Festival Park at Oak Hollow Lake, High Point – High Point Rowing Club’s youth squad will be looking to continue its winning ways against Triangle RC, the premier rowing club from Raleigh, at the High Point Regatta on Saturday.
High Point’s boys’ and girls’ crews have swept Triangle in the blue ribbon eights events in each of the past two years and will go for three in a row on Saturday morning.
The girls varsity eight is the hot favorite to win on Saturday. Coming off a strong victory at the James River Sprints in Richmond, VA last weekend, the crew looks to have maintained the form that earned them a grand finals appearance at the 2015 USRowing Southeast Regional Championships.
The girls squad is deep and will be racing three divisions of eight-oared crews against Triangle, each of which they won in 2015.
On the boys side, High Point may enter Saturday’s race as a slight underdog, based on 2015 Autumn performances. Coach Gene Kininmonth says that while the boys squad has improved, so has the opposition.
“Two years ago we raised the bar on North Carolina rowing. Triangle has made some tremendous improvements in the last six months on the boys side of the roster. Now they have met that bar with strong recruiting and I give full credit to them for that. Saturday’s racing is something to look forward to for both clubs because nothing is a foregone conclusion.”
The boys varsity eight-oared crew is also coming off a run away victory at James River Sprints last weekend.
Significant to this weekend’s racing is the adoption of sculling on the team. Both the boys and girls will race a quadruple scull and Adam Alt and Kyle Koval will also race the double scull.
Masters racing is also on the slate for Saturday with squads from Belmont Rowing Club, and Raleigh Rowing Center entered to compete against High Point in various boat classes.
