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Weber’s Team Becomes Third Largest in World at the 2018 World Championships and more…

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By Weber Way To Wellness Reporter

Alicia Weber’s youth team (ages 12 and Under) became the third largest youth team in the World (and first largest US team for third straight year) at the 2018 Indoor Rowing Sprints World Championship held in early March. Weber’s team trains out of Clermont, Florida USA with 13 youth athletes. The world’s largest youth indoor rowing team came from the College of Punaaula in French Polynesia (for the second straight year) with 28 youth athletes, while runner-up was a team in China with 21 youth athletes.

“Everyone was motivated to excel and it came down to everyone completing the 1,000 meter indoor rowing world competition including the second youngest female in the world who was on our team, in order to achieve our status,” stated the elated Weber.

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World’s Third Largest Indoor Rowing Youth Team out of Clermont, Fl USA

The 2018 World Championship was the third straight year for the event and the goal was to attract the greatest participants into an intense sport of Concept 2 indoor rowing, which requires 86 percent of muscles to be worked at once. This year was the most competitive and largest world event thus far with 5,372 competitors from 66 countries. Weber also competed for the third straight year and improved her time and place. She performed a new personal best time for the 1k in 3:48.8 placing 21st out of 546 lightweight women (under 136lbs).

Click Lightweight Women results here.

Highlights on our youth boys team, Matteo (returning rower from 2017 World Championships) dropped an incredible 30 seconds to lead our team with a time of 5:40. Runner-up was Zak another returning rower who blazed his way to a new best time of 5:45.2. New rower, Ezra, did a marvelous job with his first time at 1,000 meters in a time of 5:52.8.

Click Boys (12 and Under) results here.

Highlights on our youth girls team, all 4 girls competed for the first time. Nina led our team with a fantastic time of 5:40.3

Click Girls (12 and Under) results here.

Team Awinningway youth team was excited for the challenge and now they can say they represented the USA in a World Championship!! When asked about their motivations to compete the answers varied from learning how to improve strength to doing an exercise to burn calories to seeing how fast they could go and if they could win!

Members of the team have been conditioning their bodies for the intense 1k World Championship by training in a strength and conditioning class with Weber or by doing Mind + Body Challenges as well as Body Challenges. The motivated youth athletes also learned about eating healthy as some made a visit to VIDA 365 for a hearty, healthy lunch and an Improv Comedy Workshop with Weber to challenge their mind and creativity!! Overall, the young athletes learned how important it is to get their mind and body fit and how to be positive with good sportsmanship to create a winning team! Congrats to Team Awinningway Youth Athletes on becoming third largest team in WORLD!!

Some youth team members make a visit to VIDA 365 for an Improv Comedy Workshop Lunch.

Youths Challenge World-Class Coaches with Questions in an Improv Skit

Some Youth Team Members trained in Mind + Body Training and Body Training (here Weber gives examples of these advanced training methods).

Contact Alicia at Awinningway@gmail.com to enroll in her NEW Mind + Body Training Class for youth and adults.

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Clermont Youth Athletes Compete in Unordinary Opportunity for Extraordinary Results in the Indoor Rowing Sprint World Championships

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HEADLINE NEWS: CLERMONT, FL—-First Ever Indoor Rowing World Sprint Championships has TEAM AWINNINGWAY from Clermont, FLorida, largest US Team represented in the these first-ever world championships!!!

By: Alicia Weber

The first ever World Indoor Rowing Sprint Championship was held March 11-13 where 3,226 adults and 726 kids competed worldwide. The goal of the championship was to attract new athletes into the sport and compete on a Concept 2 machine from anywhere. As a Clermont event director, I made the goal of recruiting the most youth (age 12 and under) into this competition where I provided free training and a free race. I’m happy to say that I had the largest US team of indoor rowers (age 12 and under) representing the USA in this world championship.

Team Awinningway

I also competed and placed 26th in the world among lightweight women with my new best time of 3:50.3 for the 1,000 meter. My youth team came into this event with zero experience and my mission was to follow their success and see how they felt to do so something out of the ordinary. They learned how to row on a Concept 2 Machine and then competed in the 1,000 meter event all in the same day.
Hannah Bibby, 8, never competed in a sport before and she was our 2nd fastest girl on our Awinningway Team, our youngest competitor, and she placed 59th in the world for girls (12 and under) with her time of 6:42.3.

“This is phenomenal for me. When Alicia asked me if I wanted to learn to row and compete, I said yes because I want to take advantage of every opportunity. It feels good to exercise on an indoor rower,” mentioned Bibby who can now call a world championship her first-ever sport competition.

All the kids learned proper breathing and proper form for indoor rowing and they all exceeded their expectations and mine in their performances.

“This is awesome. I have more confidence and I like testing myself physically and this is a good physical test,” said the excited Nico Kurihara-Taylor after completing his row. He placed 82nd in the world for boys (12 and under) in a time of 6:27.4.
The kids watched each other race and cheered for one another. They are looking forward to their next event now.

“I feel like I am on top of the world,” said the uber-competitive DJ Belanoff who expected to do 10 minutes, but finished in 7:30.7 for girls (12 and under).

Aisha Hak, 11, was the fastest youth girl on our team with her time of 6:16.7, which placed her 53rd in world for youth girls (12 and under).

“It takes a lot of energy and strength. I am surprised I did as well as I did. It’s my first day to do it and I know I will only be getting better,” commented Hak after her race.

Andrew Powell, 13, was the only athlete on our youth team who had experience in an aerobic sport. He is also a cross country runner. He was able to get faster and finish his first-ever 1,000 meter in 4:45.7. He competed against nearly 400 boys upto age 18.

“I felt fatigue in the last 300 meters, but I pushed myself to finish strong because I am really motivated to do this event and try something new,” said Powell who was thankful for the opportunity to compete in this world championship.

“This event has been a great opportunity to keep kids active and off electronics. We appreciate having this opportunity for our kids,” added two parents of the athletes.

Official 2016 Results here

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