Mary Jones Nabel Wins the Lightweight Double at NSRII, World Cup Next for Top US Lightweight Women
BRF and Cambridge Boat Club’s athlete Mary Jones Nabel along with Potomac’s Emily Schmeig won the lightweight women’s double at the second National Selection Regatta in West Windsor, NJ. After a brief selection in Boston with Riverside’s Hillary Saeger and Christine Cavallo, the two doubles faced off against each other and Jen Sager and Jillian... Read More
Mary Jones Nabel Wins Lightweight Single at NSR I, Gevvie Stone 3rd in the open single.
BRF athletes Mary Jones Nabel and Gevvie Stone competed in the first USRowing National Selection Regatta in West Windsor, NJ April 17-19th. For Mary, this was a continuation of her racing from 2017, which culminated in a bronze in the lightweight women’s single at the World Championships in Sarasota, Florida. For Gevvie, it was the... Read More
January Virtual Team Challenge Results
All the monitors have been polled, and the final results for the Charles River portion of the Concept2 virtual team challenge are in. Congratulations to all the participants, especially our top 5 women and men, and Community Rowing Inc, which took the overall total meters rowed prize, with 30,320,451. Top 5 Women: Ilana Zieff Riverside 703,117... Read More
Matt O’Leary on Training in New Zealand
Hello from the New Zealand summer! I’m now a week into the NZ training camp and things are going very well. I am settled in with a very friendly host family (Kevin & Jane Burgess) right on the edge of Lake Karapiro, and about a 10min cycle from the boathouse. They both love rowing and... Read More
Mary Jones wins Bronze in Sarasota!
After a campaign that included winning National Selection Regatta One in the lightweight single, and National Selection Regatta Two in the open double (with Gevvie Stone), A finals at two World Cups, a second place in the open single at the Holland Bekker regatta, and a win at US Trials, Mary Jones had one more... Read More
January Challenge Update
Team BRF has grown to 307 members as January 8th. We have rowed 10,648,725 meters, for an average of 34,686 meters per athlete. The second place team, FRENCH INDOOR ROWERS TEAM, has rowed 7,704,808m, for an average of 27,517 meters per athlete. Mark Grinberg, Joe Black and Chris Richards are the top three meter getters... Read More
Join us for the Concept II January Erg Challenge!
CBC, RBC, CRI, Union, Winsor and Belmont Hill join river wide forces as the Boston Rowing Federation (BRF) for the January erg challenge to compete for the world title! Each club has it’s own team organizer who is communicating with that club. Prizes, honor and hard earned sweat all part of the challenge with an... Read More
LTA4+ Wins a Silver Medal in Rio!
BRF’s Jenny Sichel and her LTA4+ crew (Dorian Weber, Zach Burns, Dani Hansen and Jackie Smith) captured a silver medal at the Rio Paralympics this morning. Leading at 250 meters by 0.13 over GB, the crew ultimately finished second behind Great Britain, while holding off a very hard charging Canadian crew by just 0.29 seconds.... Read More
Silver!!!!
At the start of the last day of rowing competition, the US was not on the medal table. Gevvie changed that in seven minures, twenty two seconds and change. While eventual winner Kim Brennan took an early lead, Gevvie was in medal position at every 500 meter mark. Gevvie was in third through the first... Read More
Josh and Andrew finish 5th, Gevvie advances to the A Final.
In their gold medal race, Andrew and Josh raced a great race in a very tight field, eventually finishing 5th. Sitting in 2nd place at the thousand, they traded blows with France, Ireland, Norway and South Africa, and continued to do so for the rest of the race. Despite finishing out of the medals, they... Read More