Sports
Impressive Start for Wayland-Weston Girls’ Crew
The Wayland-Weston girls' crew team performed well in its first race of the season, a scrimmage at Lake Cochituate.
Lake Cochituate was the site of a pre-season scrimmage between host Wayland-Weston and crews from Essex and Brookline Sunday, April 15. The warm temperatures and clear skies made for excellent racing and spectating.
In their first races of the season, the Wayland-Weston girls displayed their strength and conditioning. Even though they started training just three weeks ago, the WW rowers worked well together, looking smooth and fast.
This was the first race under the direction of the new girls’ head coach, Borislav Kusturic.
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The Wayland-Weston girls’ team swept the competition, with no visiting boat finishing closer than three seconds behind the host team.
The girls had four races, starting off with two races of fours (four rowers and a coxswain) and finishing with two races of eights (eight rowers and a coxswain).
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Wayland-Weston raced two teams of fours. The first varsity four, coxed by Georgia Parker and stroked by Gabriela Purman, also included Pipa Edwards, Antonia Vitagliano and Emily Phaneuf. The second varsity four was coxed by Kate Silberberg, stroked by Elena Drews and included Rebecca Harris, Emily Huber and Hannah Brigham.
Both of the WW small boats did very well, with the first varsity four winning by 12 seconds and the second varsity four winning its race by 15 seconds.
In the races for the larger boats, Wayland-Weston entered three crews. The first varsity boat, coxed by Caroline Ayanian and stroked by Vitagliano, included all of the rowers from the team’s first and second varsity fours -- Purman, Edwards, Phaneuf, Drews, Harris, Huber and Brigham. The WW first varsity crew won its race by 13 seconds.
Wayland-Weston’s second varsity eight, coxed by Michelle and stroked by Kira Palmer, included Caroline Peters, Madison Keifer, Claire Keller, Lizzie Becker, Sam Kolovson, Emma Conroy and Rachel Yan. The WW third varsity eight was coxed by Pardis Alizadeh-Shabdez and stroked by Kyle Robb. Sophia Haley, Wendy Dong, Sarah Perry, Hannah Smith, Meridith Galang, Elaine Hunt and Rachel Schneider made up the remainder of the crew on the third varsity eight.
The Wayland-Weston girls’ second and third varsity eights both raced against the second varsity eights from Brookline and Essex. The two WW boats finished ahead of the visiting crews. The WW second varsity crew won the race by14 seconds. The WW third varsity crew finished ahead of the boats from Essex and Brookline by three and six seconds, respectively.
Their next race will be Saturday, April 21, in Lawrence against Bromfield, Greater Lawrence Rowing and Community Rowing, Inc.
