USRowing Announces 2025 World Rowing Under 23 Championships Roster

USRowing is pleased to announce the roster of the 2025 Under 23 National Team that will represent the U.S. in Poznan, Poland on July 23-27.

The U.S. will have crews competing in nine events including the men's and women's four and eight, as well as the men’s quadruple sculls, men’s pair, men’s double sculls, lightweight men’s single, and lightweight men’s double sculls. The U.S. will not be sending boats in events that did not meet the competitive standard time.

At the 2024 World Rowing Under 23 Championships in St. Catharines, Canada, the United States captured five medals, one gold and four silvers, in a strong showing of emerging talent. Fourteen athletes from last year’s squad return to the U23 national team in 2025, including Sam Sullivan, the 2024 U23 Male Athlete of the Year and Braden Porterfield, who helped row the men’s four with coxswain to a gold-medal finish. Natalie Hoefer made her third consecutive U23 teams, Quincy Stone made her fourth team (two U19 and two U23 teams), while Ella Wheeler earned her first U23 selection after winning gold in the women’s four with coxswain at the 2023 U19 World Championships.

The men’s quadruple sculls crew features three returning athletes from last year’s team. Yale’s Timothy Parsons, who won the men’s single sculls at this year’s U23 Trials, opted to attend the selection camp instead. Stanford’s James Fetter, a Stanford walk-on who learned to scull in 2024, returns after finishing eighth in the men’s single sculls last year. Joining them are Yale’s John Patton, who raced the double in 2024 with his brother James, and Brown University’s Davis Kelly, a two-time U19 national team member making his U23 debut.

Columbia University’s Adam Pushner and Colton Millar return in the men’s pair after setting a new American U23 record in the event last year. The duo finished fifth at the 2024 championships and will look to improve on that performance in 2025.

The U23 roster includes athletes from 16 states. California leads the way with seven athletes.

Name (Boat Position) (Hometown/University)

(Lineups subject to change)  

Men’s U23 Eight                                                                          

Elenna Seguin (Old Greenwich, Conn./Brown University)

Louis Gagnon (Montclair, N.J./University of California, Berkeley)

Beck Honebein (Steamboat Springs, Co.)/(Syracuse University)

Kian Aminian (Newport Beach, Calif./Princeton University)

Braden Porterfield (Alexandria, Va./Northeastern University)

Andrew Wilkinson (Chicago, Ill./Princeton University)

Matthew Lexa (Wynnewood, Pa./Naval Academy)

Declan Fry (Chicago, Ill./Syracuse University)

Finn Griskauskas (Chesterfield, Mo./University of Washington)

Women’s U23 Eight

Honor Warburg (Mercer Island, Wash./Stanford University)

Joely Cherniss (San Francisco, Calif./Princeton University)

Áine Ley (Wayland, Mass../Dartmouth College)

Ella Wheeler (South Orange, N.J./University of California)

Natalie Hoefer (Midland, Mich./University of Notre Dame)

Kathryn Serra (Miami, Fla./Harvard University/Radcliffe)

Annica Ford (Petaluma, Calif./UC San Diego)

Taryn Kooyers (Spring, Texas/University of Texas)

Maeve Heneghan (Chicago, Ill./Yale University)

Men’s U23 Four 

Ryan Martin (Newport Beach, Calif./University of Washington)

Wilson Morton (Summit, N.J./University of California, Berkeley)

Sam Sullivan (Boston, Mass./University of Pennsylvania)   

Lyle Donovan (Milton, Ga./University of Washington)

Women’s U23 Four 

Phoebe Wise (Greenwich, Conn./University of Washington)

Eleanor Smith (Rye, N.Y./Princeton University)

Quincy Stone (San Francisco, Calif./Stanford University)

Alexandria Alton (Jacksonville, Fla./University of Texas)

Men’s U23 Quadruple Scull

Davis Kelly (Vashon Island, Wash./Brown University)

James Fetter (Palo Alto, Calif./Stanford University)

John Patton (Houston, Texas/Yale University)

Timothy Parsons (Eugene, Ore./Yale University)

Men’s U23 Double Sculls

Ryan Miller (Drexel University)

Matthew Kennedy (Wyndmoor, Pa./Drexel University)

Men's U23 Pair 

Adam Pushner (Fairfield, Conn./Columbia University)

Colton Millar (Sarasota, Fla./Columbia University)

Lightweight Men’s U23 Single

Cosmo Hondrogen (Alameda, Calif./Dartmouth College)

Lightweight Men’s U23 Double Sculls

Ian Holly (Darien, Conn./University of Pennsylvania)

Will Konopka (Philadelphia, Pa./Yale University)

Alternates 

Amelia Boes (Republic, Ohio/Ohio State University)

Pietro Brocca (Boston, Mass./Northeastern University)

Derek Cushman (Arlington, Va./La Salle University)

Lily Murphy (Westport, Conn./University of Indiana)

Caroline Schmitz (Greenwich, Conn./Brown University)

Andrew Soman (Cleveland, Ohio/University of Wisconsin)i

Coaching Staff 

Sergio Espinoza, Men's Head Coach

Sarah Trowbridge, Women's Head Coach

Reilly Dampeer, Women’s Assistant Coach

Gia Doonan, Women’s Assistant Coach

Trevor Michelson, Men's Assistant Coach

Bryan Volpenhein, Men’s Assistant Coach

Andrew Hess, M2- Coach

Matt Weaver, M2X Coach

Ransom Weaver, LM2X Coach

Support Staff

Kirsten Eaton, Physical Therapist

Kris Karlson, Team Physician

Brett Gorman, Team Leader

Carolyn Glandorf, Press Officer

Wendy Wilbur, Team Leader

Complete press coverage, athlete bios, and links to event information will be available at www.usrowing.org and www.worldrowing.com.

USRowing would like to thank and acknowledge key partners HUDSON, the Official Boat Supplier for the U.S. Under 19 and Under 23 National Team. Through the partnership, HUDSON supplies racing shells for selection and training domestically, with matched shells provided internationally for racing.