Oberst finds adventure on UMass rowing team

By Cody Lahl on August 7, 2013 4:59 PM

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Landon Kafka of the Polk County Itemizer-Observer in Oregon caught up with UMass rowing's Carla Oberst, a Monmouth, Ore., native, to talk about her experience as a Division I collegiate student-athlete recently. Oberst is entering her sophomore year at the University of Massachusetts and is set to begin her second season competing with the rowing program.

MONMOUTH - If a student-athlete from Polk County was recruited by Roy Williams to play basketball at North Carolina, people would probably think that is a pretty big deal.

For Carla Oberst, it wasn't exactly a recruitment, but the pursuit of a suggestion made at a college interview: try out for the rowing team if she went to the University of Massachusetts...

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