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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.