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Syracuse Rowing Celebrates 11th Evening at Ten Eyck
9/18/2023 2:17:00 PM | Men's Rowing
The Syracuse University rowing teams in partnership with the Syracuse Alumni Rowing Association (S.A.R.A.) hosted the 11th Evening at Ten Eyck on Saturday, Sept. 16. The evening was complete with four S.A.R.A. Hall of Fame inductions as alumni, current student-athletes and staff as well as supporters of the program gathered at Drumlins Country club to celebrate the history and tradition of Syracuse Rowing.
Over seven decades of Syracuse Rowing was represented by alumni in attendance as well as the current seniors from the men's and women's teams. Former men's team head coach Bill Sanford, the patriarch of SU's royal family of rowing, was in attendance and accepted his brother, the late Scott Sanford's, Hall of Fame plaque.
Three of the four Hall of Fame recognitions were posthumous (James A. Ten Eyck Jr., Scott Sanford, 1908 IRA National Championship 8) while Natalie Mastracci '13 was all smiles after being introduced by her college coach Kris Sanford. The evening concluded with current head coaches Dave Reischman and Luke McGee each giving State of the Program updates to all attendees and reflecting on the success of the 2022-23 year for Syracuse and the history performance at Henley Royal Regatta this summer.
About the 1908 IRA National Championship 8
The 1908 National Championship 8 was stroked by James A. Ten Eyck Jr., who individually joined the S.A.R.A. Hall of Fame as well on Saturday evening. The Championship 8 lineup consisted of coxswain F.E. Eldredge, Ten Eyck Jr. (stroke), W.C. Fisher, E.G. Champlin, E.O. Hemenway, H.S. Duvall, E.C. Roberts, MC. Shimer and M.M. Eldrege in bow. The 1908 team was the second to win a national championship for Syracuse University and is one of six Orange crews to win the Varsity Challenge Cup at the IRA Championship in program history.Â
About James A. Ten Eyck Jr. (1908)
James A. Ten Eyck Jr. was the stroke seat of Syracuse's 1908 IRA Championship 8 team. Two years prior he won the Diamond Challenge Sculls at Henley in 1906. He is a Helms Athletic Hall of Fame member and went on to a successful coaching career as the freshman coach at Princeton and then as the head coach at Wisconsin. Ten Eyck Jr. was the head coach of the original Duluth Boat Club which had little success before his arrival and then won 43 National Championship races under his guidance, including five aggregate National Championships. His crews held record times in every event during his tenure. The club eventually dissolved three years after his departure.Â
About Scott Sanford (1963)
Scott Sanford rowed at Syracuse alongside his brother, former SU head coach Bill Sanford, in the early 1960s. From 1964-1978 he was the head coach at Franklin D. Roosevelt High School in Hyde Park, N.Y., where the Scott Sanford Award is given out annually in his honor. In 1983 Sanford founded, launched and led the rowing program at Vassar College for 10 years before departing to become the Director of Rowing and men's team head coach at Marist College in 1993. Sanford helped revitalize the Marist program guiding the varsity eight to a national ranking as high as No. 15 and a 15th place finish at the IRA Regatta in 2002 before his untimely passing June 2002 at the age of 60.
About Natalie Mastracci (2013)
Natalie Mastracci is a two-time Olympian and won multiple World Championship medals during her rowing career. Mastracci qualified for the U23 World Championship three times as a member of Canada's eight that twice earned fourth (2008 & 2009) and won bronze in 2010. She was a silver medalist at the 2011 World Championship and earned second place at the 2012 London Olympics with Team Canada. In 2013 Mastracci won silver with Canada's four and went on to medal in three-straight World Championship Eights from 2013-15. In her final Olympics with Canada, Mastracci and her Canadian teammates finished fifth overall.Â
Over seven decades of Syracuse Rowing was represented by alumni in attendance as well as the current seniors from the men's and women's teams. Former men's team head coach Bill Sanford, the patriarch of SU's royal family of rowing, was in attendance and accepted his brother, the late Scott Sanford's, Hall of Fame plaque.
Three of the four Hall of Fame recognitions were posthumous (James A. Ten Eyck Jr., Scott Sanford, 1908 IRA National Championship 8) while Natalie Mastracci '13 was all smiles after being introduced by her college coach Kris Sanford. The evening concluded with current head coaches Dave Reischman and Luke McGee each giving State of the Program updates to all attendees and reflecting on the success of the 2022-23 year for Syracuse and the history performance at Henley Royal Regatta this summer.
About the 1908 IRA National Championship 8
The 1908 National Championship 8 was stroked by James A. Ten Eyck Jr., who individually joined the S.A.R.A. Hall of Fame as well on Saturday evening. The Championship 8 lineup consisted of coxswain F.E. Eldredge, Ten Eyck Jr. (stroke), W.C. Fisher, E.G. Champlin, E.O. Hemenway, H.S. Duvall, E.C. Roberts, MC. Shimer and M.M. Eldrege in bow. The 1908 team was the second to win a national championship for Syracuse University and is one of six Orange crews to win the Varsity Challenge Cup at the IRA Championship in program history.Â
About James A. Ten Eyck Jr. (1908)
James A. Ten Eyck Jr. was the stroke seat of Syracuse's 1908 IRA Championship 8 team. Two years prior he won the Diamond Challenge Sculls at Henley in 1906. He is a Helms Athletic Hall of Fame member and went on to a successful coaching career as the freshman coach at Princeton and then as the head coach at Wisconsin. Ten Eyck Jr. was the head coach of the original Duluth Boat Club which had little success before his arrival and then won 43 National Championship races under his guidance, including five aggregate National Championships. His crews held record times in every event during his tenure. The club eventually dissolved three years after his departure.Â
About Scott Sanford (1963)
Scott Sanford rowed at Syracuse alongside his brother, former SU head coach Bill Sanford, in the early 1960s. From 1964-1978 he was the head coach at Franklin D. Roosevelt High School in Hyde Park, N.Y., where the Scott Sanford Award is given out annually in his honor. In 1983 Sanford founded, launched and led the rowing program at Vassar College for 10 years before departing to become the Director of Rowing and men's team head coach at Marist College in 1993. Sanford helped revitalize the Marist program guiding the varsity eight to a national ranking as high as No. 15 and a 15th place finish at the IRA Regatta in 2002 before his untimely passing June 2002 at the age of 60.
About Natalie Mastracci (2013)
Natalie Mastracci is a two-time Olympian and won multiple World Championship medals during her rowing career. Mastracci qualified for the U23 World Championship three times as a member of Canada's eight that twice earned fourth (2008 & 2009) and won bronze in 2010. She was a silver medalist at the 2011 World Championship and earned second place at the 2012 London Olympics with Team Canada. In 2013 Mastracci won silver with Canada's four and went on to medal in three-straight World Championship Eights from 2013-15. In her final Olympics with Canada, Mastracci and her Canadian teammates finished fifth overall.Â
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