Sofia Mayus and Brooke Bunch of the Cape Coral Rowing Club took the gold at the Florida Scholastic Rowing Association’s annual Sweep State Championship Regatta.
\nThey competed in the Women’s Pair event, earning the club’s first state championship.<\/p>\n
PHOTO PROVIDED\/Cape Coral Rowing Club<\/p>\n
Two members of the Cape Coral Rowing Club took the gold at the Florida Scholastic Rowing Association\u2019s annual Sweep State Championship Regatta held\u00a0Saturday and Sunday at Nathan Benderson Park.<\/p>\n
The two, Sofia Mayus and Brooke Bunch, competed in the Women\u2019s Pair event in Sarasota County.\u00a0<\/p>\n
On Saturday afternoon, they won their heat with the fastest time\u00a0in their event to qualify them for the Grand Final on Sunday morning.\u00a0In an exciting final, the CCRC women came from behind to take the gold medal, winning the club\u2019s first-ever State Championship.\u00a0 <\/p>\n
Sofia Mayus resides in southeast Cape Coral, attends Bishop Verot Catholic High School, and will row at Massachusetts Institute of Technology this fall.\u00a0 <\/p>\n
Brooke Bunch resides in northwest Cape Coral, attends Bishop Verot Catholic High School and will study pre-med at the University of Florida this fall, where she plans to join the women\u2019s crew.\u00a0 <\/p>\n
\u201cWe are so proud of these girls and their amazing accomplishments!!!\u201d said Saundra Weston, CCRC president and youth coach.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sofia Mayus and Brooke Bunch of the Cape Coral Rowing Club took the gold at the Florida Scholastic…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":251434,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[209,211,210],"class_list":["post-251433","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cape-coral","tag-cape-coral","tag-cape-coral-headlines","tag-cape-coral-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251433","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=251433"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251433\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/251434"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=251433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=251433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=251433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}