2022-23 Rowing Roster
Kaira Niedoba
- Position:
- Rower
- Class:
- Senior
- Hometown:
- Mesquite, Texas
- 2023 Dr. Gerald Lage Academic Achievement Award - Big 12 Conference's highest academic honor
2022 (Jr.)
- Collegiate Rowing Coaches Association's Scholar Athlete Team
- Academic All-Big 12 Conference First Team
- Member of 2V8+ boat that competed at the Big 12 Championship on Lake Walter E. Long in Austin, Texas
- Rowed on the 2V8+ boat that finished second place at the George Mason Invitational, racing on the Occoquan Reservoir at Sandy Run Regional Park in Fairfax Station, Virginia
- Member of the 2V8+ boat that finished in second place in their heat and a fourth-place finish in the finals of the Knecht Cup Regatta on the Cooper River at Cherry Hill, New Jersey
- Rowed on the 1V8+ boat that competed at the Murphy Cup Regatta on the Schuylkill River in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
2021 (So.)
- Collegiate Rowing Coaches Association's Scholar Athlete Team
- Academic All-Big 12 Conference First Team
- Participated in five of WVU's six Regattas, including two exhibitions
- Member of the WVU's 1st Varsity 8+ boat that competed at the Big 12 Conference Championships
- Was on the 1st Varsity 8+ boat that won the finals at the George Mason Invitational
- Member of WVU's 1st Varsity 8+ boat that won their race at the Robert Morris Invitational
2020 (Fr.)
- Season was canceled due to COVID-19 pandemic
High School
- Member of the White Rock Rowing Club
Personal
- Daughter of John and Velvet Lay
- One of three children (1 brother, 1 sister)
- Majoring in landscape architecture
- Big 12 Commissioner's Honor Roll
- WVU's Garrett Ford Academic Honor Roll
A Conversation with Wren Baker
Monday, December 05
Life as a Mountaineer - Kileigh Lade
Sunday, May 01
Life as a Mountaineer - Jessica Woy
Thursday, May 06
Rowing 101
Tuesday, February 09
