The USC women's rowing team competed in their only fall regatta today (Nov. 10) at the San Diego Fall Classic at Mission Bay - Crown Point in San Diego, and raced will showing great promise for the upcoming season as Trojan boats placed first in the Women's Open 2- and the Women's Open Frosh/Novice races.
"The San Diego Fall Classic (SDFC) was once against a great development opportunity for us," said head coach Josh Adam. "We want to thank the San Diego Rowing Club and Chris Callaghan for putting on a great event. As a team, we found a lot of growth edges for how to manage ourselves at a regatta as well as how to race. The highlight for us was getting the newest group of walk-ons incorporated into racing boats. We watched the team develop throughout the regatta.
"In rowing, racing is the highest level of practicing being an elite-level athlete. This SDFC was really great practice for us as we look towards developing ourselves and our speed for the spring 2000m sprint season."
The morning began with the Women's Open 1x, where USC's Katarzyna Pilch placed second with a time of 20:35.755 and Trojan Astrid Steensberg was right behind in third place with a time of 20:35.855.
The Trojan Novice team took to the water next where they won the Women's Open Frosh/Novice 8+ race clocking in at 18:32.582, a full minute and 13 seconds ahead of the second place team.
In the Women's Open 2-, USC entered six boats. Trojan Boat D (Steensberg, Richardson) placed first secure a 19:27.653 time, which was 25 seconds faster than the second place boat. Trojan Boat A (Pilch, Cabula) placed third (19:54.664), Boat C (Blonien, Schröder) claimed fifth (20:38.181), Boat B (Braglia, Megill) took eighth (21:29.176), Boat E (Daboub, Panek) placed tenth (23:25.179) and Boat F (Medelinskaite, Sloman) finished in eleventh (23.25.179).
The Women's Open 4+ was the final race of the day and the USC A Boat placed second with a time of 19:11.679, 14 seconds behind the first place boat. USC's C Boat placed fifth (19:34.842), the D Boat placed tenth (22:03.507) and the B Boat placed eleventh (22:50.529).
For full Trojan boatings and results, see below.
USC will have a break in their rowing action until the spring season, which begins with a scrimmage against Loyola Marymount on Saturday, Feb. 7.
Women's Open 1x
Women's Open 2-
Women's Open 4+
| USC D - 10th (22:03.507) |
Women's Open Novice 8+
