Rowing Impresses at Schuykill

October 27, 2015

By Devin Adams

The rowing team will be going to the San Diego Crew Classic in the spring. Courtesy of Katie Lane

Fordham Women’s Rowing headed to Philadelphia, Pennslyvania on Oct. 24 to participate in the Head of the Schuykill Regatta. The Rams entered five boats in the regatta.

The first boat of the day for the women’s rowing team was the Frosh/Novice fours with cox. The boat for the Rams was headed by freshman Noelle Chaney. The Rams finished with a time of 17:06.86 which was good enough to take 3rd in the race out of 24 boats. The winner of the race was the University of Pennsylvania with a time of 16:18.95.

The Rams’ second race of the day was the Womens Championship fours and was headed by sophomore Anastasia Mihnovets. The Rams finished the race with a time 18:57.37, which put them 40th out of 51 boats. The University of Pennsylvania was again the winner of the race, with a time of 15:24.90.

The third race of the day for Fordham was the Womens College Frosh/Novice eights with a boat for the Rams headed by sophomore Joanne Lebron. The Rams finished with a time of 19:09.52, which landed them in 31st out of 40 boats in the race. The winner of the race was the University of Connecticut who finished with a time of 15:16.42.

The Rams’ fourth race of the day was the Women’s Club Eights and Fordham had two boats entered into the race with the first boat headed by junior Kelly Leonard and the second boat headed by freshman Emily Mohri. The Rams best finish was from the Leonard boat who finished with a time of 15:22.06, good enough for 3rd in the race out of 47. Fordham’s second boat finished 23rd with a time of 16:17.52. The winner of the race was again the University of Pennsylvania with a time of 14:52.29.

The Rams’ final race of the day was the Women’s Championship Heavy Eights and the boat was headed by junior Maura O’Donnell. The Rams took first in the race with a time of 14:34.29 out of 19 boats. Fordham was able to beat out University of Pennsylvania, who had taken three separate first place finishes on the day.

This was the Rams’ final regatta of the fall season and the team finished strong with a Gold in the last race.