Men’s Eight Wins Gold And Women’s 4 Wins Silver At Head Of The Housatonic

SHELTON, Conn. – After the group’s dad and mom weekend scrimmage on September 27, Lehigh males’s and girls’s rowing competed of their first official competitors of the autumn on Saturday on the Head of the Housatonic. The Mountain Hawks claimed first within the males’s Director’s Cup 8+ and the ladies’s 4+ earned silver in a profitable day on the water.

“Exciting to see our Charles lineups come away with medals in the men’s eight and women’s four,” stated Steven J. ’69 & Karen A. Lee head rowing coach Peter Costas. “We’ve benefited tremendously from positive internal competition. Outstanding performance from the full squad showing up to race. This is a promising first step.”

The first race of the day for the Mountain Hawks was the lads’s 8+ Director’s Cup that noticed two Lehigh boats racing. The first boat coxswained by Aidan Judge emerged victorious, ending in first place with a time of 13:28.140. Lehigh’s second boat within the race completed in 14th with a time of 14:27.249.

“Today’s result was a great way to start off the fall racing season,” stated junior Colby Brogan. “We faced off against some strong crews but we leaned against the wall and dug deep. After two weekends of success, we’re looking to keep the momentum going at the Head of The Charles.”

“So proud of our first-years for putting out a champion effort on their first race with the team,” stated junior Adelaide Weir. “Our 4 found a new press during that race that’ll continue to push us through the fall season.”

Next up was 8+ Women’s Cup, which had two Lehigh boats competing. The Mountain Hawks completed in sixth and seventh with occasions of 15:36.530 and 16:00.006 respectively.

Three Lehigh boats raced within the males’s open 4+, claiming twelfth, thirteenth, and fifteenth place finishes with occasions of 15:53.071, 16:01.338 and 16:39.647. The Mountain Hawks additionally raced three boats within the girls’s open 4+ race. The Lehigh boat coxswained by Ava Albano earned a second-place end with a time of 16:42.038. Lehigh’s two different boats completed in fourth (17:01.055) and eighth (17:54.829).

Lehigh concluded the day with two races that includes two-person boats. In the lads’s race, Lehigh completed in sixth (16:41.667) and eighth (17:43.638) whereas additionally having a ship not end. The girls completed in first (18:50.231) and second (20:10.035) in a 3 boat race.

“My first race with Lehigh was an awesome experience,” stated first-year Sadie Panaro. “We felt connected and powerful, and I can’t wait to see how much faster we can get together this season.”

The Mountain Hawks will subsequent be in motion on the prestigious Head of the Charles Regatta on October 18-19 in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

“We had a great first race of the season against some big competition, I feel like we are moving in a great direction and I can’t wait to see what our boats can do next time,” stated senior Madison Goldstein.

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Men’s Director’s Cup (8+)

C Aidan Judge

8 Evan McDonnell

7 Colby Brogan

6 Noah Pelham

5 Alex Blaszkiewicz

4 Matthew Stugart

3 Drew Hetzer

2 Max Reznik

1 John Deutch

C Cesca Campise

8 David Huang

7 Patrick Flynn

6 Zachary Wexler

5 Corbin Homan

4 Luke Blum

3 Jack Wicke

2 William Snider

1 Henry Vietor

Women’s Cup (8+)

C Ava Albano

8 Madison Goldstein

7 Ryann McDonald

6 Jacquelyn Bousquet-Smith

5 Mina Petrovic

4 Sara Petrovic

3 Meghan Hastings

2 Anna Brock

1 Victoria Bazarko

C Shreya Dadlani

8 Sarah Lucas

7 Lydia Sheeser

6 Michela Biondi

5 Seeley Mazur

4 Maeve Timms

3 Hannah Vogel

2 Elizabeth Janes

1 Olivia Shafer

Men’s 4+

4 David Huang

3 Patrick Flynn

2 Zachary Wexler

1 Corbin Homan

C Cesca Campise

4 Luke Blum

3 Jack Wicke

2 William Snider

1 Henry Vietor

C Alex McNeil

4 Lucas Rosenberg

3 James Corcoran

2 Nathan Barnwell

1 Ryan Miller

C DJ Marjanovic

Women’s 4+

4 Madison Goldstein

3 Ryann McDonald

2 Sara Petrovic

1 Mina Petrovic

C Ava Albano

4 Maeve Timms

3 Lydia Sheeser

2 Elizabeth Janes

1 Emma Schwartz

C Shreya Dadlani

4 Michela Biondi

3 Addison Fitzgerald

2 Adelaide Weir

1 Sadie Panaro

C Grace Ioffe

Men’s 2

2 Max Reznik

1 Alex Blaszkiewicz

2 Evan McDonnell

1 Colby Brogan

2 Matthew Stugart

1 Drew Hetzer

Women’s 2

2 Jacquelyn Bousquet-Smith

1 Victoria Bazarko

2 Meghan Hastings

1 Anna Brock