ARIEL TOY
This hard-core indoor rowing team formed in 2007 when the Reichart Family hoped to keep CAPT Bob sane during his year in Baghdad. The team name, Ariel Toy, orginates from their parent's sailboat, and under CAPT Bob's leadership in that spirit we translated our indoor meters into nautical miles across the Seven Seas, one January at a time! Since CAPT Bob retired from captaining Ariel Toy after the 2020 competition, our subsequent captains Harry Graves transported us into space in 2021 and Dennis Brescoll took us to rock and roll concerts in 2022 and to the movies in 2023. In 16 January Virtual Challenges up through 2022, Ariel Toy has traveled over 238 million meters and enjoyed spirited competition.
Virtual Team Challenge Participants
| Pos. | Athlete | Age | Location | Country | Challenge |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 | Harry H. Graves | 30 | CINCINNATI USA | USA | 1,388,142 |
| 2 | Dennis Brescoll | 74 | Grosse Pointe Woods, MI | USA | 1,140,353 |
| 31 | Fred Kelley | 71 | Middletown, MD | USA | 1,010,000 |
| 1 | Michael Thibault | 71 | Grosse Pointe Farms, MI | USA | 866,596 |
| 8 | Chris Kelley | 60 | Middletown, MD | USA | 700,455 |
| 16 | Daniel Hass | 64 | Grosse Pointe Park, MI | USA | 653,135 |
| 3 | Lynne Graves | 69 | Grand Isle, VT | USA | 600,140 |
| 12 | Jim Weitzmann | 65 | Grosse Pointe Woods, MI | USA | 592,168 |
| 21 | Meghan Brundage | 55 | USA | 560,564 | |
| 38 | Louisa Wright | 63 | Skytop, PA | USA | 560,056 |
| 24 | Jack Impronto | 24 | Glastonbury, CT | USA | 550,000 |
| 28 | Andrius Vegelevicius | 52 | Milton, GA | USA | 542,663 |
| 35 | Bret Rubin | 39 | USA | 533,249 | |
| 5 | Peter Graves | 41 | Glastonbury , CT | USA | 532,247 |
| 47 | Timo Acosta | 49 | USA | 510,651 | |
| 15 | Cheryl Koch | 62 | Grosse Pointe Woods, MI | USA | 501,246 |
| 34 | Henry Palmer | 42 | Newton, MA | USA | 500,662 |
| 33 | Renee Jones | 55 | CT | USA | 500,010 |
| 22 | Jeffrey Montanari | 52 | Interlaken, NJ | USA | 500,000 |
| 18 | Rob Seski | 68 | LaSalle, ON | CAN | 478,382 |
| 4 | Dennis J. Sitek | 73 | Grosse Ile, MI | USA | 458,829 |
| 48 | Louisa Palmer | 45 | Newton, MA | USA | 425,669 |
| 32 | Will Race | 36 | USA | 425,000 | |
| 25 | Owen Hughes | 75 | USA | 412,000 | |
| 44 | Erin Barbakoff | 22 | USA | 407,553 | |
| 26 | Brison Ellinghaus | 67 | San Diego | USA | 401,518 |
| 42 | Martin Leonard | 41 | USA | 400,145 | |
| 43 | Gillianne Nugent | 24 | USA | 363,744 | |
| 39 | Timothy Miller | 69 | Grosse Pointe Woods , MI | USA | 340,184 |
| 17 | Edward Muhlhauser | 44 | Cincinnati, OH | USA | 340,054 |
| 14 | Rob Sattler | 70 | Grosse Pointe Shores, MI | USA | 334,569 |
| 37 | Micaela Rivera | 23 | CT | USA | 332,476 |
| 13 | Thomas Graves | 44 | Long Beach, CA | USA | 315,104 |
| 27 | Alexander Stanovoy | 54 | Rochester Hills, MI | USA | 306,299 |
| 30 | Jessica Frost | 50 | St. Albans, VT | USA | 302,988 |
| 36 | Alexander Kosior | 18 | Glastonbury , CT | USA | 290,855 |
| 6 | Edward Slater | 44 | New York, NY | USA | 255,323 |
| 7 | Bradley Werntz | 38 | East Greenwich, RI | USA | 240,101 |
| 50 | Gwen Longo | 21 | Southington, CT | USA | 234,249 |
| 41 | Rahul Jayachandran | 20 | USA | 230,506 | |
| 10 | Chris Reichart | 46 | Woodbridge, CT | USA | 215,230 |
| 19 | Kyle Lafferty | 38 | Kennett Square, PA | USA | 212,417 |
| 23 | Felice Mueller | 36 | USA | 209,738 | |
| 40 | Nate Bogoian | 19 | USA | 191,896 | |
| 11 | Beth Reichart | 50 | Annapolis, MD | USA | 187,467 |
| 49 | Zac Rosensohn | 37 | USA | 178,135 | |
| 46 | Flora Gurdon | 20 | USA | 177,500 | |
| 45 | John Graves | 38 | USA | 160,758 | |
| 20 | Elizabeth Sonshine | 35 | Craftsbury, VT | USA | 149,928 |
| 29 | gordon getsinger | 40 | USA | 92,094 |
