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USRowing in Oak Ridge: Vesper Boat Club victorious again

Posted at 8:14 am July 21, 2014
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Vesper Boat Club

The Vesper Boat Club of Philadelphia swept the competition, winning the men’s, women’s, and overall team trophies at the 2014 USRowing Club National Championships for the second consecutive year. The championships were in Oak Ridge from Wednesday through Sunday. (Photos courtesy USRowing)

 

By Ella Odland/USRowing

Vesper Boat Club of Philadelphia swept the competition, winning the men’s, women’s and overall team trophies at the 2014 USRowing Club National Championships for the second consecutive year. Vesper won a total of 14 gold, 12 silver and six bronze medals.

The 2014 championships were in Oak Ridge from Wednesday through Sunday. The 2013 championships were in Camden, New Jersey.

“We decided to shrink the numbers of the program this year and try to go for more quality,” said Sean Clarke, Vesper’s program manager. “It made things very exciting at the end for us, but everyone here really did a fine job of living up to Vesper’s tradition of ‘all together.’”

Vesper Boat Club Men

The Vesper Boat Club Men are pictured above.

The Vesper men narrowly beat out New York Athletic Club, winning the men’s trophy by two points.

“We had a solid outing,” said Vesper men’s coach Colin Regan. “We had some good results in a lot of our races and some results we’ll look to improve on going into Canada.” [Read more…]

Filed Under: Rowing, Slider, Sports, Sports, Top Stories Tagged With: 2014 USRowing Club National Championships, Bill Clifford, Boris Kusturic, Briana Pittman, Cambridge Boat Club, Camden, Colin Regan, New York Athletic Club, Oak Ridge, Penn Athletic Club, Philadelphia, Royal Canadian Henley, Sean Clarke, Seattle Area Rowing Association, Thompson Boat Club, USRowing, USRowing Club National Championships, Vesper Boat Club

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