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ROWING: Sequim’s Beuke on U23 world rowing boat

Published 1:30 am Monday, July 10, 2017

By Pierre LaBossiere

ROWING: Sequim’s Beuke on U23 world rowing boat
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ROWING: Sequim’s Beuke on U23 world rowing boat
Sequim’s Elise Beuke with her U.S. Rowing Youth silver medal in 2015. Beuke, now an NCAA championship rower for the University of Washington, will row in the women’s 8 boat at the U23 World Rowing Championships in Bulgaria July 19-23.
Elise Beuke

SEQUIM — Sequim’s Elise Beuke, already coming off a spectacular rowing season, has more work cut out for her at the upcoming Under 23 World Rowing Championships in Plovdiv, Bulgaria, from July 19-23.

Beuke, a member of the University of Washington’s NCAA national championship crew team and an All-American rower will row for the women’s U23 eight boat. Her Huskies teammate Jessica Thoennes also will be a member of that boat, as well as rowers from Stanford, Cal, Wisconsin, Princeton and Texas.

Beuke already has collected a number of rowing accolades. She was named a first-team All American by the Collegiate Rowing Coaches Association a few weeks after her eight-woman boat was one of three UW boats to combine for a national championship. All three UW boats won their national championship races, an unprecedented feat for any university.

Beuke graduated from Sequim High School in 2015. That summer she won a silver medal at the U.S. Rowing Youth National Championships and finished seventh in the World Junior Rowing Championships in Brazil.

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