Badger openweights race at 2025 Head of the Charles

BOSTON – The Wisconsin girls’s rowing crew continued its fall season on the Head of the Charles regatta on Sunday.

The Badgers competed towards among the high rowers within the nation on the three-mile Charles River course. The Wisconsin girls’s championship 4 positioned thirteenth in its boat class with a time of 18:12.529.

The New York AC crew took the highest spot, finishing the course in 16:50.690, adopted by Virginia in second (17:14.125) and Penn in third (17:26.323).

UW alumni obtained to hitch within the enjoyable as nicely, with former Badgers placing collectively a star-studded boat within the girls’s alumnae eight on Saturday. The alumnae eight got here in 4th with a time of 16:26.648. 

The Badger alumnae eight included Olympian and present Badger Head Coach Vicky Opitz and coxswain Yasmin Farooq (present Washington head coach and Olympian), in addition to Olympians Maddie Wanamaker and Lauren O’Connor. Current Washington Head Novice Coach Allie Lohrenz, former All-American rower Lexi Siverling and 2018 CRCA National Scholar Athlete Lisbet Pietz have been additionally a part of the crew, and up to date graduates Oona Zilavy (’25) and light-weight All-American Falcon Jaacks (light-weight, ’24).

Up Next: The Badgers host a scrimmage versus Eastern Michigan University on Saturday, Oct. 25, in Madison. 

Head of the Charles

Oct. 19, 2025

Boston

Charles River

3 miles

Women’s Championship Fours (22 entries)

1. New York AC, A 16:50.690; 2. Virginia – Women A, 17:14.125; 3, Penn AC A, 17:26.323; 13. Wisconsin A, 18:12.529

UW Lineup – Coxswain Emma Hefner, Maddy Stack, Jordan Morrissey, Sophia Gruenling, Anna Mueller