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Despite their brief time together, Coach Carlos had Abby & Ursula rowing in fast unison, winning their time trial by over 10 seconds and taking their final in the Lightweight Women's Pair with a nearly seven second victory. Abby & Ursula had the fastest women's time for the day.
With the win, Abby and Ursula have officially made the US National team and will head to Bled, Slovenia where they will represent the United States in the first World Cup of the season. If they place in the top four in Slovenia, they qualify to compete in the World Championships in New Zealand in November.
To get Abby & Ursula ready for NSR2, Carlos had them rowing on Lake Sammish in Bellingham, Washington near a brand new rowing center he has created. The beautiful lake has provided them with the rowing reps they needed to get in sync with each other. Abby & Ursula have also been getting their workouts on the Shuttle MVP. Carlos had them doing some creative things to improve their start times, increase leg strength, develop dynamic power, and improve their "feel" for rowing momentum.
Awesome performance by all three - next stop, Slovenia!
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Thursday Results from USRowing.org:
USRowing Training Center – Princeton’s Abby Broughton (Tetonia, Idaho) and Ursula Grobler (Pretoria, South Africa) posted the fastest time in the final of the lightweight women’s double sculls. Broughton, a silver-medalist in last year’s world championship lightweight women’s quadruple sculls, and Grobler, who won the lightweight single sculls at NSR #1, clocked a 6:55.344 for the win."