SARASOTA, Fla. — Elise Beuke knocked five seconds off her semifinal time to place second in the women’s 1x single final at the U.S. Rowing Youth National Championships on Sunday morning.
Beuke rowed the final in 8 minutes, 19.368 seconds, a sizeable improvement of her semifinal time of 8:24.719.
Emily Kallfelz, who placed third at last year’s national championships and was a member of the U.S. Junior National Team, won the championship with a time of 8:10.011.
Beuke will remain on the east coast for through the beginning of July.
For the next three weeks, she will be Connecticut competing with 30 other top youth rowers for seven positions in the quad, double and single on the 2015 U.S. Rowing Youth National Team that will race at the Junior World Championships in Rio de Janeiro in August.
Beuke’s coach with the Olympic Peninsula Rowing Association, Rodrigo Rodrigues,will serve a coach for the Youth National Team.
Earlier report
SARASOTA, Fla. — While her classmates at Sequim High School have been graduating and celebrating, Elise Beuke has been more than holding her own at the U.S. Rowing Youth National Championships.
Today, she will row for a national championship at Nathan Benderson Park.
Beuke, who has signed to row at the University of Washington starting this fall, pulled the fastest time in Friday’s Women’s Youth 1x preliminaries: 8 minutes, 34.817 seconds.
That was more than one second faster than second-place finisher Emily Kallfelz of Narragansett Rowing Club of Rhode Island (8:35.888).
Kallfelz was a member of the 2014 U.S. Junior National team member and finished third at the 2014 U.S. Rowing Youth National Championships.
In Saturday’s semifinals, Kallfelz pulled the best time, 8:08.749, and Beuke was third with a 8:24.719.
Beuke, who rows for Port Angeles-based Olympic Peninsula Rowing Association, was one of six to move on to this morning’s finals.
The finals began at 5 a.m and can be viewed online on U.S. Rowing’s YouTube channel at www.tinyurl.com/PDN-USRowing.
