Victoria City Rowing Club Junior rowers have left their mark at two prestigious international regattas. The Vic City Rowing Club came in second overall in a field of more than 40 clubs at the Brentwood College Regatta in Mill Bay. Rowing clubs from around British Columbia, Washington State, Oregon and California competed at the largest junior international regatta on the West Coast. Victoria City Rowing Club won gold in the senior girls lightweight coxed four, the senior boy’s junior varsity double and the junior boy’s coxed quad and eight. Sammamish Rowing Association finished on top of the overall standings with 783.5 points. Victoria City Rowing Club (703.5) was second, Everett Rowing Association (586) third, Green Lake Rowing Club (455.5) fourth, Pocock Rowing Center (410.5) fifth and host Brentwood College (396.5) sixth.
The Victoria City Rowing Club senior A boys and girls eight crews also qualified and competed in the prestigious Windermere Cup Regatta in Seattle last weekend. The prestigious Windermere Cup Regatta invites the best crews from around the world. Both the junior A boys and girls varsity crews qualified by being the fastest Canadian eight crews at the Brentwood College regatta. This year’s event featured national and international collegiate teams, including Cambridge men’s and women’s eights, the University of Washington and Stanford.
The Vic City boats were the only Canadian crews in their respective junior eight races. For the boys, cox Aidan Horth led the crew of Graham Obee, Nick Lee, Theron Finley, Sean Carnduff, Zac de Vries, Nick Reimer, Curtis Ottenbreit and Braedan Drouillard to a respectable fourth place.
The junior A girls eight coxed by Victoria McKean also led the crew of Natalie Ross, Allie DeLarge, Emily Lehre, Megan McDonald, Ravana Eagleheart, Jessica Stewart, Keira Flanagan and Shannon Huff to a hard fought fourth place finish. For the junior rowers it was an opportunity to experience an elite international regatta, world class competition and a chance to be recruited by the University of Washington.
The University of Washington varsity women won the women’s Windermere cup beating out Oklahoma and Cambridge.
The University of Washington men won the men’s Windermere cup beating out Stanford. The Cambridge crew finished third.
The Victoria City Junior Rowers next event is the Shawnigan Lake Regatta May 14 and 15.