{"id":39668,"date":"2026-08-22T16:30:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-22T16:30:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/netherlands\/39668\/"},"modified":"2026-08-22T16:30:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-22T16:30:10","slug":"meet-the-mars-native-rowing-at-world-championships-in-amsterdam-after-walking-on-at-washington-butler-eagle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/netherlands\/39668\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet the Mars native rowing at world championships in Amsterdam after walking on at Washington \u2013 Butler Eagle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/netherlands\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/1787416210_331_.jpeg\" alt=\"\" data-uuid=\"ed156afa-ab5e-5cd4-93e7-faeb8ecf78dd\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Blake Vogel, a Mars resident who graduated from Pittsburgh Central Catholic , will be competing in the 2026 World Rowing Championships next week in Amsterdam. Submitted photo<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__body\">Mars resident Blake Vogel will be competing in the 2026 World Rowing Championships next week in Amsterdam.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__body\">Vogel, a 2021 Pittsburgh Central Catholic graduate, spent four years on the rowing team there. He walked on the rowing team at the University of Washington.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__body\">\u201cThey knew of him and had interest in him,\u201d Blake\u2019s mother, Debbie Vogel, said. \u201cHe was invited to walk on, so he traveled across the country to do so.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__body\">\u201cWashington has one of the best rowing programs in the nation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__body\">Vogel was on the Huskies rowing team for four years before graduating last year with a degree in real estate and a minor in business. He was named to the All-Mountain Pacific Sports Federation team his senior year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__body\">He never left the sport. Vogel trained on his own in San Francisco before returning to Washington, where he joined forces with fellow former Huskie rower Sam Halbert to form a doubles team.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__body\">\u201cThey trained together in a two-man boat and attended a tryout for the U.S. rowing national team in July,\u201d Vogel\u2019s mother said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__body\">The duo made the team and will be competing in a pairs race at the World Rowing Championships on Monday. The world competition takes place all of next week.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__body\">Vogel has ample experience in international competition. He was a member of the 2019 U.S. Rowing U19 Junior National team. He rowed in the USA coxed four that won bronze at the 2023 U23 World Rowing Championships.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__body\">Vogel also won a silver medal in the U.S. men\u2019s eight at the 2024 U23 World Rowing Championships and rowed in the U.S. eight at the 2024 Netz Cup, helping the Americans to a first-place finish.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Blake Vogel, a Mars resident who graduated from Pittsburgh Central Catholic , will be competing in the 2026&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":39669,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[23,25689,25681,25677,25696,25702,25704,25680,25684,25682,32,25683,25688,11532,25701,25695,25679,25699,25687,25678,25690,155,4084,25693,131,21084,1917,25694,2189,25685,25698,25697,25686,25703,25692,25691,25700],"class_list":["post-39668","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-amsterdam","tag-amsterdam","tag-bruin","tag-butler","tag-butler-eagle","tag-cabot","tag-callery","tag-cherry-valley","tag-community-news","tag-connoquenessing","tag-cranberry","tag-crime","tag-east-butler","tag-eau-claire","tag-education-news","tag-evans-city","tag-fairview","tag-government-news","tag-harmony","tag-harrisville","tag-high-school-sports-news","tag-karns-city","tag-local-news","tag-mars","tag-mount-chesnut","tag-news","tag-obituaries","tag-pennsylvania","tag-petrolia","tag-political-news","tag-portersville","tag-sarver","tag-saxonburg","tag-slippery-rock","tag-valencia","tag-west-liberty","tag-west-sunbury","tag-zelienople"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/netherlands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39668","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/netherlands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/netherlands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/netherlands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/netherlands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39668"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/netherlands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39668\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/netherlands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/netherlands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/netherlands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/netherlands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}