Michigan
Head of the Charles
U-M in Boston for Head of the Charles
10/17/2019 1:45:00 PM | Rowing
» In the varsity's final event of the fall season, U-M travels east to the Charles River in Boston for the 55th Head of the Charles event.
» Michigan is sending two boats to race this year. Both will race in the Event 62, the Women's Championship Eights.
» The next event for the varsity squad will be at the start of the 2020 spring season. U-M returns 13 of 23 athletes from last year's NCAA team to this year's roster.
THIS WEEK
Sunday, Oct. 20 -- at Head of the Charles Regatta (Boston, Mass.), 2:49 p.m.
TV: HOCR.org | Live Video
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The University of Michigan rowing team will wrap up its fall slate on Sunday (Oct. 20) at the famed Head of the Charles Regatta in Boston, Massachusets. The regatta will be streamed live at the event website, HOCR.org.
With two boats in action, the Wolverines will compete in Event 62, the women's championship eights. U-M also will have an alumni boat in action on Saturday with assistant coach Liz Tuppen racing in an eight boat as well. The Michigan 1V8 will be a starboard-stroked bucket rig.
U-M is looking for its varsity to close the fall season strong one weekend after a solid set of races against Ohio State. The Wolverines and Buckeyes raced pairs and fours on Belleville Lake. A Michigan boat won each race in the first piece and OSU took first place in both races in the second piece, with solid times coming in for both teams. By all accounts, it served as a valuable measuring stick as the fall season winds down. Now U-M will seek to punctuate the fall season with a successful finish in Boston.
Michigan Lineup
1V8: Charlotte Powers (coxswain), Grace Collins, Caroline McGee, Perry Bower, Rebecca Joyce, Lilia Duncan, Madison Byrd, Caitlin Esse, Annika Hoffmann
2V8: Erika Yasuda (coxswain), Kate Burns, Jeri Rhodes, Tate Aronstein, Paige Badenhorst, Julia Gehlert, Aubrey Fitts, Elizabeth Schlyer, Lillian Mei
Things to Know
• Since its inception in 1965, the Head of the Charles Regatta has attracted hundreds of thousands of rowers to the banks of the Charles River. The two-day affair annually draws more than 11,000 athletes to the Charles River in Boston.
• A team of more than 1,700 individual volunteers works year-round to put on the event, which draws tens of thousands of spectators.
• The Wolverines will compete in Event 62, the Women's Championship Eights. That event is set to begin at 2:49 p.m.
• Michigan has a rich history at the event, with a top-11 showing in eight of the last nine seasons.
• Head coach Mark Rothstein is in his 29th season (24th varsity) at the helm of the program that he helped build from a club team to a varsity powerhouse. He has coached 10 teams to top-five NCAA Championship finishes, including two second-place finishes (2001, 2012) and two podium finishes in the last two seasons (third place; 2017, '19).
• Among the roster's returning contributors, U-M welcomes back four athletes from its Big Ten champion first varsity eight boat: coxswain Charlotte Powers and rowers Madison Byrd, Grace Collins and Annika Hoffmann.
• In addition, five athletes from the second varsity eight boat (coxswain Erika Yasuda, Emma Luniewicz, Jeri Rhodes, Kate Burns, Megan Hinkle), three athletes from the first varsity four (coxswain Sujin Kim, Rebecca Joyce, Perry Bower, Lilia Duncan) and all of the 2V4 and 3V4 lineups return.
• Overall, that makes 22 athletes from Michigan's varsity boats back to contribute in 2020.
• An additional 13 athletes who rowed in novice boats at the Big Ten Championships are back on the varsity roster this fall, giving U-M 35 total athletes with Big Ten Championship experience on the roster.
• The roster includes 20 athletes who earned Academic All-Big Ten recognition last spring, including seven CRCA Scholar Athletes and the Elite 90 Award Winner from the 2019 NCAA Championships, Annika Hoffmann.
• Last season, the Wolverines spent all season in the top 10 of the Row2K Coaches' poll in 2019, including two consecutive months in the top five to close out the season.
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