PHILADELPHIA, Pa.- The Franklin & Marshall men's rowing team concluded the fall at the Head of the Schuylkill Regatta on Saturday, racing in the Varsity 8+, Varsity 4+, Novice 8+ and Novice 4+ categories. F&M's Novice 8+ crew earned bronze in the Division III category of their race.

Varsity 8+

F&M's Varsity 8+ crew for the day included, from bow to stern, Jacob Ripperger, Kunaal Chatterjee, Gordon Clifford, Harris Zhang, Max Goldman, Peter Kutscher, Saul Schoenholtz, Max Taxter, and Lucy Connolly as coxswain. The crew claimed 28th place from a field of 35 entries, finishing ahead of Mid-Atlantic Rowing Conference (MARC) crews from St. Mary's (Md.) and Stockton with a time of 13:07.026.

Varsity 4+

The Diplomats' Varsity 4+ crew included five team members that also raced in the Varsity 8+, with a bow to stern crew of Ripperger, Kutscher, Goldman, Taxter, and Connolly as coxswain. The crew finished in 21st place out of 33 crews that completed the race, finishing in 14:11.632. They were quicker than MARC sides from Catholic, St. Mary's (Md.), and Stockton.

Novice 8+

F&M's Novice 8+ side included, from bow to stern, Henry Hall, Zeke Dworak-Fisher, Zun Saeed, Ali Waheed, Rongyu Zheng, Huzaifa Khalid, Kanishk Pal, Ziyan Tang, and Charlotte Goldman as coxswain. The crew finished in ninth place with a time of 17:08.833, placing third among Division III crews to claim the bronze medal.

Novice 4 +

Five members of F&M's novice crew competed in both the Novice 8+ and Novice 4+. The Novice 4+ crew featured, from bow to stern, Pal, Dworak-Fisher, Zheng, Tang, and Goldman as coxswain. The crew earned 15th place from 19 entries, finishing in 16:28.928.

From Coach Moemen Ibrahim '26

"The Head of the Schuylkill was a great way to conclude our fall season, bringing home some hardware on the novice side," said Coach Ibrahim. "It also served as a valuable benchmark to see where we stand as a program compared to other crews in our conference. We'll use that perspective as motivation to come back stronger in the spring."

Up Next

The rowing teams will return in the spring with the first of six events at the Skidmore Sprints on Saturday, April 3. A full preview will be released closer to the start of the spring season.