No. 3 Men's Lightweight Rowing Takes On Ivy Foes This Weekend

Saturday, March 30

Overpeck, N.J.

10:00 AM

Princeton University

#8 Columbia (The Campbell Cup)

Hidde Lycklama

Photo by: © row2k Media

No. 3 Men's Lightweight Rowing Takes On Ivy Foes This Weekend

March 29, 2024 | Men's Rowing - Lightweight

PRINCETON – The No. 3 Princeton Men's Lightweight Rowing Team will head on the road to take on the No. 8 Columbia Lions for the Campbell Cup and the No. 6 Dartmouth Big Green for the Diamond Challenge Cup.

Races at Columbia begin at 10 a.m. while the races against Dartmouth get underway at 1 p.m. The Tigers have not lost to the Lions in the regular season since 2018.

Princeton already has a victory this season, retaining the Murtaugh Cup over Navy last weekend. As the wind and gust intensity went up as the racing kept going, the 1V rowed out to a 5:46.3, three seconds ahead of the Midshipmen.

Princeton won the IRA'S President Cup for the first time since 2010 with the 1V and 2V collecting gold medals in 2023.

The 2V did not lose a race all season as the boat of of Laney Gold-Rappe, Eoin Gaffney, Tim Eilers, Noah Klemmer Domonkos, Peter Skinner, George Middleton, John High, Paul Höselbarth and Tim Scheuritzel rowed away from the Harvard Crimson, crossing the line at 5:48.97, 2.48 seconds in front.

In the Grand Final for the first varsity, the Tigers trailed by two one-hundreds of a second behind Harvard at the 500m but used a 1:25 split to go in front by 1.4 seconds. The Crimson closed the gap to under a half second with 500m left, but the boat of Adam Casler, Nick Aronow, Hidde Lycklama, George Dickinson, Ethan Abraham, Aaron Wenk, Reuben Cook, William Olson and David Van Velden pulled away, finishing with a 5:41.02, 1.8 seconds clear.

It was the sixth time the Tigers have won the top point total at IRAs, the last coming in 2010.