{"id":1273,"date":"2016-10-24T08:44:45","date_gmt":"2016-10-24T13:44:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/students.bowdoin.edu\/crew\/?p=1273"},"modified":"2016-10-24T08:44:45","modified_gmt":"2016-10-24T13:44:45","slug":"head-of-the-charles-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/students.bowdoin.edu\/crew\/events\/head-of-the-charles-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"Head of the Charles 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\tThe 52<sup>nd<\/sup> Head of the Charles brought drenching rains on Saturday and howling head winds on Sunday and three crews each day from the Bowdoin Navy. Over 10,000 athletes from around the world gathered in Boston for the annual fall celebration of rowing.<\/p>\n<p>On Saturday, Bowdoin raced in the Men\u2019s Club Fours where our B boat finished 25<sup>th<\/sup>, and our alumni took 34<sup>th<\/sup> out of 48 entries.\u00a0 Dartmouth, Harvard, and Boston University took the top three finishes.\u00a0 Our alumni women raced in the Women\u2019s Club Fours and finished 30<sup>th<\/sup> out of 59; Penn, Wisconsin, and Notre Dame took the top three in that event. Both the B boat and the women just missed getting the guarantee for next year by 1 spot!<\/p>\n<p>In Sunday\u2019s headwind, Bowdoin raced in the Collegiate Fours with our Women\u2019s A and B boats and the Men\u2019s A boat. In spite of three significant boat stopping incidents, the men took 14<sup>th<\/sup> in the 43 boat field, and earned a guaranteed entry in next year\u2019s regatta.\u00a0 FIT, Middlebury, and San Diego took top honors. The women finished 14<sup>th<\/sup> and 21<sup>st<\/sup> in a 35 boat race, and the A boat guaranteed a spot for next year. Barry University won it, with Carleton and UNH in second and third.<\/p>\n<p>The gathering at the Asgard on Saturday evening was just a joy.\u00a0 It was wonderful for our current team and families to connect with such a great crowd of alums.\u00a0 What a bunch of characters! Thanks to Maddy Livingston \u201816 for pulling it together, and to all of you who joined us there and at the river.<\/p>\n<p>Complete results, photos, and articles may be found at row2k.com and hocr.org.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 52nd Head of the Charles brought drenching rains on Saturday and howling head winds on Sunday and three crews each day from the Bowdoin Navy. Over 10,000 athletes from around the world gathered in Boston for the annual fall celebration of rowing. On Saturday, Bowdoin raced in the Men\u2019s Club Fours where our B [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[5,9,14,15,18,30],"class_list":["post-1273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-events","tag-alumni","tag-charles-river","tag-fall","tag-head-of-the-charles","tag-hocr","tag-regatta","entry"],"featured_image_src":null,"featured_image_src_square":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"Gregory Piccirillo '17","author_link":"https:\/\/students.bowdoin.edu\/crew\/author\/gpicciri\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/students.bowdoin.edu\/crew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1273","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/students.bowdoin.edu\/crew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/students.bowdoin.edu\/crew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/students.bowdoin.edu\/crew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/students.bowdoin.edu\/crew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1273"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/students.bowdoin.edu\/crew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1273\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/students.bowdoin.edu\/crew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/students.bowdoin.edu\/crew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/students.bowdoin.edu\/crew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}