Worchester Massachusetts hosted the Northeast Regional Championship this year. CBC raced in both sweep and sculling categories allowing for all athletes to have the opportunity to race! All CBC boats advanced to finals racing on Sunday where our pair, Caroline Krantz and Annika Nelson kicked off racing. Finishing in first place ahead of two Greenwich boats, Naugatuck, Wayland-Weston and Concord crews. This first place finished earned them an invitation to the Youth Nationals Championship!
Our coxed four had a strong race with a photo finish (Belle Howell, Callaghan Nickerson, Karolina Bukowski, Charlotte Maschoff, Ava Weneck). We were so proud of our senior leader, Belle for coxing the 4+ down the course and motivating her boat at all times. Later in the morning CBC qualified its second Nationals contenting boat the youth quad. The quad had a fantastic race finishing 1 second shy of 3rd place and 2 seconds away from 2nd place! It was a very exciting race to watch with Audrey Sears stroking, Riley Clavi, Ellie Lennon, and Maddie Dodge in bow. Our youth 4- had us all cheering very loudly in the last 250m as the girls were trying to pull ahead of the Westford Academy boat, and ultimately they successfully did! The 4- finished 5th ahead of Westford Academy after a great run down the course (Charlotte Volz, Sylvia Freidenrich, Sophie Bell and Miya Lee).
Racing continued with our U16 4x+ (Coxswain: Allison Murray and Rowers: Winnie Wartels, Leighton Busby, Norah Surette, Kamryn Morgenstern) finishing 26 second ahead of the 4th place boat and just 5 seconds behind the second place finisher. The U16 4x+ will have the opportunity to represent CBC at The Youth National Championship Regatta! CBC’s Youth 2nd 4+ finished 5th in what was a very sunny race. The boat consisted of 2 seniors stroke seat Ally Colavecchio and Mel Royaee and 3 sophomores, Coxswain Izzy Khamish, Kate MacDonald and Charlotte Mickelborough.
CBC’s novice eight had an amazing semi final race on Saturday where they raced hard and learned a ton(including how to really sprint and walk on another boat)! On Sunday, they had another great race and ultimately finished with a time of 7:43. Allison Murray coxed the boat down the course. The eight rowers were, Jiah Baak, Tara Slovinski, Bridget Fitzgerald, Sara Alfieri, Melaina Kenin, Lucia Noecker, Kamryn Morgenstern, and Sarah Morris. As the racing started to wrap up it was our strong Youth 2nd 4x and Novice 4+ that concluded the racing for CBC!
Elle Arnold, Lila Seidenberg, Erin Getty and Jill Chlebowski represented CBC in a finals race with a lot of enthusiasm. The girls 4x finished in 5th place. Our final race of the day was our Novice 4+ race with coxswain Jiah Baak leading the boat down the course! The 4 novice rowers were, Winnie Wartels, Melaina Kenin, Lucia Noecker and Norah Surette. In this race CBC finished in 5th place ahead of Saugatuck’s 4+.
Congratulations to all of our student athletes for working so hard on and off the course this season!! We are so proud of you all!
BEST OF LUCK at Nationals to our pair, U16 coxed quad and youth quad.
