New Trier Midwest Scholastic Rowing Championship 2019

Press Release: New Trier Midwest Scholastic Rowing Championships

at Dillon Lake in Nashport, Ohio, May 11 & 12, 2019

New Trier High School rowers had a record-setting performance at the Midwest Scholastic Rowing Championship on May 11-12, winning by its highest margin the All Points Trophy for the most victories for the thirteenth consecutive year since 2007. The team came home with sixteen first place finishes, one second place finish and one third place finish. Of the eighteen medalists, twelve crews qualified for and eleven will go on to theScholastic Rowing Association of America’s national competition in Nashport, OH, on May 24th& 25th.

In sunny, warm conditions on Saturday and cooler temperatures and clouds on Sunday, the New Trier crews dominated a field of high school rowers from states ranging from Pennsylvania to Michigan.

New Trier’s first place finishing crews were:

Womens HS Novice 8+

Mens HS Novice 8+

Womens HS Ltwt 4+

Womens HS Varsity 4+

Mens HS Varsity 4+

Womens HS Freshmen 8+

Mens HS Freshmen 8+

Womens HS Ltwt Novice 4+

Mens HS Ltwt Novice 4+

Womens HS Ltwt 8+

Mens HS Ltwt 8+

Womens HS 3rd 8+

Womens HS 2nd 8+

Mens HS 2nd 8+

Womens HS Varsity 8+

Mens HS Varsity 8+

The Womens HS Junior 8+ boat finished in second place, and theWomens HS Novice 4+ finished in third place.

Coach Rose Marchuk, Director of New Trier’s rowing program, said “New Trier has never done better than this year at the Scholastic Midwest Championships. The intensity of competition will increase as we face our Scholastic National competition in less than two weeks. You can expect finishing margins to be much tighter.”

The Women’s team qualified every boat it possibly could based on what it entered. The stroke of the Womens First Varsity 8+ boat, Katherine Figura, said, “we went into the final feeling strong and confident. We focused on pulling hard and putting everything we had into the race, which translated to a fast start and an even faster finish.”

Coach Hope Poor noted that the Womens Freshmen 8+ qualified for Nationals for the ninth straight year. She said of all the novice rowers, “I'm so proud of how far these girls have come in just one year of rowing. They rowed with great style, gumption and heart.”

Coach Charles Richardson said of his Mens Lightweight 8+ boat, “They executed the race plan to perfection and led the field from start the finish and won by a six second margin which is more than a boat length of open water. We plan on carrying this speed to Nationals and compete against some of the best scholastic programs in the country.”

Coach Josip Stolar praised his MensFreshmen and Novice 8+ boats, which he said “dominated in their respective races and won by open water. The Lightweight 4+ took a boat length lead during their race and kept that advantage all the way to the finish line.”

Carl Borsotti, stroke for the victorious Mens First Varsity 8+ boat, said that everyone on his boat “has put a tremendous amount of time and effort into this sport in order to get where they were this weekend, and all we had to do was believe in ourselves and trust our fitness.”