Taylor Frank sweats this month’s report from Open Scullerland

Big thanks to Taylor Frank for overcoming the heat long enough to file the July Open Sculling Team contribution to the Potomac Star!

To read more about Taylor, please check out his bio (click).

Click on USRowing Senior World Championship Trials – Finals complete (Mercer Lake, NJ) to see the results from the finals.  Great job, PBC!

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Hello, Everyone.  I am Taylor Frank.

For those of you who may not know me, I am the one usually talking in the group of open scullers.  If I am not talking, it is because I am either smiling or making odd noises.

I am having a difficult time thinking of what to write about because it is so hot outside right now.  I can actually feel the sun radiating through the walls of my house.  Despite the fact that I keep my air conditioner set to 66 degrees, it feels like an inferno in here.

Anyway, I actually do know what I want to write about – the Open Sculling team and its ongoing rise to the top.

I don’t know how many of you have spent time around us, but I can honestly say that this is the best training group that I have ever been a part of.   We are competitive, aggressive, and obsessively determined to get faster.  At the same time, we are also an incredibly supportive and caring group of people.   We know how to work hard, but we also know how to have fun.

The dynamic of the team is one that unquestionably fosters an environment of success.  This was clear to me early on, when I joined two years ago.  While we may not have seen a tremendous amount of success then, I knew this group would be successful in the long run.

For some, I think that success has arrived and for the rest, it is just around the corner.  We have put in a tremendous amount of work over the past two years and it is starting to pay off.

This is an exciting time for us.  PBC’s Open Sculling Program is on the cusp of breaking through and emerging as THE premier elite sculling program in the county.  This year, we hope to send several athletes to the World Championships in Bled, Czech Republic, and the Pan-Am Games in Mexico.  I also have a feeling that there will be a strong PBC contingent representing the US next year in London.  My sights are set on the Pan-Am games this year, and then London 2012.

Stay tuned, try to stay cool and keep your ear to the grindstone.

[Ear?  Ow. Yet another example of how our Open Scullers take it to the next level! -PS]

Malyka Ianni: In the head of an Open Sculler

To learn more about Malyka Ianni, the author of this month’s Open Sculling team contribution to the Potomac Star, please click here.  You’ll find Malyka’s bio, along with bios for each member of the Open Sculling team.

[And, yes, the Open Scullers mentioned below are sweep rowing at the moment.  Welcome back from the dark side.]

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“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times ….”

I will go out on a limb and assume that every rower has thought this at one point or another. Rowing has the unique ability to induce a euphoric sense of indestructibility one minute and create a deep internal hole of pain and frustration the next. That may be a bit melodramatic, but admit it. It’s true. We’ve all been there before.

The Open Sculling team trains more or less year around. We take a short break (maybe 2-3 weeks) in August/September and then jump right back into the training cycle. To say it’s a long season is an understatement. Just getting to June in one piece can be a minor (or major, depending on who you are) achievement!  Recently, a teammate and I discussed the topic of psychological endurance. While improving physiologically and technically are always at the top of the training agenda, mental and emotional stamina are equally as important to one’s success in rowing. More often than not, mental toughness makes the difference between winning and losing.

So, how do you build mental toughness?

I have found that one of the tricks to managing the highs and lows in the sport of rowing is to see the silver lining…to keep your eye on the big picture and maintain perspective. It’s taken me many, many roller coaster rides to the top and the bottom to figure this out.  Even with this insight and experience, it’s easy to get caught up in the moment and lose sight of the big picture.

For a coach, fostering the development of an individual and team’s mental toughness should rank up there with developing technical proficiency and fitness. Since Wimbledon is in full swing at the moment, I’m going to use the sport of tennis as an example. In tennis, matches between opponents can last hours. At the 2010 Wimbledon, the world’s longest tennis match between John Isner and Nicolas Mahut took place. It lasted 11 hours and 5 minutes. Now stop and think about the variety of things you do in a typical day 12-hour day! It wasn’t just physical and technical training that helped these men get through the grueling match, but their mental stamina and ability to focus, as well.

