RFH Rowing Wraps Up its 2014 Spring Season with Awards Dinner

The RFH rowing community came together at the Ocean Beach Club on Wednesday, June 11 2014 to celebrate the season, recognize outstanding achievements and sadly say goodbye to its graduating seniors.

There was much to celebrate as RFH Rowing proved to be a formable competitor on the rivers during the 2014 Spring season.

RFH Rowing captured three First Place and two Second Place finishes at the 
Saint Andrew’s School in Middletown, Delaware. At the Central New Jersey Rowing Association’s Wagner Cup, held on the Raritan River, the team won eight First Place medals and claimed a First or Second Place in all entered events. 

RFH Rowing was especially pleased that the Men’s Junior Quad: Brendan Edwards, Ben Cooper, Matt Bavuso and Sheridan Camarata won The Bronze Medal in the 2014 New Jersey Garden State Championship and also qualified for the semi-finals at the Stotesbury Cup Regatta-the largest Scholastic  Regatta in the world. 

Head Coach Molly O'Rourke reflecting on season was pleased “This year the RFHR athletes put forth intense focus and enthusiasm into every workout and race. Their efforts proved successful with the impressive results seen at each regatta. We had an excellent year growing as a team because each 
athlete was ready to work harder than the day before.” 

At the dinner, RFH Rowing recognized outstanding contributions by its student/athletes. Winning the “Hammer” award for the fastest ERG times were Paul Criscitiello and Ryan Kearney for the men and Maren Gierlatowicz and Emily Kean for the women.

The “Beast Mode” awards for outstanding determination to succeed in physical fitness were Kaitlyn Peitler, Helena Van Hemmen and Dawson  Epstein.

Claiming the “Most Improved Rowing” award were Greg Nixon and Mariah Parsons.

Finally RFH Rowing said farewell to its graduating seniors including Madison Bess, (Ithaca College), Evan Callahan (Rutgers University), Mary Clare Condon (Boston College), Kate Edwards (Drexel University), Rayan Heard (Notre Dame), Kaitlin Hill (Rutgers University), Katelyn Kearney (Drexel University), Francisco Orejarena (Rutgers University), Elise Reynolds (Lafayette College) Todd Spencer (Drexel University) and Matt Valko (Delaware University).