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• Prior to 2005, Yale owned the fastest times ever recorded at the EARC Sprints, both set in 2001. The fastest ever time is by the Yale varsity: 5:41.2, and the second fastest time ever is 5:42.99, recorded by the Yale JV. Though the 2V record still stands, the new record is 5:38.894, set by Dartmouth at the 2007 Sprints.  • Bill Jarmuz '05 won the IRA National Championship on June 4, and then hopped in the HWT 2V that won the Boat Race against Harvard one week later on June 11. Congrats Bill, what a double-header! • Yale's 2000 win at Henley is the first time that a collegiate lightweight crew has won any event at Henley since 1974. • Yale has won the Sprints 2 out of the last 4 years and the IRA National Championship 3 out of the last 6 years. • Yale was the only lightweight team to win a medal in all five events at the 2003 EARC Sprints in Worcester. • Yale's 2V made the semi-finals at the 2001 Henley Royal Regatta, after finishing 8th in the 2V HWT event at the IRA Regatta.

Sprints medals: Gold, Silver, Silver, Bronze
(May 18) The freshman lightweights led the way for the Yale 150s today on Lake Quinsigamond, completing an undefeated regular season with a sparkling Sprints championship. Yale is the only school to medal in all three Jope Cup events. The 2V and 3V won silver medals, and the varsity eight got back into the medals with a bronze. With all five Y150 crews in the Grand Finals, and with four medals, the day was a successful one, yet not without it's bittersweet nature: though Yale earned the most points in the Jope Cup -- Yale and Cornell each had 33 points -- the tie-breaker went to the higher finisher in the varsity race. For full results, click here. 

Yale brings Dave home to New Haven but Vince goes to Princeton
(May 3) In another classic HYP Regatta on the  Charles River, the Yale 150s took home the David H. Vogel '71 Cup for 5-boat team supremacy, but not the Vincent Bowditch Goldthwait Cup, awarded to the winner of the varsity race. After a Harvard win in the 2F, Yale pulled off three wins in a row, all in dramatic fashion. The 3V had the narrowest win of the day, a 0.3 second margin separating them from the Tigers, who led most of the race. The 1F won from post-to-post, but not without a strong challenge from Harvard all the way down the course. The 2V race was similar to the 3V race in that a Princeton lead was chipped away at by the Bulldogs, who got through the Tigers to win by 1.2 seconds. In the Goldthwait Cup race, Yale took the early lead at 500 in, but Princeton moved back to pull one seat up at the 1000, and never looked back, pushing out to a length lead for the 2.8 second Goldthwait Cup victory, the first for Princeton since 1999.
    The points totals for the Vogel Cup were:

Yale 35   Princeton 31   Harvard 19

Full results here, and the Yale article here.

Yale reclaims Durand Cup 
(April 26) Last week against Cornell, the natural challenge was a strong head wind, standing waves and a race almost 62 minutes long. This week against Dartmouth, it was the swift current of the Connecticut River and a five-minute race(!). For Yale 150 fans, they remain grateful that both times the Yale lightweights were able to persuade the river gods to smile upon them. In winning the varsity race over Dartmouth by 4.5 seconds in a time of 5:07.9, the Y150 1V wins the Durand Cup, given in honor of former Yale 150 oarsman and coach Loyal Durand III. The 2V race was especially exciting, as not more than 3-4 seats separated the two crews all the way down the course. In the end, Yale's bow was just able to get out in front as the flag dropped, the margin being a mere 2 second. The 1F and the 3V won their races also. Full results here.

Yale wins 7 of 8 on windy Housatonic
(April 19) The Housatonic River saw four EARC lightweight crews race upon her waters today. The Yale lightweights took on a strong Housatonic headwind as well as a full race load, racing it up for the Dodge Cup against Penn and Columbia in the morning, and then coming back in the afternoon to take on Cornell. If the morning waters were somewhat calm, all pretense for a flat track was blown away by the constant south wind which once it started piling up the rollers never stopped. However, Yale was fortunate to win 7 of 8 races, including both varsity contests. Full details here. Full results for Penn & Columbia here and for Cornell here. 

Joy Cup back to Yale
(April 12) A calm but rainy Charles River saw the Yale lightweights win all four races and reclaim the Joy Cup against Georgetown and host M.I.T. early Saturday. The 2F and 1F won their races in a soaking rain, and though the weather cleared up a bit for the 2V and 1V races, the result was the same as the Bulldogs enjoyed a successful trip to Boston, their first of two races on the Charles in 2008. For full results, click here, and for complete details click here.  

Opener Up
(April 5) On the neutral waters of Lake Carnegie, the Yale Lightweights opened up their 2008 season with the 5th annual running of the Johnson Cup against the U.S. Naval Academy. The racing as usual was intense, and when the white flag was held aloft at the end, Yale proved victorious in 3 of the 5 races, including the varsity race. Yale has now won the Johnson Cup 2 out of the last 3 years, although Navy leads the overall series, 3-2. Yale also won the 1F and 3V races, while Navy took the 2V and the 2F. For full results, click here. 

Belly Good
(Nov 11) The Class of 2011 Yale lightweight had their best two-boat performance in years at this year's Belly of the Carnegie freshman-only regatta. The Eli eights finished second and third, only 4.41seconds apart, and just 5.2 behind perennial Belly champ Navy. In 2006, Yale finished 3rd and 7th, so moving that 'B' eight up was a priority for the Bulldogs in 2007. The strong performance of all the Yale freshman crews resulted in Yale claiming the Belly Bowl for the first time since 1998. For the official article, click here. For the full results, click here.

Chased Performance
(Oct 28) The Yale varsity completed its brief fall schedule with the 3-Mile Chase in Princeton with a performance that was an exercise in new seats for new people. With the largest squad in years (four eights of oarsmen), the lightweights have to sort out the many athletes competing for seats in the top three eights. Aside from the pairs, which finished first, third, fourth, and fifth in the small boat section of the regatta, the results themselves were all over the place. One eight in the HWT event finished 10th, and the three Yale eights in the LWT event finished 7th, 16th, and 26th. In the LWT 4+, again with the mixed results: 8th, 9th, and 23rd. Full results here. The next race for the squad is a freshman-only regatta, the Belly of the Carnegie, on Sunday November 11.

Charles Up!
(Oct 21) On another too-warm October race weekend, the Yale lightweights had two solid days of racing on both Saturday and Sunday. The Club 8+ led the way, with a 4th place finish after starting deep in the pack at 13. Taking the momentum from the Club 8+, on Sunday the LWT 4+ finished second to NYAC by 3.4 seconds and first among colleges. Last to race were the two lightweight eights, and both crews were able to move up and place themselves higher in the race order than where they started. The 'A' boat started 12th and finished 8th overall and fourth among colleges. The 'B' boat started 23rd and finished 16th. Full results here. Official website article here.

2007 Head of the Housatonic in the books 
(Oct 6) On a gorgeous picture-perfect day on the Housatonic, the Yale lightweights resumed racing today in the home opener to the unofficial fall racing season. The 13th annual regatta saw no lightweight events, so the Y150s raced in the Men's Open 2-s, 8+s, and Freshman 8+s events, finishing first in the 2-s, second in the Open 8+, and third in the Freshman 8+.  For the official Yale report, click here. For full results. click here.  

