NATIONAL CHAMPS! @LowerMerion_HS juniors Anne Cloud & Caroline Burchette out-rowed the rest of the field at the SRAA National Championships Regatta en route to winning the Girls Lightweight Double National Title! 🚣♀️🏆🥇 https://t.co/Be4MTvz7qh pic.twitter.com/onk7BdCxTR
— Lower Merion SD (@LowerMerionSD) June 2, 2021
Members of the Lower Merion High School Crew Team recently competed at the Scholastic Rowing Association of America (SRAA) National Championships Regatta held on Philadelphia’s Schuylkill River where juniors Anne Cloud and Caroline Burchette out-rowed the rest of the field en route to winning the Girls Lightweight Double National Title!
A “double” is a boat with two rowers, who each row with two oars and no coxswain, which means they also have to steer the boat as they row. The dynamic duo of Cloud and Burchette finished in a blistering time of 5:45.306, more than seven seconds ahead the runner-up boat from Harpeth Hall, a college preparatory school in Nashville, Tennessee.