The Atlantic City High School girls crew team took home its share of first-place trophies last year.
Many of the rowers who made that happen are back this spring.
Atlantic City won the girls team title at the Atlantic County High School Rowing Championships last May on Lake Lenape in Mays Landing. The Vikings’ girls won the varsity four, junior eight and varsity quad championships at the regatta. A.C. finished the season ranked No. 2 in The Press Elite 11, behind only Holy Spirit.
Despite losing six key rowers to graduation, Atlantic City has a lot back and should be a strong contender in various divisions again this year.
“In my 15 years of coaching, the group we have right now is one of the most dedicated,” Vikings coach Sean Duffey said. “They love the sport, and that’s huge. They love being there every day, and they don’t complain. They’re a good group of athletes, and they’re good leaders toward the younger rowers, which is great.”
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The Vikings will begin the season April 6 at the Lake Lenape Sprints II in Mays Landing. The A.C. girls also compete the following day at the Manny Flick-Horvat Series regatta on the Schuylkill River in Philadelphia.
“We’ll start out with a first eight, a second eight and a varsity four for the first couple races and see how things go,” Duffey said. “We’ll go from there.”
Atlantic City’s varsity-eight lineup includes stroke Lexi Gormley, Lauren Fox, Anna Tran, Kaitlyn Do, Zuzanna Turska, Gabriela Tayoun, Maggie Morgan and bow Mardiha Ahmed. The varsity four consists of stroke Elon Lomax, Ellie Carrasco, Sophia Mammucari and bow Gabby Pagliaro. The Vikings have two good coxswains in Tasnova Tayeba and Isabella Gravely. Ten of those rowers and both coxswains were Press All-Stars last spring.
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