Η εθνική ομάδα των ΗΠΑ με τον Τσουρτσούλα στη σύνθεσή της.

A week of trials has determined the final boats that will compete at the 2010 World Rowing Championships for the United States. The US trial system is made up of a series of stages that depend on the boat class and at the Mercer Lake venue in New Jersey the remaining boats were decided by initial racing narrowed down to a brutal head-to-head format of the best of three. Overshadowing the trials was the proposed attempt by Ursula Grobler to qualify for three boat classes – the lightweight women’s single, double and quadruple sculls. Racing in three events at the World Rowing Championships has not been attempted before. Grobler had already qualified for the lightweight double for the United States after winning the first Rowing World Cup this season with partner Abelyn Broughton. She then raced in the most recent round of trials in the single and quad. The quad, which includes Broughton, earned the top spot while Grobler went head-to-head with Julie Nichols in the single. Nichols, 32, has come back to top rowing after racing two years ago for the United States in the lightweight single. Grobler won the first of three against Nichols. Nichols then took out the second race. Grobler and her coach, Carlos Dinares, had by this stage decided not to aim for the single and thus pulled out of the final race enabling Nichols to win in a row-over. Grobler and Broughton will now compete in two events at the Lake Karapiro, New Zealand World Champs.   Men’s single sculler Ken Jurkowski came back from a post-Beijing Olympic break to take out the leading spot in the single. Jurkowski finished ahead of Tom Graves stamping his mark on his comeback and earning a trip to New Zealand. For the women’s single a race to the line went on between Genevra Stone and Lindsay Meyer. Meyer prevailed in the end. The 22 year old Olympian came third at the Under 23 Championships earlier this year. National training centre combination and reigning World Champions Susan Francia and Erin Cafaro had no competition in the women’s pair. They have paired up again for the Worlds after spending parts of this season rowing in separate boats. Francia and Cafaro took double gold last year in the pair and eight but this year will just be racing in the pair. The men’s pair was won by Ryan Monaghan and Deaglan McEachern. This new combination have both rowed in the Oxford-Cambridge Boat Race, Monaghan in 2008 and 2009 and McEachern in 2009 when he also served as president for Cambridge University rowing. Coming back to elite rowing is Dan Urevick-Ackelsberg. The Philadelphian rower last raced internationally three years ago in the lightweight quad. This year he will be the representative in the lightweight single. Another comeback is Alison Cox, 31, who last raced internationally six years ago when she medalled in the women’s eight at the Athens Olympic Games. This year Cox will be part of the women’s four which also includes Grace Luczak, Adrienne Martelli and Mara Allen. Selection trials also went on for the lightweight men’s pair, lightweight men’s eight and men’s coxed pair. They will join a field of 24 crews, a total of 80 athletes, some of them selected out of athletes at the National Training Centre. 2010 US World Rowing Championship Team Men’s Single Sculls (M1x) Ken Jurkowski Women’s Single Sculls (W1x) Lindsay Meyer Lightweight Men’s Single Sculls (LM1x) Dan Urevick-Ackelsberg Lightweight Women’s Single Sculls (LW1x) Julie Nichols Men’s Double Sculls (M2x) Warren Anderson Glenn Ochal Women’s Double Sculls (W2x) Kate Bertko Stesha Carle Lightweight Men’s Double Sculls (LM2x) Brian de Regt Jon Winter Lightweight Women’s Double Sculls (LW2x) Abby Broughton Ursula Grobler Men’s Quadruple Sculls (M4x) Scott Gault Elliot Hovey    Wes Piermarini Will Miller Women’s Quadruple Sculls (W4x) Megan Kalmoe Sarah Trowbridge Natalie Dell Margot Shumway Lightweight Men’s Quadruple Sculls (LM4x) Matt Carey Todd Mickelson Peter Morelli Brian Tryon Lightweight Women’s Quadruple Sculls (LW4x) Abby Broughton Ursula Grobler Kristin Hedstrom Victoria Burke Men’s Pair (M2-) Ryan Monaghan Deaglan McEachern Women’s Pair (W2-) Erin Cafaro Susan Francia Men’s Pair with Coxswain (M2+) Stephen Young Nareg Guregian Justin Stangel Lightweight Men’s Pair (LM2-) Mike Nucci Evan Tsourtsoulas (Ο Καστοριανός) Men’s Four (M4-) Silas Stafford Samuel Stitt Henrik Rummel Giuseppe Lanzone     Women’s Four (W4-) Alison Cox Adrienne Martelli Grace Luczak Mara Allen Lightweight Men’s Four (LM4-) Will Daly Ryan Fox Nick LaCava Anthony Fahden Men’s Eight (M8+) Ned DelGuercio Tom Peszek Jason Read Charlie Cole Jake Cornelius Brett Newlin Dan Walsh Mark Murphy David Banks Women’s Eight (W8+) Mary Whipple Eleanor Logan Esther Lofgren Taylor Ritzel Meghan Musnicki Kady Glessner Jamie Redman Amanda Polk Anna Goodale Lightweight Men’s Eight (LM8+) Stephen Young James Sopko Matthew Kochem Kenny McMahon Matthew Muffelman Michael Kerrigan Julian Bowling Robert Duff John Dise Adaptive Men’s Single Sculls (ASM1x) Ron Harvey Adaptive Four with Coxswain (LTA4+) Jenny Sichel Eric McDaniel Emma Preuschl Eleni Englert Andrew Johnson