M2- Seth Weil (now M4-) Former UC Davis walk-on Weil, now 27, was new to the senior team in 2013, winning bronze in the M4- along with pairs partner Rummel. Born in California, he grew up windsurfing and sailing. On the point of giving up rowing in 2012, after terrible NSR results, he was rescued by coach Carlos Dinares, who trained him up during 2012. Weil then got his big break in January 2013 when coach Bryan Volpenhein rang up needing a substitute to make up numbers at the national winter training camp. Weil’s performance impressed, he was invited back, and he won World Cup gold at his first international race, Lucerne 2013, before going on to the Worlds.
M2- Henrik Rummel (now M4-) Rummel is 26 and has been on the senior team since 2009, with junior and U23 gold to his name along with a Henley Royal Regatta medal. His debut in the senior team was a gold in the non-Olympic M2+ event, and he has been in the USA M4- for the last two years, winning bronze in London and Chungju. This polyglot mathematician was borne in Copenhagen and speaks Danish, Swedish, German and a little French as well as English. His hero is his military doctor mother, who has served in Iraq and Afghanistan.
OTHER NSR WINNERS
M1x Stephen Whelpley Finally selected to the US senior team in 2013 after several years of trying, 31-year-old Stephen ‘Hap’ Whelpley finished 13th in the single at the Chungju World Championships, and trains at Craftsbury Sculling Center. He said he was dissatisfied to win NSR 1 in the absence of his ill friend and rival John Graves, and did not compete in Aiguebelette.
W1x Gevvie Stone The daughter of two US team rowers, Stone won two U23 golds and then burst onto the singles scene in 2010. Now 28, she was seventh at the London Olympics and says she always eats ice cream the night before a race. Her twin goals are to win an Olympic rowing medal and graduate from medical school. She admitted to not being fully fit at NSR 1 – “Any serious rower would probably laugh if they saw my training log,” she said.
LM1x Nick Trojan Trojan, a team member in the LM2x in 2013, won LM1x at NSR 1 but was subsequently sanctioned by the US Anti-Doping Agency for a positive test for methylphenidate, a specified stimulant. Trojan was taking it legitimately under prescription but failed to submit the Therapeutic Use Exemption (TUE) paperwork required and has been banned from competition for nine months from 26 April 2014.
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