World Rowing Indoor Championships 2018

Finishing Where She Left Off - And Setting a New World Record

 Ed Moran - 18 Feb 2018

"And Sunday, while she was pulling the race of her life, and holding down the kind of splits that would see her set a new world record, she was feeling strong and had no doubt she would have the kind of sprint that evaded her in 2013. "

2018 Erg Sprints|WRIC Come to a Close

Dan Brauchli - 18 Feb 2018

“I knew coming here, [breaking the world record] was my goal,” Cavallo stated.

Records fall at the World Indoor Championships

19 Feb 2018

"[This is] a side product of something bigger that I’m training for.” – Christine Cavallo, USA, gold "

World Records and success at inaugural World Rowing Indoor Championships

19 Feb 2018

"The lightweight women’s race was won by Christine Cavallo of the United States in World Record time. Cavallo, 22, finished in 6:54.1 shaving 0.6 of a second off the former record. 

World Indoor Rowing Championship Gets High Marks

18 Feb 2018

"The first [record] went to Stanford alumnae Christine Cavallo, who had Linda Muri cheering her on in the open women’s lightweight event. Cavallo, who qualified from California, stormed out to an early lead and kept building it. She completed the piece in 6:54.1, topping the previous mark by six-tenths of a second.

“She had a really well thought-out race plan, and she stuck to it,” Muri said. “She’s doing all the heavy lifting, but I could say something and she just responded right away.” "

2013 World Record

Soccer injury charts Olympia rower's course toward world record

Andy Zunz - 22 March 2013

""I thought my world was ending when soccer was over," Cavallo said. "I had middle-school, write-in-your-diary plans that I would go to Duke on a soccer scholarship." Cavallo tried non-contact sports, including track, until she registered for a camp with the Orlando Area Rowing Society on a "whim." In the four years since then, Cavallo has broken two world records, rowed with the junior national team and earned a scholarship to Stanford."

Planning for a World Record

Christine McClintock, 26 Feb 2013

"When Christine Cavallo won the women’s junior lightweight event at the 2013 C.R.A.S.H.-B. Sprints in a time of 7:05.7, she broke a world record – her own.

2013 Crash-B Sprints: Nothing Junior About These Performances

19 Feb 2013

"High school senior Christine Cavallotook top honors in the women's junior lightweight event in a time (7:05.7—a new world record for the event) that would have won the women's open lightweight category, and was eleven seconds off the senior world record set by Ursula Grobler."