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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 29 | Fred Kelley | 70 | Middletown, MD | USA | 1,022,500 |
| 8 | Harry H. Graves | 29 | CINCINNATI USA | USA | 1,000,830 |
| 7 | Chris Kelley | 60 | Middletown, MD | USA | 705,649 |
| 11 | Jim Weitzmann | 65 | Grosse Pointe Woods, MI | USA | 662,656 |
| 39 | Claire Paice | 30 | USA | 661,326 | |
| 25 | Benjamin T. Wright | 64 | Newtown, PA | USA | 651,776 |
| 14 | Daniel Hass | 64 | Grosse Pointe Park, MI | USA | 625,687 |
| 43 | Kevin Wood | 33 | Simsbury, CT | USA | 554,720 |
| 31 | Quin Woods | 25 | USA | 553,124 | |
| 24 | Brison Ellinghaus | 66 | San Diego | USA | 550,000 |
| 3 | Dennis J. Sitek | 73 | Grosse Ile, MI | USA | 546,485 |
| 1 | Michael Thibault | 71 | Grosse Pointe Farms, MI | USA | 541,156 |
| 30 | Will Race | 36 | USA | 530,599 | |
| 33 | Bret Rubin | 39 | USA | 525,908 | |
| 2 | Lynne Graves | 69 | Grand Isle, VT | USA | 512,544 |
| 50 | Mike McAndrews | 62 | USA | 507,631 | |
| 15 | Edward Muhlhauser | 44 | Cincinnati, OH | USA | 445,162 |
| 4 | Peter Graves | 41 | Glastonbury , CT | USA | 441,043 |
| 19 | Meghan Brundage | 55 | USA | 437,442 | |
| 16 | Rob Seski | 67 | LaSalle, ON | CAN | 436,537 |
| 44 | Louisa Palmer | 45 | Newton, MA | USA | 428,944 |
| 23 | Owen Hughes | 74 | USA | 401,345 | |
| 26 | Alexander Stanovoy | 53 | Rochester Hills, MI | USA | 391,698 |
| 35 | Louisa Wright | 63 | Skytop, PA | USA | 341,344 |
| 36 | Timothy Miller | 69 | Grosse Pointe Woods , MI | USA | 340,203 |
| 13 | Rob Sattler | 70 | Grosse Pointe Shores, MI | USA | 331,251 |
| 32 | Renee Jones | 55 | CT | USA | 323,262 |
| 34 | Alexander Kosior | 18 | Glastonbury , CT | USA | 310,393 |
| 41 | Timo Acosta | 48 | USA | 305,237 | |
| 37 | Nate Bogoian | 19 | USA | 274,372 | |
| 21 | Felice Mueller | 36 | USA | 264,991 | |
| 12 | Thomas Graves | 43 | Long Beach, CA | USA | 256,977 |
| 18 | Elizabeth Sonshine | 35 | Craftsbury, VT | USA | 244,802 |
| 28 | gordon getsinger | 40 | USA | 232,858 | |
| 5 | Edward Slater | 43 | New York, NY | USA | 227,736 |
| 17 | Kyle Lafferty | 38 | Kennett Square, PA | USA | 225,162 |
| 45 | Zac Rosensohn | 37 | USA | 218,001 | |
| 40 | John Graves | 37 | USA | 217,546 | |
| 48 | Tim Magner | 40 | USA | 207,602 | |
| 42 | Christine Sattler | 35 | MI | USA | 204,690 |
| 20 | Jeffrey Montanari | 51 | Interlaken, NJ | USA | 200,192 |
| 27 | Andrius Vegelevicius | 52 | Milton, GA | USA | 181,190 |
| 22 | Jack Impronto | 24 | Glastonbury, CT | USA | 155,744 |
| 10 | Beth Reichart | 50 | Annapolis, MD | USA | 133,343 |
| 46 | Peter McKay | 38 | USA | 127,377 | |
| 9 | Chris Reichart | 45 | Woodbridge, CT | USA | 89,383 |
| 6 | Bradley Werntz | 38 | East Greenwich, RI | USA | 76,099 |
| 38 | Rahul Jayachandran | 20 | USA | 72,653 | |
| 49 | Brian Baker | 32 | Saugus, MA | USA | 47,622 |
| 47 | Alex Heim | 24 | USA | 32,211 |
