27 Area Coast Crew Athletes to Compete in U.S. Rowing Youth Nationwide Championships June 8-11

Championships are held over 4 days from June 8 by way of June 11

BREVARD COUNTY, FLORIDA – Area Coast Crew might be sending 27 athletes in 4 boats to the U.S. Rowing Youth Nationwide Championships at Nathan Benderson Park in Sarasota, Florida.

The Youth Nationals Championships are held over 4 days from June 8 by way of June 11, with round 3,000 athletes from 225 completely different groups competing in varied classes.

Area Coast Crew might be competing within the Ladies’s Youth Eight (8+), Ladies’s Youth Quad (4x), Ladies’s Youth 2nd Eight (8+), and Males’s Beneath 17 Eight (8+). All Area Coast Crew athletes and coaches have been coaching for this since August 2022.

The Ladies’s Youth 8+ is comprised of Cailin Buchanan, Adair Connor, Sidney Norman, Morgan Salars, Caroline Corridor, Katherine Braman, Elisabeth Marks, Megan Romesberg, and coxswain Sophia Bittar. Katherine Braman, Caroline Corridor, Elisabeth Marks, and Megan Romesberg are additionally competing within the Ladies’s Youth 4x.

Regardless of the races being lower than 45 minutes aside each boats positioned third on the Southeast Youth Championships to qualify to compete at Nationals.

The Ladies’s 2nd 8+ is comprised of Sophia Tiflati, Sophia Melfi, Amelia Jones, Holly Newmarch, Natalia Mendonca Bloch, Ava Cook dinner, Beth Harris, Katherine Harris, and coxswain Elliott Steward.

It is a record-setting 12 months for the SCC Ladies. That is the primary time within the 27-year historical past of the workforce that the ladies have certified an eight to compete.

That is additionally the primary 12 months within the historical past of the workforce that all the ladies’s workforce has certified to race. Coach Jocelyn Little is “extraordinarily enthusiastic about this chance for the ladies” and is “so pleased with all the hassle the ladies have put in all year long to get so far.”

4 of the ladies are seniors are headed to varsity to row: Sophia Bittar, Sacred Coronary heart College; Megan Romesberg, College of Washington; Morgan Salars, College of Miami; and never talked about above is Melanie Bower; United States Coast Guard Academy. Coxswain, Elliott Steward, is headed to Stetson College.

The Males’s Beneath 17 8+ is comprised of Brolin Cozzolino, Nice Lewis, Declan Connor, Henry Christianson, Kaedin Delaney, Attilio Yokas-Vidoni, Quinn Cobb, John Buchanan, and Coxswain Karl Braman.

This occasion is comprised of all athletes who’re solely turning 16 this calendar 12 months or youthful. In line with Coach Bryan Little, “These boys have labored extremely exhausting all 12 months and are prepared to indicate off all that effort.”

Area Coast Crew is a nonprofit rowing workforce open to all college students in Brevard County and is a rising and growing workforce that might love for any athletes in fifth by way of twelfth grade to affix the workforce.

Area Coast Crew rows on the gorgeous Banana River and has a boathouse situated at Oars and Paddles Park in Indian Harbour Seaside.

In the event you’re interested by making an attempt a learn-to-row camp or becoming a member of the workforce, please contact Jocelyn Little at coachjocelynscc@gmail.com or take a look at our web site at spacecoastcrew.org.

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