On the Open Sculling team, we often use the phrase “go to the well,” which means to dig deep, find that other level, and use every physical and metal resource you have. Isner and Mahut relied heavily on this same sort of mental ability to push through physical fatigue. Each man went deep into the pain cave so to speak!

So, back to rowing. I was fortunate enough to have been coached by Michelle Guerette a few times while living in Boston. Ten minutes around Michelle, and it’s clear why she has been such a successful rower. Workouts with Michelle, whether pieces or just steady state, never went as prescribed on paper. Eighty minutes of steady state became 100 minutes or more once we were actually out on the water.  A 2 x 2k would turn into 2 x 2k plus 2 x 5 minutes and then some. Just when you thought you were done, there was always something else.  Initially, these changes to the workout drove me insane; however, eventually I realized they were instrumental in developing my mental toughness. Every time I thought I had nothing left to give, no other place to go, I somehow made it happen. I learned that the results of those extra pieces didn’t always matter, but that the extra effort needed to just complete the workout made a world of difference in my racing and ability to push through the pain.

I am writing about this topic to share with Potomac Star readers that mental toughness is part of my training that I wish I had taken more seriously when I first started training.  Recognizing that your coach might have something more than just physical benefits in mind when putting together a workout or just recognizing the importance of training in this area on your own is critical to maximizing athletic performance.  It took me longer than I wish it had, but realizing this myself as made me a better athlete.

But mental toughness can be as simple as finding the silver lining in a difficult situation, too, like losing a seat race or completely bombing an erg test, suffering an injury, or being excluded from a race because the boat is under weight, as happened to me and teammate Maria Bukolich in the 2- at the 2011 USRowing National Championships.  Now, I am able to learn from these situations and see the positive, the silver lining, along with the negative aspects.

At PBC, I am, again, fortunate to train with Coach Reilly and a team that pushes me to push myself to new extremes and limits every day.   Through each new hurdle, I see the silver lining.  After the disappointment of the underweight boat, Maria and I are off to join teammate Stef Kozuszek at the US Training Center in Oklahoma City to compete for a seat in a women’s 4-.  The team chosen will then go on to compete at Senior trials in August with the hopes of representing the US at World Championships in Bled, Slovenia. With months and months of hard training and preparation under our belts, we are facing this test as another new opportunity to get closer to achieving our elite rowing goals and make PBC proud.

[We're already proud of you, Maria and the rest of the Open Sculling team, Malyka!  Now, go do what we know you two can do: claim those seats on that US Training Center 4-! -PStar]

The Open Sculling Report for May

To learn more about Willy Cowles, this month’s contributor to the Open Sculling Program Report, please click here and scroll down.  You’ll find bios for the rest of the current Open Sculling Program team there, as well!

In the meantime, we’re pulling for you back here at PBC, Willy!  Best of luck at the U.S. Training Center in Chula Vista!

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May was a very busy month for members of the PBC open sculling team, with invitations to the National Selection Regatta (NSR) II and potential National Team boat camp invitations up for grabs.  The prior month, we had marked the beginning of our summer racing season, taking our singles up to Princeton for NSR I.  We experienced some mixed weather conditions at NSR I and some mixed results, but in May, with only three weeks separating the two NSR’s, we had to move quickly to find 2x combinations.

NSR I and II, which happen every April and May, are the primary races through which National Team selection occurs. For scullers, NSR I means racing the single. The winner of this regatta earns the opportunity to go to a World Cup in Europe as the U.S. Single Sculler, and, provided he or she finish in the top 4, retains this spot as the U.S. Single Sculler going into World Championships at the end of the summer.  The same is true of NSR II, except that the second regatta also holds the opportunity to earn invitations to boat camps.  While the winner of the 2x at NSR II can also go to a World Cup, anywhere from one to three or four “runners up” can be invited to the Quad camp, a National Team selection camp where invitees try to earn a spot in the 4x.

