In one of the biggest yearly rowing events in the world held right in their backyard, the Boston University men’s and women’s crew teams each had their fair share of positives and negatives coming out of the Head of the Charles Regatta over the weekend.
The men’s and women’s boats finished 10th out of 35 and 14th out of 30 in the championship eights respectively in arguably the weekend’s biggest races.
Overall, there were two first-place and second-place finishes for the Terriers over the two-day event.
BU senior Mike Cataldo and his father, Michael, won the Directors’ Challenge Doubles Parent/Child with a time of 18:59.412, beating out the nearest competitor by 42 seconds.
In the other gold-medal performance, 2005 alum Bjorn Anders Holmberg took home the top prize in the Master Singles race for his club team, Falkenbergs Roddklubb Sweden.
BU coach Thomas Bohrer took home the Terriers’ first silver in the Senior-Master Men Singles race for men aged 40 and over after missing the first-place position by just over four seconds. Team boatman Russ Cone, who raced with Bohrer on the Wide Load Boat Club, finished 12 seconds behind the coach in fourth place.
The club eights first boat captured the Terriers’ other second-place finish with a 15:34.668 finish.
The championship fours boats did not fare nearly as well for BU. On the men’s side, the Cataldo-led boat finished seventh of 15 boats. The women’s boat beat out just three other crews with its 17th-place finish.
Both Terriers squads will be back in competition Sunday as they head down to New Jersey for the Princeton Chase.
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