Beaver Dam, NC – With less than a month of rowing under its hulls, High Point Rowing Club enjoyed its historic first ever day of boat racing today at the Beaver Dam Fall Regatta, hosted by the University of North Carolina.
High Point entered several boat classes of rowing from novice youth to masters with several highlights throughout the day. Other youth teams competing included Charlotte Youth Rowing Club, Asheville Youth Rowing, and the Triangle Rowing Club from Raleigh.
The main events for High Point at Beaver Dam were the Women’s Masters Eights and the Women’s Youth Novice Eights.
In the Masters Eight event, mothers of the High Point scholastic crew represented the team against an experienced and deep squad of career rowers from the Carolina Rowing Club and racing was extremely close though out with Carolina taking line honors in the event.
In the Women’s Youth Novice Eight category, High Point entered two crews, although the ‘A’ crew had some assistance in making up numbers with two rowers from the Charlotte Rowing team.
Women’s Youth Novice Eight
Charlotte Youth Rowing 17 min 18 sec
Triangle Rowing Club 18 min 02 sec
High Point Rowing Club ‘B’ 19 min 47 sec
Asheville Rowing Club 19 min 48 sec
High Point Rowing Club ‘A’ 23 min 24 sec
“This was a wonderful introduction to boat racing for our team,” said program director Gene Kininmonth.” All our rowers did really well and it is incredible how much progress this team has made in less than a month. Beaver Dam is a fabulous destination for rowing and we are very grateful to race organizer Adam Cottrell and his team at UNC for hosting such a participant friendly regatta.”
Kininmonth added that the team is still recruiting and is primarily for middle and high school students aged thirteen and up who attend any Triad area public or private school. Students interested in joining the team should email contact@highpointrowing.com .
Next up for High Point is the 2012 Head of the Hooch Regatta in Chattanooga, TN on November 3.
