PLU Rowers Compete at Charlie Brown Regatta

Amber Iverson

Pacific Lutheran’s lone fall competition comes this weekend as the Lutes race five boats at the Charlie Brown Regatta in Portland, Ore.

The 4700-meter regatta course is on the Willamette River. The fall regattas, called head races, are much longer courses than the 2000-meter courses used during the spring race season. Thus, the fall regattas emphasize endurance.

The men’s varsity 8 race gets the competition going at 10 a.m. and the Lutes will send the third boat on the course in the staggered-start format. The competing boats race against the clock rather than against each other. The men’s varsity 8 boat features coxswain Sheri Sasaki and rowers Justin Hull, Sam Whedon, Andy Osborn, Dan Case, Tim Postlewaite, Tyler Koehn, Chad Hall and Joe Natwick.

The women’s varsity 8 is scheduled to start at 10:10 a.m. and the PLU boat will be second on the course. Boat members include coxswain Savannah Warren and rowers Amber Iverson, Kat Jenkins, Steph Farrow, Shayna Horrocks, Sam Prevot, Claire Swanback, Sarah Shanebeck and Katie Allen. Iverson earned Division III Second Team All-America honors following the 2007 spring season.

PLU also has boats entered in the men’s novice 8 and the women’s novice 8 competition and those races conclude the day’s events just after noon. Men’s novice competitors are coxswain Adam Hoagland, Sam Whedon, Andy Osborn, Alex Burch, Steven Rystrom, Dan Case, Axel Moestve, Petter Ege and Joe Natwick.

The Lutes will have two novice 8 women’s boats. The novice women’s boat includes coxswain Becca Price and rowers Audra Stafford, Caroline Olsen, Nicole Gleadle, Charlotte Pfeiffer, Marieke Flynn, MacKenzie Sehlke, Stephanie Stout and Lynsey Tveit. The second novice 8 will be an exhibition boat. Sasaki will cox that boat, which includes Natalie McCarthy, Jenkins, Farrow, Horrocks, Swanback, Prevot, Shanebeck and Allen.

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