After NSR II, nine Potomac athletes, along with three rowers from other clubs (USTC-OKC, Pocock Rowing Club, and GMS Rowing Center) ran both a men’s and a women’s doubles matrix that produced three men’s and three women’s doubles.  I paired up with Mike Sivigny, a rower from GMS in Connecticut, and split the weeks between NSRs between DC and Connecticut.  After three weeks of hard training, we arrived in Princeton ready to race.  After time trials, heats, and semis, my double ended up with a spot in the A Final.  We had our work cut out for us, with three current U.S. National Rowing team boats in the final, as well as strong entries from Penn AC and the 2009 U.S. National team double.

Mike and I knew that our strength lay in our endurance, and we were able, according to our race plan, to walk from 6^th to 4^th in the second thousand of the race.  Although we were disappointed to lose to the third place crew by only seven tenths of a second, we still felt we raced well.  Other Potomac crews raced well, too.  Kevin Baum and Taylor Frank pushed a strong last 500 to a 4^th place finish in the B Final.  Joe Ledvina and Austin Nichols came in second in the C Final.  On the women’s side, Stephanie Kuzsocek and Meghan George placed 6^th in the A final,  Morgan Wimberley and Katie Stainken third in the B Final, and Maria Bokulich and Malyka Iyanni third in the C Final.

Based on a combination of NSR I and NSR II performances, as well as erg scores, I was lucky enough to be invited to Quad camp at the ARCO U.S. Training Center in Chula Vista, California.   I have been here for almost two weeks so far, and have already pulled seven all-out 2ks (one on the erg).  It has been quite a learning experience.  The camp includes selection for the 4x, as well as for the 8+ and 4- on the sweep side, so as you can imagine, racing has been fierce.  The National team coaches use camps like these to seat race athletes against one another, trying to find the fastest combinations in all boats.  They will test whatever combinations come out first at the third World Cup in Lucerne, and later at World Championships in Bled, Slovenia.  This year, the pre-Olympic year, placement at Worlds is particularly important because a finish in the top 11 means qualification for the 2012 Olympics in London.  Racing promises to continue to be intense and I hope to be able to continue to work hard and try to earn a spot on this year’s team, with an eye towards London in 2012.

Supporters help PBC’s Rising Stars get closer to National Team reality

Morgan Constantine Wimberley with a poster of herself that appeared all over DC as part of NBC News' "We are Washington" campaign. (Photo by Mike Malone)

Contributed by Maria Bokulich, member, Open Sculling Program

The cherry blossoms have bloomed, the river is rowable and the first annual Rising Stars Banquet, a fundraiser for the PBC Open Sculling Program, has come and gone with great success.

The evening began with the Board room packed full of generous supporters bidding on a variety of silent auction items from a fly fishing trip in Montana to an original painting of the Key Bridge viewed through a PBC boat bay by former Open Sculler Bill Greer.

With the guys in jackets and ties and the gals in dresses and heels, the  auction was followed by a delicious dinner prepared by PBC senior member Chef Bernard Henry.  We named Chef Bernard an honorary member of the Open Sculling Team for his very generous contribution to the event!  During dessert, each athlete spoke briefly about the passion we all share to be the best in this sport and the dream we live each day to make the U.S. National Team.  All of your contributions help us get closer to turning this dream into a reality.

Thank you to all who volunteered their time and energy to make this event possible.  With the support of PBC and the Washington, DC rowing community, the Open Scullers were able to raise $11,000 from the event.  These funds will go directly to our athletes for help with travel expenses to races, training trips and equipment needs.

In fact, we just returned from our first race of the season, the 2011 National Selection Regatta 1 (NSR 1), which took place from April 21– 23, in Princeton, New Jersey.   Each of the Open Scullers competed in a single through a time trial, heats and a final, all to earn the right to compete at the 2011 World Championships in Bled, Slovenia.

Next, we’ll let you know how the NSR 1 went!

Once again, thanks to everyone for making our first Rising Stars Banquet such a big success!

RSVP for the Rising Stars Dinner and Silent Auction—only a few days left!

The Open Sculling Program fundraiser event, the Rising Stars Dinner, this Saturday, March 26th, still has seats available!

