Rowers pose following a busy and successful day of racing on the Anacostia River at the 2015 WMIRA championships.
The 2015 WMIRA Championship was held Saturday May 9, 2015 on the Anacostia Rover. WMIRA has grown to be a large and premier organization with many of the leading rowing school racing under WMIRA. In recent years many Stotesbury Cup Regatta winners come out of WMIRA, noted the Cardinals’ Coach Jim Mitchell.
Bishop Ireton’s girls’ Senior Four won the WMIRA Championship for the very first win in a Senior/Varisty Event at WMIRA for program. The Rowers from Stroke of the boat to the Bow are Noelle Cheney, Isabel Shirron, Carla Pena and Elizabeth McCabe. The coxswain was a freshman Elyse Holmes. They won both their first heat and event final in very convincing form.
In a very tough race the boys’ Senior Four took a Bronze Medal racing against keen competition. With Veronica Richardson sidelined, Elyse Holmes had to cox both boats, literally jumping out of one boat and right into another. With the boys racing first in the finals, she had to land her boat and then immediately jump into the girls’ boat and get to the starting line, a 40-minute period normally, she hustled around in 8 minutes.
With the win, the girls have earned the right to represent this area in the Scholastic Rowing Association of America. This is an invitation only regatta and held over Memorial Day Weekend.
In a season marked by a new coaching staff, a prolonged winter, boat accidents, and a tough, unpredictable schedule, the rowers demonstrated a resilience in racing well in the season’s biggest meet to date, according to head coach Jim Mitchell.
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