Independent Schools Championship

In our last EVSRA regatta of the spring sprint season we again had some significant wins and some very close races. As in their first regatta four weeks earlier, both the men's novice four and the women's novice four crews finished first. This time they earned medals and the right to hold the associated perpetual trophies for the next year. Our novice guys retain the "Botanical Bailer," won last year by Brendan, Andrew, Thomas, Jakob, and Ryan and also by a BSCHS crew in 2005. Our novice girls won the Tenekjian Family Award for the fastest Women's Novice Four, a trophy never previously won by a BSCHS crew.

Also taking first was the Women's 2nd Four who won the Evans Bowl for the fastest Women's "Junior Varsity" Four, a trophy also won by a BSCHS crew in 2005.

 We had very close races in the Men's Light four and Women's Varsity four events where Norfolk Academy finished just a few seconds ahead of our crews. In both events NA and BSCHS were significantly ahead of the third place crews, indicating fast boats for the top two. Note that a 3 second difference over a six minute race is less than 1%. In rowing, every little bit counts!

Here are the results. In the overall scoring we finished 2nd behind Norfolk Academy.  As usual, send me any pictures that you have and I'll add them.