The United States will have 20 of its 21 crews racing on Thursday at the 2010 World Rowing Under 23 Championships in Brest, Belarus. With only six entries, the women's eight will have to wait until Friday for its first race.
Thursday's racing kicks off at 9:30 a.m. local time (seven hours ahead of Eastern Daylight Time) with heats in the men's double sculls. One of 24 crews entered in the event, the U.S. tandem of Erich Hanxleden (Garden Grove, Calif.) and Andrew Gallagher (Phoenix, Ariz.) will race in the third heat against crews from Belgium, Denmark, Italy, Sweden and Germany. The lightweight men's single sculls event also has 24 entries, tying for the most at the regatta. Cincinnati native John Graves will take on scullers from Belgium, Angola, Chile, Japan and Switzerland in the third of four heats. Twenty-one scullers have entered the men's single sculls event with American Brendan McEwan (New Canaan, Conn.) drawing Belarus, Hungary, Russia and Latvia in the third of four heats. The lightweight men's double sculls tandem of Alex Burjakowsky (Irvine, Calif.) and Nick Trojan (Los Alamitos, Calif.) also will race in third of four heats against crews from Denmark, Greece, Russia, Moldova and Romania. A total of 22 crews are entered in the event. One of 18 crews entered in the event, the U.S. men quadruple sculls quartet of Ian Silveira (West Bloomfield, Mich.), Henry Cole (New Canaan, Conn.), Hans Struzyna (Kirkland, Wash.) and Mike Donohue (Malvern, Pa.) will take on Latvia, Great Britain, Israel, France and Lithuania in the first of three heats. The lightweight men's quadruple sculls crew of Steven Cutler (Lutz, Fla.), Erich Schultze (Foxboro, Mass.), John Redos (Mount Bethel, Pa.) and Tobin McGee (Rye, N.Y.) opens its regatta in the third of three heats against boats from The Netherlands, Canada, Poland and Great Britain. A total of 15 crews are entered in the event. On the women's sculling side, the U.S. won silver in the lightweight women's quadruple sculls at last year's World Rowing Under 23 Championships in Racice, Czech Republic, and two rowers are back to try to improve on that performance. Returning silver medalists Summers Nelson (Kansas City, Mo.) and Devery Karz (Park City, Utah) and joined by Kimberly Hopewell (Ridgefield, Conn.) and Elizabeth Robinson (Seattle, Wash.) in this year's crew. With seven entries in the event, the U.S. boat will take on Germany and Japan in the second of two heats, with an eye on a victory and an automatic qualifying spot in the final. Women's single sculler Lindsay Meyer (Seattle, Wash.) won gold in the quadruple sculls at the 2007 World Rowing Under 23 Championships as an 18-year-old and finished fifth in the quad at the 2008 Olympic Games as a 19-year-old. Now 21, the Stanford University junior will kick off her regatta by racing scullers from The Netherlands, Czech Republic, Germany, Poland and Latvia in the first of three heats. With 17 entries in the event, lightweight women's single sculler Emily Boucher (Lee, N.H.) will race scullers from Belarus, Switzerland, Germany and Argentina in the third of three heats. In the women's double sculls, twin sisters Elizabeth and Rebecca Donald (Falmouth, Mass.) will race against Estonia, Italy and Hungary in the second of two heats, while the lightweight women's double sculls duo of Elizabeth Bates (Tenants Harbor, Maine) and Sarah Keller (Perrysburg, Ohio) will take on Sweden, Greece, Iran and Great Britain in its opening race. The women's quadruple sculls quartet of Emily Dreissigacker (Morrisville, Vt.), Desiree Burns (Poughkeepsie, N.Y.), Nicole Bielawski (Old Westbury, N.Y.) and Helen Tompkins (Friendswood, Texas) comes in with solid international experience. Dreissigacker and Burns raced in the event at last year's under-23 championships, while Tompkins competed in the single sculls at the last two under-23 championships. Bielawski, a rookie on