BERKELEY – The California men's rowing team continues to collect postseason recognition as Tommy Barrell won the Intercollegiate Rowing Coaches Association's Scholar-Athlete of the Year Award and five rowers were placed on the IRCA All-Americans list this week – tied for the most of any program in the country.
 
Alex Baroni, Luca Vieira and Noah Anger were named to the first team while Harry Manton and Wilson Morton were named to the second team. This marks Vieira's third-straight All-America nod and the first for Anger, Baroni, Manton, and Morton. All five were members of this year's V8+ that took home the bronze medal at IRA National Championships.
 
The Scholar-Athlete of the Year award is the latest in a list of academic honors Barrell has collected over his career. He boasted a 3.96 grade-point average with a major in Business, graduating from the Haas School of Business this spring which also earned him the Pac-12's Scholar Athlete of the Year Award.  He also won the 2024 Neufeld Scholar-Athlete Award, which goes to the graduating male and female senior with the highest grade-point average of all Cal student-athletes.  A two-time IRCA Scholar-Athlete and two-time Pac-12 Spring Academic Honor Roll member, Barrell was voted by his teammates to earn the team's Dean Witter Award for leading the team culture and setting the example of loyalty, proficiency and spirit. An Auckland, New Zealand native, he helped power the Bears to back-to-back IRA national championships and Pac-12 titles in 2022 and 2023. At the IRAs, he rowed in the stroke seat for the 2V8+ that finished first and took home the Kennedy Cup in 2023, second in 2022 and third in 2021. This year, Barrell rowed in the stroke seat in the V8+ for a majority of the season.
 
As a freshman from Ulm, Germany, Anger raced in the V8+ the entire season, spending a majority of the year in the four seat. He was the sole freshman on Cal's top boat. Prior to arriving to Cal, Anger helped Germany to a bronze medal in the men's eight at the 2023 U23 World Rowing Championships.
 
Baroni, a sophomore out of Perth, Western Australia, rowed in the seven seat of the V8+ for a majority of the season and was also named to the All-Pac-12 Team. As a freshman in 2023, he rowed in the F8+ the whole season before moving to the 3V8+ during the IRA championships and helped his team take first place and win the Stewards Cup. Last summer, Baroni also competed for Australia at the 2023 U23 World Rowing Championships in the men's eight and finished fourth in the A Final.
 
Manton, a junior out of Melbourne, Australia, spent nearly the entire season in the five seat of the V8+. Prior to this season, he competed in 2023 U23 World Rowing Championships and finished fourth in the men's eight. In 2023, Manton competed in the 2V8+ for a majority of the season before rowing in the V4+ that captured the national title at the IRA Championships.
 
Morton, a junior out of Summit, New Jersey, competed in the two seat of the V8+ for most of the season and earned All-Pac-12 honors. As a sophomore in 2023, he rowed in the 2V8+ that went undefeated the whole season and helped his team win first place at the 2023 IRA championships and take home the Kennedy Challenge Cup.
 
Vieira has served as coxswain for the V8+ the last three seasons, including back-to-back IRA national championships in 2022 and 2023.  He was also named to this year's All-Pac-12 list and was an IRCA Scholar-Athlete for the third consecutive year. In 2023, Vieira was named the IRCA Coxswain of the Year.
 
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