Foran's Madison Santabarbara Signs Letter Of Intent

MILFORD, CT — Madison Santabarbara, 17, is a senior at Joseph A. Foran High School as well as the Bridgeport Regional Aquaculture School. On Friday November 15, she signed a National Letter of Intent committing to row for the Jacksonville University Women’s crew team.

The Jacksonville University Dolphins are a Division I program that competes in the MAAC (Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference). Madison has been rowing since 8th grade and for the past 2 years in Norwalk for the national powerhouse Connecticut Boat Club. CBC is made of girls aged 13-18 throughout Connecticut and parts of New York.

In 2017 Madison was invited to train at the US Junior Olympic small boat development camp in Virginia.

She looks forward to helping the JU Dolphins compete next fall. JU has won the MAAC conference 4 of the last 5 years. Madison is pictured above signing her National Letter of Intent letter with her father Michael Benz of Milford (right) and her chemistry teacher and Aquaculture School advisor Jan Pikul of Milford (left).

Madison is signing her letter on top of a 25 foot sculling boat that she is building as part of a senior project at Aqua. She hopes to complete the project over the winter and race it competitively in a regatta in the spring.