We have had amazing auction items donated, including guaranteed tickets to the 2012 Rose Bowl, stunning paintings done members of PBC, massages, coaching, and vacation time in Annapolis, North Carolina, and Montana.

If you are out of stamps and plan to be at the boathouse this week, you may also leave your RSVP in the Open Sculling box under the log book. If you are a member and didn’t receive an invitation, but would like to attend, please contact me, Reilly, directly. (Contact info below.)

Again, we invite you to share in an exciting evening of excellent food, time with friends and an introduction to your 2011 Rising Stars!

Hope to see you there,
Reilly Dampeer
Head Coach, Open Sculling Program, Potomac Boat Club

For more information regarding the Silent Auction and the Open Sculling Program, please contact Reilly at redampeer@yahoo.com.

Rising Stars Dinner … save the date!

Potomac Boat Club
Rising Stars Dinner and Silent Auction
A Benefit for the Open Sculling Program
Save the Date: March 26, 2011

The Potomac Boat Club Open Sculling Program is hosting the first annual “Rising Stars” dinner and silent auction on March 26, 2011, to benefit our Olympic hopefuls. Potomac Boat Club members will receive an invitation in the mail soon, so please keep an eye out for it and RSVP as quickly as possible. Seating is limited for this special event!

The Open Sculling Program attracts talented athletes from across the United States to train for elite national and international competition. The Program has produced athletes who have earned Olympic, World and National Championship medals.

As we approach the 2011 events that will qualify boats for the 2012 Olympics, our focus is sharp and our goal is to earn the honor of representing our country internationally and to bring prestige to the club and program. Like that of aspiring athletes before us, we strive in our dedication, perseverance, and hope to embody the tradition of Potomac Boat Club.

Proceeds of this event will fund travel expenses and entry fees for 2011 selection regattas, the purchase of the most current technology, and state-of the-art equipment and resources.

In rowing, not all the champions are on the water.  There are literally hundreds of sponsors, officials, and coaches who make Olympic hopes possible.  We invite you to share in this an exciting evening—and the enduring dreams of our athletes.

Thank you so much for your continued support.

Reilly Dampeer
Head Coach, Open Sculling Program, Potomac Boat Club

For more information regarding the Silent Auction and the Open Sculling Program, please contact Reilly at redampeer[at]yahoo.com.

Happy Holidays from PBC’s Open Scullers! (Updated with pics!)

[Update: 12/30/10] Lucky us! Social Committee Co-Chair Camilla Durfee took a quick break from her busy holiday social schedule to send us the following photos taken by Louise Krumm at the 2010 PBC Holiday Party, on December 12. Just click play (forward arrow) to check them out. If you haven’t had a chance to read the original post from the Open Scullers, keep scrolling!

Thanks for sharing, Camilla and Louise! And Happy New Year, PBC!

Click here to view these pictures larger

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Katie Stainken (foreground) and Maria Bokulich of PBC's Open Sculling team race the Women's Championship single event at the HOCR 2010.

Our hard charging PBC Open Scullers are taking on a new challenge … keeping you, their extended PBC team, up to date on all of the great things they’re doing!

This first installment comes from Open Sculler Katie Stainken. You’ll learn more about Katie and the rest of the team as soon as they get their bios posted! Look for them on the Star in the next few weeks!

Here’s the latest from Katie:

It was awesome to see so many people attend the PBC Holiday Party this year! We really enjoyed decorating the ballroom, hosting the party, but most of all, chatting with fellow PBC’ers in a relaxed and cheerful atmosphere, as opposed to the usual quick conversations on the dock.  Thanks to you, and some beautiful notecards produced by Susan Trice, we were able to raise about $1200 for the Potomac River Sports Foundation (PRSF) to help us with our training efforts throughout the year.  Many generous PBC members also brought gifts for the Marine Corps Toys for Tots program.  All in all, it was a great night for us and we hope you enjoyed yourselves, too.

We want to say something chipper here, but all we can think of is, "Yuck."

