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5 Days to New England Rowing Championships

The team had another successful weekend of racing on April 21-22 at the Riverhawk Challenge on Saturday (Lowell, MA) and the President’s Cup on Sunday (Greene, Maine). At Riverhawk, we brought home an impressive number of medals, with almost every crew winning either 1st or 2nd place! On Sunday against Bates and Colby the Women’s Varsity 4 came in 1st by 53 seconds bringing the President’s Cup back to Brunswick and all other crews performed well against the high level of competition. It is always a great experience getting to race against our fellow Maine NESCAC schools!

We look ahead with high hopes for the New England Rowing Championships this coming Saturday, May 5th (Worchester, MA). Heat sheets/start times have yet to be released, but we will post them as soon as they are available. The racing will be streamed online by following these steps:

Live Stream Information for NERC:

1. Go To locallive.tv
2. Click on “Channels” (top right of page)
3. Select US Rowing from the list and Click Subscribe
4. Set-up free account and password.

Once you have a password you can login anytime – loccallive.tv, clicking “Sign-In” link at top right.

Questions about registration: [email protected]

Thank you to all of the parents and alumni who have supported us this season! RowUBears!

 

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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!