Rower Beuke raising funds for Team USA trip to World Championships

By Olympic Peninsula News Group • July 25, 2018 1:30 am
Sequim’s Elise Beuke, second from left, is rowing for Team USA at the U-23 World Championships in Poland Wednesday through Sunday. She and her teammates are raising funds to cover expenses.
Sequim’s Elise Beuke, second from left, is rowing for Team USA at the U-23 World Championships in Poland Wednesday through Sunday. She and her teammates are raising funds to cover expenses.

Sequim’s Elise Beuke and her Women’s 8+ rowing team will represent Team USA at the the 2018 Under 23 World Championship in Poznan, Poland, July 25-29.

Beuke is a senior-to-be on the University of Washington rowing team’s Varsity 8+. She was a member of the Huskies’ NCAA Championship winning team in 2017 and the UW’s runner-up finisher at the 2018 NCAA Championship in late May.

While representing the U.S., Beuke won the silver in the U.S. Women’s eight at the 2017 World Rowing Under-23 Championships in Plovdiv, Bulgaria, and finished seventh in the double sculls at the 2015 Junior World Rowing Championships in Rio de Janiero.

As a self-funded boat, she and her teammates are raising funds to cover expenses for the Poland trip.

“The estimated cost of travel, equipment, and food for each athlete is estimated at $4,250 per person,” a post on the team’s fundraising page said.

“Any contributions to our boat are immensely appreciated, and would help us towards our larger goal of going for gold in Poland.”

To donate by debit or credit card, or for more information, visit tinyurl.com/ PDN-BeukeRows.

The team, comprised of rowers from the UW, Stanford, Princeton and Yale, has an Instagram page at www.instagram.com/usa.u23.8.