Sarasota Crew rowers take gold, silver at World Rowing Junior Championships

The 2017 World Rowing Junior Championships in Lithuania ended on Aug. 6, and Sarasota Crew rowers left with some hardware, led by Pine View School junior Clark Dean.

The 17-year-old Dean won the junior men's single scull race in 7:04.73, besting Wolff Mortiz of Germany's second-place time of 7:07.98. It is the first time in 50 years that an American won the single scull race at this event.  

Dean also finished sixth in the men's coxed four. 

The Crew's Sydney Edwards finished on the medal stand, coxing the junior men's eight to a second-place finish (5:50.10), one second behind Germany's shell. Edwards was the first American woman to cox a men's shell in FISA competition. 

Sarasota's Julia Braz finished seventh in the junior women's eight, and Harry Schofield finished 16th with the junior men's four.