Ridgewood Crew Girls Senior Single Gold Medalist Llian Riedel is Congratulated by Kate Horvat, winner of the same event in 2014. and Head Coach, Boris Roque Alvarez. Photo by Edward Hida
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Philadelphia PA, The Schuylkill Navy’s 94th Stotesbury Cup Regatta took place this past weekend as one of the first public events approved by the Philadelphia Department of Public Health as the City reopens. One hundred and thirty-one teams gathered at the Schuylkill River for what is now the largest high school rowing regatta in the world. Ridgewood sent 13 crews to compete against exceptionally fine crews from all parts of the United States.
Bronze Medalists Matthew Lepis and Thomas Woods. Photo by Edward Hida
Ridgewood captured three medals in the two-day event: Gold for Llian Riedel in the Girls Senior Single, Bronze for Thomas Woods and Matthew Lepis in the Boys Senior Double and Bronze for Michael Lyakerman, Connor Sullivan, Matthew Aguilar and Henry Rivera in the Freshman Boys Quad.
Bronze Medalists Michael Lyakerman, Connor Sullivan, Matthew Aguilar and Henry Rivera Photo by Edward Hida
Complete Results are as follows:
First Place Girls Senior Single Final L. Riedel
Sixth Place Boys Senior Quad Final A. Jones, P. Joseph, T. Clark, J. Hida
Fourth Place Girls Senior Quad Final L. Sudol, V. Hoy, V. Lyakerman, S. Wong
Third Place Boys Senior Double Final T. Woods, M. Lepis
Third Place Boys Freshman Quads Final M Lyakerman, C. Sullivan, M. Aguilar, H. Rivera
Fifth Place Boys Senior Single Semi-final J. Scanlon
Sixth Place Girls Senior Double Semi-Final O. Kim, S. Corcoran
Fifth Place Girls Junior Quad Semi-Final E. Galbraith, I. Lee, S. Shah, A. Mevissen
Fifth Place Girls Ltwt Double Semi-Final S. Ali, S. Lee
Fourth Place Boys Junior Double Semi-Final I. Darby, J. Swartz
Fourteenth Place Boys Junior Quad Heat W. Conde, F. Kamel, H. Hersperger, S. Boogaert
Tenth Place Boys Ltwt Double Heat A. Reyes, J. Papin
Twentieth Place Girls Junior Double Heat C. McDonough, C. Ignoffo
Gold Medalist Llian Riedel Photo by Edward Hida
According to RegattaCentral.com, The Stotesbury Cup Regatta has first held in 1927. Edward T. Stotesbury, a local philanthropist, was urged by members of the Philadelphia rowing community to underwrite the cost of an award to serve as the ultimate goal for scholastic rowing: winning the Boys Senior Eight race. The first Stotesbury Cup was won by Philadelphia’s West Catholic High School.
Women began rowing in the Stotesbury Cup Regatta in 1974 with the Girls’ Senior Eight competition. The first winner of that race was St. Andrew’s School of Delaware. Today young women make up more than 50 percent of the rowers at the regatta.
Over the years, races and trophies have been added to the regatta, culminating in today’s 31 championship events. What began as a local Philadelphia “Cup Race” quickly evolved into a full-fledged regatta that today endures as the largest high school rowing regatta in the world.
About Ridgewood Crew
Ridgewood Crew is recruiting the next generation of champions! Joining the Ridgewood Crew Team requires athletes in grades 7-11 to complete the Learn To Row program in advance of registering to try out. This includes a completing a swim test and one weekend intensive rowing clinic on the water. Registration is now open for our upcoming session. Please visit our website for more information, to review our schedule and register.
https://www.ridgewoodcrew.com/
Ridgewood Crew not only introduces participants to basic and advanced rowing techniques, but also instills and promotes character values including discipline, focus, teamwork and sportsmanship. Ridgewood Crew rowers are challenged individually and as a team. The philosophy of Ridgewood Crew is to elevate each athlete to the status of MVP. By doing so, we believe that a team of young leaders emerges. These leaders not only make fast boats, but also significant contributions toward their individual pursuits. 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.
In the program’s short history, our youth, board and parent volunteers have moved Ridgewood Crew forward by leaps and bounds. That success is represented by the widespread individual and team achievements of each of the student-athletes on the roster. To facilitate that success, Ridgewood Crew continues to make investments in coaching and new equipment. The coaching staff is one of the most experienced in program history.
In our typical season, Ridgewood Crew athletes compete in the Philly Flicks on the Schuylkill River as well as 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 continues to attract interest from top rowing colleges and universities including: Bucknell, Boston College, Boston University, Columbia University, Cornell, Drexel, Duke, Fairfield, Fordham, George Mason, Georgetown, Harvard, Holy Cross, Lehigh, Marist, Notre Dame, Purdue, Syracuse, Trinity College, University of Delaware, University of North Carolina, University of Wisconsin, Williams, and others.
For more information, to support or join the team, contact Ridgewood Crew at https://www.ridgewoodcrew.com and on Facebook at Ridgewood Crew!
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