Sophomore Sam Scharfenberg and freshman Tristan Riedel took first in their flight in the 1500-meter Boys Varsity 2x race (Photo courtesy of Mark Riedel)
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Philadelphia, Pennsylvania – Powered by a strong performance from its doubles boats, Ridgewood Crew cruised to six flight victories and six overall top-three finishes at the 3rd Manny Flick / Horvat series. Sunday’s competition on the Schuylkill River in Philadelphia is the third of a five-race series that serves as a warm-up for the upcoming spring regatta season. Teams compete in 1500-meter sprints for overall points throughout this series in both mens and womens sweeping and sculling disciplines. Sunday’s race was open to high school athletes from ninth through 12th grade, and attracted 429 entries from 75 clubs. Ridgewood had the most entries of any club, with 16.
Ridgewood Crew’s Tristan Riedel, Lucas Evers, Sam Scharfenberg, and Will Nasr (left to right) took home the gold in the Boys 1st Junior 4x race at the 2023 Hidden River Chase in Philadelphia, PA. (Photo courtesy of M. Evers)
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Ridgewood NJ, Ridgewood Crew took home a gold medalto finish out its 2023 fall regatta season at the Hidden River Chase, a 4,150-meter head courserace on the Schuylkill River in Philadelphia. The meet, hosted by the Philadelphia ScholasticRowing Association, was open to high school athletes from ninth through 12th grade, andattracted 217 entries from 28 clubs.
Ridgewood NJ, this weekend, Ridgewood Crew competed in the Philadelphia Scholastic Rowing Association City Championships on the Schuylkill River. This two-day event attracted 85 teams from four states, with over 2000 athletes competing in 94 events. Head Coach Boris Roque Alvarez remarked, ““We are very proud of our rowers! They faced strong competition at one of the most competitive scholastic rowing events in the region, The Philadelphia City Championship! Eleven of our 15 boats advanced to finals, where 8 of them brought medals back home! Our rowers will keep training hard towards the most important regatta of the season, The Stotesbury Cup on May 19th and 20th.”
Ridgewood NJ, the Ridgewood Crew team participated in the fourth of the 2023 Manny Flick / Horvat Series of rowing races before the annual regatta season begins on the Schuylkill River. The weather was perfect for the Philadelphia Scholastic Rowing Association event and Head Coach Boris Roque Alvarez raced all 17 high school boats, including freshmen and novices. Ridgewood Crew entered more events than any of the other 90 clubs in attendance. Many rowers competed in new events with great success.
Gold Medal and Lovey Farrell Cup Awardees Claire Callaghan and Jordan Wittmaack Girls Varsity Double Photo:Terry Wittmaack
May 24,2017
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Ridgewood NJ, Ridgewood Crew girls dominate at Stotesbury, the largest high school rowing regatta in the world. Girls Varsity Double earned the Gold and the Lovey Farrell Cup, and the Girls Junior Varsity earned the Bronze.
This past weekend, Ridgewood Crew traveled to the Schuylkill River in Philadelphia for the legendary Stotesbury Cup Regatta. Stotesbury Cup is the largest scholastic regatta in the world and features approximately 5,000 high school athletes representing nearly 200 different schools in competition.
On Friday morning into the early afternoon, Ridgewood had 14 entries compete in time trials. Of the 14 crews, 11 advanced to the semi-final rounds held Friday afternoon and Saturday morning. To put the achievement in perspective, many crews were packing up their boats to leave after time trials on Friday.In the semi-final round, Ridgewood was able to advance 8 crews to the finals for Saturday afternoon.
Bronze Medalists Maddie Gibson and Alexandra Walton Roth Girls JV Double Photo: Nicole Gibson
Crews that made semi-finals and finals are listed below:
Girls Junior Double: Alexandra Walton Roth,Maddie Gibson – Semi-finals,
Finals (3rd) Boys Junior Double: Drew Johnson, Alex Melarti – Semi-finals
Boys Freshman Quad: Tommy Montgomery, Gabe Martinez, David Yang, Dylan Park
– Semi-finals, Finals (6th) Girls Varsity Lightweight Double: Maddy
Phillips, Emily Gilman – Semi-finals, Finals (5th) Boys Varsity Lightweight
Double: Sam Daspin, Spencer Campbell – Semi-finals, Finals (5th) Boys Junior
Quad: Ed Hida, Alex Saladucha, Joe O’Keefe, Henry Koontz – Semi-finals,
Finals (4th) Girls Varsity Double: Claire Callaghan, Jordan Wittmaack –
Semi-finals, Finals (1st) Boys Varsity Double: Patrick DuBois, Ian Soderlund
– Semi-finals Boys Varsity Single: Charlie Koontz – Semi-finals, Finals
(5th) Girls Varsity Quad: Isabella DeGregorio, Chloe Young, Amanda Perez,
Melissa Dexter – Semi-finals, Finals (4th) Boys Varsity Quad: Sebastian
Rivero, Andrew Felix, Matt Seiter, Walter Friedrich – Semi-finals
On Saturday afternoon showcased the fastest scholastic rowers from places as far away as Florida, Texas, and Canada. Ridgewood was able to place two boats in medaling position. Ridgewood started off their first final with the Girls Junior Double with Alexandra Walton Roth and Maddie Gibson getting bronze medals. They showed true grit in the last 300 meters of the race to pass a hard charging Springside-Chestnut Hill crew.
Later on Saturday, the Girls Varsity Double of Claire Callaghan and Jordan Wittmaack blitzed the final 500 meters of the race going from 3rd or 4th place to first place for a gold medal finish. Seniors, both girls hadm received silver medals at Stotesbury Cup as Freshman and Sophomores, and were ecstatic to stand on the medal dock to receive their gold medals and the Lovey Farrell Cup Award for the category. Bridget Callaghan, Claire Callaghan’s older sister won the same award two years ago with her partner, Julia Hefferon.
In all, Ridgewood Crew posted excellent results. As Head Coach Boris Roque-Alvarez said, “It was amazing that we were able to get so many crews into the semi-finals and finals, and we are proud of all of our athletes.”
Ridgewood Nj, The Ridgewood Crew team kicked off its season on April 10. The team raced the Schuylkill River in Philadelphia. Overall the team took in seven First place victories, five Second place finishes, and two Third place wins.
Ridgewood Crew introduces Ridgewood, NJ high school-aged youth to the traditions, athleticism, sportsmanship, techniques and camaraderie of the sport of rowing. Founded in 2004, the team rows on the Passaic River in northern NJ and competes in the sport’s premier regattas held throughout the Northeast.
On the river, Ridgewood Crew athletes collected the most single-season medals in program history. Several boats added hardware to Ridgewood Crew’s ever-increasing showcase, achieving top three finishes across several divisions at the highly competitive: SRAA Nationals, Stotesbury Cup Regatta, Philadelphia City Championships, Passaic River Northern NJ Championships and Garden State Championships. Additionally, the team’s overall performance continued to attract interest from top rowing colleges and universities including: Bucknell, Boston University, Drexel, Duke, Fordham, Fairfield, Georgetown, George Mason, Harvard, Holy Cross, Lehigh, Syracuse, Marist, Williams and others. The program also celebrated its first female athlete to receive a full, four-year rowing scholarship.