IRA Report:
1V improves to 5th;
1F 4+ win silver 
(June 2) Battling back from a disappointing 7th place at the EARC Sprints, the Yale varsity ends its 2007 campaign by making the Grand Final at the IRA with a solid effort in the heat. Though unable to find the magic that they found in 2005, where the Elis came back to claim the IRA National Championship, the Yale squad looks promising in the coming years. With only two graduating from the IRA varsity, the young Elis were outmatched this year, but the experience gained by the Class of 2009, as well as the championship performance of the Class of 2010, should serve the Bulldogs well in the future. The freshmen came through again with a strong performance in a major race, winning the silver medal in the Freshman 4+, behind only the heavyweights from Cal. 
  In other racing, the 2V 8+, entered in the 2V HWT event as Yale 'B', made it to the Semi-Finals by virtue of their come-from behind win in the repechage over the Navy HWT 2V. The Semi-Final was a bit of cold water reality, where the crew were a game fifth. Still, in the Petite final the Yale LWTs finished just 12th, only 0.077 seconds out of fifth and 1.969 seconds behind Yale 'A'. The men's pair entry from Y150 found themselves outsprinted to the line by Columbia, which put them fourth in the Grand Final. 
  With 18 oarsmen rowing at the IRA returning for the 2008 season, and a solid incoming freshman class, the future looks bright for the Yale lightweights.
  For full IRA results, click here.

1st FRESHMEN WIN EASTERN SPRINTS 
(May 13) It's was a happy Mother's Day for the moms of the Yale lightweight freshmen, as the top-ranked Bulldog 1F bested the field on Lake Quinsigamond today in a hard fought Grand Final. Yale rowed through Princeton to take first in a time of 5:47.95, just missing the course record set in the morning heats. The 2F had a great race, marred by a 12-second overhead crab just before the 1000 meter mark that took them from first to third, where they remained to the finish, despite a furious rally to overcome the mishap. The 2V earned a bronze medal in their Grand Final, finishing behind Navy and Cornell but repeating their HYP victory over Harvard and Princeton. The 3V finished third, in line with their ranking, although they made it close at the end by putting on a strong challenge for silver, falling short by only 0.5 seconds to Cornell. 
  The Yale varsity was unable to move up from their number 7 ranking and into the Grand Final, and had to be content with winning the Petite Final as the first step in preparation for the IRA National Championship on June 2.
  In sum, the bright side for Yale is a freshman class that save for a bad crab might have taken both freshman events, and a group of upperclassmen who medalled in two out of three varsity events. Click here for full row2k results; click here for the official Yale report.

7 up 3 down
(April 29) The Yale lightweights took seven out of ten races this weekend, but not the ones that would bring home the silver. After sweeping the first four races in dramatic fashion at the HYP, it all looked good for the Elis. But the varsity Goldthwait Cup race was all Harvard as the Crimson moved away for their first win since 2005. Because the Yale 1V finished third, Harvard was also able to come back in the Vogel Cup standings to claim the Cup 32 points to 31 for Yale, with Princeton third with 21.
Due to flooding on the Housatonic, the Durand Cup against Dartmouth and Rutgers was postponed until the day after the HYP. Dartmouth, coming off a big win over #1 ranked Cornell in Ithaca, proved their speed again with a 2.7 second win over Yale, with Rutgers 12 seconds back. Yale had success in most of the other races, with the only glitch being the Yale 2F getting DQ'd due to a buoy violation. 

Yale wins in Philly
(April 14) The Yale lightweights raced nine times in Philadelphia today, and the Bulldogs came away victorious in all nine. In the morning, the traditional Dodge Cup races with Columbia and host Penn saw a thrilling varsity race, with Yale edging out the Lions by 1.5 seconds to keep the Cup for the fourth year in a row. Full results here. In the afternoon, Georgetown made the trip north after beating the Naval Academy on the Potomac. Another close race developed between the two varsities, and Yale moved out to an approximate 3 second victory. Full results not available at this time.

Joy Cup retained
(April 7) The first home race for the Yale lightweights brought M.I.T. to the Gilder Boathouse for the renewed competition for the Joy Cup, named after former Yale coach James C. Joy. The Elis were successful on the day, winning the Varsity, and the 1F and 2F races. Full results here. 

Opening Close
(March 31) Though the venue changed by a few miles from Lake Mercer to Lake Carnegie, the competition for the 2007 Johnson Cup between Yale and the US Naval Academy remained as fierce as ever. Navy took three races, the 1V, the 1F and the 3V, while Yale won the 2V and the 2F races. In the Johnson Cup race between the varsities, Navy took an early lead on Yale and moved away to their final margin of 2 seconds around the 1000 meter mark, and Yale was unable to make an impression in the second thousand. The 2V race saw a Navy lead of about 7 seats evaporate in the second thousand, with the Elis rowing through for the 1.7 second win. The 1F race was the closest of the day, and again Navy took an early lead of about a length before Yale made a strong bid for the win in the last 500, coming on 0.6 seconds short when the flag dropped. The 2F claimed their race leading from start to finish, and the Navy 3V did the same in their race. For full results, click here. 

Freesh finish 3rd and 7th in Jersey
(November 12)  For the first time since 1999 the Yale lights finished third at the Belly of the Carnegie, and the 'B' boat finished seventh. Yale's combined lightweight time was second only to the US Naval Academy. This wraps up the fall racing for the entire Yale 150 squad, who will resume racing on March 31 against Navy. For full results, click here.

John Morrell '86 profiled in Ivy@50
(October 26) He began his rowing career as a walk-on at Yale and eventually found a spot in the varsity boat. And better yet, he used that experience to help create one of the most interesting recent inventions -- the Segway.

Could the design of the Segway -- the computer-controlled two-wheeled transportation device that was so noteworthy when it was introduced in 2001 -- been influenced by what happened in a Yale crew shell years before? For the rest of the article, click here.

Charles results
(October 22) The Yale lights opened and closed their fall racing season with some mixed results at the Head of the Charles. The Youth 8+ opened the day with a strong performance, moving up a place from 2005 to finish 7th overall and within the 5% necessary to qualify an entry for 2007. The lightweight 4+ also had a good row, finishing fourth and best among American colleges, just 2% off the winner and qualifying for 2007. In contrast, the lightweight 8+ did not have a quality row, finishing 10th in raw time but dropping to 12th with a 10-second missed buoy penalty. There were some Y 150 winners on the day, however. Trevor Young '06 and Steve Cheng '01 won the light eight with Team Canada. The win was Cheng's second Charles victory. For full results, click here.

Cheng Y150 '01 wins silver medal at Worlds
Stephen Cheng '01coxed the Canadian HWT 4+ to a silver medal at the World Rowing Championships in Eton, England. This is Steve's second trip to the Worlds, and his second silver medal, having been in 2004, when he won the silver medal with the Canadian 4+. Steve was also the coxswain for Cambridge's Goldie crew in the Boat Race. Steve's crews at Yale -- which included Andy Liverman in 2000 and 2001 -- won the Sprints and the IRA and the Temple Cup. 

Andy Liverman '02 did not find himself and his LWT 4x on the medal stand, finishing 5th. This was Andy's third time on the US team. He won the bronze in the LWT 8+ in 2002, and finished 11th in the LWT 1x in 2003. Andy won two IRA national championships, three Sprints titles and the Temple Challenge Cup at Henley in his Yale lightweight career. Andy has also won the Head of the Charles 4 times, in the LWT 8+ twice with Yale, in the LWT 1x, and in the LWT 4+ with NYAC.