the under-23 team, raced in the single at the 2009 World Rowing Junior Championships. One of 12 entries, the crew will take on Germany, New Zealand, Italy, Ukraine and Belarus in the first of two heats. On the sweep side, the women's pair of Felice Mueller (Cleveland, Ohio) and Ashley Kroll (Edmonds, Wash.) showed speed at USRowing's 2010 Under 23 National Team Trials in late June. One of nine entries in the event, the duo will take on South Africa, The Netherlands and Belgium in the second of two heats, with the winner advancing directly to the final. A two-time under-23 team member, Kroll won a silver medal in the eight at last year's World Rowing Under 23 Championships. In the women's four, Sara Hendershot (West Simsbury, Conn.), Julie Smith (Raleigh, N.C.), Hannah Malvin (Pittsburgh, Pa.) and Michaela Strand (Seattle, Wash.) also will race in the second of two heats against Italy, The Netherlands and Ukraine, with the winner advancing directly to the final. The men's eight of Zach Vlahos (Piedmont, Calif.), Nareg Guregian (North Hills, Calif.), Michael Gennaro (Havertown, Pa.), Ty Otto (Seattle, Wash.), Tom Dethlefs (Lawrenceville, N.J.), Rob Munn (Redmond, Wash.), Blaise Didier (San Francisco, Calif.), Sam Walker (Seattle, Wash.) and Nick Lucey (San Francisco, Calif.) returns four members from last year's under-23 team. Gennaro and Guregian won silver in the four in Racice, while Didier and Lucey raced in the eight. On Thursday, the crew will race in the second of three heats against Great Britain, Australia, Turkey and Ukraine. The men's four of Dane McFadden (Fillmore, Calif.), Nick Jordan (Princeton, N.J.), Alexander Syverson (Minneapolis, Minn.) and Evan Cassidy (Westbury, N.Y.) also will race in the second of three heats. The quartet will take on crews from Lithuania, Iran, Belarus and Germany. With only nine entries, the men's four with coxswain of Kereeti Pisapati (Bethlehem, Pa.), Michael Grose (Jacksonville, Fla.), Patrick Kenny (Malvern, Pa.), Joe Ledvina (Milwaukee, Wis.) and Benjamin Dann (Pond Ridge, N.Y.) have the chance to advance directly to the final with a win in its heat. The crew will take on Canada, Croatia, Ukraine and Germany in the first of two heats. Henry Moore (Jaffrey, N.H.) and Ben Johnson (Northford, Conn.) will race in the first of three heats in the men's pair against Canada, Italy, Romania and Ukraine. A top-three finish advances the duo to the semifinals. The lightweight men's four of Robin Prendes (Miami, Fla.), Ed King (Ironton, Mo.), William Newell (Weston, Mass.) and Austin Meyer (Cohoes, N.Y.) is in a similar situation, with the top three advancing directly to the semifinals. The quartet will race Denmark, France, Iraq and Spain in the first of three heats. In the lightweight men's pair, Michael Kerrigan (Charlottesville, Va.) and Christian Klein (Herndon, Va.) open their regatta against Ukraine, Italy, Canada and Brazil in the third of four heats. With only six entries, the women's eight event does not require heats. The six crews will race for lanes on Friday. The U.S. boat returns five athletes from last year's silver medal crew. Coxswain Ariel Frost (Walnut Creek, Calif.), Taylor Ritzel (Larkspur, Colo.), Grace Luczak (Ann Arbor, Mich.), Mary Jeghers (San Diego, Calif.) and Olivia Coffey (Watkins Glen, N.Y.) are being joined by Emily Regan (Buffalo, N.Y.), Kara Kohler (Clayton, Calif.), Kerry Simmonds (San Diego, Calif.) and Jennifer Cromwell (Bellevue, Wash.). Racing continues on Friday with repechages, or second-chance races, beginning at 9:30 a.m. Saturday's racing features semifinals in events with more than 12 entries and finals in the women's four, men's four with coxswain, lightweight women's quadruple sculls, women's pair, women's double sculls and women's quadruple sculls. Sunday's racing features finals in the remaining 15 events.
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