HRR Update Three, from 47.3480° N, 8.5278° E Rising fourth year stroke seat in the eight and Team Captain-elect Chris Hastings has penned this update. Good morning from Zurich! The team arrived at the Zurich youth hostel Friday evening after a tumultuous last row at Sarnen. The team was eager to explore Zurich Saturday morning, having a […]
Update Two, from 46.9298° N, 8.3403° E Hello from across the pond! Today’s update is from recent graduate Andrew Anderson, who is currently in two seat of the four, until it goes back to being bucketed and he’ll move back to three. Our week at the Swiss National Team training center has concluded and we are […]
Update One, from 46°53’27.9″N 8°14’35.6″E As many of you know, we’ve kicked off the second leg of our 2017 Henley Adventure (the first being just shy of two weeks of training at home in C’Ville). This means we are currently training in Sarnen, Switzerland; a canton just outside of Zürich and Luzern and home to the […]
The official 2015 spring racing season kicked off on Saturday, in Pennsauken, NJ, at the Murphy Cup, hosted by Temple University. Although the Hoos won no gold medals, many athletes nevertheless rode home to Charlottesville with silver or bronze medals around their necks. Mother Nature held back the rain clouds, but she still brought plenty […]
The following is an article written by alumnus Dan Schwartz ’14 recapping the successes at the 50th Head of the Charles. Thanks, Dan! Great things happened this weekend for both Virginia Rowing programs. I’d like to focus on one story in particular… I stood on the Belmont Hill dock on the Charles River in Boston […]
Wahoos Start the Season Right “It’s a good thing we won. I forgot to get the plaque engraved.” —Frank, referring to the Murphy Cup trophy, which the Wahoos brought back to Charlottesville for the third straight year. For the second year in a row, the Murphy Cup was held not on the Schuylkill River, in […]
Virginia Enjoys a Successful Spring Break and Scrimmage [nivoslider id=”846″ align=”right”]You former rowers remember the spring-break drill: the two-a-day workouts, the blisters, the unpredictable weather, the sore muscles. The current crop of Wahoos carried on the tradition last week, making the most of their spring break training. Both the varsity and novice squads logged plenty […]
The 2nd annual event was held at the BlackFinn Saloon, in Washington, DC, and was a great success! Chris Ankley won the long-distance award, for flying in from California for the dinner. And happy birthday again to VRA’s treasurer David Kudravetz!
Hoos Take on the 2013 Mid-Atlantic Erg Sprints In the annual February pilgrimage to Northern Virginia, the Wahoos enjoyed a successful afternoon of agony, with multiple athletes pulling personal ergometer records for 2000 meters. In all, the men brought home one gold (Kian Ivey), four silver (Ian Feeney, Scott Stuard, John Furlong, and Isaac Mackey), […]
November 3, 2012 Chattanooga, TN Virginia Rowing raced at the second largest regatta in the United States this weekend: the Head of the Hooch, in Chattanooga, Tennessee. After enduring blustery conditions for Friday’s practice row, the nearly 2000 Hooch competitors enjoyed perfect conditions for Saturday’s racing. In the end, 50 VRA athletes brought medals (36 […]