COASTWEEKS REGATTA

ROWING TEAM CAPTURES A 1ST, 2ND, AND 3RD PLACE MEDALS AT THE COASTWEEKS REGATTA

The Kings Point Varsity Women captured first place in the Women's Youth Double in what was their first competition of the fall season. The Men's achieved equal success as it brought home medals in the Open Four and Men's Youth Four.

The Coastweeks regatta is held annually at the Mystic Seaport Museum in Mystic Connecticut. Additionally, the team successfully completed some training on the training vessel Liberator as it was used for transportation to the regatta and for berthing the team while in Mystic.

The women's crew of Toni Birdsong'14, and Brooke Mueller '14 finished first in the Women's Youth Double in what was the first rowing competition for Birdsong who is in her first season of rowing.

The crew of coxswain- Greg Acker '13, Stroke- James Sanwald '11, 3 Seat Connan Ingham '12, 2-Sean Welsh '14, and Bow- Frank Osborne '12, captured second place in the Men's Open Four event. The margin was only eight seconds behind the winning crew of the U.S. Coast Guard. The rowing mariners clocked 7:49 for the 2000 meter course to Coast Guard's 7:41; the equivalent of only 15 feet over the distance of a one and a quarter mile race. Despite losing to Coast Guard, this was a good start for what is expected to be a great fall season for the Varsity Men.

The crew of coxswain-Giuseppe Niosi, Stroke- Frank Romano '14, 3 Seat - Jack White '14, 2 - Seat Greg Trieber '14, and Bow- John Dohring '14 rowed to a third place finish and a bronze medal in the Youth Four event. This was the first time that this Plebe crew has worn the grey and blue in competition. This strong early showing bodes well for what looks like a strong Plebe team.

Also competing for the first time for Kings Point were the crews of:

Men's Open Four Competition
Cox. Niosi/ Michael Kirk '14, Brendan Rohr '13, Garrett Poncin '13, Chris Murphy '13. (4th Place)

Cox. Llewellyn Culas / David Rosas '14/Malek Byam '14, Jorge Jaime '13, John DeMedeiros '14 (6th Place)

Cox. Toni Birdsong/ Kevin Simon '14, William Cullen '14, Matthew Lott '14, Joseph Glywasky '14 (5th Place)

Mixed Double:
Bethany Haskell/ John Dohring (5th place)

The Varsity Rowing team will head to the Harlem River next week for the Head of the Harlem Regatta.