Stallard named captain for 2006 - 2007
Brendan Stallard BR '07 was elected captain of the lightweight crew by a vote of his peers. Stallard, a native of Philadelphia, PA, rowed in the bronze medal 2V at the EARC Sprints and in the 4- that rowed at Henley in 2005. Brendan comes to Yale from the nationally renowned St. Joe's Prep crew. Stallard is the third Yale lightweight captain from the Prep since 2001, joining Andrew Morley '01 and Joe Fallon '06 as leaders of the Eli 150s.

IRA spells end 
(June 3) Despite beating everyone in the EARC league at least once this year, the Yale lightweights were unable to beat 'em all at the same time down in Camden on a flooded Cooper River course. In the morning heats, despite a rudder-and-skeg misadventure, Yale snuck into the Grand Finals, finishing third. In the afternoon final,  a strong start saw Yale in the lead at 500 meters, but by the 1000 the Eli had faded to third. The second half of the race saw Yale  unable to find championship base speed, a problem all year for the Blue. Yale finished fifth in a pack with Princeton, Columbia, and Navy, all crews that had handed over their shirts to Yale during the course of the season. Cornell won their second IRA win by the slimmest of margins over Harvard. Both crews had lost to Y 150 during the year. Interestingly, the silver and bronze medal crews at the Sprints -- Navy and Yale respectively -- wound up fifth and sixth just two weeks later, highlighting just how close the racing is in the EARC lightweight league. The margin from first-to-sixth was only 4.47 seconds. The 4- of young oarsmen from the bronze medalist 2V boat finished ninth overall. The senior pair of James Higgins and Dan Coleman finished 16th. For full results, click here. 

Yale wins H-Y-P regatta
(April 29) On their home waters of the Housatonic, the Yale lightweights re-claimed the Vogel and Goldthwait Cups against arch-rivals Harvard and Princeton. Another thrilling edition of the classic H-Y-P series saw Yale take an early lead and withstand strong challenges from both the Tigers and the Crimson, who essentially wound up level only 1 second behind the victorious Eli eight. This Yale win breaks the Harvard three-year hold on the Goldthwait Cup, who broke Yale's three-year streak in 2003. Though Harvard took home the 2V race in convincing fashion (Yale second), the 1F race was another nail-biter, which saw two lead changes before the Bulldogs outsprinted the Tigers for the win. Yale recorded two firsts, three seconds, and no thirds in the regatta, which added up to the first Vogel Cup win for the Eli since the Cup's inaugural race in 2003. Final tally was Yale 40, and Harvard and Princeton tied at 22. For full results, click here. The H-Y-P regatta resumes in 2007 on Lake Carnegie.

Down 2, Up 1
(April 22 & 23) The Yale lightweights raced twice on the weekend, on Saturday against Rutgers and Dartmouth in New Brunswick, and on Sunday against Georgetown in Derby. It was a weekend of mixed results, with the Durand Cup remaining with Rutgers for the first time since 1978. The bright spots on the day were the 1F victory over Dartmouth, and the 3V win over combo boats from both Rutgers and Dartmouth. Sunday saw the Eli bounce back against Georgetown, where the Bulldogs swept the races against the Hoyas. Full results for the Durand Cup here, and the Georgetown results are here.

Win(d) Jersey
(April 15) The Yale lightweights raced twice today on windy Lake Mercer today, winning both the Dodge Cup in the morning and defeating Cornell in the afternoon. While the conditions were favorable for the morning races, the afternoon saw warm temperatures and a stiff breeze that kicked up some significant chop. Other Yale winners include the Yale 3V over Cornell, and the Yale 1F and 2V over Penn and Columbia. Dodge Cup results here and Yale-Cornell results here. 

No foolin': Johnson Cup is Yale's in '06
(April 1) The Yale lightweights opened the 2006 season racing against Navy for the Johnson Cup at Mercer Lake, and after two years of Navy victories, the Bulldogs claimed the Cup for the first time since it's inaugural race in 2004. The Johnson Cup -- named for Yale 150 captain Eads Johnson '34 -- has featured the last two national champions: Yale in 2005 and Navy in 2004. In other races, Navy defeated Yale across the board. the 4V 4+ was unable to be completed due to near-Biblical conditions, with Navy in the lead.

Belly of the Carnegie Report:
Freesh Finish Fine
(November 13) The Yale 150s sent their first-years down to Lake Carnegie in mixed eights to race it up against the rest of the league today, and they came back winning the "most even" award, finishing just 0.86 seconds apart in 5th and 6th place. The Belly marks the end of the fall racing season for the Yale lightweights. For full results, click here.

3-Mile Chase Report:
A Pair o' Mugs
(October 30) The Yale lightweights had a pair of good performances at the 3-Mile Chase, with the pair of Joe Fallon '06 and Trevor Young '06 taking home some Chase mugs with their first-place finish in the men's pair. The Yale lightweight eight was looking to improve on their fifth-place performance of 2004, and they did just that, moving up two slots to finish third, only 1.23 seconds out of second and 5.28 behind the winning Penn crew. In contrast to 2004, when Harvard blew the event open with a 24-second win over 5th place Yale, 2005 saw five crews within 5.81 seconds of the leader. For full results, click here. This concludes the fall racing season for the Yale varsity lightweights, though the freshman have one race remaining, the Belly of the Carnegie on November 13. 

Head of the Charles Report:
Head's up
(October 23) The Yale lightweights had good performances from all three Bulldog entries, with the lightweight 8+ and the lightweight 4+ both coming in third overall and first among the college entries. Alum Andy Liverman '02 had a good day as well, winning the lightweight single. Starting sixth, the lightweight 8+ overcame a Navy lead at Cambridge Boat Club to come in first among colleges, and 15 seconds behind winner Riverside BC. The lightweight 4+ also overcame a deficit to Princeton at Weld Boathouse, to finish 4 seconds ahead of the Tigers and third overall behind the Ottawa Rowing Club. The Youth 8+ started very deep, with bow # 58, but passed four crews in posting the eighth fastest time. Andy Liverman '02 overcame a deficit to Rob Zechmann in the last stretch of the river to win by five seconds. This was Andy's fourth win at the Head of the Charles, having won the lightweight eight in 2000 and 2001 with the Yale lightweights and the lightweight four with NYAC in 2003. Congrats Andy on your 'Charles Cycle'. For full results, click here. 

Housatonic & Connecticut Report:
Flood watch
(October 9) The worst flooding the Connecticut River has seen in 25 years washed away the second fall racing opportunity for the Yale 150s on Sunday, one day after the Bulldogs opened the fall season on the friendly waters of the Housatonic. While there are no results from the Connecticut, here are the results from the Head of the Housatonic, which saw the lightweights win the LWT 8+, the Open 8+, and the Freshman/Novice 8+. Full results here. The Elis will next race on the Charles River at the Head of the Charles on October 23. Events entered are the LWT 8+, the LWT 4+, and the Youth 8+.

Henley Report:
Bulldogs v. Bantams
(July 3) The 2005 National Champion Yale lightweights made it all the way to the finals of the 2005 Temple Cup like they did in 2000, but this time there was no glorious upset of a heavyweight crew that out-weighed the Bulldogs by two stone a man on average. In making the final, the Yale lightweights became only the third lightweight crew in Temple Cup history to make the final (and the second Yale 150-lb. crew). However, the great run of close races and thrilling finishes that started with the Durand Cup races in mid-April ended a day before the Fourth of July, when Trinity College Hartford erased an early Yale lead and took the Temple Cup with a strong effort through the middle of Henley Reach. Of course, there was some Eli in that Trinity win, for Wesley Ng '02 of the 2002 Yale 150 national champions is the assistant coach for the Bantams. Well rowed Wes and Trinity, you have our congratulations for a great regatta. At least the Cup holder is in Connecticut! For full details, go to the Henley website at http://www.hrr.co.uk/ .

