Community Sports: Vancouver Lake Rowing Club has two boats invited to compete in Windermere Cup in Seattle
The Vancouver Lake Rowing Club had two boats invited to compete in the 40th Windermere Cup Opening Day Regatta hosted by the University of Washington on Saturday (May 2) on Lake Washington in Seattle.
The Windermere Cup is one of the premier events on the college and national rowing calendar, featuring multiple high-level college rowing teams as well as national teams from Great Britain and Canada.
The two VLRC boats competing are the U19 men's and women's quadruple sculls with coxswain. Both youth races will take place consecutively on Saturday morning.
In the U19 men's boat is Avi Cox, a senior at Franklin High School in Portland, Eston Gibbons, a senior at Skyview High School, Harrison Hartrim-Lowe, home-school sophomore from Ridgefield and Mikey Cassidy, a sophomore at Seton Catholic. The coxswain is Atticus Braam, a sophomore at the Vancouver School for Arts and Academics.
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In the U19 women's boat is Elizabeth Jones, a junior at Ridgefield, Hadley Campbell and Katie McClellan, both juniors at Columbia River and Lainey Thorsen, a junior at Prairie. The coxswain is Jasper Sutten, a sophomore at VSAA.
McClellan, 16, has been invited to attend the USRowing U19 Selection Camp this summer in Chula Vista, Calif., where she will compete for a spot on the U19 National Team at the World Rowing U19 Championships in August.
Cox has committed to row collegiately at Temple University.
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This story was originally published April 27, 2026 at 6:03 PM.