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Syracuse University
Head of the Charles
Orange Men's Rowing Shows Well at the Head of the Charles
10/24/2010 7:47:42 PM | Men's Rowing
Results
BOSTON – The Syracuse University men's rowing team opened its fall season today at the Head of the Charles in Boston, Mass. The Orange finished 16th out of 35 crews in the Championship Eights Men race. SU completed the course 14:32.2. Washington won the race with a time of 14:00.402.
“I thought we rowed well and did the things we wanted to do on the race course,” said head coach Dave Reischman. “We will be able to judge how successful we are by how we respond and progress through the fall season.”
The Orange was led by seniors Dan Berry (bow), Dan Turner (6-seat), Vince Berry (7-seat), Mike Gennaro (stroke) and Kenny Marfilius (coxswain). Joining the five seniors will be juniors Chris Bickford (4-seat) and Chris Lutz (5-seat) and sophomores Mason Leasure (2-seat) and Tyler Toporowski (3-seat).
The Head of the Charles, the world's largest two-day rowing event, was first held on October 16, 1965. The race was established by the Cambridge Boat Club members D'Arcy MacMahon, Howard McIntyre, and Jack Vincent, with the advice of Harvard University sculling instructor Ernest Arlett. Arlett proposed that a "head of the river" race similar in tradition to races held in his native England, be held on the Charles River. "Head" races, a class of regattas, are generally three miles long-boats race against each other and the clock, starting sequentially approximately fifteen seconds apart. Winners of each race receive the honorary title of "Head of the River" or, in this case, "Head of the Charles."
Syracuse returns to the water on Halloween when it travels to New Jersey for the Princeton Chase.
