Liz Martin on her journey to the World Championships. Building her team for the LW4x.
High Performance Group:
1st – W Senior 1x – Lauren Schmetterling
1st – W Senior 2x – Lauren Schmetterling, Emily Huelskamp
2nd – M Lightweight 1x – Jake Georgeson
4th – W Champ 1x – Lauren Schmetterling
5th – W Senior 1x – Emily Huelskamp
5th – W Senior Lightweight 4x – Mary Foster, Laurissa Gulich, Lauren Ayers, Joan Buck
Women’s Sweep
4th – W Senior 8+
3rd and 6th – W Senior 4-
5th – W Senior Lightweight 2-
As no doubt many of your are aware, the final boats for the 2012 Olympic Team were announced on Friday. I am very excited to announce that four Riverside alumni will be on the 2012 US Olympic Team.
Natalie Dell will be representing the USA in the Women’s Quad, which won silver at the 2011 world championships. Esther Lofgren and Meghan Musnicki will be in the flagship Women’s Eight, which won gold at the 2009, 2010 and 2011 world championships. Anthony Fahden will be rowing in the Lightweight Men’s Four, which qualified for the Olympics at the Lucerne Final Qualification regatta in May.
I would also like to recognize Hillary Saeger, who was second at the Olympic Trials at the Lightweight Women’s Double, and Will Daly, who won the trials, but came up just 1.5 seconds and one place short of qualifying for the Olympics in the Lightweight Men’s Double at Lucerne.
We are incredibly proud of all of you, and those who came so agonizingly close only underline how difficult this journey is. Congratulations, and good luck in London, Esther, Meg, Natalie and Anthony!
Go USA!
-Igor Belakovskiy, President, Riverside Boat Club
Photos by J. Langille
Women’s 2-
Women’s 4-
Women’s Club 4+
Women’s Intermediate 4x Final 1
6th (Catherine Crowley, Jean Sack, Antonia Villa, Severine Imbert de Smirnoff)
Women’s Intermediate Ltwt 2x Final 1
3rd (Mary Foster, Joan Buck)
5th (Lauren Ayers, Laurissa Gulich)
Mens Senior 4+ Final 1
6th (Cameron Schuh, Mark Komanecky, Andrew Peck, Evan Bailey, Renee Lanza – cox)
Women’s Intermediate 4+
6th (Erin Meyer, Jennifer Johnson, Sarah Herman, Jeanette Saraidaridis, Renee Lanza – cox)
Mens Intermediate Ltwt 1x Final 1
4th (Cameron Schuh)
Women’s Senior 4- Final 1
2nd (Erin Meyer, Alina von Korff, Severine Imbert de Smirnoff, Jenn Johnson)
Womens Intermediate Ltwt 4x Final 1
1st (Mary Foster, Laurissa Gulich, Lauren Ayers, Joan Buck)
Womens Intermediate 2x Final 1
4th (Catherine Crowley, Jean Sack)
Womens Senior 4+ Final 1
2nd (Erin Meyer, Alina von Korff, Severine Imbert de Smirnoff, Jenn Johnson, Erica Stuke – cox)
Womens Intermediate Ltwt 1x Final 1
1st (Mary Foster)
2nd (Joan Buck)
Mens Open 1x – Dash Final 1
1st (Derek Rubin)
by Lib Diamond
Ellen Czaika joins RBC as a jack(jane?)-of-all-rowing-trades. She has experience sweeping, sculling, and even coxing but joined RBC primarily to continue sculling. She is PhD Student originally from Marblehead, MA and San Diego, CA (she spans the nation) and she has rowed for San Diego, MIT Rowing Club, and Oxford (stroke-side). Ellen is involved in the yoga community in South Boston and hopefully can bring us all a little needed balance.
Kalmia Buels learned to row in Ithaca, NY as a wee 8th grader. She sculled in college on a club team and after a brief hiatus from the sport continued sculling with a masters group in Portland OR. Kalmia is a rock climber and a Postdoctoral Fellow at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center with a fondness for the adrenaline rush of the last five strokes of a sprint race. Welcome!
Jon Miles hails from Woodstock, VT just north of everyone’s third-favorite fall Regatta, GMH. Jon is an SAT tutor and an avid sock knitter(er) who began rowing during his senior year at Wesleyan University. He was tricked into sticking with the sport after winning the Lightweight 8 at Canadian Henley in “all its vomitey glory.” He’s recovering from a back injury but will be back on the water after he finishes knitting his first pair of blue striped socks.
Dear Friends of Riverside,
Our club’s mission is to provide the best environment so that a rower of any caliber can achieve their rowing goals. This year, I am reaching out to you to encourage you to help Riverside and its mission by supporting the Riverside Annual Fund.
The Annual Fund will support all the activities and programs of Riverside, and will help us plan for Riverside’s future.
The Riverside High Performance Group offers the perfect environment, expertise and opportunity for athletes to fulfill their dream to, one day, represent the United States in international competition. Our sweep programs provide racing opportunities for all ages, from recent college graduates to Veterans. Our sculling group has helped rowers of all abilities–from multi-time Head of the Charles winners to recent converts from sweep rowing–to improve their technical and racing skills. The Riverside Junior program provides an opportunity for high school students to further develop their athletic, leadership and team skills.
As you know, programs are shaped by coaches. Riverside’s coaches are dedicated and passionate professionals with the experience and knowledge to provide a successful environment for rowers. Your unrestricted gift to the Annual Fund will benefit our coaches and the success of all of our programs by helping to provide for Riverside’s greatest needs, be they emergency or planned.
We invite you to also consider designating your support specifically to the Riverside Facilities Fund that will help bring our boathouse up to the quality of the programs it hosts. The work badly needed in the building (porch repair, first floor beam support, dock repair, upstairs framing repairs, updating the fire sprinkler system, upgrading the electrical and heating systems) will cost an estimated $2Million and your generosity would really make a difference.
Finally, every year Riverside is proud to send some of its rowers to compete on the world stage representing the United States. This year, we are extremely happy and proud that Hillary Saeger(Lightweight Women’s Quad) and Andrew Hashway(Lightweight Men’s Eight) will be competing in the World Rowing Championships in Plovdiv, Bulgaria on August 15-19. To support Hillary, Hash and future athletes at the international level, you are able to designate your gift to the Worlds Athletes Fund so we can continue to foster excellence in rowing at Riverside.
We have already gathered 100% support from the Riverside Board and we are looking to receive the support of 100% of our members.
Because you are passionate about rowing and about Riverside, please support our club and its broad-ranging programs with your Annual Fund donation today.
Thank you in advance for your generosity.
Igor Belakovskiy
President, Riverside Boat Club
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