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The UW men took silver at the 2006 Head of the Charles.
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Oct. 22, 2006
Boston, Mass. -
The Husky rowing team opened the 2006-07 season with a pair of impressive finishes at the Head of the Charles this afternoon. The men finished in second place in the Championship Eights, trailing only the U.S. National Team. The women took sixth place, finishing fourth among NCAA teams.
The 2006 Head of the Charles featured 55 events with more than 8,000 athletes competing over the past two days. The three-mile course runs upstream from the Boston University's DeWolf Boathouse to Herter Park on Soldier's Field Road in Brighton.
The Husky men's eight finished the course in 14:21.917, three seconds ahead of third place Yale University. The women's eight posted a time of 16:34.304, just 20 seconds off the pace of the top NCAA finisher, Priceton. The U.S. National Team took first place, finishing the course in 15:36.733.
In three weeks, the Huskies will compete in the Head of the Lake Regatta that runs from Lake Union eastbound into Lake Washington in the final competition of the fall racing season.
Head of the Charles Regatta Results
?Saturday, October 22, 2006
Charles River; Boston, Mass.
Men's Championship Eight (Top 10 Finishers)
Complete Results
1. US Rowing Princeton Training Ctr., 14:09.673
2. Washington, 14:21.917
3. Yale, 14:24.943
4. Pennsylvania Athletic Club, 14:29.750
5. Brown, 14:33.347
6. Wisconsin, 14:34.900
7. Brown Alumni, 14:35.107
8. Oxford Alumni, 14:36.175
9. Cambridge, 14:37.653
10. Princeton, 14:37.916
UW Lineup: cox-Katelin Snyder, stroke-Jesse Johnson, 7-Max Lang, 6-Aljosa Corovic, 5-Rob Gibson, 4-Dave Worley, 3-Derek Devris, 2-Andrew Beaton, bow-Steve Full.
Women's Championship Eight (Top 10 Finishers)
Complete Results
1. US Rowing Princeton Training Ctr., 15:36.733
2. London Training Center, 15:54.637
3. Princeton, 16:13.109
4. Virginia, 16:15.138
5. Yale, 16:20.286
6. Washington, 16:34.304
7. Tennessee, 16:34.498
8. Stanford, 16:35.641
9. Northeastern, 16:36.780
10. Washington State, 16:38.652
UW Lineup: cox-Alysha Koorji, stroke-Andrea Sooter, 7-Cara Troelstra, 6-Kim Armstrong, 5-Ashley Brown, 4-Kim Kennedy, 3-Corianne Bowman, 2-Jamie Unwin, bow-Taryn Langlois.
