NA Rowers Rise to the Challenge of Mercer Lake
Super Sprints
Saturday, April 22, 2006
Facing relentless rain and icy winds,
the North Allegheny Rowing Team opened their spring season
at the Mercer Lake Super Sprints/ISA
Sculling Championships in Princeton, New Jersey. Over
40
teams from Pittsburgh to Boston
competed in the day-long series of sweep and sculling events. The
inclement weather caused some novice
and JV events to be cancelled completely while other small
boat events were unable to complete
their finals races. The Tigers came away with
mixed results
but captured 8 medals – 2 gold,
2 silver and 4 bronze.
NA’s performances were highlighted by gold medals in the Girls’ Octuple and the Boys' Second Novice Eight.
The Tigers will be in action next at
the Pittsburgh Scholastic Sprints. The event
will be held at Moraine
State Park on Saturday and Sunday,
May 6 & 7. Admission is free.
For more information about the North
Allegheny Rowing Team, see their website at www.narowing.org.
Partial
Lake Mercer Results**:
First Place
Girls’ Octuple – Elena
Reynolds, Brittney Kelly, Erin Dauson, Briana Pittman, Liz Rebhun, Jess Kelly, Lauren
Skoog, Olivia Klipa, Kim Weaver
Boys’ Second Novice Eight – Jimmy Graner, Mark Dissen, Jim Rechtenwald, Sumeet Schroff, Kameron Palagi,
Mike McGowan, Canaan Colwick, Andrew Spirk, Mike Dittmar
Second Place
Boys’ Junior 1x B – Mark
Nolfi
Boys’ Octuple – Elena
Reynolds, Adam Reckless, Brian Marcus, Steve Marcus, Mark Nolfi, Josh Weis, Alan
Meininghaus, Ryan Mohan, Zac
O’Neill
Third Place
Boys’ Junior 1x A – Steve
Marcus
Girls’ Junior 1x – Cherith
Elliott
Boys’ Varsity 4x A – Joe
Brendel, Rory Dahl, Bill Francis, Singen Elliott
Girls’ Varsity 4x A –
Kathleen Janosco, Briana Pittman, Liz Rebhun, Kim Weaver
Boats Qualifying for Finals Not
Run
Boys’ Varsity 1x – Singen
Elliott (1st place in heat)
Girls’ Varsity 2x A –
Brittney Kelly, Erin Dauson (1st place in heat)
** Only reflects boats which either
placed in the top 3 in the finals or qualified for finals not run.