Holy Spirit graduate Seamus Labrum leads his rowing team to the finals of the World Rowing Under-23 Championships in Amsterdam Learning House

Holy Spirit graduate Seamus Labrum leads his rowing team to the finals of the World Rowing Under-23 Championships in Amsterdam

July 19, 2011 – 12:00 pm

The United States Under-23 men’s four with coxswain crew, with Holy Spirit High School graduate Seamus Labrum at coxswain, finished second to Germany on Thursday in a first-round heat at the World Rowing Under-23 Championships in Amsterdam, Netherlands.

The top two teams from Thursday’s two first-round heats advanced to the Final A , which will be 4:12 p.m., Amsterdam time. Amsterdam is six hours ahead of the eastern United States.

Germany won the 2,000-meter heat in 6 minutes, 25.46 seconds, and Team USA was second in 6:32.19. Serbia won the other heat in 6:26.91 and advanced to Saturday’s Final A, along with second-place France .

Labrum, a Cape May Court House resident, will be a junior at the University of Washington, and the crew’s four rowers are Huskies teammates Austin Brooks , Niles Garratt , Patrick Marre and Jay Thompson .

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