The boat was named for Caesar’s father, Phillip, who passed away last year.īut the team has no way of transporting the boat and will borrow one from a local club. The boat they have used this season was brand new, purchased in large part thanks to a big fundraising effort by team member Brandon Caesar. Renner and his oarsmen will have to adjust to using a different boat in Cincinnati. Katsuura and Bice will also row in the double boat. The varsity four boat will be manned by Eric Davidson, who will be Renner’s teammate at Cal next year, sophomore Jordan Bice, and juniors Yoshi Katsuura and David Gaber, with Renner at the helm. Not everyone is willing to get up and practice six mornings a week, but I’ve never regretted a minute of it.” “The hard work is one of the things I’m most proud of.
“It’s exactly what I was wishing for,” said Renner, a senior who will be on the Cal team next year. Matt Renner, the varsity four coxswain, said there was never a thought of turning down the chance to go to the nationals. It basically comes down to three more weeks of waking up early and putting in the hard work.”īut that hard work is just what one team member will remember the most.
“Their enthusiasm was very encouraging, because it’s not a position we’ve been in before. “The kids were really excited about qualifying, and they asked immediately if we could go,” Eric Christiani, the boys’ third-year coach, said. The top two finishers from each of the nine regions in the country were invited to the event, and according to Berkeley’s coach, it didn’t take long for the ’Jackets to accept. Thanks to their second-place finishes at the Southwest Regional Junior Rowing Association Championships at Lake Natoma three weeks ago, the men’s varsity four and men’s varsity double will race against the best the nation has to offer today and Saturday. Rowing Youth Invitational Championships in Cincinnati, their first trip to the national event since its inception. And now the ’Jackets are getting started on a new tradition: this weekend they will enter two boats in the U.S. As the only public school west of the Mississippi with a crew team, Berkeley High has a strong tradition that no other team in the area can boast.
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