High Point Rowing Club’s youth squad will open its 2018 season on the 1996 Olympic race course at the John Hunter Regatta in Gainesville, GA this weekend.
Combining with Greensboro rowers the squad will race as HPG Rowing and is expected to be competitive in a number of key events.
“High Point rowers will have a sculling focus on Sunday while Greensboro will focus on the sweep events,” says head coach Gene Kininmonth.
The team’s U17 squad will open racing in the morning in the sweep events. HPG has crews entered in the boys and girls U17 eights and four-oared events.
In the sculling events High Point will be well represented in the girls and boys single sculls events by Arte Blythe and William Hundley.
“We also have two extremely strong women’s quad sculls,” says Kininmonth. “These scullers have all put in so much work and both crews are capable of winning their races on Sunday. Selecting the fastest combination has been the biggest challenge.”
On the boys sculling squad William Hundley is combining with Harry Capizzi in the double scull and those two will also combine with Govind Harish and William Scarpa III in the quad scull later in the day.
