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Atomic Rowing Women’s Youth team wins regional gold, headed to nationals

Posted at 4:59 pm May 23, 2014
By Sara Wise Leave a Comment

Atomic Rowing Women's Youth Team Practice

The regional women’s youth champions, Atomic Rowing, practice six days a week in preparation for the national championship races in Sacramento, California. (Photos by Sara Wise)

 

About two months ago, the girls of Atomic Rowing’s youth team came to Shannon Moore, their coach, and said they wanted to go to the national championship race. Now, they’ve won the gold medal at regionals and are set to race at youth nationals in Sacramento, California, on June 21.

Since winning gold at regionals, in Florida earlier this month, they have been practicing six days a week. Moore said the team of girls, ranging from eighth to 10th grades, are hungry for a national championship title.

“They’re just determined,” said Moore, who started coaching the team in October of last year. She has been coaching professionally since 1998 and was even the assistant coach for Ivy League rowing at Columbia University in New York City. Now though, she thinks she’s found her niche with the juniors team here in Oak Ridge. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Rowing, Slider, Sports, Sports, Top Stories Tagged With: Atomic Rowing, Atomic Rowing Women's Youth, Isla McRae, juniors team, Kimberly Cady, national championship, Oak Ridge, Rae Oleshansky, regionals, Samantha Barber, Sarah Kate Rogers, Shannon Moore, youth nationals

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