IRA Report:
YALE WINS NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP
(June 4) The Yale lightweights added another national championship to their history today by taking the 2005 IRA in Camden by 1.5 seconds over Cornell. Leading the extremely competitive field from the start, Yale led pillar to post to claim their first IRA title since 2002 and their third in the last six years. The crew of cox Dorothy Halsey, stroke Dave Werner, 7 Joe Fahrendorf, 6 Joe Fallon, 5 Alex Ramsay, 4 Andrew Towne, 3 Trevor Young, 2 Bill Jarmuz, and bow Bob Kennedy gained a measure of satisfaction after having lost the EARC Sprints by a mere 0.23 seconds. The win qualifies the Yale 150s for a trip to the Henley Royal Regatta later this year. In other races, the coxless four placed fourth in the petites and the freshman coxed four finished fifth in the Grand final. Full results here.

IRA Report:
Freshman 4+ wins heat
(June 2) The Yale freshman lightweight four won their heat today in a time of 6:52.6, finishing ahead of Hobart, Brown, Syracuse and B.U.. The win qualifies the crew to go directly to the semi-finals on Friday. The top three finishers in the semi-finals proceed to the Grand Final on Saturday. Other heat winners were George Washington Univ., Temple, and Harvard. 

Not, quite
(April 30) The Yale lightweights were not quite up to the task of unseating number one ranked Harvard on their home course on the Charles, but they gave it a good go, forcing Harvard to row the Bulldogs down with just under 500 meters to go. The rest of the day was equally mixed, with the fifth-ranked 1F beating #4 Harvard but falling to #3 Princeton, while the 2V finished third and failed to improve their seed for the Sprints. Like the 1F, the 3V beat Harvard but fell to Princeton. And in the closest result of the day, the 2F 4+ edged Harvard in a nip-and-tuck 2000 meter battle, a real classic. Full results here. 

Yale wins in Hanover
(April 23) On a swift but flat-water Connecticut River in Hanover today, the Yale lightweights retained the Durand Cup for the eleventh straight year, besting second place Rutgers by 6.9 seconds and host Dartmouth by 8.3 seconds. The 2V also posted a narrow 0.75 second win over Dartmouth, and the 1F and 3V 4+ won as well. In Yale's only loss of the day, the combination 2F/3V eight lost to Rutgers in a real see-saw classic, 5:49.9 to 5:50.4. For full results, click here. 

One up, one down
(April 17) An up-and-down weekend saw the Yale lightweight varsity win by a bowball in the Dodge Cup against Penn and Columbia, and then lose by one length to the Big Red of Cornell in Ithaca. The non-traditional weekend saw Yale travel to Ithaca for the first time ever following a home race. The 1F boat was able to pull off a come-from-behind win over Cornell. Dodge Cup results here, and Cornell results here. 

Eagles Eyed
(April 9) The addition of the Boston College lightweights to this year's Joy Cup against M.I.T. lent an added spice to this early season race in which the Yale lightweight varsity sought it's first win of the 2005 campaign. The two squads from Cambridge and Chestnut Hill fell to the Bulldogs in all three events. Full results here. 

Navy Blue
(April 2) The Yale Lightweights failed to wrest the Johnson Cup from the Navy Midshipmen on a rough Mercer County course today. The U.S. Naval Academy, the 2004 national champions, won with a wind-blown time of 6:28.8 to Yale's 6:31.3. Navy swept the Bulldogs, winning every race, the closest being the 2V race, which saw an 8-seat Navy lead evaporate in the last 500, with only a few feet separating the two crews at the finish. Full results here.

Belly wrap-up: 
That's it 'til spring
(November 14) A week after the varsity crews went to Lake Carnegie to row in a strong headwind, the Yale freesh lightweights took on the Carnegie course with a firm tailwind in the first half of the race. The even-boat format saw the two Yale crews within 14 seconds of each other in 9th and 13th place. Results here.

3-Mile Chase: 
Wind-ing Up
(November 8) On a blustery Lake Carnegie featuring a firm headwind, the Yale lightweights finished 5th among the 'A' crews and second of the 'B's. The Chase marks the end of the non-traditional racing season for the varsity. Notable among the results was the finish of the Best Ever Boat Club, coming in a strong 30th of 35 crews, less than 2 minutes off the leader after 20 years! For more details, talk to Coach Card. Full results here. There is one more race left on the calendar, the Belly of the Carnegie for freshman crews on November 14. 

Head of the Charles: 
Short series
(October 24) While the Red Sox were taking on the Cardinals in the World Series, the Yale lightweights took on most of their spring competitors on a shortened course at the Head of the Charles. The Youth 4+ started off the day with a strong second place finish, having started 37th and passing ten crews along the way. Demonstrating the parity in the league, the lightweight eight finished in the peleton with Princeton, Georgetown, Harvard, and Penn, with only 3.6 seconds between all five crews. It was so close that if the Charles was the Tour de France, all those crews would be given the same time. Navy was out in front and the top collegiate finisher. Results here. 

Fall racing: 
150s open fall season
(October 11) The Yale lightweights opened the informal fall racing season this weekend, with split squad head races at the Head of the Housatonic on Saturday and the Stonehurst Invitational in Rochester on Sunday. Returning to the Stonehurst after a year absence, the Eli finished first in a combined time of 30:02.2. For Stonehurst results, click here. For Housatonic results, click here.

World Championships report:  
Cheng wins silver in 4+; Feins 5th in LWT 8+ 
(August 1) In a  barn-burner of a race, Stephen Cheng '01 coxed the Canadian men's heavyweight four to a silver medal at the World Championships in Banyoles, Spain. In Cheng's first trip to the World Championships, he found himself in the tightest of races, with no more than 0.44 seconds separating first place Italy from third place USA. Canada finished just 0.02 out of first place. The USA 4+ -- containing Yale heavyweight Andrew Brennan '04 --  was third, 0.42 behind Canada. Eric Feins '03, rowing in the US LWT 8+, was unable to extend his previous 3-for-3 medal streak at the Worlds when his 8+ came in fifth in a final-only race. 

National Team report:  
Y 150s at Worlds: Feins '03 and Cheng '01 will race in Banyoles 
(July 26) Two former Yale lightweight teammates will row for the US and Canada respectively at the World Rowing Championships in Banyoles, Spain, starting on Tuesday. Eric Feins '03 from Pittsford, NY,  will row in the US lightweight eight for the fourth year in a row. Feins, a three-year varsity member and a Sprints and National champion while at Yale, won a silver medal last year, and two bronze medals in the preceding years in the lightweight eight at Worlds. Steve Cheng '01, from Toronto, Ontario, will cox the men's heavyweight 4+ for Canada. Cheng was the Yale varsity coxswain in 2000 and 2001, and was a key member of Y 150 crews that won the the HYP, Sprints, IRA, and the Temple Challenge Cup at Henley Royal Regatta. Last year, at Cambridge University, Steve coxed the Goldie crew against Isis. The Worlds commence on July 27, running through August 1 in Banyoles, Spain.

