Local rowers are heading to national competition in Florida after taking gold at the U.S. Rowing Northwest youth championship events May 15 to 17, with their Sammamish Rowing Association teams.

Mount Si High School senior Madison Mariani was the coxswain for the varsity men’s 8+ that took gold with a time of 6:03.909.

Mount Si sophomore Connor Lien raced in the men’s lightweight 8+ . The team crossed the finish line of the 2,000-meter course in 6:26.975.

The lightweight 4+ team also won gold. The lightweight category requires all men to weigh in at 150 pounds or less, and all women to weigh in at 130 or less.

Sammamish Rowing teams also won gold in the men’s and the women’s second novice 8+, silver in the men’s novice 1x and the men’s second novice 8+, and bronze in the men’s third varsity 8+, the women’s varsity 4+ and the men’s novice 8+.