Rowers Win Games Spots -- Mccaggs, Schneider, Scott Join U.S. Team

GAINESVILLE, Ga. - At least four Seattle-area athletes will compete for the U.S. rowing team in the Olympics this summer, and another has a chance to qualify in June.

Forty-four of 48 spots on the U.S. team were filled in the final day of the U.S. trials yesterday at the Olympic course on Lake Lanier. Olympic rowing competition will begin there July 21.

Kirkland sisters Betsy and Mary McCagg, rowing for the National Training Center team from Chattanooga, Tenn., qualified in the women's eight. The crew was set before the trials, but raced to officially qualify.

Jason Scott, a former University of Washington rower from Seattle, made the U.S. team in the men's four.

In the lightweight men's four without cox, one of three new categories in the '96 Olympics, Everett's Marcus Schneider was on the winning boat from the National Training Center at Princeton.

Two boats - men's and women's double sculls - still must qualify for the Atlanta Games in June in Lucerne, Switzerland. The men's boat going to Switzerland will be Seattle's Ty Bennion, who has rowed for Harvard, and Andy McMarlin of Santa Monica, Calif.