Cheshire teenager Deirdre Fitzpatrick, a University of Southern California (Los Angeles) freshman, competed in the World Junior Rowing Championship for the second straight summer. This year's event ran Aug. 14-19 in Plovdiv, Bulgaria. Fitzpatrick rowed on the girls' 4-Boat that finished second (6:56.44).
Read about this record-setting performance and Fitzpatrick's rowing career in this week's issue of The Cheshire Herald! Fitzpatrick is a 2012 graduate of Sacred Heart Academy in Hamden.
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