CAMBRIDGE, MA (October 12, 2024) - In a dry run for next week's Head of the Charles Regatta, the Tufts University Men's Rowing first and second varsity eights were in action at the Head of the Kevin on the Charles River today.
The Tufts B boat - the second varsity eight - was the second team to start on the three-mile course today and took advantage of the good conditions to compile a 14:57.2 time. Part of the event is to compete against Head of the Charles gold medal standard times. For Men's College Eights the standard was 14:20, with the Tufts B time achieving a 95.9 percent score in their race. Amongst the regatta's 110 singles, doubles, fours and eights competitors where everyone is measured against their own standard, Tufts' mark was 11th best against its standard.
For the Tufts 2V8
Lucas Resnik was coxswain with
Patrick Moran,
Maxwell Rosenberger,
Chris Millay,
Gonzalo Escajadillo,
Alex Flynn,
Mason Sibley,
Seamus Ruiseal and
Ryan Kane.
The Jumbo first varsity eight was the fifth team to race the river today and recorded a mark of 15:20.5. That was 93.4 percent of the 14:20 standard for a 27th-place ranking.
The Tufts team was coxswain
Jamie Forman and
Peter Conard,
Max Landers,
Mark Machle,
JT Machle,
Harrison Sweet,
Max Nusbaum,
Charlie Guerra and
Theo Balavoine.
The Jumbos will be defending their Collegiate Eights victory from last fall at the 2024 Head of the Charles Regatta next weekend (Oct. 19-20).
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