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JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — The Jacksonville men’s rowing program soldiers on in championship season, heading to Tennessee for the Southern Intercollegiate Rowing Association Regatta this weekend.

The event brings top crews from across the southeast. This will be the penultimate regatta of the regular season for JU.

The Dolphins will send five crews across three different boats to Melton Hill Lake in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. Jacksonville will race two Varsity Eights, a Varsity Four, a Novice Four and a pair over two days of racing.

The action starts Saturday morning at 8:28 AM with the Novice Four. The second Varsity Eight goes out at 9:24 AM, followed by the first Varsity Four 10:34 AM. The first Varsity Eight hits the water at 11:37 AM to close the morning prelims.

In the afternoon, the pair will compete at 2:24 PM.

The rest of Saturday and all through Sunday features various finals and semifinals for top times in the early races. The action concludes with the first Varsity Eight A and B final Sunday afternoon. The full slate of finals and semi-finals can be found HERE. Live results will update throughout the weekend. 

Head Coach Preston Weinard
“One of our more exciting races of the year, SIRAs is a great opportunity for us to compete in every category. The goal is to set up a JU crew for a chance to race for a championship. After a quick week at home, our team learned some lessons from racing last weekend that we hope to improve on in our racing this weekend. It’s all about mindset at this time of the season. They’ve done great work and training, they’ve seen improvement, and I’m proud of their efforts so far. Time to take care of what’s between our ears and rally together to represent JU well. Our joy comes from competing, and we’ll have a lot of competing this weekend! GBTW”

Lineups
First Varsity Eight
Bow – Jack Galvin
2 – Archie Lockett
3 – Ole Gruenert
4 – Seamus Roberson
5 – Henry Fowler
6 – Kellen Tooley
7 – Vukasin Resanovic
Stroke – Chase Ricci
Coxswain – Mason Bezanis

Second Varsity Eight
Bow – Max Hinkle
2 – Ariel Lorente
3 – Ian Brown
4 – Ethan Penny
5 – Vasilije Lopicic
6 – John Even Loftesnes
7 – Connor Wetzel
Stroke – Angus Murfett
Coxswain – Logan Newton-Masucci

First Varsity Four
Bow – Nicholas Soares
2 – Donovan Kesson
3 – Joshua Terner
Stroke – Marc Levi
Coxswain – Hanna Rhatigan

Novice Four
Bow – Jacob Manny
2 – Landyn Kotterman
3 – Matthew Matar
Stroke – Ethan Cabucana
Coxswain – Isabella Donnelly

Pair
1 – Dominic D’Aloia
2 – Webster Hurst