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Successful Weekend at Knecht Cup

Here is Head Coach Gil Birney with highlights from our weekend at Knecht Cup in West Windsor, New Jersey:

“Saturday was quite warm and relatively still until the end of the day, and with high winds predicted for Sunday the Race Committee rearranged the schedule to get in as much racing as possible ahead of the weather… so the 4 crews who left campus Saturday morning thinking they were only racing on Sunday were surprised to learn their events had been moved up a day!…we managed to get them all launched in time for their events which was a bit of a miracle, but it worked.

And the results were impressive!

In the morning heats, the First Novice Men advanced to the finals behind Carnegie Mellon, while the Second Novice Men were just .2 behind Penn State for a 5th in the heat, but did not advance…

In the Men’s Varsity Four Div. 2/3, both our crews won their heats to advance to afternoon finals…

In those finals, the Novice Men won the gold, ahead of Carnegie Mellon, UConn, UNH, Villanova, UConn B and George Mason…and the Varsity Men finished gold and silver besting Wentworth, CMU, Stockton, Franklin and Marshall, and US Merchant Marine…

And the rescheduled crews all rose to the occasion as well…

the M2V won the silver behind George Mason and ahead of Rhode Island, Franklin and Marshall and UConn

and in the Women’s Varsity D3 event, we took gold and silver, ahead of Franklin and Marshall, CMU, and North Park, with our third entry in 6th  and ahead of The College of New Jersey, after a very exciting, chaotic start into the rising wind in the last event of the day…

that wind built through the night, and though we launched our Men’s Varsity 8 D2/3,  the Committee called them off the water and cancelled all Sunday racing  for safety’s sake… it was a good call… and the men landed safely, proclaiming  they remained undefeated on the day!

Thanks to all you supporters who faced the changing schedule and launches with your usual good humor and patience…

Looking ahead, we have racing next Saturday in Lowell for the Riverhawk Challenge, and Sunday in Greene for The President’s Cup with Bates and Colby…we’ll get those details out as soon as we have them!…”

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HOCR and beyond

The team put up an impressive showing this past week at the 53rd Head of the Charles Regatta. We had our biggest group of entries ever with 5 crews– 3 earned guaranteed entries for next year by finishing in the top half of their events, and we brought home one medal for a fabulous fourth place finish in the Women’s Collegiate Four! Between the men and women that makes 7 medals in the last 7 years. Lots of alums were there to cheer us on and some even got on the water, including Cal Brooks ’15 and Harris Fisher ’16 as the bow pair in Riverside’s gold medal win in the Club Four. Thank you to everyone (families, alums, friends, adorable dogs) who were there to support us!

Looking forward, this weekend is Parent’s Weekend on campus. We are pleased to invite families out to the boathouse on Sunday morning at 10AM to get a tour of our beautiful spot on the New Meadows and… ROW! Parents will get a lesson about the boats and get to take some strokes– this is something you don’t want to miss!

Tomorrow morning, Saturday the 28th, the team is heading to Colby College for the annual CBB race with Colby and Bates. Racing begins at 9:30am. This is a quick regatta but it’s always fun to race with our fellow NESCAC teams.

Next week is the last week of the fall season. Thursday morning the team will hit the ergs for a baseline 2k test, Saturday is the infamous Coxswain’s Cup, followed by the end of season banquet on Sunday evening. It’s been a great (and thankfully warm and flat-watered) season!

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Textile River Regatta TOMORROW!

This Sunday (10/1/17) all Bowdoin crews will be heading down to Lowell, MA to compete in the Textile River Regatta. The order of events and race times can be found at https://herenow.com/results/#/races/20437/heats. We have boats in the following events: Men and Women’s Single, Women’s Pair, Men and Women’s Varsity 4+, Men and Women’s Novice 4+, Men’s Lightweight 4+, and Mixed Masters 2x. The Singles start our race day off at 8:35am, followed by the Pair at 10:05am, the Men’s Varsity 4+ event at 10:44am followed by the Women at 10:50am. The Novice Men are off the line at 12:06pm followed by the Women at 12:10pm. The Men’s Lightweight 4+ starts 1:26 and Coach Doug Welling will finish out the day of racing in the Mixed Masters Double event at 1:33pm. Good luck to all crews! Go UBEARS!