Men's Crew Sends All Boats to Grand Finals on Dad Vail Day One

Friday, May 10

Philadelphia, Pa.

Temple University

Dad Vail Regatta

Photo by: Zamani Feelings

Men's Crew Sends All Boats to Grand Finals on Dad Vail Day One

5.10.19 | Men's Crew

Results

PHILADELPHIA — The Temple men's crew team opened the 2019 Dad Vail Regatta with a fantastic performance, sending every boat through to the grand finals. The Owls will look to earn hardware tomorrow, with finals beginning at 1:30 p.m.

A Grand Ole Time
> Temple raced six boats in the opening day, with all six boats qualifying to the top finals.
> The Owls will be in the hunt for seven total medals tomorrow, as the lightweight eight will race in the finals only event.

Varsity Eight
> Temple's top boat battled rough water conditions in the early time trial, but easily qualified to the semifinals, by placing ninth in 5:51.745.
> It was a nail biting semifinal, as the Owls were in third after 500m and needed a late sprint to earn a spot in the grand finals.
> Temple finished in 6:19.953, just over a second behind Drexel, and edged third-place Michigan by 0.051 seconds to take the last spot in the grands.
> The Owls also outpaced Marist, Ohio State, and Minnesota in the race.

Second Varsity Eight
> A fourth place time of 6:02.010 in the time trials advanced the Owls to the semis.
> Temple took second behind only MIT to earn a spot in the grand finals, with their time of 6:32.265 topping Army, Bucknell, Georgia Tech, and Minnesota.

Freshman Eight
> After placing second in the time trials in 5:57.176, Temple won its freshman eight semifinal.
> The Owls' time of 6:49.282 took down Michigan, Army, Grand Valley, Adrian, and Catholic.

Third Varsity Eight
> Temple earned a spot in the grand finals by cruising to a semifinals win.
> Their time of 6:47.240 was nearly five seconds better than the rest of the field, as the Owls beat out Delaware, Drexel, Marietta, and UMass.

Fours
> Both of Temple's fours advances to the grand finals in their events.
> After taking fifth in the opening time trial, Temple's novice four clocked in at 7:52.442 to take second in their semi, behind only Michigan.
> The lightweight four advanced through from their semis with a third place finish in 8:08.732.

Tomorrow
> Finals for the Owls begin with the novice four Lindy Cup final at 1:30 p.m.
> A live stream is available at dadvail.org and the schedule/live results are available here.

Varsity Eight	Second Varsity Eight	Freshman Eight	Third Varsity Eight
The Gavin White	The Marguerite	The Bear Curran	The Vera Hutton
C - Evan Funchion	C - Nina Sponheimer	C - Olivia Morris	C - Caseyann Sweeney
8 - Stephen Gennaro	8 - James O'Toole	8 - Alejandro Pacios	8 - Juan Graciano
7 - William Hooper	7 - Nicholas Glass	7 - Yoni Gilad	7 - Jacob Cox
6 - Nicholas Carbonaro	6 - Jacob Bucko	6 - Steven Mullane	6 - Kyle White
5 - Alex DeNolfo	5 - George Torvik	5 - Myles Cripanuk	5 - Noah Legendre
4 - Brendan Wren	4 - Joshua Field	4 - Samuel Digiacomo	4 - Jeremy Leeds
3 - Mattison Sicko	3 - Jasper Malcolm	3 - Liam Glennon	3 - Christian Brecht
2 - Joseph Adams	2 - Jack Wittenstein	2 - Conner Reilly	2 - Maxwell Ihns
B - Thomas O'Shaughnessy	B - Ben Holzwarth	B - Xavier Pfister	B - Tyler Judge

Lightweight Eight	Freshman Four	Lightweight Four
The Rena
C - Julian Green	C - Jack Gosse	C - Cassidy Lorenz
8 - Hunter Mnich	4 - Cayden Musso	4 - Jake Vidinghoff
7 - Chris Kovach	3 - Kyle Derowski	3 - Jacob Cheuvront
6 - Phillip MacNeal	2 - Austin Bauer	2 - Connor Harris
5 - Andy Stewart	B - Xavier Pfister	B - Daniel Xentaras
4 - Justin Frye
3 - Jude Wilson
2 - Patrick Martin
B - Stephen Ching