IRA report:  
Yale sprints back
(June 5) The Yale lightweights sent two crews down to Camden to race in the IRA, and both the varsity eight and the coxless four came through with dramatic sprints in the second thousand to send the program into the summer season with a flourish. 
  In the coxless four, the all-sophomore crew won their heat to advance directly to the final, but then found themselves in sixth after the start in the Grand Final on Saturday, behind Colgate, UMass, Cornell, Lehigh, and Harvard. A strong push in the second thousand, though, saw the Eli lightweights move through UMass, Lehigh, and their fellow lightweights from Cornell and Harvard. Only Colgate was able to stay in front to the end. Their silver medal is the first for the Yale lightweight program since 1994.
   The varsity eight found itself in fifth after the start, the Blue surrounded by red on all sides, with Cornell in Lane 6 and Harvard in Lane 4. After the start, Cornell moved and dropped the Bulldogs to sixth. After a year of struggle to find the right rhythm and power, though, the Blue were not to be bitten in the final race by the same bug. They used the middle thousand to get back through Cornell, and then used that momentum to move on arch-rival Harvard throughout the last 500 meter stretch, with Yale surging and Harvard holding them off. At the line, it was the Elis who were a canvas better. 
   Since the wind shadow at the IRA meant that Lanes 1, 2, and 3 would have an advantage, the Elis in Lane 5 could only hope to have a good row and have fun trying to pick off anyone around 'em. After losses to Cornell and Harvard during both the regular season and the Sprints, the Bulldogs were able to turn the tables in the final race, sprinting through the Big Red and the Crimson (the latter from open-water down) to finish fourth overall, up two spots from their IRA seed. For the seniors in the varsity, Gerhardt, Gibson, Rose, Toro, and Vavrichek, it was great to be able to come off the water for the last time feeling good about sticking together and coming through in the face of adversity. 

Odds and ends:  For the final of the LWT 8+, the IRA Fairness Committee put the heat winners in Lanes 1 & 2, second-place in 3 & 4, and third-place in 5 & 6. Yale was originally drawn for Lane 1....[ed. note: so where was this Fairness Committee in 2001?]...Lane 1 (Navy) won the Gold, Lane 2 (Georgetown) was Silver, and Lane 3 (Princeton) was Bronze...Yale's sprint through Harvard meant that in each of the last two years, the HYP schools have all each beaten the others at least once in the same season...For full results, click here...two former lightweights are helping the Yale heavyweights turn things around. Patrick Hamm '04, stroke of the Head of the Charles eight that finished second, is now the seven seat in the Yale heavy varsity which won the IRA Petites, and Yurij Rudensky '07, recruited as a lightweight but now rowing for the 1F heavies, stroked the Yale 1FH to a bronze medal at the IRA...

Alex Ramsay '05 elected captain for 2005
 (June 6) Alex Ramsay '05, a native of Oakland, CA, who did his high school rowing in fours at Groton, was elected to lead the Yale lightweight crew in 2004 - 2005. Alex was the seven seat in the undefeated freshman eight that won the Sprints in 2002. In his sophomore year, he was seven seat in the 2V that won the silver medal at the Sprints. The seven-seat trend continued in the fall of 2003, when he rowed there in the Head of the  Charles eight that was the fastest collegiate lightweight entry in the regatta. Unfortunately, Alex injured his knee over Christmas Break, requiring surgery that ended his junior year campaign. His power was missed in 2004. Despite being unable to row in 2004, Alex was an active member of the team, helping out as coach and coxswain when necessary. One thing's for sure: there's no one more eager to return to the Housatonic in September.

Y 150 oarsman wins two Yale awards
(May 23) Andrew D. Klaber, a member of the Yale lightweight crew class of 2004 and Trumbull College, had two honors conferred upon him at Yale's Class Day, an emphatic celebration of a truly exceptional academic and athletic career over the last four years. 

Andrew was awarded the Arthur Twining Hadley Prize, which honors the memory of the man who served as President of Yale from 1899 to 1921. The Twining Prize is awarded annually to the Senior in Yale College majoring in the social sciences who ranks highest in scholarship. 

Andrew was also awarded the Chantler Award, given to a graduating senior or seniors "who best exemplify the qualities of courage, strength of character and high moral purpose."

For the full citations, click here and here.

Andrew, we're proud of you. Well done! 

Test of Medal
(May 16) The Yale lightweights had mixed results at the 2004 EARC Sprints, with the 4th-ranked 2V lights putting on an excellent second thousand push to go from a length down to Princeton and Harvard to winning the silver medal, only 1.3 seconds behind the Crimson, who had beaten the Eli 2V by 8.5 seconds only two weeks before at the HYPs. The 3V 4+ was able to reverse their earlier defeat to Princeton at the HYPs, coming back to beat the Tigers decisively by 5 seconds in the rematch. The 1V's continued search for more speed was in vain, as the Blue was unable to make an impression in the Grand Final, coming in 6th. The 1F was part of a thrilling heat in the morning, with four crews racing hard for three spots. When the music stopped it was the Elis who were left standing without a seat in the Grand Final, by only 0.6 seconds. Still, the Bulldogs rallied and won the Petite Final in the afternoon. For full results, click here.

Gold-thwarted Cup
(May 1) The annual H-Y-P races, perhaps collegiate rowing's best regular season regatta, was held on Princeton's home waters but it was Harvard's day as the Crimson took home both the Goldthwait Cup in the varsity race and the Vogel Cup for overall team performance. Yale's up-and-down season continued with a second-place finish in the Goldthwait Cup, 3.7 seconds behind Harvard but 3.6 ahead of host Princeton. For full results, click here for row2k coverage. 

Yale wins Durand Cup but falls to Cornell
(April 24) In a rare rowing double-header on the Housatonic, Yale defeated the Big Green of Dartmouth and the Scarlet Knights of Rutgers to win the Durand Cup in the morning, but was unable to finish ahead of the Big Red of Cornell in the afternoon races. Both regattas were marked by fast conditions and stiff tailwind. Yale won four of five races in the morning, including the varsity race by 3.9 over Dartmouth and 5.3 over Rutgers. Durand Cup results from row2k here.  Against Cornell, who had raced in the morning in Boston against MIT and Columbia, Yale was unable to win the 1V and 2V events, falling to Cornell by 2 seconds in a blistering race (5:29.4 to 5:31.4). On the freshman level, Cornell's undefeated frosh came in with the #1 ranking but were handed their first defeat of the year by the Eli freshman by a scant 0.8 seconds. Full row2k results here.

Yale wins Dodge Cup
(April 17) The Red Sox - Yankees rivalry is not the only one heating up the Northeast this weekend. In Philadelphia, the lightweight crews of Yale, Penn, and Columbia renewed their annual Dodge Cup regatta on a beautiful spring day on the Schuylkill. In the varsity race, Yale reclaimed the Dodge Cup with a 3.2 second win over second-place Columbia, with Penn coming in third in 1.2 seconds behind the Lions. Yale also won the 2V race, as well as the 2F 4+. Penn avoided the Yale sweep by winning the 1F race. For full results, click here.

Yale retains Joy Cup
(April 10) The lightweights went to Cambridge to row in the annual Joy Cup races against M.I.T. For full results, click here. 

Can't Opener
(April 3) The Yale Bulldogs and the Navy Midshipmen inaugurated a new Cup race on Saturday at Mercer Lake. The Cup is named for former Yale lightweight captain Eads Johnson, Jr., Class of 1934. Eads also served in the Navy for "five very long years" as he put it in the ceremony following the races, drawing a long laugh from everyone. On the day, Navy won the varsity race and the first Johnson Cup, while Yale won the 2V race. For full results, click here.

