Crew Brings Home Pair of Gold Medals

Brunswick had a banner day for its rowing program on Sunday in Philadelphia. Both the Varsity and Second Varsity Eights won gold medals at the Head of the Schuylkill Regatta.

 

The Varsity Eight are now back-to-back champions of the event after winning in 2014. The finishing time of 12:56.9 outpaced the second place crew from Winchester (UK) by more than 13 seconds. The crew rowed with great confidence, besting 61 other boats on the historic course.

 

Senior co-captain Will Powers noted, “We raced aggressively the whole way down the course, despite starting from the back of the pack.”

 

The Second Varsity Eight added to the Brunswick medal haul by taking top honors against 62 other entries in its division, winning by 14 seconds. The rowers finish their fall campaign with three victories and one second place finish at four fall regattas.

 

Brunswick’s Third Eight took 16^th of 62 in the same division as Second Varsity, showing the impressive depth of this year’s squad. Senior Duke Guadalupe provided valuable leadership and experience from the stroke seat.

 

The Freshmen Eight took seventh out of 47 boats in the Novice Eight category. The Bruins raced the entire 2.5 mile course without bringing the stroke rate below 34 strokes per minute -- an impressive effort.

Race Results

 

Bow: Ridgley Knapp

2 Alex Wada

3 Alexander Kutner

4 Thomas Kern

5 Gamble Freydberg

6 Will Powers

7 Will Bass

Stroke: Matthew Womble

Cox: Alec Esmond

 

Bow: Jack Altman

2 David Sorbaro

3 Angus Fraser

4 Jack Mozingo

5 Andrew Kelly

6 Matthew Jacobson

7 Tate Huffman

Stroke: Andreas Kern

Cox: Conor Boyle

 

Bow: Diego Jasson

2 Ben Shore

3 Christian Ruf

4 Oliver Nusbaum

5 Alex Jacobson

6 Michael Farello

7 Alex Tucker

Stroke: Duke Guadalupe

Cox: Matthew Pillari

 

Bow: Braxton Reynolds

2 Jack Hoeffel

3 Quinn Murphy

4 Henry Hill

5 Alex Trauber

6 Daniel Augustine

7 Paxti Irazu

Stroke: Scott Gibbons

Cox: Cooper Murray