2024

HEAD OF THE LAGOON

The Redwood Scullers put on a strong performance at the Head of the Lagoon, a challenging 5000m head race held annually on the Foster City Lagoon. This event draws high school, collegiate, and club teams from around the region, offering competition in a wide range of boat classes. The Head of the Lagoon is well-known for its fast, sometimes windy course with a few technical turns that test rowers’ steering abilities and endurance. This year, with construction in Foster City, we had to be even more flexible, and all athletes who attended did a great job working with the limited space we had for boats and trailers. The Redwood Scullers, proudly representing on one of our home courses, took to the water with determination and grit, showcasing months of hard work and training.

The Redwood team had impressive finishes across several events leaving it all on the water. Here are some highlights:

- Men’s U19 1x: 1st, 3rd, 6th, and 15th, Men’s U17 1x: 3rd and 6th, Men’s U16 1x: 1st, Men’s Novice 1x/U15 1x: 3rd, 4th, 5th, 8th, 10th, and 11th

- Women’s U19 1x: 1st, 2nd, 8th, 9th, 13th, 14th, and 15th, Women’s U17 1x: 1st, 3rd, and 7th, Women’s U16 1x: 3rd, Women’s Novice 1x/U15 1x: 1st, 3rd, and 4th

- Men’s U19 2x: 1st, 3rd, and 5th, Men’s U17 2x: 2nd and 5th, Men’s U16 2x: 8th

- Women’s U19 2x: 1st (CR!), 5th, 7th, and 9th, Women’s U17 2x: 1st and 3rd, Women’s U16 2x: 1st

- Men’s U19 4x: 2nd, Men’s U19 2v 4x: 3rd, Men’s U17 4x: 3rd, Men’s Frosh/Novice 4x+: 9th

- Women’s U19 4x: 2nd, Women’s U19 2v 4x: 1st and 2nd, Women’s U17 4x: 2nd, Women’s Frosh/Novice 4x+: 2nd and 6th

We now enter the winter season, where we will continue training on the beautiful waters of the San Francisco Bay and prepare for the spring season!

HOCR

The Head of The Charles in Boston saw some impressive performances from our athletes this year. In the men’s category, we had two singles entries—Wyatt Dent and Daniil Gurenkov—who finished 6th and 10th out of 45 competitors, respectively. On the women’s side, Olivia Petri took 2nd place in the single, narrowly edged out by a local rower from Cambridge Boat Club, overall fantastic racing by all!

Our women’s double, featuring Layla Abo and Sidra Sanders, skillfully navigated through the field. Starting 26th, they made a strong push to finish 11th overall. Meanwhile, our women’s coxed quad—Sofie Tafoya, Dorin Flynn, Emily Pecore, Jiwoo Oh, and cox Kassidy Avila—powered down the course, earning a well deserved medal for 2nd place!

The weather was beautiful this year, a stark contrast to last year’s wet conditions, making the course a perfect setting for our young athletes. Even better, all of our entries successfully qualified for next year’s Head of The Charles. Adding to the excitement, we had the pleasure of seeing so many Redwood alumni racing and cheering along the course this weekend, making it an even more special experience! We’re excited and looking forward to what is in store for our athletes at the next regatta, the Head of the Lagoon, in November!

Head of the Oklahoma

The 2024 Head of the Oklahoma Regatta took place during the Regatta Festival from October 4th to 6th in the Boathouse District of Oklahoma City. This year marked the 20th anniversary of the regatta, celebrating two decades of rowing excellence. The event featured collegiate, masters, and junior rowing competitions, alongside additional festivities such as OG&E NightSprints and Fireworks! We love starting off our fall season by traveling to Oklahoma City for great racing amongst some different competitors. Almost all members of our team competed and the results are below.

Youth National Championships

Youth Nationals were once again hosted at Nathan Benderson Park in Sarasota, Florida, with the warm weather we anticipated! More than half of our team qualified for nationals this year, and we couldn’t be prouder of their outstanding efforts.

In the men’s single event, Maddock Flynn finished 18th overall, battling against top competitors from across the country. Our men’s youth double, featuring Wyatt Dent and Daniil Gurenkov, were among the younger athletes in their category but showed impressive determination, securing 12th place with a time of 7:12.47. In the men’s U17 double, Zander Perlroth and Harper Skey fought hard in a tight A final, earning 5th place in the nation.

On the women’s side, the U17 4x crew—Dorin Flynn, Ali Bollyky, Sidney Hansen, and Jiwoo Oh—clinched a well-earned bronze medal in a close race, with the top six boats finishing within 10 seconds of each other. Our Women’s 2V 4x A entry—Taj deLeet-Jagerson, Layla Abbo, Michaela Jones, and Emily Pecore—took home a silver medal after a nail-biting A final, just 0.4 seconds shy of gold! Our B entry, consisting of Sidra Sanders, Aanya Naveen, Verity Lewis, and Kassidy Avila, raced competitively in the B final, finishing 11th in the U.S. with a time of 7:49.16. Lastly, our women’s 4x crew—Sofie Tafoya, Olivia Petri, Vivi Sun, and Ilaria Costello—delivered an outstanding performance, crossing the finish line first to secure another national championship title for our women’s program!

Overall, it was an incredible week for our team, with our athletes' hard work translating into well-deserved national recognition!

