{"id":3219,"date":"2026-06-28T14:09:12","date_gmt":"2026-06-28T14:09:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nextcitydigest.com\/?p=3219"},"modified":"2026-06-28T14:09:12","modified_gmt":"2026-06-28T14:09:12","slug":"los-gatos-rowing-club-takes-four-national-titles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nextcitydigest.com\/?p=3219","title":{"rendered":"Los Gatos Rowing Club takes four national titles"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Los Gatos Rowing Club won an outstanding four national titles at the USRowing Youth National Championships on June 11-14 at Nathan Benderson Park in Sarasota, Florida.<\/p>\n

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Two men\u2019s squads and two women\u2019s squads from the Los Gatos team are national champions. All four squads were in the Youth (ages 19 and under) division, and all were quad (four-person) boats.<\/p>\n

One of those women\u2019s teams nearly finished undefeated for the season against American competition, said women\u2019s assistant coach Ava Klash. The women\u2019s youth varsity quad team only lost once against U.S. competition this spring. The squad of Aretha Liu (Pinewood High School), Chloe Stopford (Los Gatos), Jenna Yoder (Los Gatos) and Anika Phadnis (Prospect) won the the 2,000-meter final with a time of 7 minutes, 01.06 seconds, nearly five seconds ahead of second-place Founders Rowing Club. That lineup is undefeated against American competition this year.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey have this hunger to win and go fast,\u201d said Klash about the squad\u2019s fine season.<\/p>\n

Los Gatos also won that division at the USRowing Youth National Championships last year. \u201cNone of them were in that boat last year, and they wanted to continue that legacy,\u201d Klash said of this year\u2019s squad. \u201cAll season, they have been winning their races by such a large margin.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Second Varsity Quad was the other Los Gatos women\u2019s team to win the gold. The squad of Julia Valencia (Los Gatos), Sophia Juarez (Los Gatos), Libby Forrest (Soquel) and Lucy Wright (Los Altos) finished first in 7:16.03. All the races at the national championships were 2,000 meters.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is the 19th\u00a0time we\u2019ve been to nationals,\u201d said Klash of the Los Gatos Rowing Club. \u201cWe\u2019ve been building upon all the years prior. This year\u2019s team has been particularly motivated.\u201d<\/p>\n

Three of Los Gatos\u2019 national championships in Florida this season were achieved in sculling races. Each rower has two oars, one in each hand.<\/p>\n

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In men\u2019s divisions, Los Gatos won the Youth Quad final in 6:29.53. The winning squad was Aleksander Shetler (Saratoga), Nico Della Ratta (Summit Tahoma), Emmett King (City Honors-Buffalo, NY) and Dominik Bera (Los Altos). It was a sweep race, which means that each rower holds a single oar.<\/p>\n

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A motivating factor for the squad was an outstanding time of 6:05.96 on a time trial on June 11, said men\u2019s assistant coach Mike Harris.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey won the time trial with a time three seconds faster than the second-place crew,\u201d Harris said. \u201cI think them placing so well in the time trial was a big boost to their confidence. \u2026 They won the final by almost a boat length.\u201d<\/p>\n

The men\u2019s Youth Second Varsity quad, which was undefeated during the spring season, also won a national title. The team of Cameron DeGraff (Los Gatos), Kealan Chiu (Bellarmine), Matthieu Boillet (Los Gatos) and Matthew Willey (Los Gatos) produced a time of 6:17.78 in the final.<\/p>\n

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Harris mentioned a couple of reasons for the program\u2019s success this season.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think a big determining factor in the team\u2019s success\u2014both men\u2019s and women\u2019s\u2014this year was the overall buy-in of the younger athletes and the overall speed of the program,\u201d he said. \u201cThrough the top 32 kids on average, they had a lot faster times\u201d on the ergometer, an indoor rowing machine.<\/p>\n

Two Los Gatos squads also earned silver medals.<\/p>\n

The Men\u2019s Youth Four with Coxswain took second in their division with a time of 6:37.34 in the final, less than two seconds behind winner Newport Sea Base Rowing (6:36.18). The Los Gatos squad was comprised of Luke DeGraff (Los Gatos), Julian Weinstein (Los Gatos), Tristan Carpenter (Menlo-Atherton) and Declan McInerney (Los Gatos) with coxswain Kaira Yoo (Los Gatos).<\/p>\n

In the Men\u2019s Under-16 Eight with Coxswain, Los Gatos placed second with a time of 6:32.24. The Los Gatos team was Maksimillian Shetler (Saratoga), Oliver Tiglao (Union Middle School), Nick Rostamabadi (Los Gatos), Roman Kravchuk (Evergreen Valley High School), Micah Marquez (Leigh), Guhan Nagarajan (Harker), Alexander Potapov (Saratoga) and Zephyn Linneaus (Harker) with coxswain Vihaan Aralaguppe (John Muir Middle School in San Jose).<\/p>\n

The Los Gatos women\u2019s under-17 quad team of Belen Mino (Lincoln in San Jose), Maya Logan (Los Gatos), Norah Toet (Los Gatos) and Ziya Muley (Westmont) also placed in the top three at the national meet, coming in third with a time of 7:30.05 in the final.<\/p>\n

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