RIT placed second in the season opening Challenge on the Canal hosted by William Smith. Seated in the Happy Day from bow to stern sat, Emma Kate Flanagan (Saratoga Springs, NY), Kali Elahi, Cassandra Killion (New Plymouth, ID/Nampa Christian), Lauren Asselmeyer (Poughquag, NY/Arlington), Mickyla Schnupp (Fairport, NY/Fairport), Lindsey Schwartz (Rochester, NY/Gates-Chili), Ameilia Rothfuss, Arielle Weinstein (Athens, NY/Coxsackie-Athens), and Erin Loughran (Newburgh, NY/Newburgh Free Academy).