2023

HOCR

Head of The Charles in Boston is the world's largest 3-day rowing competition attracting many spectators and competitors. For our men’s entries we had a youth single (Wyatt Dent), youth double (Daniil Gurenkov, Daniel Grasman), and youth coxed quad (Henry Slinger, Maddock Flynn, Zander Perlroth, Ben Adelman, cox Phoebe Nagy). The women’s entries included two Youth singles (Olivia Petri and Jiwoo Oh), a youth double (Aanya Naveen, Taj deLaet-Jagerson), and a youth coxed quad (Sofie Tafoya, Vivi Sun, Ilaria Costello, Dorin Flynn, cox Kassidy Avila). After a rainy Saturday, the weather somewhat improved for the final day of the racing for the Redwood Athletes. Olivia ended up on top of the leaderboard for the women’s youth, winning gold yet again. Read about her win over the rest of the field here! Our women’s youth coxed quad had some tight racing amongst competitors and they finished in 3rd, being the top US crew. Placing above them was Notre Dame RC from Ontario, and Tideway Scullers from London. Wyatt came in across in 8th, and 3rd in the U17 category, with a time of 19:21.75.

World Rowing Under 19 Championships

Lila Henn and Vivi Sun head over to Paris to represent the USA at U19 World Championships. They were both in the Women’s 4x. Stay Racing started August 2nd and went through 6th, in Paris at the Vaires-sur-Marne Nautical Stadium, which will host the Olympic rowing events in 2024. The 4x made it all the way through to the A/B final with some great racing. In the final, the U.S. dropped to sixth off the line before working its way back into fifth position The U.S. finished with a time of 6:50.81, behind Germany, Italy, and Great Britain.

CanAmMex, the annual race between Canada, Mexico, and the U.S. including a week of training followed by a regatta. This year in the women's quadruple sculls, Canada took the top spot in a 7:03.14, finishing 3.4 seconds ahead of the U.S., Olivia Petri who was in the 4x led them to a time of 7:06.54. She also competed in the single getting 3rd with a time of 08:22.567.

2022

2022 Henley Royal Regatta- Diamond Jubilee Cup

The Redwood girls went into England and took on the best scullers in the country. For 10 days they trained on the Thames as they awaited their first-round match. Caroline, Meena, Georgia and Lila took down each English crew – Hartspury, Tideway Scullers, Wycliffe and made it to the grand finals. The sheer determination it took for these girls to race 2112 meters, side by side through some of the worst water, and get themselves into the Finals at Henley Royal Regatta. Most firstcomers never make it past the second round. We had alumni Itai Almogy (Yale) and Andrew Macmillen (Tufts) on the shoreline cheering for us. In the finals, Redwood came out strong off the start but the women from Claire’s Court Boat Club had that last gear in the last 200 meters. Final - Claire’s court beat Redwood by 2/3 length in 7:35. 

Watch the final race here 

Also racing at Henley was Alumni Hailey Mead with Meena Baher in the Stonor Cup for W2x. They got to race the Polish W4x Tokyo silver medalist and the old world record holder for the 2k on the erg (6.22.8) from Ukraine. 

2022 Summer competition

Alice Dommer, Ashton Perlroth, and Olivia Petri had the amazing opportunity to represent the USA at Worlds at Lake Varese in Varese, Italy in 2022. The U19 men's quadruple sculls crew with Ashton Perlroth finished fourth in the B final for a 10th-place overall finish with a time of 6:01.69. The U19 women's quadruple sculls crew with Alice Dommer just missing the medal stand after an incredible race with the U.S. finishing in fourth with a 6:35.79. In the B final of the U19 women's single sculls, Olivia Petri finished sixth for a 12th-place overall finish with a time of 8:05.29. 

CanAmMex is an annual race between Canada, Mexico, and the U.S. that includes a week of training followed by a regatta. Ilaria Costello was in both the quad and double representing the US in London, Ontario at Fanshawe Lake. Racing in the bow seat, her boat finished in 3rd place with a time of 7:05.66. She then raced the double also bowing and coming in third with a time of 8:10.52. Those points also contributed to the US winning the team points trophy for the regatta. 

2019

Hailey Mead represented the US at the 2019 World Rowing Junior Championships on August 7-11 in Tokyo, Japan. The women's quadruple sculls crew of Hailey Mead finished sixth in the B final for a 12th-place finish overall. France led off the line before the Czech Republic grabbed the top spot, which they held the rest of the way down the course. The Czech boat won the race in a 6:58.41. The U.S. finished in a 7:21.53.

2018

CanAmMex 2018 was held in Mexico City where two Redwood athletes represented the US, Rhys Krappe and Itai Almogy. They raced in the quad where they placed 1st with a time of 6:22.42 where they just snuck past Mexico by .3 seconds for the gold. Rhys raced in the men’s single placing in 5th, and Itai raced in the men’s double coming in 3rd.  The United States also won the team points trophy this year. 

2014

James Mahoney current Stanford Rowing Center rower is heading over to Germany to represent the US. This will be his second appearance at World Junior Rowing Champs. He will be competing in the Men's 4x.

Update: Row2k has posted some recent results.

Alumni Christina Vernazza Wins Big This Summer

Christina who has been rowing with the Oregon State Women's Rowing team, competed recently at US Club Nationals. She took home three gold medals, in the intermediate lightweight 4x, senior lightweight 2x, and senior lightweight 1x. She also won big at Canadian Henley this year, with a 1st in the U23 lightweight 1x and senior light 4x. She also came in 2nd in the u23 light 2x. 

Stanford Men Awarded Three Invites to US National Selection Camp

After an amazing season, James Mahoney, Sebastian Krappe, and Nolan Solis are awarded spots at the US Junior National Team Selection Camp. 

Alumni Laura Grimberg Coxes Yale's Women's Eight to Gold at Henley 

Laura Grimbergen, Stanford Rowing Center Alumni, won gold in the Senior 8+ Championship race at the Royal Henley Regatta.