In one of their last stops for the fall season, the heavyweight freshmen of Penn rowing will race this Saturday at the Rutgers Fall Classic Regatta.

Despite making some waves at the Princeton Chase, Penn rowing has still identified some room for improvement as it looks forward to winter training.

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.

Neither rain, fog nor the crews of the Naval Academy could stop Penn rowing from shining.

Penn’s men’s heavyweight, men’s lightweight and women’s crews will join the likes of Navy, La Salle and Rutgers in a series of head races on Saturday.

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.

Though rain pounded Penn’s campus over the weekend, the men’s and women’s rowing teams found different ways to deal with the precipitation.

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.

Members of the Penn men’s lightweight and women’s crew teams step up to continue the legacy of a California coxswain who succumbed to cancer in 2010.

The race saw the Bulldogs taking home the Cup for the 37th time, with Penn coming in third in both the first and second varsity races.

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.