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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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Double Duty: Ridgewood Crew Split Squad Rows to Success at Regattas in New Jersey and Pennsylvania

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Ridgewood juniors Daniel Hept and James Ryan took gold in their flight of the Mens Lightweight Varsity 2x race at the Mercer Lake Sprints regatta in West Windsor, New Jersey. (Photo Credit: Jae Han)

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Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and West Windsor NJ,  Ridgewood Crew competed across two states this past weekend, with strong performances Sunday team at the 5th Manny Flick on Philadelphia’s Schuylkill River and two days of benchmark races against some the East Coast’s elite clubs at the Mercer Lake Sprints regatta in central New Jersey. 

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Spring Forward: Ridgewood Crew Scores Regatta-High 10 Wins at 4th Manny Flick / Horvat Meet

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The Ridgewood Crew all-junior boat of Uhmjoo Han,, Michael Shkop, Matthew Moomjy, and Luciano Saladino posted a scorching fast victory in the Boys JV 4x race, winning the flight. (Photo Credit: Mark Riedel)

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Philadelphia PA,  Ridgewood Crew roared out of the gate this past Sunday in its first competition of the 2025 spring sprint season on the Schuylkill River, winning 10 out of its 15 races. Sunday’s regatta was the fourth in the five-race Manny Flick / Horvat series, which serves as a challenging, weekly tune-up for the state and regional championships later in the season. Each race involves a single trip down a 1,500-meter course, with teams split up into separate flights or heats.

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Ridgewood Crew Rowathon: Row for Gold & Learn to Row!

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Ridgewood NJ, get ready, Ridgewood! The Ridgewood Crew Rowathon is set to take over Van Neste Square on Saturday, March 22, from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. This exciting annual event brings together the community for a day of fitness, competition, and team spirit—all in support of Ridgewood Crew.

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Ridgewood Crew Brings Home Five Medals, Boys Win ‘Fastest Boat’ at the 2025 Haddon Hammer

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The Ridgewood Crew boys team won the ‘fastest boat’ at the New Jersey Indoor Rowing Championships, taking home the 2025 Haddon Hammer trophy. (Photo credits: Boris Roque-Alvarez)

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Westmont NJ, Ridgewood Crew showed off both its speed and depth on Sunday at the 2025 Haddon Hammer, earning five individual medals across four races while the boys team took home the overall ‘fastest boat’ trophy. Also billed as the New Jersey Indoor Rowing Championships, Sunday’s event at Haddon Township High School featured 254 youth athletes from 14 different clubs across the state and represented the culmination of a highly successful winter erg season for Ridgewood.

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Power Overload: Ridgewood Crew Electrifies with Five-Gold Performance at 2025 Winter Watt Farm

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Ridgewood Crew swept the medals in the Boys Freshman 2k race (left to right): Coach Bob,O’Connor, Kai Bissie (2nd place), Graham Richardson (1st place), David Pasternak (3rd place), Head Coach Boris Roque-Alvarez. Photo Credit: Reed Richardson

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Lyndhurst NJ, Ridgewood Crew flipped its race-day switch to fast at the 2025 Winter Watt Farm erg race on Saturday. Racing in its home boathouse, the Bergen County Rowing Center, Ridgewood won five of its nine youth events and took home a combined nine medals overall. Both totals were the second-most among the 16 clubs competing. The indoor rowing event, hosted by the Passaic River Rowing Association, featured more than 300 rowers from middle school to masters categories, competing individually on erg machines.

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Ridgewood Crew Claims Two Medals, Ten Top-Ten Finishes at the 2025 Ironmen Erg Classic

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Junior Will Nasr placed third in the highly competitive 2025 Ironmen Erg Classic Men’s High School 2000-meter indoor race, which featured 102 rowers from across New York and New Jersey. (Photo credits: John Nasr)

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Ramsey, New Jersey – Ridgewood Crew kicked off its 2025 rowing season with a strong team performance, claiming two bronze medals and placing 10 finishers in the top 10 at the 12th annual Ironmen Erg Classic hosted by the Don Bosco Preparatory High School. More than 550 youth rowers from 22 different clubs in New York and New Jersey competed at the indoor event. Ridgewood fielded 46 competitors — the fifth-largest total among all teams — from both middle and high school across seven categories.  

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Golden Finale: Ridgewood Crew Finishes Fall Season with a Win and Four Overall Podium Finishes at 2024 Hidden River Chase

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Ridgewood Crew won the 2024 Hidden River Chase Boys 1st Junior 4x race for the second year in a row. This year’s boat was crewed by Lucas Evers, Will Nasr, Tristan Riedel, and Uhmjoo Han. Photo credit: Mark Riedel

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Ridgewood NJ, Ridgewood Crew capped off a highly successful 2024 fall season at the Hidden River Chase in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on Sunday, claiming a gold medal and four top-three finishes overall. At the 4,000-meter event on the Schuylkill River that featured more than 200 boats from over 30 clubs around the region, Ridgewood had the second-highest number of team entries, with 14.

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Ridgewood Crew Scores a Silver, Two Other Top 10 Finishes at 2024 Head of the Schuylkill Regatta

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Ridgewood NJ, Ridgewood Crew brought home a silver medal and two other boats finished in the top 10 on Sunday at the 54th annual Head of the Schuylkill Regatta (HOSR) in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Run on a 3,800-meter course that twists and turns under four bridges, this year’s Head of the Schuylkill featured more than 8,500 rowers of all ages from 282 clubs across the United States, Canada, and four other countries. Ridgewood sent 26 athletes to compete in 12 boats. 

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