Parati Competitive Rowing Brings Home Medals From Season's First Regatta

THE WOODLANDS, TX -- Parati Competitive Rowing’s young team had a good showing at this year’s Heart of Texas Regatta (HOT) in Austin on February 24th & 25th. HOT is the traditional start of spring sprint season. This year, 29 teams, some from as far away as New York and Minnesota, entered 612 boats in 76 events. Parati athletes crewed 32 boats over the two days and medaled in 13. The medal winners were:

Gold
• Junior Juliet Bohn in the U17 Women’s Single
• Juliet Bohn and 8th Grader Clare McKenna in the U17 Women’s Double
• Juniors Finn Lofstad & David Yang in the Novice Men’s Double
• 8th Graders Ashwin Chowdry & Timothy Reinhart, Freshmen Ahren Iwanaka & Brandon Ezem Weir along
with Freshman Coxwain JP Ramirez in the U16 Men’s Coxed Quad
• 8th Graders Nellie Coleman & Clare McKenna, Freshmen Regan Adams & Paige Yartym along with Freshman Coxwain JP Ramirez in the U16 Women’s Coxed Quad

Silver
• Regan Adams, Juliet Bohn, Clare McKenna, and Paige Yartym in the U17 Women’s Quad
• Junior Jay Kirk and Senior Patrick McKenna in the Men’s Pair
• 6th Grader Addison Bennett, Nellie Coleman, Freshman Mia Bodnar and Sophomore Charlotte Butts in the
Novice Women’s Quad
• Addison Bennett, Mia Bodnar, Charlotte Butts and Nellie Coleman along with Junior Coxwain Ankita Nair in
the Novice Women’s Four

Bronze
• Jay Kirk and Patrick McKenna in the Men’s Double
• David Yang in the Novice Men’s Single

• Freshman Christian Bohn, Junior Enzo Rodriguez, Finn Lofstad, and David Yang in the
Novice Men’s Quad
• Senior Armaan Deora, Jay Kirk, Finn Lofstad, and Patrick McKenna in the Men’s Quad

Parati volunteer Coach Michael Rosman, in his 12th year of coaching the squad noted that “this is the team’s first regatta of the year. Both the coaches and the athletes are working out the kinks from winter training. This gives us a yardstick to measure the effectiveness of training and where we, both coaches and athletes, need to redouble our efforts. This is a great group of kids and I am so happy for their success. Our goal as coaches is now to broaden that success.” Assistant Coach Jacob Castro, himself a product of rowing at Parati for six years before college, is in his second year. He added that he “will continue to push the athletes beyond their comfort zone to help them to achieve their goals.”

Parati was founded in 2012 by Mike and Jan Rosman as a way to focus on the unique needs of high school athletes and utilize rowing as a means to instill character, morals and work ethic. If you would like to check out Parati, go to www.paratirowingthewoodlands.org or call 832-5110-6288. Parati will be holding a spring break camp March 11 – 15, signups are available on the website. Parati Summer Camps start June 23rd.