INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) — With more than 1,000 athletes and 400 entries, the Indianapolis Rowing Center (IRC) is hosting one of the largest regattas in the Midwest this weekend. 

Teams from all over the U.S. are competing at Eagle Creek in the Junior Sprints. 

The IRC is hosting teams from all over the country to compete as they chase the Midwest championship in two weeks and qualify for nationals in June. 

Attending on behalf of IRC are over 100 athletes from the Indianapolis area and local schools including Zionsville Community High School, Carmel High School, Brebeuf, Guerin, Fishers and others. 

Ryan Miller, a High Schooler from Fishers that is setting sail to compete at Drexel University in the fall, is attending the Junior Sprints. 

“People here have been like a family, they’ve been helping me get better and the coaches here have been great,” Miller said. 

Miller joined the IRC team in seventh grade. His sister was also apart of the rowing community as well. 

Miller’s dream is to compete in the 2028 Olympic games in Los Angeles. But why rowing and not another sport where a six-and-a-half-foot tall athlete would fit in?

“Since my size I knew I could be good at it, and be really good and compete at the Olympics, cause I know at basketball it would be hard for me to compete at the Olympics,” Miller said. 

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