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Some of you may remember from a post last week that I compared the SIS race hosted by St. Anthony’s to a race called CRASH Bs in Boston. For those of you that have never been there, here’s a bit of a run down of the CRASH Bs venue. Its full title is “C.R.A.S.H.-B. Sprints: World Indoor Rowing Championship.” (Since that is such a project to type out, I shall be referring to it as CRASH Bs from here on out.) The race started in 1980 as a tiny little event for some local Boston rowers, but quickly grew in popularity and size. Over the years, it has constantly had to upgrade to larger locations due to its ever increasing registration numbers. Nowadays, it’s held at Boston University’s Agganis Arena, a relatively new addition to Boston U’s campus, and a state of the art, shiny venue perfect for CRASH Bs. Thousands of competitors from all over the country, and many from around the world, come to participate in what has become one of the largest erg competitions on the planet.  To get an idea of how large this venue is, here’s a short time lapse video of CRASH B staff prepping the competition floor last year. I’m sure this year it looked quite the same in preparation for this past weekend: Set up video

Saturday morning, bright and early, nine Row New York girls and a few coaches gained some wheels and set out for Boston. Even though erging took place on Sunday, we couldn’t pass up the opportunity to explore everything Boston has to offer a program like ours. And by that, I mean colleges. Lots of colleges. Whenever there’s time, we squeeze in as many visits as we can to give the girls a chance to find something they like. Five were managed this time around: Sacred Heart, Wesleyan, Tufts, Fairfield University, and Clark University. After a long day of seeing what those schools had to offer, the evening was spent exploring Harvard Square and attaining some high-carb sustenance.

Sunday was a great day for Row New York. Every single one of our girls put in an absolutely stellar performance on the erg, with everyone finishing easily within the top 50%. All six open weights broke eight minutes, which is an accomplishment all its own, and from our lightweights, we saw 12th, 17th, and 33rd place finishes in a field of more than 100.

Open Weights: 200+ competitors

Shannon McCann – 7:36.4 (37th)
Jessica Levy – 7:37.4 (42nd)
Emma Buford – 7:43.7
Veronica Castillo – 7:50.0
Alexa Presto – 7:52.0
Jareline Guerrero – 7:55.9

Lightweights: 100+ competitors

Abre Bokhari – 7:51.2 (12th)
Emily Quaranta – 7:56.9 (17th)
Kassandra Caraballo – 8:09.4 (33rd)

In my personal opinion, for an organization to bring that many members to CRASH Bs and have every single one of them put in a high caliber performance is absolutely amazing. I’ve been to my fair share of erg races, and I’ve never seen that happen before. Like I said, absolutely amazing.

Row New York’s adaptive rowing program also made a strong showing, bringing five competitors. Corinne Petrigno, Teshene Pagotte, Soo Lee, and Jessica Delarosa competed admirably, and Maria Sadarringa, coxed by our very own Kassandra Caraballo, brought home the silver medal for her event!

Our adaptive program is getting its own blog post very soon, so stay tuned for more details!

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