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Wednesday, July 2, 2008
Challenging for the Temple
All U.S. crews rowed through the first round of the Temple Challenge Cup on the Thames yesterday. The Cornell lightweight, coming off their third IRA National Title set the fastest time of the day at 6:35 and where pushed most of the way by the school from Holland, D.S.R. Proteus-Eretes. Trinity came through the line in 6:45 to defeat Southhampton University by 1 1/4 lengthes. Volker Nolte's Western Ontario won with a 3 length lead and clocked a 6:48 to move on.
Cornell will now face London England's Imperial College in the second round and could be an outside favorite to win this regatta and complete a perfect Championship season. They would be one of the only lightweight crews to ever win this event.
Greatest Races Week 24
In 2005 Zac Purchase announced his arrival to the international rowing community as a brash 19 year old by winning a silver medal in the lightweight men's single, edging out the veteran single sculler, Fabrice Moreau by less than a second. His meteoric rise to the pinnacle of the lightweight rowing world has continued unfettered as he dominated the second 1000-m of this World Championship field in 2006 en route to setting a World Record. In the fall of 2008 he partnered with veteran lightweight sculler, Mark Hunter in the Lightweight Double and they have; in the words of the very British FISA announcer, "looked imperial".
For a sport that boasts a 43 year old Olympian in James Tomkins, Zac Purchase is certainly an anomaly.
Monday, June 30, 2008
Development?
The United States will send 3 lightweight U23 crews to Bradenburg Germany for this year's U23 World Championships; the light men's single, double, and pair. Turnout for this year's regatta was sparse at best with a combined four boats to compete for the LM2- and LM2x. The men's light 1x was the most populated event of the U23 regatta with 7 entries. Numbers across the country for U23 Lightweight camps where equally disappointing.
Of the 9 varsity lightweight eights and 72 varsity lightweight athletes that competed at this years IRA National Championships only 3 athletes attended a Senior or U23 World Championship trial; Yale lightweight Alex Rothmeier won the Senior Light Pair trial with Riverside teammate, John Nichols, Princeton's Varsity Stroke, James Donovan won the Men's Lightweight Double with his freshman teammate, Robin Prendes, and Dartmouth Senior, David Smith placed third in the light men's single, 7 seconds behind the eventual winner, Temple's Sam Cunningham (rowing for Malta this summer).
The question then remains, where are the other 69 athletes that competed for this year's National Championships? These are arguably the best U23 lightweight rowers in the country, maybe the world, what is stopping them from competing internationally?
