USRowing has named its 2006 Adaptive National Team that will compete August 20-27 at the 2006 FISA World Rowing Championships in Eton, England, the organization announced on Monday.
The squad will be led by three-time, fixed-seat double sculls world champions Angela Madsen and Scott Brown. Madsen, who rows for Long Beach Rowing Association, and Brown, who rows for Philadelphia Rowing for the Disabled, have dominated the international rowing scene since FISA began offering adaptive events at the world championships. The duo has never lost the event, teaming up to win three consecutive world titles from 2003-05. Madsen and Brown will be looking to make it four in a row in Eton.
Long Beachs Ron Harvey earned his third consecutive adaptive national team berth in the fixed-seat mens single sculls. Harvey has won back-to-back bronze medals in the event at the world championships.
Patty Rollinson, also from Long Beach Rowing Association, earned the national team berth in the fixed-seat womens single sculls. This is Rollinsons first national team berth. It also marks the first time the U.S. has entered the event at the world championships.
The four with coxswain will be made up of Jennifer Klapper (Philadelphia Rowing for the Disabled), Aerial Gilbert (Marin Rowing Association), Jesse Karmazian (Princeton University), Jamie Dean (Wake Forest University Rowing), and coxswain Ryan Pawling (LaSalle High School). Klapper and Gilbert are both adaptive national team veterans, while the remaining three will be competing at their first world championships.
The team was selected at the 2006 Adaptive National Team Selection Camp, held June 1-4 at the St. Josephs University Boathouse in Philadelphia.