WORCESTER, Mass. – The No. 2 Wesleyan men's crew team saw all four of their varsity 8 boats place Top 3 in their respective races, with the Varsity 8 boat finishing as the runner-up on Saturday at the New England Championships on Lake Quinsigamond. This marks the third straight season the Cardinals' top boat has finished either runner-up or in first place at the New England Championships.
The Varsity 8 came into the day with un undefeated record in the spring season, recording four first place finishes in four races, and they kept the streak going with the fastest time in heat 2 during preliminaries, clocking in at 6:04.671 to earn a spot in the grand final later in the evening.
In that V8 grand final, it came down to the final 500m where the Cardinals placed second with a time of 5:51.765, finishing just over two seconds behind Trinity (5:49.483) while beating Williams by half a second and MIT by just under two seconds.
The 2
nd Varsity 8 played out much the same with the Cardinals earning a spot in the grand final with the second-fastest time in heat 3 of preliminaries. In a hotly contested grand final, Wesleyan's 2V8 finished third-fastest with a time of 6:09.929. Trinity won by just over a second ahead of Tufts while Williams was less than a second behind Wesleyan in fourth place.
The 3
rd Varsity 8 also raced to a third place finish, with the Cardinals earning a spot in the grand final with the second-fastest time in heat 2 of preliminaries. Wesleyan's third boat clocked in at 6:14.413 to finish behind Tufts (6:09.193) and Trinity (6:11.965) and ahead of Williams (6:17.321).
Wesleyan's 4
th Varsity 8 completed a successful day with a New England title, racing to a first place finish in a dominant showing ahead of runner-up Trinity by nearly eight seconds while Tufts was nearly 15 seconds behind the Cardinals' time of 6:43.416.
The Cardinals also fielded a boat in the 3
rd Varsity 4 competition and Wesleyan clocked in at 8:16.906 to take second place out of seven boats, finishing behind only MIT.
Wesleyan is back in action at the National Invitational Rowing Championship on Sunday, May 10 at Lake Quinsigamond.
Boat Lineups:
Varsity 8 -
Asher Israel '26 (coxswain),
Gus Shuman '27,
Pierce Buckner-Wolfson '26,
Nelson Bellows '26,
Eli Smirin '26,
Roy Krueger '28,
Sam Penn '28,
Will McNally '27,
Mac Haines '28
2nd Varsity 8 -
Ben Fischer '27 (coxswain),
Ben Vyzas '28,
Drew Hinton '28,
Luke Rowles '29,
Thomas Jamison '28,
Jack Cornog '26,
Evan Salhanick '27,
Andres Krizan '29,
Brett Beaman '26
3rd Varsity 8 -
Hailey Love '29 (coxswain),
Ro Barrett '26,
Cory Reavy '26,
Cabot Adams '27,
Maxime Victoir '29,
Finn Gardner '29,
Rowan Cahill '26,
Emmett Price '29,
Tor Kushner '27
4th Varsity 8 -
Isabella Catalina '27 (coxswain),
Nate Weinstein '28,
Sam Bierlink '29,
Ross Lee '29,
Vlad Grass '28,
Ben Duda '29,
Tommy Stoffel '29,
Atticus Keep '29,
Aaron Feldhammer '28
Varsity 4+ -
Iris Deer '29 (coxswain),
James Kolodner '29,
Cole Davies '28,
Taji Duncan '27,
George John '29
