Middle School rowers practice over Columbus Day weekend. (Photo by Lisa Aciukewicz)
At the second running of the New England Regional Junior & High School Fall Championships in Worcester on Sunday, Bromfield-Acton-Boxboro had a spectacular day.
This head-style race is run with each crew starting on its own and racing the clock down the course to the finish. Over 180 crews were timed over a two-mile course for sculling (each rower has two oars) and novice sweep (each rower pulls one oar) events and 2.5-mile course for varsity scull and sweep events. This was the inaugural race for the team’s newest girls in the Novice 4+ event.
Both boys and girls scullers powered their way to gold medals in each event entered, as well as topping the competition with additional silver and bronze medals. At the end of the day, Bromfield-AB came home with the Overall Team Sculling Points Trophy.
Medal winning performances in sculling events
- Girls Junior Quad (4x) Gold Medal: Livvi Maclean, Tola Myczkowska, Hannah Porter, Elizabeth Wilkey
- Boys Junior Novice Quad (4x) Gold Medal: Jeff Blanton, Cameron Hamilton, Kevin Immerman, David Casteneda
- Girls Junior Double (2x) Gold Medal: Caroline Turnbull, Molly Hart
- Boys Junior Double (2x) Gold Medal: Pat Ware, Sam Ginouves
- Girls Junior Single (1x) Gold Medal: Caroline Hart; Silver Medal: Sylvia Sarnik
- Boys Junior Single (1x) Gold Medal: Matt Robinson; Silver Medal: Ben Wilmot; Silver Medal: CJ Root
In the sweep action, the Bromfield-AB crews built on the early success of the smaller boats. For their combined efforts in sweep and scull events, Bromfield-AB girls rowers garnered both the Girls Overall Team Points Trophy as well as the Varsity Eight Trophy.
The Bromfield-AB boys crews added numerous points to the total, which, at the end of the day, amounted to a tie with BC High for the Overall Team Points Trophy, a spectacular result on a spectacular fall day for the Bromfield-AB team.
Results of sweep events
- Girls First Varsity 8+ Gold Medal: Cox Polly Lauer, Caroline Hart, Sylvia Sarnik, Molly Hart, Livvi Maclean, Tola Myczkowska, Hannah Porter, Caroline Wilkey, K.C. Faulkner
- Girls First Novice 4+ Gold Medal: Cox Ciara Plucinsky, Anna Dawley, Courtney Oka, Katie Su Smith, Lindsay Darlow
- Boys Novice 8+ Silver Medal: Cox Ryan Robinson, AJ Higgins, Charles Watt, Alex Boyd, Nick Walker, Devon Finnegan, Alex Hill, Ryan Densen, Luca Basile
- Girls First Novice 8+ Silver Medal: Cox Emily Erdos, Anya Plucinsky, Katrina Gross, Olivia Stoffel, Hannah Malloy, Meghan Glade, Joanne Erickson, Sam Schena, Panna Rasania
- Boys Novice 2nd 8+ Bronze Medal: Cox Daniel Shrives, Jack Bierwagon, Jake Turchetta, James O’Shea, Ben Cannon, Kyle Hayes, Jame Mannherz, Pat Pesa, Cole Winsor
- Boys Varsity 8+ fourth place: Cox Julie Dexter, Pat Ware, Sam Ginouves, Kyle Hayes, Matt Robinson, Ben Wilmot, Matt Chambers, Kevin Immerman, Ben Jackson
- Girls Second Varsity 8+ fourth place: Cox Amanda Sundheimer, Emily Hedison, Jillian Saydah, Emily Mitchell, Caroline Turnbull, Lila Kis, Annie Cooper, Colleen O’Shea, Ki Jung Lee
- Boys Second Varisty 8+ fifth place: Cox Emma Kenny-Pessia, Andrew Borghesani, Tim Phillips, C.J. Root, Jeff Blanton, Cameron Hamilton, David Casteneda, Rory Wirch, Christian Thiim.
