Girls’s Rowing Goes 5-For-5 Profitable Gold at Head of the Schuylkill

PHILADELPHIA – The University of Pennsylvania girls’s rowing group had a profitable Saturday on the Head of the Schuylkill Regatta. The Quakers competed in 5 divisions and posted the highest two instances in all 5.
 
Final HOSR Results (HereNow.com)
 
“PWC enjoyed another exceptional Head of the Schuylkill Regatta,” stated Penn’s head coach, Bill Manning. “The City of Philadelphia, the Philadelphia rowing neighborhood and Boathouse Row, our alumnae, and the climate all turned out to make an ideal day.
 
“The team won Gold and Silver in each event we entered,” he continued. “We improved upon last year’s performance.  Everyone raced twice, with a few women racing three times. Our women did an exceptional job supporting and challenging each other and that, along with aggressive and persistent racing, led to our strong showing and all the medals. I’m especially pleased for our First Years, who placed first and second in the Freshman/Novice 4+ and won the Freshman 8+ by over thirty seconds.”
 
Frosh/Novice Fours: Penn’s two boats went 1-2 on this division, the ‘A’ boat clocking 14:06.165 and the ‘B’ boat timed in 14:51.001 throughout the Schuylkill’s three-mile course. Overall, 17 boats accomplished racing on this division.
 
Championship Fours: A complete of 56 boats raced on this division however Penn once more went 1-2 because the Quakers’ ‘B’ boat clocked 13:34.855 and the ‘A’ boat completed in 13:42.288.
 
Frosh/Novice Eights: Penn had only one boat race on this division and it posted the quickest time amongst 19 boats that competed. The Quakers had been timed in 12:53.545, which was greater than 30 seconds forward of second-place UConn (13:24.299).
 
Club Championship Eights: Penn had three boats compete on this division, and the Quakers went 1-2-4 with solely UConn’s prime boat conserving the Red and Blue from a sweep. Penn’s ‘B’ boat clocked 12:40.967, adopted by the ‘A’ boat (12:57.557), UConn (13:13.777), and Penn’s ‘C’ boat (13:15.198).
 
Championship Eights: Penn had 4 boats row within the ultimate occasion of the day for this system, with the ‘B’ (12:25.572) and ‘A’ (12:31.823) going 1-2 in a subject of 27 boats. The Quakers’ ‘C’ boat was fifth general, in 12:50.396, whereas their ‘D’ boat was eleventh general in 12:59.490.
 
“These are early days,” cautioned Manning. “But if we build from this, develop, and aim high we can achieve good results this spring, too.”
 
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