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Ned Benning ’12 (Cornell) earned a bronze medal at the 2013 Under 23 World Rowing Championships in Linz, Austria, for manning the bow seat of the men’s quad.
Math teacher Kai Robinson ’05 won five gold medals in diving events at the 2013 International Gay & Lesbian Aquatic Association Championships in Seattle. He won every event he entered. After three months on the U.S. National Women’s Crew Team, Tessa Gobbo ’09 (second from right) helped win a gold medal in the women’s four at the 2013 World Rowing Championships, held in Chungju, South Korea, at the end of August. Gobbo and her teammates finished in 6:43.15, outpacing the silver-medal Canadian squad by more than four seconds. Gobbo, who graduated from Brown University last spring, was a member of the 2011 NCAA National Championship team, an Academic All-Ivy, and a First Team CRCA All-Region selection, and she helped Brown take home the Charles G. Willing Jr. Trophy for the best team performance in the 2013 Eastern Sprints Regatta.
The 131st Royal Canadian Henley in St. Catharines, Ontario, showcased multiple NMH rowers: Rebecca and Elizabeth Donald ’07 (Penn ’11) won gold as half of the women’s quad team, took 4th in the double race, and they both advanced to the senior singles semis and placed 4th and 3rd, respectively. Maggie Fellows ’09 (St. Lawrence University ’13) won gold in the U23 singles race, silver in the U23 pair, and silver in the U23 double. Eliza van Lennep ’05 (Smith ’09) won silver in the senior eight dash and bronze in the senior pair; she also placed 4th in the senior four and 5th in the senior eight. Loulou Tanski ’15 raced in the U17 double, single, quad (5th in semis), and coxed in the four (4th in semis). Math teacher Kate Hoff won bronze in the senior lightweight double race, and also competed in the single (3rd in semis) and single dash (3rd in heat). Eva Schlehr ’15 competed in the coxed four and the U19 eight.
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At the Maccabiah Games in Israel, three NMH alums took home gold medals for the U.S.: Hannah SolisCohen ’12 (University of Virginia) with the women’s quad rowing team, Josh Elbaum ’10 (University of Vermont) with the men’s open basketball team, and David Shabsels ’96 with the men’s 35+ basketball team.
The Mysteries of Golf Say you love golf. But if winter weather confines your clubs to the closet for months at a time, keep the passion alive by picking up a mystery novel set on the PGA Tour. NMH’s new English department chair John Corrigan has written five stories that combine luxurious greens with murder, money laundering, gambling, and drug use—and a poetry-reading golf pro named Jack Austin, an amateur sleuth who simultaneously tees up in tournaments and goes behind the scenes to solve crimes.