2009 USRowing Fall Speed Orders Complete

Monday, 16 November 2009 16:36

___DavidBanks Photo: David Banks, USRowing Male Athlete of the Year, by Devin Swet

PRINCETON, N.J. – Racing at the 2009 USRowing East and West Coast Fall Speed Orders is complete. The regattas, held on Saturday, November 14 in Oakland, Calif., and Sunday, November 15 in Princeton, N.J., provided opportunities for junior and senior-level athletes with national team aspirations to test their speed.

On the east coast, racing took place in eight events. In the women’s single sculls, USRowing Training Center’s Ellen Tomek (Flushing, Mich.) finished first, completing the 6k course in a 17:35.61. Gevvie Stone (Newton, Mass.) of Cambridge Boat Club crossed second in 17:46.00, followed by USTC’s Kate Bertko (Oakland, Calif.), who finished in 18:03.70.

In the men’s single sculls, GMS Rowing Center’s Michael Sivigny (Londonderry, N.H.) won in 16:33.91. USTC’s Glenn Ochal (Philadelphia, Pa.) finished second with a time of 16:42.98, followed by Potomac Boat Club’s Sam Stitt (McLean, Va.) in 16:48.90.

In the men’s pair, the USTC duo of Josh Inman (Hillsboro, Ore.) and Henrik Rummel (Pittsford, N.Y.) finished 4.92 seconds ahead of teammates David Banks (Potomac, Md.) and Charlie Cole (New Canaan, Conn.). Inman and Rummel completed the trial in 15:35.38, with Banks and Cole posting a time of 15:40.30. The University of Wisconsin duo of Ross James (DeKalb, Ill.) and Grant James (DeKalb, Ill.) crossed third in 15:42.19.

Hillary Saeger (Dedham, Mass.) of Riverside Boat Club won the lightweight women’s single sculls race in 18:36.90, followed by Union Boat Club’s Catherine Infantino (Boston, Mass.) in 18:57.27. Vesper Boat Club’s Jeannette Daley (Cohasset, Mass.) crossed third with a time of 19:00.08.

Union Boat Club’s Steve Tucker (Mooresvillle, Ind.) posted the fastest time in the lightweight men’s single sculls with a time of 16:49.46. USTC/Malta Boat Club’s Shane Madden (Ambler, Pa.) finished second in 17:05.98, followed by Riverside Boat Club’s Peter Morelli (Cambridge, Mass.) in 17:10.91.

The USTC duo of Will Daly (Vail, Colo.) and Nick Lacava (Weston, Conn.) won the lightweight men’s pair by nearly 20 seconds. Daly and Lacava clocked a time of 15:36.05, followed by Riverside Boat Club’s Andrew Diebold (North Wales, Pa.) and Greg McKallagat (Andover, Mass.) in 15:55.66.

In junior events, racing was contested in both the men’s and women’s single sculls. New Canaan High School Crew Club’s Andrew Campbell (New Canaan, Conn.) won the junior men’s single by 42 seconds. Campbell finished the race 17:16.09, followed by Saugatuck Rowing Club’s Max Meyer-Bosse (Westport, Conn.) in a 17:58.10.

New Canaan High School Crew Club’s Marianne Hoeft (New Canaan, Conn.) won the junior women’s single race by 16.9 seconds over the Ursuline School’s Alycia Daloia-Moore (Bronx, N.Y.), who crossed finished second in 20:03.95.

Racing in four events was completed yesterday on the west coast. In the men’s single sculls, USTC/California Rowing Club’s Warren Anderson (Paso Robles, Calif.) won in 18:05.0. USTC/CRC’s Will Miller (Duxbury, Mass.) finished second after 18:22.0 of racing, followed by Dolphin Rowing Club’s Michael Perry (Ann Arbor, Mich.) in 18:30.0.

In the women’s single sculls, Lindsay Meyer (Seattle, Wash.) posted the fastest time in 20.14.0. USTC’s Erin Cafaro (Modesto, Calif.) finished second in 20:36.0, with USTC’s Susan Francia (Abbington, Pa.) third in 21:08.0.

Tyler Otto (Burke, Va.) and Blaise Didier (San Francisco, Calif.) won the men’s pair race by three seconds, after 17:27.0. The USTC/CRC duo of Silas Stafford (Santa Rosa, Calif.) and Mark Murphy (Madison, Wis.) crossed second in 17:30.0, followed by Alex Syverson (Minneapolis, Minn.) and Aaron Frankl (Chevy Chase, Md.) in 18:15.0.

Racing unopposed in the men’s lightweight single sculls, Erik Brakebill (Sacramento, Calif.) completed the course in a 20.27.0.

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