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Nailed It: Ridgewood Crew Wins Four Golds, Fastest Overall Boys Team Title at 2026 Haddon Hammer

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The Ridgewood Crew boys team won the ‘fastest boat’ team title at the New Jersey Indoor Rowing Championships for the second year in a row, taking home the 2026 Haddon Hammer trophy.
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Ridgewood  NJ – Ridgewood Crew dominated the 2026 New Jersey Indoor Rowing Championships on Sunday, claiming the top spot in four of six juniors events and taking the overall fastest team title in the boys category. This event, also known as the Haddon Hammer, was hosted at Haddon Township High School and this year featured nearly 260 youth athletes from 14 different clubs across New Jersey, all racing on individual rowing machines. Ridgewood Crew fielded 39 athletes across middle and high school categories, making it the second-largest team to compete.

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Ridgewood Crew Flips Power Switch at 2026 Winter Watt Farm With Five Golds, 11 Podium Finishes

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Ridgewood Crew placed four in the top five and six in the top eight of the Men’s Lightweight 2,000 meter race at the 2026 Winter Watt Farm. The team’s first place finisher in the race was senior Luciano Saladino, flanked by the Ridgewood Crew coaching staff. (Photo credit: Maggie Dwyer) 

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Lyndhurst, New Jersey – Ridgewood Crew turned its medal-winning power up to 11 on Saturday at the 2026 Winter Watt Farm erg race. This indoor rowing meet, held at Ridgewood’s home boathouse, the Bergen County Rowing Center, and hosted by the Passaic River Rowing Association, featured more than 250 middle school and high school youth rowers from 10 different clubs across New York and New Jersey. For the second year in a row, Ridgewood took home five gold medals at the event, which featured 1,000-meter, 2,000-meter, and two-minute races.

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Ridgewood Crew Wins Double Gold at the 2026 Ironmen Erg Classic

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Ridgewood Crew Freshman Jaya Suri and Sophomore Wesley Richardson won their respective girls and boys Freshman/Novice 2000-meter erg races at the 2026 Ironmen Erg Classic indoor regatta.
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Ramsey NJ, January 17, 2026, Ramsey, New Jersey – Ridgewood Crew launched its 2026 rowing season with double victory and six finishers in the top 10 at the 13th annual Ironmen Erg Classic hosted by the Don Bosco Preparatory High School in Ramsey, New Jersey. This year’s event, the largest in its history, featured more than 600 middle school and high school rowers from 22 different clubs across New York and New Jersey.

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Ridgewood Crew Caps Off Record-Setting Fall Season with Six Golds, Overall Team Victory at 2025 Hidden River Chase

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Ridgewood Crew’s Girls 1st Junior 4x boat took second at the 2025 Hidden River Chase. Freshman Lucia Krauza and sophomore Zurie Yela (pictured above) also won gold in the regatta’s Girls 2nd Junior 2x race, while freshman Jaya Suri and Maya Ashwin came in second in the Girls 1st Junior 2x event. Photo credit: Diva Yela

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Philadelphia, Pennsylvania – At Sunday’s Hidden River Chase regatta on the Schuylkill River, Ridgewood Crew finished off its 2025 head racing season the same way it had performed throughout the fall: by winning races and bringing home plenty of hardware.

Facing dozens of teams across the mid-Atlantic, Ridgewood rowers topped the field in six different events and scored three other podium finishes on the Schuylkill’s 4,000-meter course. Its  six gold medals were twice as many as any other club, helping power it to a team victory with 117.5 overall points, easily outdistancing the second-place club’s 94.75. 

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Fire Fall: Ridgewood Crew Claims Men’s JV Singles Title, Six Total Medals at 2025 Head of the Schuylkill Regatta

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Ridgewood Crew sophomore Graham Richardson won first place in the Mens High School Junior Varsity Singles event at the 2025 Head of the Schuylkill Regatta in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. This is his second victory in three years at this regatta. Also pictured is Ridgewood Head Coach Boris Roque-Alvarez (center left), and assistant coaches Joe Calvarusso (left) and Bob O’Connor (right). Photo Credit: Monika Richardson

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Philadelphia, Pennsylvania – To match the peak autumn foliage on display this past Sunday in Philadelphia, Ridgewood Crew captured its own array of dazzling colors by bringing home six medals from the Head of the Schuylkill Regatta.

The regatta’s 3,800-meter course requires rowers to navigate through four bridges as well as rival boats, which compete in a staggered, time-trial head racing format. The 2025 Head of the Schuylkill, the race’s 55th year, was a two-day event that featured several thousand rowers of all ages from nearly 300 clubs across nine countries. On Sunday, mainly reserved for youth races, Ridgewood had a robust 29 entries in 15 different events, with almost all athletes competing in two races.

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Ridgewood Crew Scores Top 10 Finish, Club-Best Performance at 2025 Head of the Charles Regatta

Junior Tristan Riedel and senior Will Nasr placed eight in the 2025 Head of the Charles Men’s Youth Doubles race, the highest individual race finish at that regatta in the club’s history. Credit: Jae Han

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Ridgewood NJ, on a near-perfect day for rowing at the 60th Head of the Charles in Boston, where course records were broken in eight out of the regatta’s 12 youth events, Ridgewood Crew made its own history with a best-ever team performance that included an eighth-place finish and two other boats finishing 11th. 

