Main Line crew squads make waves at Stotesbury

Main Line high school crew teams made their mark at the Stotesbury Regatta May 17-18 on the Schuylkill River. The Stotesbury Regatta is the world’s largest high school regatta, with 189 clubs registered this year, with 951 boats and 5,495 athletes competing.
Here’s a look at how the Main Line teams performed (the following squads reported their results to Main Line Media News sports – badams@mainlinemedianews.com):

Agnes Irwin
AIS raced five crews and brought home the gold in the Freshman Quad category.
In the Freshman Quad final, the quartet of Chloe Saulnier, Caroline O’Mara, Ashlyn Phelan and Julia van der Zwan got off to a quick start battling with the crew from Ridgewood for the majority of the race. Coming in to the last 500 meters of the race, the Agnes Irwin girls picked up the pace and started edging out a lead. The quad crossed the line first with a time of 5:35, three seconds clear of second place Ridgewood, and seven seconds clear of third place finisher Springside Chestnut Hill.
“We’re so incredibly proud of our freshman girls,” said AIS assistant coach Charles Jordan. “They worked so hard for this win, every race they went out with the goal of going faster, and that’s exactly what they did. After narrowly missing the win at Cities two weeks ago, this is a nice little redemption against a very competitive field.”
Peyton Bond finished seventh in the Senior Single event, by virtue of winning the Petite Final, which decided positions 7-12, with a time of 6:22.

Baldwin School
The Senior Double (bow, Jane Bai, stroke, Stephanie Hulme) achieved a bronze medal finish. The crew finished with a time of 6:00.32, ahead of Sacred Heart and Strath Haven. Bai, a senior captain on the team, will continue rowing at MIT this fall.
The Junior Quad (bow, Jada Williams, 2, Mimi Salgado, 3, Sammy Baron, stroke, Jasmine Bell) finished fifth in their semifinal and 10th overall.
The Junior Double (bow, Grace Kirwan, stroke, Ava Rosenberger) also finished fifth in their semifinal and 10th overall.

Conestoga
The Conestoga crew team, which had 12 entries including 26 athletes, won three gold medals, two silver medals and one bronze medal.
Gold medals were earned by the undefeated Girls Lightweight 2X (Maggie Gosnear and Annie Dudrear), the undefeated Boys Varsity 2X (Shane Connell and Cole Fogarty) and the Boys Varsity 4X (Brenton Molsbergen, Max Harmon, Andrew McLellan, Kale Wiley).
This marked the first time that the Conestoga Boys Varsity 2X won the gold medal at Stotesbury. The Girls Lightweight 2X received the Lawrence Kieffer Trophy for finishing first – the first time Conestoga had received this trophy in 10 years. This also was the first Stotesbury gold medal earned by the Conestoga Boys Varsity 4X in seven years.
Silver medals went to the Girls Varsity (Natalia Bertolotti, Blair Kennedy, Victoria Budike, Abigail Lewis) and Boys JV 4X: (Zack Miles, Denis Corr, Kosta Markovic, Kevin Connell).
A bronze medal was earned by the Girls JV 4X (Savanna Jacovini, Ella Ottensman, Lily Bielinski, Annie Stuber).

Episcopal Academy
EA had three boats place in the Championship finals with the Boys Varsity 4+ medaling in their race.
The Boys Varsity 4+, (stroke – Billy Stavropoulos, Peter Woodville, Ian Reape, Owen Maier and coxswain Juliana DiCarlo) finished second (4:58.04)
The Girls JV 4x (stroke – Lily Haupt, Mickey Rymal, Natalie Johnston and Mary Grace Konopka) placed fifth in the championship finals (5:21.17).
The EA Boys JV4+ (stroke – Jack Rebillard, Arya Venugopalan, Chase Anderson, Will Konopka and coxswain Hollis du Pont) raced in the time trials placing seventh out of 60 boats with a time of 5:13.87, which advanced them to semifinals, where they placed first in the first heat (5:07.00) which advanced them to finals. In the championship finals, the EA boys placed fifth (4:54.50).
In other EA results, the Girls Varsity 4+ (stroke – Brooke Kraftson, Morgan Gantt, Margot LeRoux, Allison Lee, coxswain Alyssa Sheffy) finished eighth in the time trials out of a field of 57 boats (5:47.27) and advanced to semifinals, where they placed third in their heat with a time of 5:19.95.
The Girls’ Freshman 4x (stroke – Ashley Tan, Emmie O’Neill, Grace Bomberger, Ella Jordan) placed ninth in the time trials (6:28.05) and advanced to semifinals where they placed fourth in their heat with a time of 6:03.31.
The Boys JV 4x (stroke – Max Levinson, Charlie Barton, Jimmy Bruder and Aedan Yohannan) placed eighth in the time trials out of 21 boats with a time of 5:22.48, and advanced to semifinals, where they placed fifth in their heat with a time of 4:55.65.

Radnor
Of six Radnor girls boats entered in the 2019 Stotesbury Cup Regatta four advanced to the semifinals and one advanced to the finals.
The Girls Lightweight 8+ consisting of coxswain Jessica Weitzman, stroke Jenna Spray, Amanda Vitt, Lexi Fogel, Ali Bauer, Clare McDonald, Isabella DiGiacomo, Sophia Hernandez and Tova Tachau held second throughout their final and fended off a furious sprint by Merion Mercy to garner silver by the slimmest of margins – .03 seconds – with a time of 04:49.74.
The Girls Junior 8+ consisting of coxswain Courtney Gallagher, stroke Avery VanDusen, Tara Osborne, Abby Chapin, Jill Getty, Brighton Dewitt, Chloe Sakowski, Taylor Stearns and Maddie Johnson finished sixth in a time trial with 43 boats and third in the semifinal, missing the final by less than two seconds with a time of 04:54.73.