Congratulations to all of today's rowers for completing one of our most successful days on the river despite miserable conditions!!
The novice girls have continued to impress the coaches on a daily basis with their remarkable development in such a short period of time. Mariana Catrambone is becoming an able veteran of the single, one of the most difficult events in the sport, and is gaining time on her competitors with each passing week. Noa Boonin, Olivia Basso, Elizabeth Reece, and Lauren Kairys have again impressed the coaches with their performance this weekend, finishing 4th in the novice quad. Keep up the good work girls!
The novice boys have also given the coaches reason to look forward to a successful future for the club. Tyler Kao, Noah Haney, Ryan Springer, and Joel Egbert have begun to find their speed in the past few weeks, putting in an impressive third place finish in the freshman quad. In one of the more exciting finishes of the day Keaton Schneider and Luke Evans put together their best piece of the season to finish third in a very fast freshman double race. In an unfortunate turn of events, Dan Woods recently broke his wrist and will be unable to race for a while. Even with this bad news, Dan has been one of the most valuable members of the team, helping out wherever he can and always putting the team first. We can't wait to have you back, Dan, and we look forward to see how the rest of the season pans out for the boys!
In the varsity events, Maddie Remetz and Salena Silvaria posted the third and fourth fasted times overall in the JV single, with Salena placing first in her flight! Due to the high number of entries this week, Emily Donovan and Cassidy Leyendecker were forced to take a break from the traditional racing format. Without the added motivation of having crews racing on either side of them, the girls placed second out of thirteen entries in the head race style JV double event, only .87 seconds away from first! In another exciting race, Katie Ely, Sara Rosenberg, Kate Watson, and Juliette Daily bested rival Conestoga to finish first overall in the lightweight quad! Also, we would like to wish Nicole DiTommaso a speedy recovery after having her wisdom teeth pulled last week. Get well soon, we can't wait to have you back!
Not to be outdone by the girls, the Varsity boys also raced to two impressive finishes today. In the JV quad, Alex Blue, Eric Duffy, Evan Taylor, and Alec Rogers made massive improvements throughout the week after only rowing together for a few days and finished eighth overall in the head race format. Ryan Clark and Nelson Remetz took a break from the lightweight double to join forces with Nick Herceg and Jim Howley in the Varsity quad where they finished just behind St. Joe's Prep for second place in their flight. Great job guys!
Join us next weekend on our home course as the Hawks race for the Garden State Scholastic Championship and Cooper Cup on Saturday and Sunday.
Go Hawks!