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River Wild: Ridgewood Hauls in 10 Medals, 5 Gold at an Unpredictable 2025 Head the Passaic Regatta

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At the 2025 Head of Passaic Regatta, Ridgewood won three out of the four doubles races it entered. Junior Maya Ashwin and freshman Jaya Suri claimed gold in the Womens High
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Ridgewood NJ, Ridgewood Crew displayed its flexibility, determination, and perseverance at the annual Head of the Passaic Regatta (HOPR) in Lyndhurst, NJ, this past weekend, overcoming a last-minute date change and an, at times, highly challenging race course to score five victories and 10 overall podium finishes.

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Making History: Ridgewood Crew Wins First International Gold to Cap Summer of Standout Performances

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Rising sophomore Graham Richardson won three races during Ridgewood Crew’s 2025 summer season, the last of which was a historic gold medal in the Mens Under 17 singles event at the prestigious Royal Canadian Henley Regatta in St. Catharines, Canada.  (Photo credit: Mark Riedel)

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Ridgewood NJ, Ridgewood Crew scored the first international gold medal in its 21-year history to cap off a 2025 summer rowing season that saw standout performances — and 15 top-three finishes — across two regattas in New Jersey and Canada. 

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Ridgewood Crew Scores Bronze Medal, Three Top 10 Finishes Overall at 2025 USRowing Youth National Championships

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Ridgewood NJ, Ridgewood Crew’s spectacular 2025 spring rowing season came to an impressive climax at the four-day 2024 US Rowing Youth National Championships in Sarasota, Florida. Racing on the 2,000-meter course at Nathan Benderson Park in hot and muggy conditions, Ridgewood’s 18 rowers joined a massive field of roughly 4,000 athletes from 230 clubs from across the country. In total, Ridgewood sent six of its eight boats through to the semifinals with three ultimately placing in the top 10 in the nation, including one bronze medal performance.

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Three National Runners-Up, One Bronze: Ridgewood Top High School Sculling Team at 2025 SRAA Rowing Championship

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The Ridgewood duo of senior Julia Smith and junior Maya Ashwin took the silver in the Girls Senior Double event at the 2025 Scholastic Rowing Association of America national high school championships. (Credit: Jae Han)

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Pennsauken NJ, Ridgewood Crew showed why it is among the country’s elite youth rowing programs this past weekend at the 2025 Scholastic Rowing Association of America national championships.

In a regatta that featured the best qualifying boats from high schools across the country, Ridgewood raced its way to one bronze and three silver medals, which ranked first for total podium finishes in sculling events out of the 148 schools competing. Its four overall medals were also second-most among all teams at SRAA, which featured 470 entries and more than 1,000 competitors. 

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Ridgewood Crew Repeats as Boys Junior Quad Champs, Scores Four Podium Finishes Overall at 2025 Stotesbury Cup

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Philadelphia, Pennsylvania – Ridgewood Crew capped off its spring regular season in impressive fashion this past weekend at the 2025 Stotesbury Cup Regatta, winning the title of top Boys Junior Quad boat for the second straight year and scoring three other top-three finishes.

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Ridgewood Crew Scores 11 Medals, Qualifies Record-High Eight Boats for Youth Nationals at Mid-Atlantic Championships

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West Windsor NJ, Ridgewood Crew set a new high-water mark for the 21-year-old program this past weekend at the 2025 Mid-Atlantic Youth Championships, as a record-high eight boats and 19 rowers earned automatic bids for the USRowing Youth National Championships, to be held in Sarasota, Florida next month. The Mid-Atlantic regatta is one of 12 regional meets nationwide, and only the top four finalists in select races on Sunday qualified for Youth Nationals.

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Rolling on the River: Ridgewood Crew Claims Double Gold, Seven Podium Finishes at Philly City Championships

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For the second straight year, Ridgewood Crew won the DiLucca Family Trophy as the top JV 4x boat at the PSRA City Championships regatta. Pictured here (right to left) the winning boat’s crew: Uhmjoo Han, Michael Shkop, Matt Moomjy, and Graham Richardson. (Credit: Jae Han)

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Philadelphia Pa, racing on one of its favorite race courses, Philadelphia’s Schuylkill River, Ridgewood Crew put on a dazzling rowing performance this past weekend at the Philadelphia Scholastic Rowing Association City Championships. 

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Ridgewood Crew Claims NJ Sculling Team Title at Garden State Regatta, Amasses 14 Medals at Two Weekend Races

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Ridgewood Crew took home the overall trophy for the best sculling (two oars per rower) team in the state at the 2025 New Jersey Scholastic Rowing Championships at the Cooper River on Saturday. Senior rower Lucas Evers is holding the trophy. (Credit: Maggie Dwyer)

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Pennsauken NJ, Ridgewood Crew dominated the competition at New Jersey’s top scholastic rowing competition on Saturday, winning the title for best overall sculling team in the state. One day later, it added to its overall medal haul for the weekend while competing at the US Rowing-sanctioned Cooper Cup, and, across the two days, brought home eight golds and 14 medals overall.

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RIDGEWOOD CREW ACQUIRES OLYMPIC RACING SHELL USED BY ROMANIAN TEAM IN PARIS 2024

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Ridgewood NJ, Ridgewood Crew is proud to announce the acquisition of a racing shell with Olympic pedigree. The Filippi F52 4x – Carbon Aliante Wing Rigger was recently confirmed to have been used by the Romanian Federation during the 2024 Paris Olympic Games.

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