Evan Gibson '04 wins silver at the C.R.A.S.H.-B Sprints
(Feb. 22) Yale placed two lightweights in the top four in the collegiate lightweight division at the C.R.A.S.H.-B Sprints. Evan Gibson MC '04 placed second in 6:20.1, and Joe Fahrendorf MC '06 came in fourth with a time of 6:23.4. The winner was John Hertzer of Dartmouth in 6:17.7.

Off-the-water report:
Andrew Klaber '04 wins Marshall Scholarship
 (December 4) Senior Andrew Klaber, a native of Buffalo Grove, IL, has added another honor to his long list of achievements: the Marshall Scholarship. Klaber, 5-seat in last year's Sprints champion 3V, will pursue a degree in  Development Studies at Oxford for the next two years. For the full Yale Daily News article, click here. 

Belly of the Carnegie report:
No blood, no foul
 (November 9) For a freshman-only even-boat regatta, the 2003 Belly of the Carnegie was rather bloodless for the EARC crews in attendance. For the Elis, no crashes, no passing or being passed, no equipment breakage meant a rather straightforward race. The Yale lightweights had the Slurpee "7-11" finish. For full results, click here.

Fall racing report:
Yale Lightweights first among colleges at Head of the Charles 
For the fourth time in five years, the Yale lightweights have finished as the top college at the Head of the Charles. The winner, New York Athletic Club, featured many elite-level oarsmen, including former Eli lightweight Eric Feins '02. In the tightest collegiate field in recent memory, Yale finished 4.5 seconds ahead of a five-boat EARC pack.  The Yale 2V, a qualifier from the 2002 regatta, failed to place within 5% of the winner, finishing 20th. In the lightweight 4+, Yale placed 9th overall and third among EARC colleges. The Youth 8+ were unable to hold onto their fourth place starting position, dropping to 17th. For full results, go the official Charles website at: www.hocr.org. A week later, three Eli crews raced at the Chase. For full results of the Chase, click here.

World Championships report: 
Eric Feins '03 wins silver in the lightweight 8+; Andy Liverman '02 finishes 5th in lwt 1x B Final
 (August 30) Eric Feins '03, winner of two bronze medals in the LWT 8+ in 2001 and 2002, upgraded to silver in 2003, for his third Worlds medal in three tries. In a final-only race, last year’s silver medallists Germany got out to a slight lead at the start, setting a blistering pace. 2002 World Champions Italy kept in close contact but did not have the same juice as Germany. With half the race gone Germany had open water leaving the United States and France to battle for silver and bronze. 
   Germany remained clear leaders until the end with a final charge by the United States thrusting them into silver position leaving France to sprint for third. Germany now become the new World Champions. 
   In the lightweight single B-final, Andy Liverman finished his first Worlds in the single by coming in fifth, eleventh overall, capping an incredible inaugural season in the single. For an article and a photo of Andy, click here.

Liverman '02 (LWT 1x) and Feins '03 (LWT 8+) will represent the USA at the 2003 Worlds in Milan
 (August 2) Eric Feins '03 and Andy Liverman '02 have a lot of racing to do this summer. After being named the heavyweight single sculler for the Pan-Am Games in early August in the Dominican Republic, Andy won the USRowing trials in the lightweight single, and was named to the US World Championship squad heading for Milan. Eric Feins '03 was named to the US LWT 8+ for the third year in a row. This is Liverman's second time on the US National Team. In 2002, he won the bronze medal in the US men's lightweight eight at the Worlds along with fellow Yale lightweight Eric Feins. The Worlds will be held August 24-31.

Tamas Toro '04 elected captain for 2004
 (June 1) Tom Toro '04, a two-year varsity member who rowed at seven seat in the 2002 Sprints and National Champion eight, was elected to lead the Yale lightweight crew in 2003 - 2004. Tom is a native of California, graduating from El Cerrito High School in 2000. Primarily a sculler for Oakland Strokes, he did not have much sweep experience before coming to Yale. Tom is majoring in film studies, and is the son of Andy and Jane Toro. 

"True is it that we have seen better days."
 (May 31) Nothing like a little Shakespeare for the proper perspective on this year's IRA experience, for "when sorrows come, they come not single spies, but in battalions". That was the story of the 2003 IRA for the Yale varsity lightweights, bronze medallists at the Sprints but out of the IRA Grand Finals for the first time ever. After winning the IRA in 2000 and 2002, the defending national champions found themselves on the outside looking in after finishing fifth in the morning heat. It didn't get any better in the afternoon, either, as the Yale lights finished a disappointing third. The result stands in contrast to recent years, which have seen two Sprints titles, two IRA national championships, numerous Cup victories, and a Henley Royal Regatta title. As W.S. wrote in an unpublished manuscript, "man, that sucked."

Wind Sprints
Yale wins medals in every event: 
one gold, one silver, three bronze
(May 11) The 2003 Sprints was marked by upsets galore as only two lightweight top-seeds were able to retain their ranking on a windy day. Yale was the only school to win a medal in every event. In the varsity, Princeton pulled off the upset, with Yale, Columbia, and Harvard fighting for the remaining two medals, and when the music stopped it was Columbia second, Yale third, and Harvard fourth. Yale pulled off a dramatic come-back in the 2V race, coming back from three-quarters open water down to close to within a deck length of front-runner Princeton. Yale's 1F got the bronze behind Navy and Princeton, and the 2F also won bronze behind Navy and Cornell. The 3V won the gold after a great battle with Cornell. This win is senior Will Perkins' '03 third Sprints gold medal. For full results, click here.

Yale retains Joy Cup
(May 3) The lightweights rounded out the regular spring season with a sweep of M.I.T. on the Housatonic River. For full results, click here. 

Yale wins Vogel Cup but loses Goldthwait Cup at HYPs
(April 26) Although Yale's second place finish in the varsity race ended Yale's three-year win streak in the Goldthwait Cup, second place was good enough to seal the win in the  inaugural competition for the Vogel Cup, awarded to the team with HYP five-boat supremacy. Harvard won the Goldthwait Cup for the first time since 1997. Yale won the 1F, 3V , and 2F races, and came in second in the 2V race. Final point totals in the Vogel Cup were Yale 32, Harvard 29, Princeton 23. Results here.

Yale's 10-year win streak in Dodge Cup snapped
(April 12) Yale's ten-year win streak in the Dodge Cup was ended today by the Columbia Lions in a great race at Orchard Beach, NY. Yale's 2V and 1F won their races, but in the varsity race it was the Lions claiming their first Dodge Cup win since 1964 by a margin of 3.6 seconds over second-place Yale. Penn was third. For full results, click here.

Yale wins Lightweight 8+ and Open 8+ at the San Diego Crew Classic for 2nd year
(April 6) The Yale successfully defended their Lightweight 8+ and Open 8+ titles at the San Diego Crew Classic today, defeating Navy, last year's IRA silver medallists. For full results, click here.

Elis win awards
Congratulations to the following award winners!

2002 EARC Crew of the Year:     Yale Lightweight Varsity
2002 EARC Coach of the Year:  Andy Card
Francis Gordon Brown Prize:     Eric Feins '03
(given to the member of the “Junior Class in Yale College who most closely approaches the standards of intellectual ability, high manhood, capacity for leadership, and service to the University set by Francis Gordon Brown.”)
Phi Beta Kappa:                         Andrew Klaber '04
2002 USRowing Collegiate
Honor Roll First Team:               Tamas Toro '04

Yale wins the Chase
(Oct. 27) The Yale lightweights won both the lightweight eight and the lightweight four at the Princeton 3-Mile Chase. Yale 'B' was sixth overall among the eights and Yale 'C' was 21st. Yale won the lightweight eight for the second year in a row. The University of Technology Sydney (Australia) was a guest heavyweight entrant in the noontime lightweight eight race due to an early evening Qantas flight back to Oz. For full results, click here.

