This morning Dan rowed so amazingly super fast he and his rowing partner are now #1 in the US for skinny boys who row in boats that have two people.

And now he's going to Poland to try to qualify for the Olympics!

Here's Dan and Cody on their way to winning yesterday's race. Guess who's wearing the Phillies hat?

The best part was after he won. Someone said that cheering for Dan in Poland would be the first time they could ever imagine themself chanting "U S A! U S A!" and his grandfather looked kind of serious and said "you know what happened when Michelle Obama said that..."

Our fearless leader, Dan Urevick-Ackelsberg, has been missing from this blog for the past week or so because he is in Munich, Germany competing in the men's lightweight international World Rowing Championships.

Dan and his teammate will be competing in the final on Sunday. It will be at 7:45 AM and you can see it live at wcsn.com. And here's a great photo of Dan, getting his game face on I guess:

If Dan makes the finals, he has a shot at going on to the 2008 Olympics in Beijing!