On the training side of things, we certainly have braved some unseasonably cold temperatures in the DC area this month. The ice continues to creep across the river, so we’ve already traded in our sculls and team boats for ergs.  Looks like all of those long rows out to Haines Point and up to Fletcher’s that were on the schedule will have to wait for now.  We don’t mind having to erg at the moment, though; it gives us a chance to rock out to tunes on our iPods while we workout, which is a nice change.  Our apologies in advance to those who come down to the boathouse in the morning for our music tastes!

Coming soon, look for a new Open Sculler website to be announced in the Star – complete with athlete bios!  We’re also planning an event for February, so as soon as the date is confirmed, we will let everyone know when to mark your calendars!

In the meantime, if you’re still in the gift-giving mood this holiday day season, please remember that your donations to the PRSF go to help PBC’s National Team athletes, and as always, are tax deductible!  To donate via check or PayPal, click here to go to the PRSF donation post on the Star.

Finally, for those of you who missed out on ordering your set of PBC notecards, they’re still available!  The Star will post all the information you need to get your very own set soon.

Thanks, again, for your support, PBC, and Happy Holidays from the Open Scullers!

World Championships in NZ!

Margot Shumway in the U.S. quad in 2008.

The U.S. National Team is headed to New Zealand … and we’re going with them!

World Rowing Championships will be held this year from October 31-November 7, on beautiful Lake Karapiro in the land of the Kiwis.  UniversalSports.com will stream all 22 “A” finals LIVE followed by highlights and full replays.

• Register here to watch!
• Click here to go to the results.

Okay.  So, it’s not exactly like being there, but think of it this way:  no jetlag and you won’t have to quit your job to follow the team.

The 80-person roster includes 70 returning National Team members and 20 Olympians.  Potomac Boat Club’s own Margot Shumway will compete in the women’s quad.

Forty-four members of the team, including Margot, competed last year at World Rowing Championships in Poznan, Poland. The U.S. brought home seven medals from Poznan including gold in the women’s eight, women’s pair and men’s pair with coxswain; silver in the women’s four, lightweight men’s eight and women’s quad; and bronze in the lightweight women’s quad. Erin Cafaro and Susan Francia are back to defend their title in the women’s pair, while three members of the women’s eight return from the Beijing Olympics gold-medal lineup.

Kiwi legend has it that Lake Karapiro was the stronghold of Maori chief O-Te-Ihingarangi.  Its name comes from “kara,” which means stone, and “piro,” which means evil-smelling.  We’re not sure what they’ve done about the smell, but today, New Zealanders claim Karapiro is one of the finest, most picturesque rowing venues in the world.  From what we’ve seen, it’s gorgeous … and we don’t care what it smells like as long as it means gold for our U.S. Team!

Below is the full U.S. National Team roster for the 2010 World Rowing Championships.  You’ll find Margot listed along with a few of our other hometown favorites.

GO TEAM USA!

2010 World Rowing Championships Roster
(Name, Hometown)

Men’s Single Sculls (M1x)
Ken Jurkowski (New Fairfield, Conn.)

Women’s Single Sculls (W1x)
Lindsay Meyer (Seattle, Wash.)

Lightweight Men’s Single Sculls (LM1x)
Dan Urevick-Ackelsberg (Philadelphia, Pa.)

Women’s Double Sculls (W2x)
Kate Bertko (Oakland, Calif.)
Stesha Carle (Long Beach, Calif.)

Men’s Quadruple Sculls (M4x)
Scott Gault (Piedmont, Calif.)
Elliot Hovey (Manchester-By-The-Sea, Mass.)
Wes Piermarini (West Brookfield, Mass.)
Will Miller (Duxbury, Mass.)

Women’s Quadruple Sculls (W4x)
Megan Kalmoe (St. Croix Falls, Wis.)
Sarah Trowbridge (Guilford, Conn.)
Natalie Dell (Somerville, Mass.)
Margot Shumway (Westlake, Ohio)

Lightweight Women’s Quadruple Sculls (LW4x)
Abby Broughton (Tetonia, Idaho)
Ursula Grobler (Pretoria, South Africa)
Kristin Hedstrom (Concord, Mass.)
Victoria Burke (Redding, Conn.)

