Parati Competitive Rowing Team takes medals at Texas State Championships

THE WOODLANDS, Texas -- In its inaugural year at the Texas state championships, Parati Competitive Rowing had eight of its 19 boats qualify for finals and won a gold, a silver, and a bronze medal. Parati is a non-profit community based competitive rowing club for teens, serving over 45 Woodlands area athletes.

At Lady Bird Lake in Austin, the Austin Rowing Club hosted its annual principal regatta to determine the best high school rowers in Texas. Parati had 33 rowers (14 girls and 19 boys) participate in 19 different 1,000-meter races against 15 other teams. Parati practices year round for the busy spring sprint racing season and its championship races.

The gold medal was won by Blake Eastwick and Hugo Gomez in the men’s varsity double with a time of 3:25:44. In the men’s junior single scull race, Andrew Gomez won the silver with 3:47:76 and John Puzz took third with a time of 3:54:48.

Results for other Parati rowers who competed in finals were:

Women’s lightweight double: Audrey Brown and Maddie Miller: 4:06:74; 4th place
Men’s junior lightweight: Nate Johnson and Ian Miller: 3:33:03; 4th place
Men’s JV double: Marcello Falchetti and Luke O’Connell: 3:54:72; 5th place
Men’s JV double: Daniel Dalton and Clay Jones: 3:50:83; 6th place
Men’s junior single: JD Telford: 4:07:23; 6th place

The names of the Parati rowers who competed in the Texas Rowing Championships are: Maddie Austin, Andreas Bandera, Hector Bandera, Sydney Barker, Jenny Bates, Claire Beatty, Audrey Brown, Carmen Campalans, Grace Carbajal, Daniel Dalton, Sarah Darwin, Blake Eastwick, Marcello Falchetti, Nick Fazzino, Andrew Gomez, Hugo Gomez, Cami Guzman, Nate Johnson, Clay Jones, Collin Jones, Juan Lucero, Ian Miller, Maddie Miller, Jay Montano, Lauren Musial, Luke O’Connell, Sydney Pareti, John Puzz, Ty Raymond, Miranda Rhett, JD Telford, Liam Watkins, and Margaret Whitney.

Head coach Mike Rosman said, “I am proud of all our rowers. To have more than a third of our boats qualify for finals is fantastic, especially given that we are a newly formed team and have many first time rowers this year. Our rowers have worked hard to build endurance and I am looking forward to seeing how they compete at the 2K races at the regional competition in Oklahoma City this coming weekend. I hope to have Parati boats qualify for nationals.”

Rising grade 8-12 students in any area school or homeschool who are interested in Parati’s rigorous and competitive co-ed scull rowing team may contact the team via email at paratirows@gmail.com or by calling (832) 510-6288. No prior rowing experience is required. For more information about Parati see their website: paraticompetitiverowing.org or their Facebook page.