Back-to-back to pack
(Oct. 20) After winning the men's lightweight eight at the Head of the Charles for the last two years, the Yale lightweights fell back three spots to fourth in this year's regatta. Only four seconds separated second from fourth, with NYAC the winner, ten seconds ahead of the Elis. The Yale 2V had a great row and finished seventh overall and fourth among the colleges, less than two seconds behind the 1V of Navy and Dartmouth. Yale is the only school to qualify two lightweight eights for next year's regatta. In the Youth 8+, the Yale lights finished fourth and qualified for the 2003 regatta as well. Yale's lightweight four remained cursed at the Charles, with a 1:00 penalty for interference. For full results, click here.

Oh Buoy
(Oct. 13) It's always the little things...a simple fluorescent course buoy on the wrong side of the shell turned a 6.54 second Yale victory into a 3.46 Brock University victory in the 5k race at the Stonehurst Invitational in Rochester, NY. Of course, Brock then turned around and waxed us pretty good in the 1500 meter race, so what are we complaining about? Nothing. Yale 'B' finished third. For full results, click here.

Congratulations to Andy Liverman '02 and Eric Feins '03, members of the USA Men's Lightweight Eight who won the bronze medal at the World Championships in Seville.

CHAMPIONS
(June 1) Yale wins the IRA National Championship for collegiate lightweight eights for the second time in three years, completing a perfect season undefeated in eights racing. Yale finished the IRA a deck length ahead of silver medalist Navy and just 1.66 seconds off of the Cooper River course record.

Congratulations to the 2002 National Champions!

The Class of 2002 finishes their Yale career with two varsity Sprints championships and one freshman Sprints championship, two National championships, a Henley Royal Regatta title, and two Head of the Charles lightweight eight titles. Captain Ian Malloch '02 and Andrew Liverman '02 never lost a regular season lightweight race in four years, and the only two losses of their whole career were by a combined total of 0.93 seconds. Wesley Ng '02 completes his second straight undefeated season, last year as stroke of the JV, and this year as the two seat in the varsity eight.

WELL ROWED 2002!
Patrick Gaughen, Andrew Liverman, Ian Malloch,
Wesley Ng, William Ralph, and Janek Wasserman.

Wright Away
(and the Jope Cup too)
(May 19) Yale follows its undefeated season by winning the Joseph Wright Cup for first varsity crews for the second year in a row. By finishing first in the varsity, first in the 1F, and second in the 2V, Yale repeats as Jope Cup champions for overall lightweight team supremacy in the EARC. In the 2V race, undefeated Navy raced undefeated Yale all the way down the course and in the end it was the Midshipmen who won the gold with Yale taking a hard-fought silver medal. It was the opposite story in the first freshman race, where undefeated Yale overcame undefeated Navy and the rest of a very tight field to take home the gold in a very exciting race. Only 3.37 seconds separated first from sixth. For full results, click here.

Varsity    Gold
Junior Varsity   Silver
First Freshman   Gold
Third Varsity    Gold
Second Freshman   Sixth

Yale wins HYP for 3rd year in a row
(May 4) Yale won the Goldthwait Cup against Princeton and Harvard on a windy Charles River for the third consecutive year. Yale's 2V and 1F also won. For full race times, click here.

Yale beats Dartmouth and Rutgers to retain Loyal Durand Cup
(April 27) The Yale Lightweights travelled to Hanover, NH to race for the Durand Cup on a changeable Connecticut River. Yale won the varsity, junior varsity, third varsity, and first freshman races, while coming in third in the second freshman race. For full race times, click here.

Yale defends Dodge Cup in Derby
(April 20) The Yale Lightweights held onto the Dodge Cup against Penn and Columbia in four of five races on the Housatonic today, winning the varsity, junior varsity, first freshman eight, and the third varsity fours races. Penn won the second freshman four. For full results, click here.

Yale defeats Georgetown
(April 13) The Yale lightweights won all four races against the Georgetown Hoyas on Lake Carnegie in Princeton, NJ today, including the first EARC lightweight 2- race in many years (if ever?). Results here.

Yale doubles up at San Diego
(April 7) The Yale lightweights won both the Men's Open 8+ and the Collegiate Lightweight 8+ at the San Diego Crew Classic in back-to-back races on Sunday. This marks the fifth time in the last six years that Yale has won the Secretary of the Navy Cup (Yale did not go in 2001), and the first time that they have won two events at the Crew Classic. Results here.

Yale retains James C. Joy Cup
(March 30) Yale's spring racing season began with a sweep of the choppy Charles over M.I.T. in the traditional Joy Cup, raced annually between the two schools. Due to a nasty 15 knot plus quartering headwind (gusting up to 25 knots), the races featured floating starts and a tough 1st thousand meters. For full results, click here.

Yale wins the 3-Mile Chase
Yale wins the Charles
Yale wins the Stonehurst
Yale wins the Housatonic

Yale wins the 3-Mile Chase
(Princeton, NJ, Oct. 28) - The Yale Lightweights concluded the fall racing season at the 3-Mile Chase by winning the Lightweight 8+ event by 10 seconds and finishing with two fours in the top five in the Lightweight 4+. Yale posted the fastest time of the day in the 8+, beating the Heavyweight 8+ winner U. Sydney by two seconds. The Yale 'B' crew finished sixth, ahead of all other 'B' crews, as well as some of the 'A' crews in the event. Yale 'C' was 15th out of 25 crews. For full results, click here.

YALE REPEATS AS HEAD OF THE CHARLES CHAMPION IN THE MEN'S LIGHTWEIGHT EIGHT
(Cambridge, MA, Oct. 21) - The Yale Lightweights, the defending 2000 champions in the men's lightweight eight, retained their "head of the river" status with a strong 8.87 second win over second-place NYAC. Peck's Boat Club -- Yale's second boat -- was fourth, 10.45 seconds behind third-place Brock University. Both eights will receive guaranteed entries for the 2002 regatta. The Youth 4+ was fourth and within the 5% qualification to receive automatic entry for 2002. The Lightweight 4+ was 13th. For full results, click here for the Head of the Charles website.

Yale wins Stonehurst Invitational
(Rochester, NY, Oct. 14) - The Yale Lightweights raced for the second weekend in a row and added the Stonehurst Invitational Lightweight 8+ to their list of accomplishments. In a unique format of a 5k race in the morning followed by a 1500 meter dash in the afternoon, Yale 'A' won both races, the 5k by 22.7 seconds, and the 1500 meter piece by a narrow 0.14 second margin. Yale 'B', with a rather powerful yet inflexible four seat, came in a surprising third in the 5k, but came back to earth in the 1500 by coming in sixth. Yale 'B' finished fifth overall. In the Open 4+, Yale 'B' was the lighweight entry, and they finished a respectable eighth in a field of 17 heavyweight crews. For full results, click here. For a thorough  breakdown of the racing format, go to the Stonehurst website.

Eric Feins '03 wins the bronze medal in the USA LWT 8+ at the 2001 World Championships
Eric Feins '03 completed his incredible sophomore season at Yale by rowing for the USA in the men's lightweight eight at the World Championships. In a thrilling final, the eight went from sixth to third, just edging out Italy who finished fourth. France won the event in 5:37.21, with Denmark second in 5:37.99, with the USA finishing in 5:38.80.