Men’s Pair (M2-)
Ryan Monaghan (Rochester, N.Y.)
Deaglan McEachern (Portsmouth, N.H.)

Women’s Pair (W2-)
Erin Cafaro (Modesto, Calif.)
Susan Francia (Abington, Pa.)

Men’s Pair with Coxswain (M2+)
Stephen Young (Tampa, Fla.)
Nareg Guregian (North Hills, Calif.)
Justin Stangel (Madison, Wis.)

Lightweight Men’s Pair (LM2-)
Mike Nucci (Blue Bell, Pa.)
Evan Tsourtsoulas (Kastoria, Greece)

Men’s Four (M4-)
Silas Stafford (Santa Rosa, Calif.)
Sam Stitt (McLean, Va.)
Henrik Rummel (Pittsford, N.Y.)
Giuseppe Lanzone (Annandale, Va.)

Women’s Four (W4-)
Ali Cox (Turlock, Calif.)
Adrienne Martelli (University Place, Wash.)
Grace Luczak (Ann Arbor, Mich.)
Mara Allen (San Francisco, Calif.)

Lightweight Men’s Four (LM4-)
Will Daly (Vail, Colo.)
Ryan Fox (Edgerton, Wis.)
Nick LaCava (Weston, Conn.)
Anthony Fahden (Lafayette, Calif.)

Men’s Eight (M8+)
Ned DelGuercio (Media, Pa.)
Tom Peszek (Farmington Hills, Mich.)
Jason Read (Ringoes, N.J.)
Charlie Cole (New Canaan, Conn.)
Jake Cornelius (Brooktondale, N.Y.)
Brett Newlin (Riverton, Wyo.)
Dan Walsh (Norwalk, Conn.)
Mark Murphy (Madison, Wis.)
David Banks (Potomac, Md.)

Women’s Eight (W8+)
Mary Whipple (Sacramento, Calif.)
Eleanor Logan (Boothbay Harbor, Maine)
Esther Lofgren (Newport Beach, Calif.)
Taylor Ritzel (Larkspur, Colo.)
Meghan Musnicki (Ithaca. N.Y.)
Kady Glessner (Seattle, Wash.)
Jamie Redman (Spokane, Wash.)
Amanda Polk (Pittsburgh, Pa.)
Anna Goodale (Camden, Maine)

Lightweight Men’s Eight (LM8+)
Stephen Young (Tampa, Fla.)
Jimmy Sopko (Mathews, Va.)
Matt Kochem (Burnt Hills, N.Y.)
Kenny McMahon (Ladysmith, Wis.)
Matt Muffelman (Mathews, Va.)
Michael Kerrigan (Charlottesville, Va.)
Julian Bowling (Shelby, N.C.)
Bob Duff (Huntingdon Valley, Pa.)
Skip Dise (Beverly Hills, Mich.)

Adaptive Men’s Single Sculls (ASM1x)
Ron Harvey (Downingtown, Pa.)

Adaptive Four with Coxswain (LTA4+)
Jenny Sichel (Clifton, N.J.)
Eric McDaniel (Weeki Wachee, Fla.)
Emma Preuschl (Indianapolis, Ind.)
Eleni Englert (Oceanside, Calif.)
Andrew Johnson (Riverside, Conn.)

Coaching Staff
(Name, Affiliation, Boat(s))

Michiel Bartman, Vesper Boat Club, LM1x, LW1x
Patrick Brown, University of Central Oklahoma, ASM1x, LTA4+
Guenter Beutter, GMS Rowing Center, LM2x, LM4x
Carlos Dinares, LW2x, LW4x
Conal Groom, Seattle Rowing Center, W1x
Will Jurkowski, M1x
Annie Kakela, USRowing Training Center, W4-
Laurel Korholz, USRowing Training Center, W2x, W4x
Kris Korzeniowski, USRowing Training Center, M8+
Karen Lewis, USRowing Training Center, AM1x, A4+
Tim McLaren, USRowing Training Center, M8+, M4-, M2x, M4x, M2-, M2+
John Parker, Oklahoma City High Performance Center, LM2-, M2-, M2+, LM8+
Tom Terhaar, USRowing Training Center, W8+, W4x, W2x, W2-
Bryan Volpenhein, Oklahoma City High Performance Center, LM2-, LM4-, LM8+

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PBC Juniors race Saturday in Racice!

