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Crew Brings Home Three State Titles
At the 44th annual FSRA State Championship Regatta, Bolles Crew walked away with three scholastic state titles – the most ever for Bolles in a championship weekend. Seven Bolles crews were entered into the state competition, four of which went on to the Finals, and one to the Petit Final. Even in the rough water conditions which included a stiff crosswind for the majority of the two-day event, all members of Bolles Crew rowed extremely well.
Due to the rough water conditions of the St. Johns River the last month of the spring season, Bolles rowers were challenged with dry land workouts only and were unable to practice on the river. The athletes impressed all of the coaches and proved to be resilient despite the uncooperative water conditions, maintaining focus, spending hours upon hours of training time on the indoor rowing machines, calisthenics, running and weight training. The results speak for themselves.
The following crews each won a state title:
Girl's Freshman 4+
Robyn Sutter (cox)
Camille McCutcheon
Megan Bennett
Sarah Hughes
Lily Herman
Girl's 2nd Varsity 4+
Amberleigh Ray (cox)
Savannah Wood
Hayley McIntosh
Isa Griffay
Therese Miranda
Boy's Lightweight 8
Jake Mendelson (cox)
Scott Rice
Conor White
Bryan Smith
Chris Connolly
Griffin McCutcheon
Matt Taylor
David Rice
Walker Wulbern
In addition to the success of these crews, other boats did extremely well. The Boy's Varsity 4 won the Petit Final, which put them seventh overall and second for scholastic (high school) teams. The Girl's Varsity 4 came in seventh in the final, and was the fourth place high school team.
Bolles' other two crews did not progress to the finals but performed well. The Girl's Lightweight 4 came in second in their heat, but they were not able to row their way into the finals in the Repechage (second chance) race. The Boy's Freshman 4 also had a second chance in the Repechages, but came up just short of making the finals.
Boy's Varsity 4+
William Leeser (cox)
Joe Beacom
Dylan Gall
Eric Eriksen
Carl Holland
Girl's Varsity 4+
Alora Clark (cox)
Taylor Hughes
Annie Ungrady
Anne-Marie Clegg
Jennifer Margettes
Girl's Lightweight 4+
Alora Clark (cox)
Sarah Dibble
Emily Vandroff
Marta Trippe
Mya Nguyen
Boy's Freshman 4+
McKenzie Mizell (cox)
Al Muzaurieta
Jimmy Hu
Sam Buchwalter
Ed Avery
Out of the 36 clubs and high school teams represented at the state regatta, Bolles came in 14th place overall. In the high school category, Bolles placed fifth out of 21 teams.