Yale lightweights have the magic touch at Henley Royal Regatta; if you're good enough to beat us, you're good enough to win
-- Yale bows out at HRR to eventual winners in Temple, Brittania, and Visitors' Cups --

The Sprints Champion Yale varsity lightweights had to break into two fours for Henley 2001 (Temple Cup champions are not allowed to row in the event again), entering a coxed four in the Brittania Cup and a straight four in the Visitors' Cup, while the Sprints Champion 2V was this year's Yale representative in the Temple Cup. The gods of Henley were capricious this year, and both the fours and the eight found the eventual winners in their half of the Draw. The Brittania 4+ lost to Notts County on Thursday after beating Reading on Wednesday, and the Visitors' 4- lost to Oxford Brookes and Taurus B.C. in the first round on Thursday. The Temple Cup 2V, after beating Durham University on Wednesday and Queen's University Belfast on Thursday, drew ASR Nereus of Amsterdam on Friday. Fifteen strokes into the race, Nereus suffered a damaged seat, and was forced to stop racing. Since there is no breakage rule at Henley, Yale advanced to the semi-final on Saturday against Harvard 'A', the freshman heavyweights. Giving away 28 pounds a man to the heavyweight Harvard crew, the Yale 2V lights led the race through the Barrier, were close to level at Fawley, but then saw their incredible Henley run come to a close, with the winning time of 6:27, and a final verdict of one length and a quarter lengths. Though it is somewhat dubious given the vagaries of the Henley Draw to hail the fact that Yale made it to the semi-final round of four (further than any of the three EARC lightweight varsity crews entered), it should be pointed out that the Yale 2V lights did in fact beat the Dartmouth 1V lights (and the Trinity heavyweight varsity) in head-to-head racing at the Reading Town Regatta on June 30.

What a finish!
In the last two years, the Yale Lightweights have completed a long amazing run of 56 victories (and that's not counting the 2000 Temple Challenge Cup win at Henley and the 2000 Head of the Charles win)  to just 2 losses (by a total combined time of 0.95 seconds)  . Yale's bid to win a second straight IRA Lightweight National Championship fell just 0.8 seconds short to archrival Harvard in another classic lightweight battle on the Cooper River. The IRN has it wrong: that wasn't an "improbable" win by Harvard (they weren't exactly slow at the HYP and the Sprints);  it was a thrilling race all the way down the course.   Harvard made a bid and threw it out there early, and Yale came back from open water down with 500 to go to close to within a deck length at the finish in a near repeat of the 2000 IRA. Sure, we wanted to win this year too, but we wouldn't trade our season for anyone's.  Congratulations to the 2001 National Champions from the 2001 EARC Sprints champions!

Wright result
(and the Jope Cup too)
(May 13) Yale follows its undefeated season by winning the Joseph Wright Cup, setting two new course records, winning the Cornell Trophy in the Junior Varsity, and bringing home the Jope Cup for overall team supremacy. Results here.

Varsity    Gold
Junior Varsity   Gold
First Freshman   Silver
Third Varsity    Silver
Second Freshman   Silver

Yale wins Goldthwait Cup
(April 28) The Yale varsity lightweights captured the Goldthwait Cup over Harvard and Princeton for the second year in a row at the World Cup at Mercer County while the 2V, 3V, and 2F won their races on Lake Carnegie. The 1F finished second to Princeton while beating Harvard. Results here.

Traditional HYP coxswain's race cancelled by heartless corporate World Cup 'suits'; riot ensues as rabid "Mini-HYP" devotees turned away
-- Three coxswains arrested for punching National Guardsmen in the shins during wild melee in Princeton --

Yale wins Durand Cup over Dartmouth and Rutgers & defeats Cornell and Georgetown
(April 21 & 22)   Yale completed a weekend sweep by  winning all ten races on Saturday and Sunday. For Dartmouth-Rutgers results, click here. For Georgetown - Cornell results, click here.

Yale wins Dodge Cup
(April 14)   Yale won all five races at the Dodge Cup, raced this year on nice early spring conditions on the Schuylkill River in Philadelphia. For all results, click here. The oarsmen thank  the parents for all those Pat's Steaks; the coach thanks same for all the veggies, fruit, and water.

Yale retains Joy Cup
(March 31) On a swollen Housatonic River, the first home race at the new Gilder Boathouse sees Yale defeat M.I.T. in all four races to hold onto the James C. Joy Cup. For results, click here.

Head of the Charles
YALE WINS LWT 8+!
First collegiate crew to win the event since 1979
LWT 4+s are 5th (top college) and 11th, Youth 8+ is 3rd
Schuylkill & Chase
Yale, the only EARC team to race (and weigh-in) with full squads at both the Head of the Schuylkill and the Chase, had an awesome time racing this weekend. We won the LWT 4+ at the Chase, and had two close second-place finishes in the LWT 8+ at both the Schuylkill and the Chase. Our B and C boats beat all the other Bs and Cs at the Chase.

YALE WINS HENLEY!

Six-seat Ian Malloch '02 after defeating Oxford Brookes University in the final of the Temple Challenge Cup at the Henley Royal Regatta.

[Now, there was one contest in England that we didn't win, but at least we made the Top Ten! Click here.]

WE WIN!
  - Excellent news from Camden! -
- Close finish thrills crowd -
- THE NATIONAL CHAMPIONS -
- Captain Pollock celebrates birthday -
- THE LYNX SYSTEM TELLS THE TALE -
- The crew on the course -
- Not-so-Straight four DQ'd from Grand Final for just that -

- The crew: coxswain Steve Cheng '01 stroke Andrew Morley '01
7 Pat McGarvey '01  6 Ian Malloch '02 5 Andy Liverman '02
4 John Logsdon '01, 3 Dave Brown '01, 2 Thad Pollock '00
bow Ty Johnson '00 -

- thorough coverage here from row2k -

A Sliver of Silver
    At the Sprints, Yale (10-0 regular season) was second by 0.11 seconds in an incredibly close race with Columbia and Harvard (click here for the photo finish). The 2V (6-3) picked up a silver medal with a tremendous sprint from fourth place. The 1F (8-1) was edged out of the silver by Dartmouth by 0.06 seconds. The 2F (4-2) won the gold, avenging earlier losses to Rutgers and Cornell. Yale was second by one point in the Jope Cup, behind Princeton. For results, please click here for row2k coverage.
   Congratulations to all the champions of the 2000 EARC Sprints!

2000 Spring Racing Results

Yale v. Harvard & Princeton  Goldthwait Cup   results
Yale v. Dartmouth & Rutgers    Durand Cup       results
Yale v. Cornell & Georgetown                                          results
Yale v. Penn & Columbia             Dodge Cup           results
Yale v. M.I.T.                               Joy Cup                   results
San Diego Crew Classic                                                  results
For the official race site, go to: San Diego Crew Classic.

1999 Fall Racing Wrap-up

Head of the Housatonic
Princeton 3-Mile Chase      YDN article click here.
Head of the Charles
     Third in the Lightweight 8+ (1st among colleges)
     Second in the Youth 8 +
     Eighth in the Lightweight 4+ (2nd among colleges)
     Dave Sanderson '98 wins the Lightweight Single again
     Yale Daily News article, click here. For a great photo, click here.
Head of the Schuylkill
Yale Freshman Invitational
Belly of the Carnegie

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