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
Onto the A Final!
Andrew and Josh became the first US Male Lightweight scullers to EVER qualify for an Olympic A final. Finishing in the second fastest time of the day, and less than a second behind the reigning world Champions from France, they qualified for the medal round, and will next race tomorrow, Friday, August 12th, at 9:44am.... Read More
Onto to the Semifinals
Gevvie won her quarterfinal in the second fastest time of the day, with a patient and composed race, rowing through Austria before the 1000 meter mark, and doing the same to Switzerland in the last 500 meters. Defending World Champion Kim Brennan had the fastest time of the day. Gevvie is now scheduled to race... Read More
Survive and advance
By now, you’ve probably seen the apocalyptic footage from Gevvie’s heat in the single. But just in case, here’s a look: Grateful for all those rows in the Charles River Basin. #surfing #swamping #submarining #Rio2016 Thanks for the screenshot @tobiasyeatman! A photo posted by Gevvie Stone (@gevgevs) on Aug 6, 2016 at 4:11pm PDT Despite... Read More
NBC Olympic coverage
Full Schedule Gevvie’s final will be on Saturday, August 13th (Day 8 of the Olympics) Josh and Andrew’s final will be on Friday, August 12th(Day 7 of the Olympics. Additionally: Gevvie’s tentative races: Heats: Saturday, August 6th Quaterfinals: Tuesday, August 9th Semifinals: Thursday, August 11th Finals: Saturday, August 13th Andrew and Josh’s tentative races: Heats:... Read More