What a weekend! Out of six entries at the Virginia State Championships, Justice Rowing placed 4th twice and second three times!

• Opening the day, our Women’s Junior Double (Ashley Forrest, Gretchen Hardy) overcame a three-length deficit with a fabulous finish in the heat to finish third and advance to the afternoon final.
• Our Men’s Junior Double (Nick Kish, David Caudillo) also finished third in their heat on the strength of hard strokes at a lower rating to advance to the final. Sadly, they were unable to compete in the final.
• For the afternoon finals, the Women’s Senior Double (Chloé Bernasconi, Ella Stavlund) rowed a furious 37 strokes a minute for the entire race to hold off Hylton by 1.6 seconds to finish 2nd.
• The Women’s Junior Double just missed out on medaling in the finals, finishing fourth in a very competitive and large field.
• Our Women’s Senior Quad (Indigo Brookes-Weis, Sabrina Ehmann-Jones, Brooke Ehmann-Jones, Anna Lyons) reversed the results from two weeks ago to beat Western Albemarle by 8.6 seconds and finish second.
• The Men’s Senior Quad (Stephen Blackadar, Sam Schneider, Tucker Trissell, Charlie Hess) nearly caught Western Albemarle and distanced themselves from Albemarle to finish 2nd.
• In our last race of the day, the Women’s Junior Quad just missed out on medaling, finishing fourth in a very fast event where all of the top three finishers would have medaled in the Senior Quad.

[View photo/video slideshow at our photo gallery].

Week Ahead and Stotes!

Looking ahead, we will be focused on Stotesbury Cup Regatta lineups this week, with only the Stotesbury Cup participants and alternates practicing. This weekend’s regatta is in Philadelphia, where our Women’s Junior Quad, Men’s Junior Double, and Women’s Senior Double will compete against the top crews in the Eastern half of the country [See email for rowing practice carpool information].

Coach Nate
Head Coach, Justice Rowing

In Other News

1972 Stuart Class Reunion, Saturday, June 1: Join us to help grill, bake, and serve to support the Stuart Class of 1974 reunion. This will be a major fundraising effort to help replace our aging launch motors and renovate several of our launches.  Sign up today!

End of Year Picnic/Awards/Boosters Annual Meeting and Board Elections, June 2. Sign up to make this a fulfilling celebration of our season.

Car washes — save the date!:  Our next carwash is planned for Saturday, May 18, 12:30-5:00 PM. Sign up to help out at our traditional spring/summer fundraiser. Thanks, parent volunteer Melanie for organizing!

Stotesbury Cup Regatta Logistics Meeting: The Parent/Rower meeting will take place at Justice High School on Monday, May 13 after everyone returns from practice (7:30pm), room I-145 which is right as you come in the main doors up the ramp to the right, two doors down. See emails for updates and information. Matt Hardy, VP Justice High School Rowing Boosters.

David Trissel
President
Justice High School Rowing Boosters