WORCESTER, Mass. – The defending national champion Wesleyan men's crew team closed out the fall season with a third-place finish at the Wormtown Chase on Saturday at Lake Quinsigamond.
The Cardinals' varsity 8 boat finished with a time of 14:56.491, good enough for third place out of 26 boats in the men's collegiate 8 race. Wesleyan finished behind Holy Cross and MIT, both programs who compete at the Division I level, while the Cardianls finished more than 17 seconds faster than the next-closest Div. III boat (Coast Guard) who placed sixth overall.
Wesleyan's 2
nd varsity 8 also had a strong showing, placing ninth overall and third-best among 2V8 boats in the field with a time of 15:23.383. Wesleyan's 3V8 was the second-fastest out of the five 3V8 boats in the field, finishing in 15:57.435 which was also good enough for 12
th place overall.
Rounding out the day for Wesleyan was a 4
th varsity 8 as that group finished in 15
th place with a time of 16:18.430.
This marked the final fall competition for the Cardinals who look to defend their national title with the start of the spring season in late March.
Competing for Wesleyan on the day:
Varsity 8 –
Asher Israel '26 (coxswain),
Cory Reavy '26,
Gus Shuman '27,
Vlad Grass '28,
Freddie Bell '25,
Sam Penn '28,
Brett Beaman '26, and
Leyton Tucci '28
2nd Varsity 8 –
Ben Fischer '27 (coxswain),
Hugo Harington '25,
Paul Kiyonaga '25,
Jack Cornog '26,
Roy Krueger '28,
Ben Vyzas '28,
Drew Hinton '28,
Nate Newcomer '25, and
Will McNally '27
3rd Varsity 8 –
Mo Frazier '25 (coxswain),
Evan Salhanick '27,
Teddy Manning '25,
Aaron Feldhammer '28,
Andrew Steinert '25,
Nader Moghadam '26,
Nate Weinstein '28,
Tor Kushner '27, and
Ro Barrett '26
4th Varsity 8 –
Isabella Catalina '27 (coxswain),
Cole Davies '28,
Rowan Cahill '26,
Haakon Kohler '27,
Taji Duncan '27,
Mac Haines '28,
Thomas Jamison '28,
Alex Glotzer '25, and
Sangye Sherpa '28
