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YOUTH ROWING: OPRA hauls in trophies from NW Ergomania! in Tacoma

Published 4:15 pm Monday, February 3, 2025

By Pierre LaBossiere

From left, Ryan Halfacre, Airius Ingle, Quince Chanway and Eagle Zuniga from the Olympic Peninsula Rowing Association compete in the under-15 men’s 500-meter race in Tacoma on Saturday. Under-17 competitor Mason Mai and OPRA head coach Sean Halberg look on. (Olympic Peninsula Rowing Association)
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From left, Ryan Halfacre, Airius Ingle, Quince Chanway and Eagle Zuniga from the Olympic Peninsula Rowing Association compete in the under-15 men’s 500-meter race in Tacoma on Saturday. Under-17 competitor Mason Mai and OPRA head coach Sean Halberg look on. (Olympic Peninsula Rowing Association)

From left, Ryan Halfacre, Airius Ingle, Quince Chanway and Eagle Zuniga from the Olympic Peninsula Rowing Association compete in the under-15 men’s 500-meter race in Tacoma on Saturday. Under-17 competitor Mason Mai and OPRA head coach Sean Halberg look on. (Olympic Peninsula Rowing Association)
From left, Ryan Halfacre, Airius Ingle, Quince Chanway and Eagle Zuniga from the Olympic Peninsula Rowing Association compete in the under-15 men’s 500-meter race in Tacoma on Saturday. Under-17 competitor Mason Mai and OPRA head coach Sean Halberg look on. (Olympic Peninsula Rowing Association)

TACOMA — The Olympic Peninsula Rowing Association team brought back lots of hardware from the NW Ergomania! indoor rowing event in Tacoma.

In the under-15 500-meter men’s category, OPRA athletes dominated the podium with first place going to Eagle Zuniga in a time of 1 minute, 47.6 seconds, second to Quince Chanway (1:53.3) and third to Airius Ingle (2:05.8). Ryan Halfacre finished fourth in a time of 2:10.1.

In the under-19, 5,000-meter race, Zuniga took third, Ingle fourth and Halfacre fifth.

In the under-15 women’s 2,000-meter race, Peyton Acker was first with a time of 9:29.9. In the under-17 women’s group, Mariah Disque was 10th with a time of 8:37.2.

Cooper Disque was ninth with a time of 7:08.6 in the under-19 2,000-meter race, while Mason Mai was 16th in the men’s under-17 2,000-meter. In the men’s masters E age group, James Lesniak finished second in the 500 meters (1:39.7) and sixth in the 2,000 meters (7:35.9).

Times from regional competitions were combined to create a USRowing Indoor National Championship. In the National Championship, Zuniga was fourth and Chanway fifth out of 20 youths competing throughout the country in the under-15 men’s 500 meters.

Full race results are available at https://tinyurl.com/nwergoresults.

The rowing team will begin practicing on the water March 3. More information about the program is available at www.PArowing.org.

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