PRINCETON, N.J. -- University of Delaware rower Julie Ridgeway (center in photo at right) has been invited to the USRowing Women’s National Team Freshman Camp that will be held later this month.

Ridgeway, a native of Chesapeake Beach, Md. (Elizabeth Seton High School), will join fellow UD freshman Hillary Levitz at the camp, which will be held June 21-27 at Cornell University in Ithaca, N.Y. She is one of just three Colonial Athletic Association athletes to be invited.

Originally placed on the waiting list, Ridgeway was invited to the camp last week when one of the original 40 invitees could not attend.

According to USRowing, the camp is for athletes with elite-level potential and aspirations, but who are freshmen in college and have only or two years of rowing experience. The goal is provide a week-long intensive experience to expose athletes to elite-level training, row in all boat categories, learn technical and physiological basics, and train with athletes of similar caliber.

A mechanical engineering major with a minor in biomedical engineering at Delaware, Ridgeway competed in five events for the Blue Hen Novice Eights crew this spring. She helped the team place third at the Kerr Cup, fifth in the petite finals at the Knecht Cup, sixth in the semifinals at the Dad Vail Regatta, second in heats at the Murphy Cup, and second in a dual meet vs. Saint Joseph’s.

Joining Ridgeway and Levitz at the camp will be Keziah Beall, Francesca Lauritano, and Sarah Borchelt of Virginia, Chelsey Lauzon and Christina Bechtold of Central Florida, Elizabeth England and Rebecca Brown of Clemson, Naomi Carlson of Syracuse, Shannon Collins of Rutgers, Anna Psiaki, Tracy Eisser and Jeannette Friedman of Cornell, Abigail Gorman of Tulsa, Lawren Kieffer of Brown, Caitlin Mueller and Bronwyn Knaebe of Wisconsin, Erin Sodawasser of Iowa, Abigail Smith of Pacific Lutheran, Andrew Wensits of Indiana, Tess Wiggins of William Smith, Emma Porter, Allison Fast and Erika Berg of Minnesota, Erin Radigan, Teddi McGuire, Chelsea Quilling, Elise Perkins, and Elizabeth Braicks of Gonzaga, Julianne Smith and Susan Bryukhanov of Stanford, Jamie Chapman of Dartmouth, Ellen Heister, Emily Ralph and Emily Walsh of Ohio State, Brooke Sheppard of Oklahoma, Julia Jackson of Drexel, Taylor Goetzinger and Amy Gefell of Ithaca, and Rachel Pattison of Pennsylvania.