McCallie senior crew members Curtis Kachline and Daniel Higgins are among the four Signal Mountain residents on the team gearing up for the USRowing Youth National Invitational Regatta held in Cincinnati, Ohio, June 10-13.
The Blue Tornado qualified to compete in the varsity eight and lightweight four races, with Higgins on the eight and Kachline on the four, they said.
The rowers said they have been practicing two hours each day with coach Prentice Stabler since the beginning of the school year, but have increased practices to two times daily as the date of the event draws near.
“I feel like we’ll be pretty prepared in Cincinnati,” said Kachline. “It’s hard to tell what the competition will be until we get up there.”
This will be the first time competing at the national level for Higgins, who said he started rowing just two years ago.