Huskies Sweep All Races At Husky Open

Saturday, March 30

Seattle, WA

8:00 AM

University of Washington

Husky Open

March 30, 2019 | Men's Rowing

Husky Open Results Lineups Full Regatta Results

SEATTLE – The No. 2-ranked Washington men's rowing team won all five races Saturday on sunny Montlake Cut at the Husky Open.

The regatta, which included a long list of juniors and masters races as well as the UW women's team, also included a new feature: sprint racing. The UW men and women each raced eights against one another in a race that started from the finish line and ended at the eastern end of Montlake Cut, a distance of about 600 meters.

The men's sprint race – featuring the top two UW men's crews – was won by the "black" boat, which finished about a half-second ahead of the "purple" crew. Saturday's sprints were meant as a trial run for the Twilight Sprints, which the program intends to hold the Friday night before Windermere Cup, which is on Saturday, May 4.

"I felt like the crowd really liked it. We could hear people cheering all along the way," Callahan said. "The guys really feed off of that. I feel like it was a great prelude to an event where we're racing against someone else. It was a very solid dry run. I think it's going to be a cool format, especially in the Montlake Cut."

In addition to the sprint, the UW was successful in each of its other five men's races, beating crews from Washington State, Western Washington, Puget Sound, Seattle University, Lewis & Clark and the University of British Columbia. Washington won its first, second and third varsity eight races, as well as both flights of the varsity four.

Washington's third varsity eight raced in the college men's varsity eight and rowed to an open-water victory over Washington State and Western Washington. The Huskies, with senior coxswain Kimmons Wilson and stroke rower Cole Zwierzynski, won in a time of 5:43.965.

In the men's second varsity eight race, a crew of UW freshmen was the winner, beating crews from WSU, Puget Sound and Western. Thomas Wenk coxed the freshmen and Bellevue's Jason Pyke rowed in the stroke seat as the Huskies crossed the finish line in 5:48.177, nearly a half a minute in front of the rest of the field.

A crew consisting mainly of freshmen, but with a couple of upperclassmen, finished first in the men's third varsity eight race, winning with a time of 6:00.167. British Columbia finished second with WSU and Western Washington in third and fourth.

The Huskies also entered one crew in each of the two flights of the men's varsity four, winning both. In the first fours race, sophomore Isabel Klein coxed the UW shell to a win over Seattle University, Lewis & Clark and WSU, winning with a time of 6:19.276. In the second fours flight, freshman cox Zach Casler led the winning boat to the win in 6:32.275, beating boats from Seattle U and Lewis & Clark.

"I think we challenged our guys today. We were evaluating everybody in every seat to make the next trip," Callahan said. "We're bringing four eights and a four to Redwood Shores next weekend and we told everyone that this was a race to get down there."

Up Next
Next weekend the UW men's team travels to Redwood Shores, Calif. On Saturday, April 6, the Huskies will compete against No. 6 Northeastern and No. 13 Stanford. On Sunday, they'll take on 18th-ranked Oregon State.

About Washington Rowing
Rowing at University of Washington was established in 1901 with support from the local business community. In 1903, Washington entered its first intercollegiate race and defeated California, starting their storied "Cal Dual" rivalry. From this beginning, UW crews became the champions in the nation, winning the Gold Medal in the Olympics in 1936 as described in the New York Times bestseller The Boys in the Boat. UW has continued its tradition of winning championships and Olympic medals, and today is one of the best university rowing programs in the world. With its state-of-the-art training facility located on the UW campus right on the shores of Lake Washington, surrounded by mountains and in close proximity to the iconic Montlake Cut, Washington Rowing attracts the best men and women student-athletes from the Pacific Northwest and around the world. More information at GoHuskies.com, WashingtonRowing.com and @UW_Rowing.

UW Men's Husky Open Lineups

College Men's Varsity Eight
Boat: John Jacobi
Cox: Kimmons Wilson (Orlando, Fla./Winter Park)
Stroke: Cole Zwierzynski (Portland, Ore./Franklin)
7: Steve Rosts (Jordan, Ont., Canada/Eden)
6: Nick Everett (Brockville, Ont., Canada)
5: Elliott de Bruin (San Francisco, Calif./Lowell)
4: Carsten Rossen (Seattle, Wash./Cleveland)
3: Felix Reinhold (Cape Town, South Africa)
2: Ian Engstrom (Lincoln, Mass./Lincoln-Sudbury)
Bow: Pau Turina (Portland Ore./Benson Tech)

College Men's Second Varsity Eight
Boat: Chuck Holtz II
Cox: Thomas Wenk (Cincinnati, Ohio/St. Xavier)
Stroke: Jason Pyke (Bellevue, Wash./International School)
7: Chandler Kovacevich (Snohomish, Wash./Monroe)
6: Mattijs Holler (Vienna, Austria)
5: Vukasin Pivac (Belgrade, Serbia)
4: Alex Dumitriu Carcoana (Fargo, N.D./N`orthfield Mt. Hermon)
3: Matt Condrin (Sacramento, Calif./Jesuit)
2: Nils Vorberg (Hamburg, Germany)
Bow: Jack Premzic (Davis, Calif./Davis Senior)

College Men's Third Varsity Eight
Boat: Alumnus/Swiftsure
Cox: Max Schwartzkopff (Frankfurt am Main, Germany)
Stroke: David Zachry (Newport Beach, Calif./Newport Harbor)
7: Odin Slade Byrd (Chicaco, Ill./Whitney M. Young)
6: Nathan Klaff (El Dorado Hills, Calif./Oak Ridge)
5: Jack Kirtley (St. Charles, Ill./Marmion)
4: Jakob Grænge Hansen (Copenhagen, Denmark)
3: Austin Regier (Burien, Wash./Mount Rainier)
2: Ryan Wilkerson (Huntington Beach, Calif.)
Bow: Drew Butler (Redmond, Wash./Redmond)

College Men's Varsity Four - A (Flight One)
Boat: Lou Gellermann
Stroke: Chase Barrows (Snohomish, Wash./Archbishop Murphy)
3: Evan Olson (Bothell, Wash./Bothell)
2: Sebastian Ritter (Regensburg, Germany)
Bow: Max Rennie (Deniniquin, Australia)
Cox: Isabel Klein (Seattle, Wash./University Prep)

College Men's Varsity Four - B (Flight Two)
Boat: Lil' Husky
Stroke: Jeffrey Thiers (Seattle, Wash./Roosevelt
3: Logan McKerlich (Sammamish, Wash./Skyline)
2: Paolo Bifulco (Portland, Ore./Lincoln)
Bow: Colin Kwiecinski (Cincinnati, Ohio/St. Xavier)
Cox: Zach Casler (Newport Beach, Calif./Newport Harbor)