Alexandra Rusbarsky

Position:
Starboard
Height:
6-0
Class:
Senior
High School:
Chaminade HS
Hometown:
Woodland Hills, Calif.

2017-18
Rowed in the team’s second varsity eight (2V8+) and varsity four (V4+) crews as a senior … rowed three seat in the 2V8+ in the season-opening races against Stanford and San Diego State in Marina del Rey (March 3), leading the Bruins’ crew to a first-place finish … rowed three seat in the 2V8+ in the team’s home dual meet against Oregon State (March 17), helping the crew to a first-place finish … rowed three seat in the 2V8+ at the two-day San Diego Crew Classic on Mission Bay (March 24-25), helping the Bruins’ crew to a second-place finish on day one and into a Grand Final race on day two … rowed three seat in the 2V8+ at the two-day Clemson Invitational (April 13-14) … rowed three seat in the varsity four crew at the annual crosstown showdown versus USC (April 28), leading the V4+ to a first-place finish … also rowed three seat in the V4+ at the season-culminating Pac-12 Championships on Lake Natoma (May 13).

2016-17
Rowed in the Bruins’ varsity eight (V8+) and second varsity eight (2V8+) crews throughout her junior season … rowed three seat in the V8+ at the UC Challenge Cup (March 4) in Newport Beach, Calif. … helped lead the varsity eight to a first-place finish at the UC Challenge Cup … also rowed three seat in the V8+ in UCLA’s home race against Stanford and San Diego State (March 11), helping guide the Bruins to a second-place finish … rowed two seat in the V8+ at the two-day San Diego Crew Classic (April 1-2), leading that boat to a third-place finish on day one and into a Grand Final race on day two … rowed five seat in the 2V8+ in races against Washington, Washington State and Oregon State on Dexter Lake, finishing in third place (Lowell, Ore., on April 8) … rowed five seat in the 2V8+ at the two-day Clemson Invitational, helping the second varsity eight to multiple third-place finishes (April 22-23) … rowed seven seat in the second varsity eight, leading UCLA to a first-place finish in its race against USC (April 30) … rowed three seat in the 2V8+ at the season-culminating Pac-12 Championships (May 14) on Lake Natoma, helping the Bruins to a fifth-place finish.

2015-16
Rowed in the Bruins’ varsity eight crew throughout her sophomore year … rowed five seat in the V8+ in back-to-back early-season races against San Diego State (March 5) and Loyola Marymount (March 12) … rowed seven seat in the V8+ at the Pac-12 Challenge (March 26), leading UCLA to a first-place finish against Duke in the morning session … rowed seven seat in the V8+ at the two-day San Diego Crew Classic (April 2-3), leading the Bruins into a Grand Final race on day two … rowed seven seat in the V8+ at the two-day Clemson Invitational (April 16-17) … rowed seven seat in the V8+ at the annual crosstown showdown against USC (April 30) … rowed seven seat in the V8+ at the season-culminating Pac-12 Championships (May 15).

2014-15
Rowed in the Bruins’ second varsity eight throughout her freshman season … rowed five seat in the 2V8+ in UCLA’s season-opening win against Loyola Marymount (March 14) … rowed five seat in the 2V8+ during the two-day San Diego Crew Classic (March 28-29) … helped UCLA’s 2V8+ to a first-place finish on day one in San Diego and to a second-place finish in the Grand Final on day two … rowed five seat in the 2V8+ against USC in the annual crosstown showdown (April 11), helping the Bruins to a first-place finish against the Women of Troy … rowed five seat in the 2V8+ at the two-day Clemson Invitational (April 18-19) … rowed five seat in the 2V8+ against Oregon State and Washington State (May 2) … rowed five seat in the 2V8+ at the Pac-12 Championships (May 17).
High School
Four-year varsity cross-country letterwinner, three-year varsity track and field letterwinner and two-year varsity basketball letterwinner at Chaminade College Prep in West Hills, Calif. (2010-14) … as a senior at Chaminade in 2013-14, earned the school’s Outstanding Athlete of the Year Award … also secured the cross-country team’s “Most Valuable Runner” Award as a senior … earned scholar-athlete honors on the varsity cross-country team (four seasons), the varsity track and field team (three years) and the varsity basketball team (two years) … helped the girls’ basketball team to the 2011-12 Mission League Championship … as a runner on the track and field team, competed I the 800m, the 1600m and the 3200m.

Club
Competed for one year with Marina Aquatic Center (junior rowing, under head coach Zohar Abramovitz) … was recipient of the 2014 Hammer Award (fastest 2k) … rowed in the novice eight at the 2014 USRowing Southwest District Championship (first place for the first time in club history) … rowed in the novice four at the 2014 USRowing Southwest District Championship (third-place finish) … earned a gold medal at the 2014 Long Beach Erg Sprints … was a gold medalist in the JV8 at the 2014 Southern California Cup Challenge and in the novice four at the same event … won the women’s team point championship at the 2014 Southern California Cup Challenge … was a silver medalist in the novice four at the 2014 President’s Day Regatta.

Personal
Full name: Alexandra Micheline Rusbarsky … born in San Diego, Calif. … is the younger of Mitchell and Joanne Rusbarsky’s two children … has one older brother, Nicholas … intends to major in biology.