Our camp has officially finished with the end of racing at Club Nationals on Sunday and CanAmMex today. At Club Nationals, three boats received medals;
Junior A 4+ (D Boat): 3rd place
Junior A 8+ (C Boat): 3rd Place
Junior A 2- (A Boat): 1st Place
Other boats which made it to the finals but did not medal were the intermediate 8+ (A and C Boats) and the Junior A 8+ (B Boat). I raced in the intermediate 8+ A Boat and the Junior A 2- A Boat. Racing against college crews in the intermediate race was a pretty cool experience which definitely made us push ourselves to a new level of racing. Racing in the pair was another awesome experience. Although our steering wasn't to good, Peter Tortora and I had a great time rowing in the smaller boat (and winning a gold medal was pretty awesome also!)
CanAmMex was another great experience. We raced in the 2-, 4-, and 8+, all of which were made up of rowers in the top 8+. Peter And I won in the 2-, the 4- (made up of Gregor Dierks, Andy Volosky, Buck Goggin, and James Glynn) came second, and the 8+ (made up of the 2-, 4-, and Eric Nieminen and Alex Dillon) came first. Winning races against Canada and Mexico was really awesome. I found racing against other countries is a totally different experience than just other teams (especially when the officials polled us at the start by the name of USA, Canada, and Mexico). Overall it was a great experience!
Now that the camp is coming to a close I want to take the time to thank all the coaches, interns, and others who helped put this camp together and trained us over the past month. Head Coaches Rich Brown, Jesse Foglia, and Nich Lee along with the 4 interns made the camp a productive and fun experience.
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