November 5, 2005
Crew Team Medals at California Yacht Club
Judge rowers joined Utah Crew teammates from Waterford, East, West, and Skyline high schools to win one gold medal and three thirds at the Head of the Marina race. The race, hosted by the California Yacht Club at Marina del Rey, California, was held November 5, 2005.
The girls' varsity 8+, coxed by Judge sophomore Ellie Craig, took the gold medal in the 3.1-mile head race through Ballona Creek and Marina del Rey. Judge rowers included Alex Smith, Katie Lepley, Alexa Norlin, and team co-captain Jessalyn Abt in the bow.
The girls' novice 8+, coxed by Judge freshman Matt Gray and including Judge rowers Kay Kostrencich, Passion Garcia, Megan Smith, and Ellie Craig, took third in a field of seven boats in their race, as did the boys' novice 8+ and boys' novice 4+ boats. The field included boats from throughout southern California. Utah Crew was the only team in the race from the Intermountain West.
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November 3, 2005
Head of the Great Salt Lake Regatta
Judge rowers on the Utah Crew team competed on October 15 at the first annual Head of the Great Salt Lake regatta. Judge rowers include Matt Gray and Ellie Craig, coxswains, Stuart Ford and Nick Rodriguez in mixed 4, and Katie Lepley, Alex Smith, Alexa Norlin, Jessalyn Abt, Kay Kostrencich, Passion Garcia, Megan Smith rowing in women's 8s and 4s. Below is a recap of the race from the Salt Lake Tribune.
Nine Judge rowers are traveling to Marina del Rey for the California Yacht Club's Head of the Marina Regatta on November 5, 2005.
Go Crew!
Crews race on Great Salt Lake
Prep Rowing -
By Tim Yanni
Special to The Tribune
Salt Lake Tribune, Sunday, October 15, 2005
About 50 high school rowers competed in the Head of the Great Salt Lake at the Great Salt Lake Marina on Saturday.
In addition to the high schoolers, who competed for Waterford High and the Utah Crew club team, the Head of the Great Salt Lake featured 20 participants from Great Salt Lake Rowing, an adult rowing club. The clubs plan to make the event an annual fall occurrence
Great Salt Lake Rowing has called the marina home since the late 1980s, but only recently became involved with Utah Crew, a club consisting of students from Judge Memorial, Rowland Hall, East and West high schools.
"All the kids had so much fun,” said MarJanna Dahl, a Utah Crew coach and one of the event's officials. “The turnout was tremendous. We're so pleased that our programs have grown so much over the last two years.”
The Head of the Great Salt Lake consists of 6,000-meter races. Rowers in a head race go along a defined course consisting of complicated turns.
Waterford's Annie Agle won the girls' single race.
Bengt Grua and Colin Zweibel won the boys' doubles, and Utah Crew claimed victories in the girls' novice fours and eights, as well as the boys' varsity eights. Waterford won the boys' novice fours and eights.
The Head of the Great Salt Lake was the kickoff event for the clubs' rowing season. They will compete as one team Nov. 5, when they travel to a meet in Marina Del Rey, Calif.
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