United States selects full World Champs team

Overshadowing the trials was the proposed attempt by Ursula Grobler to qualify for three boat classes – the lightweight women’s single, double and quadruple sculls. Racing in three events at the World Rowing Championships has not been attempted before. Grobler had already qualified for the lightweight double for the United States after winning the first Rowing World Cup this season with partner Abelyn Broughton. She then raced in the most recent round of trials in the single and quad. The quad, which includes Broughton, earned the top spot while Grobler went head-to-head with Julie Nichols in the single.

Nichols, 32, has come back to top rowing after racing two years ago for the United States in the lightweight single. Grobler won the first of three against Nichols. Nichols then took out the second race. Grobler and her coach, Carlos Dinares, had by this stage decided not to aim for the single and thus pulled out of the final race enabling Nichols to win in a row-over. Grobler and Broughton will now compete in two events at the Lake Karapiro, New Zealand World Champs.  

Men’s single sculler Ken Jurkowski came back from a post-Beijing Olympic break to take out the leading spot in the single. Jurkowski finished ahead of Tom Graves stamping his mark on his comeback and earning a trip to New Zealand. For the women’s single a race to the line went on between Genevra Stone and Lindsay Meyer. Meyer prevailed in the end. The 22 year old Olympian came third at the Under 23 Championships earlier this year.

National training centre combination and reigning World Champions Susan Francia and Erin Cafaro had no competition in the women’s pair. They have paired up again for the Worlds after spending parts of this season rowing in separate boats. Francia and Cafaro took double gold last year in the pair and eight but this year will just be racing in the pair.

The men’s pair was won by Ryan Monaghan and Deaglan McEachern. This new combination have both rowed in the Oxford-Cambridge Boat Race, Monaghan in 2008 and 2009 and McEachern in 2009 when he also served as president for Cambridge University rowing.

Coming back to elite rowing is Dan Urevick-Ackelsberg. The Philadelphian rower last raced internationally three years ago in the lightweight quad. This year he will be the representative in the lightweight single. Another comeback is Alison Cox, 31, who last raced internationally six years ago when she medalled in the women’s eight at the Athens Olympic Games. This year Cox will be part of the women’s four which also includes Grace Luczak, Adrienne Martelli and Mara Allen.

Selection trials also went on for the lightweight men’s pair, lightweight men’s eight and men’s coxed pair. They will join a field of 24 crews, a total of 80 athletes, some of them selected out of athletes at the National Training Centre.

2010 US World Rowing Championship Team

Men’s Single Sculls (M1x)
Ken Jurkowski

Women’s Single Sculls (W1x)
Lindsay Meyer

Lightweight Men’s Single Sculls (LM1x)
Dan Urevick-Ackelsberg

Lightweight Women’s Single Sculls (LW1x)
Julie Nichols

Men’s Double Sculls (M2x)
Warren Anderson
Glenn Ochal

Women’s Double Sculls (W2x)
Kate Bertko
Stesha Carle

Lightweight Men’s Double Sculls (LM2x)
Brian de Regt
Jon Winter

Lightweight Women’s Double Sculls (LW2x)
Abby Broughton
Ursula Grobler

Men’s Quadruple Sculls (M4x)
Scott Gault
Elliot Hovey    
Wes Piermarini
Will Miller

Women’s Quadruple Sculls (W4x)
Megan Kalmoe
Sarah Trowbridge
Natalie Dell
Margot Shumway

Lightweight Men’s Quadruple Sculls (LM4x)
Matt Carey
Todd Mickelson
Peter Morelli
Brian Tryon

Lightweight Women’s Quadruple Sculls (LW4x)
Abby Broughton
Ursula Grobler
Kristin Hedstrom
Victoria Burke

Men’s Pair (M2-)
Ryan Monaghan
Deaglan McEachern

Women’s Pair (W2-)
Erin Cafaro
Susan Francia

Men’s Pair with Coxswain (M2+)
Stephen Young
Nareg Guregian
Justin Stangel

Lightweight Men’s Pair (LM2-)
Mike Nucci
Evan Tsourtsoulas

Men’s Four (M4-)
Silas Stafford
Samuel Stitt
Henrik Rummel
Giuseppe Lanzone
   
Women’s Four (W4-)
Alison Cox
Adrienne Martelli
Grace Luczak
Mara Allen

Lightweight Men’s Four (LM4-)
Will Daly
Ryan Fox
Nick LaCava
Anthony Fahden

Men’s Eight (M8+)
Ned DelGuercio
Tom Peszek
Jason Read
Charlie Cole
Jake Cornelius
Brett Newlin
Dan Walsh
Mark Murphy
David Banks

Women’s Eight (W8+)
Mary Whipple
Eleanor Logan
Esther Lofgren
Taylor Ritzel
Meghan Musnicki
Kady Glessner
Jamie Redman
Amanda Polk
Anna Goodale

Lightweight Men’s Eight (LM8+)
Stephen Young
James Sopko
Matthew Kochem
Kenny McMahon
Matthew Muffelman
Michael Kerrigan
Julian Bowling
Robert Duff
John Dise

Adaptive Men’s Single Sculls (ASM1x)
Ron Harvey

Adaptive Four with Coxswain (LTA4+)
Jenny Sichel
Eric McDaniel
Emma Preuschl
Eleni Englert
Andrew Johnson