World Rowing U23 Championships
New Zealand’s U23 team are preparing for 2019 World Rowing U23 Championships in Sarasota-Bradenton, United States 24-28 July.
The 2019 World Rowing Under 23 Championships has attracted nearly 700 rowers from 53 nations.
New Zealand’s team includes Jack Lopas and Ollie Maclean in the men’s double scull, both of whom are based in the USA. Coach Logan Keys joined Lopas and Maclean at Princeton University on 10 June for a training camp ahead of their upcoming competition.
Live video streaming will be available on www.worldrowing.com. Video streaming will start 10 minutes before every race and will cover all races from Wednesday 24 July to Sunday 28 July.
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Venue Information
Situated on Florida’s West Coast just one hour south of Tampa and two hours from Orlando, in beautiful Sarasota, Florida, Nathan Benderson Park is a community park providing public access to a picturesque lake.
Nathan Benderson Park was built to FISA racing standards and has 8 x 13.5 meter lanes. The race course specifications include 2,180 meters in length, 630 meters wide and on average 6 meters deep. In addition to the race course the lake has multiple 1500 meter warm-up and cool down lanes.
Nathan Benderson Park lake was created as a man-made borrow pit, spring fed with additional surface water holding capacity. The 161.8 hectares lake was previously used for mining sand and shell. Since then, the open pit was filled by the Cooper Creek drainage basin and the underground aquifer system.
The completed venue consists of a state of the art floating wave attenuator platform that doubles as a dedicated TV lane for broadcast requirements, exclusive 3m wide paved coaches cycle path.
The venue hosted a spectacular and successful 2017 World Rowing Championships, which was attended by 921 athletes from 68 countries.
Please click here to view the location of the venue on Google Maps.
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World Rowing U23 Championships Team
Women’s Coxless Pair
Ruby Willis (Petone Rowing Club, Central RPC)
Grace Holland (Tauranga Rowing Club, Waikato RPC)
Ian Bright (coach)
Women’s Coxless Four
Charlotte Spence (Auckland Rowing Club, Auckland RPC)
Jemma James (West End Rowing Club, Auckland RPC)
Grace Watson (St Pauls Collegiate Rowing Club, Waikato RPC)
Catherine Layburn (North Shore Rowing Club, Auckland RPC)
Ian Bright (coach)
Women’s Quad
Veronica Wall (Ashburton Rowing Club, Southern RPC)
Kathryn Glen (Avon Rowing Club, Southern RPC)
Katie Lush (Waikato Rowing Club, Waikato RPC)
Laura Glen (Avon Rowing Club, Southern RPC)
Matt Cameron (coach)
Men’s Double (USA based athletes)
Ollie Maclean (University of California, Berkeley)
Jack Lopas (Yale University)
Logan Keys (coach)
Men’s Lightweight Double
Isaac Everitt (St Georges Rowing Club, Auckland RPC)
Chris Stockley (West End Rowing Club, Auckland RPC)
Matt Cameron (coach)
Men’s Coxed Four
Flynn Watson (Waikato Rowing Club, Waikato RPC)
Blake Bradshaw (North Shore Rowing Club, Auckland RPC)
Luca Kirwan (Auckland Rowing Club, Auckland RPC)
Angus McFarlane (Blenheim Rowing Club, Central RPC)
Natalie Bocock (Avon Rowing Club, Southern RPC)
Tom Stannard (coach)
Men’s Coxless Four
Ben Taylor (Avon Rowing Club, Southern RPC)
Tom Mackintosh (Avon Rowing Club, Southern RPC)
Thomas Russel (Avon Rowing Club, Southern RPC)
Sam Jones (North Shore Rowing Club, Auckland RPC)
Tom Stannard (coach)
Men’s Quad
George Howat (Cure Boating Club, Southern RPC)
Mark Taylor (Oamaru Rowing Club, Southern RPC)
Ben Kirsop (Cambridge Rowing Club, Waikato RPC)
Jonathan Kumarich (West End Rowing Club, Auckland RPC)
John O’Connor (coach)
Team Manager
Lisa Holton