8 that placed fifth at the Princeton Chase... Bow for the women's 2 that finished third at the Princeton Chase.
Spring Season: Stroked the varsity 8 that finished first against Radcliffe and Rutgers in the morning race and first against Iowa in the afternoon race at the Ivy-Big Ten Double Dual ... Stroked the varsity 8 that finished first at the Doc Hosea Invitational and took home the Orange Challenge Cup ... Stroked the varsity 8 that finished second behind Yale and ahead of Cornell in Saratoga Springs, N.Y. ... All-ACC First Team selection … Stroke for the varsity 8 that finished first ahead of Penn at the Lake Wheeler Invitational … Stroke for the varsity 8 that won its heat at the Eastern Sprints … Stroke for the varsity 8 that finished first at the ACC Championship and earned ACC Crew of the Year … Stroke for the varsity 8 that finished eighth overall at the NCAA Championship … Two-seat of first Syracuse 4- to row at the Henley Royal Regatta … The Orange 4- lost to the University of London & Leander Club in in the Town Challenge Cup by 1 ¾ lengths in the 2,112-meter race ... Collegiate Rowing Coaches Association Scholar-Athlete ... All-ACC Academic Team.selection ...ACC Academic Honor Roll honoree.
Prior to Syracuse at Princeton:
2022:
Spring Season: NCAA 1V Bronze Medal (2022) … First-Team All-Ivy (2022) … Ivy League 1V Gold Medal (2022) … Spent the entire season at the 1V … Helped the 1V retain the Class of 1975 Cup vs. Harvard and Cornell and the Eisenburg Cup vs. No. 3 Yale … Led the 1V to an Ivy League Championship and a bronze medal at the NCAA Championships, the 1V’s best finish since 2013 … Part of the Tigers’ squad that finished third at the NCAA Championships, the program’s best mark since 1997.
2021:
Spring Season: Rowed for the V8 that placed 10th at the NCAA Championships (May 30).
2020: Season canceled due to COVID-19.
2019:
Spring Season: Ivy League Varsity Four A Gold (2019) … Spent most of the year at 2V8 before rowing in the B4+ boat vs. Columbia, Rutgers and Wisconsin … Raced in the A4+ boat that won at the Ivy League Championships.
High School: Won gold at the 2018 National Championships in the 2- and bronze in the 4x while rowing for Long Beach Junior Crew … placed fifth at the 2017 Head of the Charles in the 4+ … rowed in the 4+ at the 2017 National Championships … also played volleyball in high school.
Personal: Grew up in Huntington Beach, CA … Daughter of Lisa and David Maxson … Has a younger sister Heidi… Attended Woodrow Wilson High School... Majoring in international relations in the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs.
2023 All-ACC First Team
2022-23
Fall Season: Six-seat for varsity 8 that finished eighth at the Head of the Charles... Six-seat for the Collegiate 8 that placed fifth at the Princeton Chase... Bow for the women's 2 that finished third at the Princeton Chase.
Spring Season: Stroked the varsity 8 that finished first against Radcliffe and Rutgers in the morning race and first against Iowa in the afternoon race at the Ivy-Big Ten Double Dual ... Stroked the varsity 8 that finished first at the Doc Hosea Invitational and took home the Orange Challenge Cup ... Stroked the varsity 8 that finished second behind Yale and ahead of Cornell in Saratoga Springs, N.Y. ... All-ACC First Team selection … Stroke for the varsity 8 that finished first ahead of Penn at the Lake Wheeler Invitational … Stroke for the varsity 8 that won its heat at the Eastern Sprints … Stroke for the varsity 8 that finished first at the ACC Championship and earned ACC Crew of the Year … Stroke for the varsity 8 that finished eighth overall at the NCAA Championship … Two-seat of first Syracuse 4- to row at the Henley Royal Regatta … The Orange 4- lost to the University of London & Leander Club in in the Town Challenge Cup by 1 ¾ lengths in the 2,112-meter race ... Collegiate Rowing Coaches Association Scholar-Athlete ... All-ACC Academic Team.selection ...ACC Academic Honor Roll honoree.
Prior to Syracuse at Princeton:
2022:
Spring Season: NCAA 1V Bronze Medal (2022) … First-Team All-Ivy (2022) … Ivy League 1V Gold Medal (2022) … Spent the entire season at the 1V … Helped the 1V retain the Class of 1975 Cup vs. Harvard and Cornell and the Eisenburg Cup vs. No. 3 Yale … Led the 1V to an Ivy League Championship and a bronze medal at the NCAA Championships, the 1V’s best finish since 2013 … Part of the Tigers’ squad that finished third at the NCAA Championships, the program’s best mark since 1997.
2021:
Spring Season: Rowed for the V8 that placed 10th at the NCAA Championships (May 30).
2020: Season canceled due to COVID-19.
2019:
Spring Season: Ivy League Varsity Four A Gold (2019) … Spent most of the year at 2V8 before rowing in the B4+ boat vs. Columbia, Rutgers and Wisconsin … Raced in the A4+ boat that won at the Ivy League Championships.
High School: Won gold at the 2018 National Championships in the 2- and bronze in the 4x while rowing for Long Beach Junior Crew … placed fifth at the 2017 Head of the Charles in the 4+ … rowed in the 4+ at the 2017 National Championships … also played volleyball in high school.
Personal: Grew up in Huntington Beach, CA … Daughter of Lisa and David Maxson … Has a younger sister Heidi… Attended Woodrow Wilson High School... Majoring in international relations in the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs.
Women’s Rowing NCAA Selection Show Reaction
Tuesday, May 20
Highlights | ACC Rowing Championships Prelims
Friday, May 17
Kamile Kralikaite: Olympic Qualifier
Wednesday, September 27
Highlights | Varsity 8 Grand Final - ACC Championship
Saturday, May 13