RowAmerica Rye Shows Mettle @ Summer Youth Nationals

It takes mettle to show metal. And most of the seventy odd rowers at RowAmerica Rye returned from USRowing Summer Youth Nationals with lots of bling.

Just back from the Oak Ridge, Tennessee competition, RowAmerica Rye entered 34 crews with 24 entering semifinals and 19 entering finals. RowAmerica Rye returned to their Milton Harbor training facility with nine gold medals, four silver medals and one bronze medal. The club also won both Women’s and Men’s Point Trophies as well as the Overall Points Trophy as the best performing team.

“We consider the Summer season as the first out of four training seasons for our team,” Club Director and Women’s Head Coach Marko Serafimovski told MyRye.com. “The success at the Summer Youth National Championship gives a good tailwind for the season to come. Besides just the performance, it is very rewarding to watch these young athletes develop over the years. We hope that the sport itself teaches them something more than performing.”

The Summer Youth National regatta is the second largest regatta in the country, hosting over 60 clubs for competition. 

 The four biggest events over the next year will be:

• Head of the Charles, Boston, MA – 10/22 – 10/23
• NY State Championship, Saratoga Springs, NY – 5/13-5/14
• USRowing Youth Nationals, Sarasota, FL (tentative location) – 6/8 – 6/11
• USRowing Summer Nationals, unknown location and tentative dates but it should be 7/14-16

You can find your favorite rower in the USRowing Summer Youth Nationals medal listing that follows:

• Gold Medal – Women’s Youth 4x Lineup: Abigail Kaplan, Lily Shaaban, Elisabeth Madigan, Erin Hanrahan
• Gold Medal – Men’s U17 4x – Lineup: Sebastian Briano, Theodore Holtman, Lucas Liow, Carter Walsh

• Women’s U16 Four: 1st place – Clementine Riegelhaupt, Brooklyn Berner, Tara Laschever, Tara O’Reilly, Katie Lawhon
• Women’s U17 Four: 2nd place  Ella Sheth, Evelyn Gassman, Mimi Twomey, Edie Jones, Ellie Konvisser
• Men’s U17 Eight: 1st place  Anika Kumar, George Dolce, Jackson Anderson, Theodore Holtman, Mark DiMaggio, Lucas Liow, Cole Thomas, Carter Walsh, Sebastian Briano
• Women’s U17 Quad  A: 1st place Grace Peacock, Alexandra Ausfahl, Claire Van Praagh, Grace Regan
• Women’s U17 Quad B: 2nd place Margaret Gallagher, Ella Ryan, Fiona Asgeirsson, Elena Chesley
• Men’s Youth Pair: 1st place Rahil Dundon, Toma Sellar
• Womens Youth Single: 2nd Place: Erin Hanrahan
• Men’s U17 Single: 1st place – Cole Thomas
• Men’s U17 Four: 3rd place – Ella Lee, Jake Sammon, Jackson Anderson, Benjamin Peron, Mark DiMaggio
• Women’s U17 Eight: 1st place – Ella Sheth, Alexandra Ausfahl, Ellie Konvisser, Evelyn Gassman, Mimi Twomey, Edie Jones, Claire Van Praagh, Grace Peacock, Grace Regan
• Women’s Youth 4x: 1st place – Abigail Kaplan, Lily Shaaban, Elisabeth Madigan, Erin Hanrahan
• Men’s U16 Four: 1st place Anika Kumar, Richard Hanrahan, Felix Caminiti, George Dolce, Bill Chen
• Men’s U17 Quad: 1st place Sebastian Briano, Theodore Holtman, Lucas Liow, Carter Walsh
• Women’s U16 Quad: 2nd place Clementine Riegelhaupt, Elizabeth Dodman, Elina Francis, Sienna Knight, Anna Kearney