WEST WINDSOR, N.J. - Trials for the team that will represent the United States at the 2013 World Rowing Under 23 Championships this summer began today on Lake Mercer.
Under 23 racing featured 15 boat classes including the men’s four with coxswain, women’s four, men’s and women’s pair, lightweight men’s pair, men’s and women’s lightweight quadruple sculls, men’s and women’s double sculls, lightweight men’s and women’s double sculls, men’s and women’s single sculls and lightweight men’s and women’s single sculls.
Winning crews will be named to the U.S. team that will compete July 24-28, in Linz, Austria.
The trials run June 23-26 and many of the opening heats were run as races to determine placement for finals, while others were heats to determine placement in the reps and semifinals.
Also being run this week is the 2013 Men’s Quadruple Sculls World Championship Trials. Of the four boats entered, the crew from Potomac Boat Club of Matt Miller (West Springfield, Va.), Willie Cowles (Farmington, Conn.), Sam Stitt (McLean, Va.) and Thomas Graves (Cincinnati, Ohio) rowed the fastest time of the race for lanes, finishing in 5:53.04.
Athletes in the winning boat this week will be named to the U.S. team that will compete at the World Rowing Championships August 25-September 1 in Chungju, South Korea.
In the under 23 trials, the first contested heats were in the women’s single sculls event. Maddie Lips (Parker, Colo.) from the Craftsbury Sculling Center rowed the fastest time of the two heats, finishing in 8:01.81. Lips represented the U.S. in the 2012 World Rowing Under 23 Championships, finishing 15th.
In the men’s single sculls, Craftsbury Sculling Center’s Lenny Futterman (New York, N.Y.) rowed the best time of the two heats, finishing in 7:19.58.
Seattle Rowing Center’s entry in the lightweight men’s pair of Kieran O’Sullivan (Seattle, Wash.) and Harrison Shure (Seattle, Wash.) clocked the best time of their event finishing in 7:05.24.
In the lightweight women’s single sculls, GMS Rowing Center’s Marissa Catelano rowed the fastest time of three heats, finishing in 8:15.77.
In the lightweight men’s single, Cambridge Boat Club’s Andrew Campbell (New Canaan, Conn.) posted the best time in his event with a 6:53.40. Campbell, a five-time national team member, took bronze in the event at the 2012 World Rowing Senior and Junior Championships in Plovdiv, Bulgaria.
The Vesper Boat Club entry of Ryan Kelliher and Nathan Smith rowed uncontested and covered the course in a time of 7:15.46.
Racing resumes this evening at 6:30 p.m. with reps in the lightweight women’s single sculls.
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