Sean and Reilly at the World Indoor Rowing Championships

Sean and Reilly rep'ed Bishop Sullivan at the World Indoor Rowing Championships on Saturday and Sunday.

Bishop Sullivan got a shoutout among the hundreds of schools and programs that participated.

On Saturday, Sean competed in the 2000m row in the 18 yr old Junior Lightweight event. He blasted out at a torrid 34 strokes per minute and a 1:36.8/500m pace and was leading his heat halfway through. The commentator mentioned him by name in this clip.

Sean finished 24th but with a personal record of 7:08.5, and about 10 second shy of the school record of 6:58.0 set by Mike Farina in 2012 (and Mike was a heavyweight!)

On Sunday Reilly had a repeat victory, again winning her Junior lightweight women 20 minute row event as she did last year. In the shot below you can make out her lead on the big blue board. She in the "boat" near the bottom.

I note that she completed two back-to-back 2Ks,  each under 8:00 minutes, and then pulled another 4:00 minutes at about a 2:01/500m pace. A solid performance, especially considering she was "injured."

Her dad e-mailed me that: 

"Reilly won her event today with a 4994 m for the 20 min erg. That would be good enough for the all time record for the Mid Atlantic erg sprints.   

Reilly sustained a freak injury yesterday morning 5 minutes before the national anthem at the VISAA state swim meet. She was jumping with her teammates and twisted her ankle badly. I think she strained a tendon in her foot. She could barely walk. After a lot of icing she still competed in the 500 freestyle and was still able to make it to finals where she finished 16th overall and dropping time in finals. 

We didn't know if she was going to be able to compete today until we showed up this morning at the competition site. With a heavy dose of biofreeze she was able numb the pain enough to tolerate the it and still compete.

Today was a great experience for Reilly."

Congrats to both!