Volume 30 | June 2021
Caspersen Rowing Center Happenings
Providing a venue where athletes of all ages, talents and backgrounds have the opportunity to develop their rowing ability to their highest potential.
2021 Youth National Regatta
The Youth National Regatta was June 10th-13th! What an amazing job by all the crews! Congratulations and we are all so proud!

Thank you to all the parents who cheered on the athletes and helped to support Mercer Rowing!
Especially the chaperones! Many many thanks to Erin Wright, John Devine, Kelly Cooper, Keith Griesinger, Stephanie Schneider.

A recap of all events is below:

Women's Pair:
Riley Cooper & Eva Wojnovich placed 3rd overall for a BRONZE MEDAL!

Men's 8:
Teddy Schneider, Nolan Kaputa, Jonathan Sauer, Eric Rohloff, Andrew Griesinger. Julian Thomas, George Drago, Joe DiRusso, and coxswain Katherine Kelly placed 3rd overall for a BRONZE MEDAL!

Men's 4 without Coxswain:
Jack Wright, Akhil Alavalapati, Krish Dhayal, and Derek Quinn placed 4th overall!

Women's 4 without Coxswain:
Ellie Johnson, Nora Devine, Shea Sullivan, Riley Sidebottom placed 5th overall (with a BIG push in the last 500 to come to just over a second behind 4th)

Women's 4 w/ Coxswain:
Charvee Dua, Eugenia Rodriguez-Vazquez, Seher Talukdar, Yayla Tur and coxswain Marlana Mentzer placed 3rd in the B Final for 9th overall

Women's 8:
Olivia Heilbronn, Camille Scordis, Skyler Fong, Lindsay Bouldin, Elli Arbogast, Eva Wojnovich, Riley Cooper. Devon Reid and coxswain Audrey Lucerne placed 4th in the B Final for 10th overall (with a HUGE last 250 to push past St. Andrews!!)

Men's 4 w/ Coxswain:
Kanishk Tewatia, Erich Sands Patrick Murtland, Julius Boucke, and coxswain Ethan Nghiem won the C Final for 13th overall

Men's Pair:
Sean Mills and Colin Cooper placed 2nd in the C Final for 14th overall.
Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games
Congratulations to PNRA/Mercer Alumnus John Tanguay for being selected to represent the US at the 2020 Paralympic Games in Tokyo, Japan.

USRowing has announced the PR3 mixed four with coxswain crew that will represent the United States at the 2020 Paralympic Games in Tokyo, Japan.

PR3 Mixed Four with Coxswain
Karen Petrik (Glastonbury, Conn./University of Rhode Island)

Charley Nordin (Alameda, Calif./Gonzaga University)

John Tanguay (Pennington, N.J./Columbia University)

Dani Hansen (Patterson, Calif./University of Washington)

Allie Reilly (North Kingstown, R.I./University of Rhode Island)


The Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games are scheduled to take place from August 24 to September 5, with para rowing events beginning August 27.
U-19 National Team Trials
After Youth Nationals, the Mercer combo of Andrew Griesinger and Joe DiRusso stayed in Sarasota to race the men's pair at the Under 19 National Team Trials. They came in 2nd by the smallest of margins. Congrats on a hard-fought race and outstanding effort by this duo!

Congratulations to the Lawrenceville Seniors!
From Left to Right: Erica Sinha, Jack Kilbourne, Guy Ferrera, Eric Morais, Edan Blecher, George Wright, Cal Wilson

We wish all the seniors luck as they are off to row in college!
Summer Rowing
We are offering several adult programs which can be found below!
Learn to Row Day
PNRA/ Mercer is hosting a FREE Community Learn to Row Day!

It will be hosted at the Caspersen Rowing Center August 7th from 8:30am-1pm

End of Fiscal Year Donations
The end of our fiscal year is June 30th! Given the difficulty of the past year with COVID- 19 any contribution you could make to PNRA/Mercer would be greatly appreciated.
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