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Columbia women's rowing also travels to Boston, Mass. this weekend to take part in the Head of the Charles Regatta. The two-day event will be the Lions' first competition of the 2012-2013 season. The team returns to the regatta with strong seniors Nikki Bourassa and Samantha Warren who were both named to the Collegiate Rowing Coaches Association Division 1 All Mid-Atlantic Region first team. Columbia placed 19th of 37 teams in the Championship Eights of the regatta last year.

Columbia will tee off this Saturday at 8 a.m. in the John Dallio Memorial tournament in Chicago, Ill. The tournament is hosted by DePaul at Ruffled Feathers Golf Club—the home course of the Blue Demons. Columbia competed in the Yale-hosted Macdonald Cup last weekend. The Lions came out of the first round with a ninth-place standing, but finished Sunday in a tie for 11th (of 15) with Sacred Heart. Fifteen teams will swing and putt for the title this weekend, including two of last year's top five tournament finishers, DePaul and Northern Iowa.