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Penn Quakers
Logo
UniversityUniversity of Pennsylvania
ConferenceEastern Association of Rowing Colleges
Ivy League
NCAADivision I
Athletic directorSteve Bilsky
LocationPhiladelphia, Pennsylvania
NicknameQuakers, Men of Penn
ColorsGules and Azure
   
Websitewww.pennathletics.com/SportSelect.dbml?DB_OEM_ID=1700&KEY=&SPID=610&SPSID=10661

The rowing program at the University of Pennsylvania currently hosts both heavyweight and lightweight men's teams and an openweight women's team. The teams row out of College Boat Club, #11 Boathouse Row.

History

File:1955 Penn 8.jpg
1955 Penn Men's Hwt 8
File:1955 Penn 8 Fall Practice.jpg
Penn Men's Hwt 8 on the water in the fall of 1954
File:1998 Sprints Penn.jpg
1998 Eastern Sprints Champions

University Barge Club

File:Boathouse Row Overhead.jpg
Portion of historic Boathouse Row including Penn's boathouse (with green dock)

The history of rowing at the University of Pennsylvania begin in 1854 with the foundation of the University Barge Club.

1955 Crew

The 1955 Men's Heavyweight 8 is legendary. As Peter Mallory wrote in Evolution of the Rowing Stroke:

"Everywhere they competed, particularly in Germany, they were referred to as the world's fastest crew, and hence became models for local oarsmen."

To European observers, Penn seemed to defy the laws of physics that applied to all other crews. In their Henley semifinal, they had beaten Britain's best, Thames Rowing Club by a half-length of open water at a rating The Times of London termed "a majestic thirty."

The strength and speed of the Penn pullthrough, the endless run on the impossibly long recovery, seemed as unattainable in its own way as Joe Burk's sculling technique had seemed to them seventeen years earlier.

At their regatta in Hamburg, when Penn made its first impression on the German rowing community, "one of the most interested spectators was Dr. Karl Adam of Ratzeburger Ruderklub. He was already working out a new international technique, initially under the influence of Steve Fairbairn.

Mendenhall: "Eight years later, Adam confessed to Joe Burk that he had returned home from Hamburg very depressed and wondering whether they could ever beat the invincible Americans."





Coaching Staff

Penn has enjoyed the tutelage of many of the best rowing coaches of all time.

Heavyweight Men

  • Nicholas B. Paumgarten Head Coach of Men's Heavyweight Crew: Greg Myhr
  • Assistant and Freshman Coach of Men's Heavyweight Crew: Tom Paradiso

Lightweight Men

  • Head Coach of Men's Lightweight Crew: Nick Baker
  • Assistant and Freshman of Men's Lightweight Crew: John Hayburn

Penn Rowers and Coaches at the Olympics

File:Ted Nash.jpg
Ted Nash, ex-military, 2-time olympian, 9-time Olympic coach
Joe Burk, "world’s greatest oarsman," WWII PT boat commander, really really fast
Rusty Callow, old school
File:John kelly jr.jpg
Jack Kelly Jr., shown here with sisters Elizabeth and Princess Grace, taking care of business at the HRR. This was not his first time.

Joe Burk

Jack Kelly Jr.

Ted Nash

In 2004, former Penn coach Ted Nash became the first person to participate in 10 Olympic games as either an athlete or coach when he was appointed as a coach on the 2004 team in Athens. This is a record for any member of any US Olympic team, regardless of event or sport. During his first games at the 1960 Rome Olympics, Nash was on the gold-medal winning four without coxswain boat. In 2008 he showed no signs of slowing down as made it 11 by returning again to the Olympic stage in Beijing as coach of the heavyweight men's coxless pair.


  • James J. Begg, C’56 1952
  • Joseph Burk, ‘34 1940 (no games - WWII)
  • Thomas W. Butterfoss, EE’72 1972
  • A. Gardner Cadwalader, C’71 1968
  • Russell S. Callow, G’30 1952 (coach)
  • James Catellan, G’74 1976
  • John A. Chatzky, W’78 1980
  • Steven E. Christensen, FAS’79 1976, 1980
  • Eugene H. Clapp III, C’72 1972 (silver medal)
  • Sean P. Colgan, CAS’77 1980
  • W. Richard Crooker, W’72 1968, 1972 (Canada)
  • George L. Dahm Jr., W’40 1936
  • Kenneth Dreyfuss, W’69, GED’77 1976
  • Bruce E. Epke, W’78 1980
  • F. Wood Fisher, W’62 1976 (asst. coach)
  • Jonathan B. Fish, W’84 1988
  • John E. Flobeck, CAS’87 1988
  • John Hartigan, C’63, WG’65 1968, 1976
  • Aaron B. Herman, C’74 1972
  • Janusz Hooker, W’93 1996 (Australia bronze medal)
  • Michael Hughes 1988 (men’s manager)
  • Bruce Ibbetson, G’81 1980
  • Luther H. Jones, W’72 1968, 1972
  • John B. Kelly, Jr., C’50 1948, 1952, 1956, 1960 (bronze medal)
  • Bruce Konopka, W'78 1992 (coach)
  • George G. Loveless, W’32 1936
  • Anthony E. Martin III, EE’70 1968
  • Hugh Matheson, CGS'84 1972, 1976 (England silver medal)
  • Charles J. McIlvaine, CE’57 1952
  • James McMullen, C’59, D’63 1956
  • Garrett Miller, W’99 2000
  • James E. Moroney III, W’75 1972, 1976
  • Ted A. Nash 1960 (gold medal), 1964 (bronze medal), 1968 (advisor), 1972 (asst. coach), 1976 (advisor), 1980 (coach), 1984 (coach), 1988 (coach), 2000 (assistant coach), 2004 (assistant coach), 2008 (coach)
  • Tom Paradiso, C'02 2008
  • Harry Parker, C’57 1960, 1964 (coach), 1972 (coach), 1984 (coach)
  • Lyman S. Perry, AR’68 1960
  • John A. Pescatore, C’86 1988 (bronze medal), 1992, 2000
  • Mike Peterson, C’89 1996
  • Jeff Pfaendtner, SEAS’90 1996 (bronze medal)
  • William K. Purdy, C’68 1968
  • Phillip W. Stekl, C’78 1980, 1984 (silver medal)
  • C. Hugh Stevenson, C’72 1972, 1976
  • George H. Tintor, W,’79 1976 (Canada)
  • Thomas Woodman, G’81 1980
  • James Wynne, C’60 1956