Norcal in the News

On Sunday, May 5, 2019 at the 2019 USRowing Southwest Youth Championships, in the space of less than 20 minutes, Norcal’s men’s and women’s varsity teams combined to qualify three boats for Nationals. The men’s lightweight coxed four, women’s pair, and men’s quad will now travel to Nathan Benderson Park in Sarasota, Fla., to compete…

We are pleased to announce that Beth Anderson will be joining Norcal Crew as the Executive Director.  Beth is currently the Junior Rowing Director at Newport Aquatic Center. Previously, she was the Program Director for the Oakland Strokes from 1997 to 2018.  During the 21 years that she led the Oakland Strokes, she build the…

After making history for the U.S., Norcal Varsity Men’s coach Ellen is voted Female Athlete of the Year by her peers on the national team. Read More

Three Norcal athletes are representing their country this summer on the international stage. Makayla Karr-Warner (Norcal ’13, BU’17) qualified at Trials as part of a Lightweight Womens Quad training out of Union Boat Club in Boston. Trey Holterman (Norcal’17, Stanford’21) and Clay Watson (Norcal’17, Columbia’21) were both selected from the Jr. camp system to the…

The Black and Gold go Red, White, and Blue this summer, as Claire Grundig ’16 and Trey Holterman ’17 earn seats in the US Junior National Women’s Quad, and Men’s Eight. They will compete at the Junior/Senior World Championships, in Rotterdam, The Netherlands. Also competing for Team USA is Colette Lucas-Conwell ’13, who has earned…

The Norcal Lightweight Men’s Four took the LW 4+ national title for the second time in three years, winning the event by 2 seconds over Rye High School. Coxswain Thomas Fuller, Stroke Jackson Woods, Colley Loum, Jonathan Cogan, and Bow Alexander Rodrick comprised the crew. For Woods, Loum, and Cogan, this is their second national…

The Norcal Lightweight Men’s Eight took the national title in a commanding fashion, dominating through the heats and semi-finals to win by a full boat length in a blistering time of 6:02. Coxswain Thomas Fuller, Stroke Misha Hindery, and crew members Marcelo Buxton, Chris Skokowski, Jonathan Cogan, Colley Loum, Jackson Wood, Phoenix Jarrell-Desch, and bow…

Misha Hindery, Marcelo Buxton, Chris Skokowski, Will Carhart, and Miles Bowman combined efforts to dominate the grand final in the Men’s LW 4+ event at the USRowing Youth Invitational National Championships. In a time of 7:11.7, the four emerged from a field of 21 boats to claim the gold, walking through the crew from Los…

Menlo-Atherton High senior Katie Kelly and recent Woodside grad Makayla Karr-Warner dominated the grand final in the Women’s LW 2x event at the USRowing Youth Invitational National Championships. In a time of 7:11.7, the pair bested the five other boats that had emerged over the weekend from the nationally selected field of 20. To qualify,…

The Head of the Charles is the biggest fall regatta in the entire world, and is one of the largest sporting events of any type, as measured by the number of live spectators. Over the course of the weekend, it is estimated that over 300,000 people walk along the river to watch the 3-mile race…