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Four Darien Rowers Win at San Diego Fall Classic

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Many of the 14 rowers from the Connecticut Boat Club, including all four from Darien, had gold and silver medals around their necks after they helped earn a spot on the podium for their boats at the San Diego Fall Classic. The Connecticut rowers raced against crews from Calfornia, Oregon, Washington, Arizona, Nevada, Utah and Canada. Four Darien Girls on Two Winning Boats
CBC’s First Varsity 4+ boat won Gold. Four of the five crew members of that boat are Darien girls: ViVi Van Ingen (coxswain), Catherine Garrett, Casey Batson and Julia Abbruzzese. Crew member Heidi Jacobson is from Greenwich.

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Six Darien Girls with Connecticut Boat Club Compete in Head of the Charles Regatta

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The Connecticut Boat Club (CBC) sent four boats and 25 athletes — including six girls from Darien — to Boston for this year’s Head of the Charles Regatta. With close to 11,000 athletes from all over the world, the Head of the Charles Regatta is the world’s largest rowing competition. — an announcement from the Connecticut Boat Club

The Darien girls who participated are Julia Abbruzzese, ViVi Van Ingen (coxswain), Catherine Garrett, Casey Batson (all from the Women’s 1st Varsity Youth 8+ boat); Flynn Woodring and Gigi Skolds (from the Women’s 2nd Varsity Youth 8+ boat). CBC’s First Varsity 8+ finished 3rd out of 85 boats from across the country to earn a Bronze medal. CBC’s Second Varsity 8+ competed in the same event and finished 44th, ahead of 41 other clubs’ first varsity boats.