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While the freshmen of Penn heavyweight rowing put up a commendable effort, the Rutgers Fall Classic was all about Navy, whose combined heavyweight and lightweight boats edged out the Red and Blue.
After a set of mixed results at last week’s Head of the Charles regatta, Penn rowing is hoping to make a splash at this weekend’s Princeton Chase before heading into the long, cold winter.
This Sunday, Penn rowing was represented by a handful of boats at the annual Head of the Charles regatta in Boston, ending up with some mixed finishes.
After a successful Navy Day Regatta last weekend, the Quakers are hoping to continue a promising trend as they head towards the traditional spring season.
There are rites of passage that virtually every Penn student passes through during their four years on campus. One of them: being approached by a representative from the rowing team.
Penn freshman lightweight rower Jake Ford set his first of not one nor two, but three under-19 lightweight 5,000-meter, 30-minute, and 60-minute world records.
This weekend, the Quakers will participate in not one, but two regattas. The Head of Schuylkill regatta will take place on Saturday and then the team will head to New Jersey for the Princeton Chase on Sunday.
A high school boat veered into the middle of Penn’s lane roughly 800 meters into the 2000m race, taking the No. 13 Quakers out of contention and helping ensure the fourth victory in a row for No. 15 Princeton with a time of 5:45.0.
The Penn men’s lightweight rowing team will host the annual Matthews-Leonard Cups, which involve races between Penn and Cornell. This year, Harvard has been invited as a guest and will participate in the race, though the contention of the Cups is only between Penn and Cornell.
The weekend proved to be a mixed bag for the Quakers rowing teams. While the men’s lightweight rowing team had a successful weekend against MIT, the women’s team finished third out of the three teams in the Connell Cup.
The men took home the McCausland Cup at George Washington’s expense after losing the Burk Cup to Northeastern in the morning. Meanwhile, the women’s team swept both George Washington and St. Joseph’s.
Roughly fifty strokes, or 500 meters, will be the main focus of the Penn women’s crew team when it takes on St. Joseph’s and George Washington this Saturday on the Schuylkill River in the first race of the spring.
Jim Senese, Engineering senior on the Heavy Weight Crew Team, has chosen to build a device — which expands like a telescope — that will be able to shift oars outward and inward. The system is similar to that of gears on a bike.