Ridgewood Crew Finishes The Flicks With Six Top Finishes

the staff of the Ridgewood blog

Ridgewood NJ, the Ridgewood Crew team participated in the fifth of the 2023 Manny Flick / Horvat Series of rowing races on the Schuylkill River in Philadelphia. Head Coach Boris Roque Alvarez raced his athletes in 20 events, more than any of the other 87 clubs in attendance.  

Coach Roque Alvarez remarked, “We finished the final preparatory race this past weekend and we are looking forward to race for medals starting Saturday on the Cooper River at the Garden State Scholastic Championship. The race is a 1,500 meter Championship regatta used as a qualifier of the Scholastic Rowing Association of America Nationals regatta. SRAA Nationals (Scholastic Nationals) will be held on May 26 – 27, 2023 at Melton Hill Lake in Oak Ridge, TN.  

Boys Freshman 4x 1st place Flight A:  William Nasr, Uhmjoo Han, Sam Scharfenberg and Matthew Moomjy 

Photo by Jaechul Han

Ridgewood Crew placed as follows:

Girls Gig/Novice 1x 3rd place Flight A: T. Flowers

Girls Freshman/Novice 2x 6th place Flight A: M. Ashwin/H. Newman

Boys Freshman 4x 1st place Flight A: W. Nasr/S. Scharfenberg/M. Moomjy/U. Han

Girls Novice 4x 4th place Flight A: S. Ponomarciuc/A. Ali/G. Schmidt/A. Wilk

Boys Novice 4x 2nd place Flight A: D. Hept/P. Hallowell/L. Saladino/E. Gregerson

Boys Novice 4x 8th place Flight A: G. Smith/J. Ryan/D. Dessel/M. Reyes

Girls JV 2x 7th place Flight A: C. Kirchhoff-Lajonchere/J. Smith

Boys JV 4x 4th place Flight A: W. Carroll/L. Evers/M. Lyakerman/H. Rivera

Boys JV 8+ 9th place Flight A: J. Cavagnuolo/M. Nguyen-Van-Duong/D. Kelly/G. Tejwaney/N. Melarti/J. Aguilar/A. Dezelan/R. O’Connor/A. Mundhe (Cox)

Girls Ltwt 2x 3rd place Flight A: A. Friedrich/E. Friedrich

Boys Ltwt 2x 5th place Flight A: M. Kirchhoff-Lajonchere/C. Sullivan

Girls Varsity 1x 1st place Flight B: A. Mevissen

Girls Varsity 1x 3rd place Flight B: S. Kliesch

Boys Varsity 1x 1st place Flight A: N. Harris Photo by David Dessel

Boys Varsity 1x 1st place Flight C: M. Manevich

Boys Varsity 1x 3rd place Flight C: F. Kamel

Boys Varsity 1x 1st place Flight D: H. Hersperger Photo by David Dessel

Boys Varsity 4th place Flight D: A. Reyes

Girls Varsity 2x 2nd place Flight B: A. Harrington/K. Hoffman

Boys Varsity 2x 1st place Flight A: T. Clark/S. Boogaert Photo by Jaechul Han

Complete results and race times are available here: https://www.regattacentral.com/regatta/results2/?job_id=8204&org_id=12407

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.

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.

Ridgewood Crew athletes compete in the Philly Manny 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, Cooper Cup and Garden State Championships.

​Additionally, the team’s overall performance continues to attract interest from top rowing colleges and universities including Boston College, Boston University, Bucknell, Columbia University, Cornell University, University of Delaware, Drexel, Duke, Fairfield, Fordham, George Mason, Georgetown, Harvard, Holy Cross, Ithaca, Lehigh, Marist, Northeastern, Notre Dame, Purdue, Rutgers, Skidmore, Syracuse, Trinity College, Williams, and others.

Ridgewood Crew offers several ways for you to experience our mission: join the team, volunteer or donate. Student athlete programs being with Learn-To-Row for middle schoolers and up. 

For more information contact Ridgewood Crew at http://www.ridgewoodcrew.com.

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