Best of luck tomorrow to Potomac Boat Club’s Nader Al-Naji and Rob Rasmussen in the C/D semifinals of the men’s double sculls, and to Christina Bax and her crew as they go for a third-consecutive women’s eight world title for the U.S.!

For the full race schedule (in Racice time), go to http://www.worldrowing.com/medias/docs/media_361927.pdf.

To access the live viewer, go to http://www.worldrowing.com/index.php?pageid=151.

Want to see more photos?  Dr. Ted Walkley, U.S. Team Physician, not only took the photos we used in this post, but will post more online throughout the event!  Click here to go to his album.

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RACICE, Czech Republic (USRowing) – Five U.S. crews advanced Friday, despite heavy rain throughout the second day of racing at the 2010 World Rowing Junior Championships. The women’s four, women’s quadruple sculls and women’s eight are set to race for medals tomorrow, Saturday, August 7. In total, seven U.S. boats are headed to either the semifinals or finals after today’s races.

The men’s double sculls duo of Nader Al-Naji (Fairfax, Va.) and Robert Rasmussen (Washington D.C.) finished sixth in the third quarterfinal, and will now race in the C/D semifinals. The U.S crew finished fifth in its heat and second in its afternoon repechage en route to the quarterfinal. In today’s race, France pulled out early, gaining more than three seconds on the field in the first 500 meters and eventually winning in a 6:49.51. The U.S. posted a time of 7:20.35 and will take on Croatia, Lithuania, Poland, Czech Republic and Estonia on Saturday.

The U.S. women’s eight and men’s four with coxswain are back in action tomorrow after winning their respective heats on Thursday. Coxswain Christine Devlin (Harvard, Mass.), Rosemary Grinalds (Southport, Conn.), Louise Breen (Northampton, N.H.), Madison Lips (Parker, Colo.), Christina Bax (Bethesda, Md.), Marianne Hoeft (New Canaan, Conn.), Kristen Faulkner (Homer, Alaska), Faith Richardson (Wellesley, Mass.) and Carli Goldberg (Sarasota, Fla.) will look to win a third-consecutive women’s eight world title. Coming off of a convincing win in its preliminary race, the U.S. crew will take on Czech Republic, Romania, Great Britain, Germany and Russia in the last event of the day.

Potomac’s HOCR 2010 1x Competitors

The Head of the Charles Regatta (HOCR) has posted the Singles Draw!

Singles Entry Applications were due on August 1st.  Doubles, Fours and Eights Entry Applications must be received by September 1st.

To read all of the HOCR rules and entry acceptance guidelines, go here.

In the meantime, below is the list of single scullers who will continue to build on Potomac Boat Club’s rich history at the HOCR.

And don’t forget that from this list, the Board will choose the next two winners of the David Challinor award.  Stay tuned for the announcement!

Saturday, October 23, 2010

(Times are provisional.)

Grand-Master Singles 50+

Men (8:00)

Women (8:33) – Potomac Boat Club – C. Cole

Senior-Masters Singles 40+

Men (8:58) – Potomac Boat Club – R. Lewis

Women (9:13)

Club Singles

Men (11:29)

Women (11:49)

Championship Singles

Men (16:07) – Potomac Boat Club – J. Greer

Women (16:20) – Potomac Boat Club – K. Stainken and M. Boklich

Sunday, October 24, 2010

Senior-Veteran Singles 70+

Men (8:00)

Women (8:25)

Veteran Singles 60+

Men (8:45) – Potomac Boat Club – G. Rasmussen and J. Hatch

Women (9:12) – Potomac Boat Club – D. Perrone

Master Singles

Men (9:45)

Women (9:58) – Potomac Boat Club – O. Huxley

Lightweight Singles

Men (11:51) – Potomac Boat Club – R. Rasmussen

Women (12:03)

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