CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (10/18/08) - The Colgate University men’s rowing team competed today at the 44th Head of the Charles Regatta in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Colgate’s only boat entry was in the Club Eights Men’s race. The Raiders were the fifty-seventh boat to start in a staggered race that boasted sixty-nine boat entries. By the time the Raiders passed underneath the Eliot Bridge, with about 700m of the 5,150 m course left, they had surpassed three of the boats that had started ahead of them.
In the final minutes of the race, with no boats in sight, coxswain Christopher Monterosso (Staten, Island, N.Y.) was able to take the best route to the finish line uncontested, coxing his crew to a tenth place finish with a time of 15:37.798, only .456 seconds behind ninth place Brow University. In the boat were Monterosso, Kurt Miller (Devon, Pa.), Edward Gastel (Glen Ellyn, Ill.), Willie Fox(New Canaan, Conn.), Sam Walker (Pittsburgh, Pa.), Parker Paulin (Forsyth, Ill.), Paul Vogelsang (Buffalo, N.Y.), and Peter Leahey (Mercer Island, Wash.). Harvard University won the event with a time of 15:03:974.
The Raider’s next regatta is the Head of the Fish in Saratoga, New York on October 26th.