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Spectators follow a dress code, which includes wearing \u201cHenley jackets\u201d and sun hats, which creates a formal atmosphere unlike any rowing event. The Raiders donned special fitted blazers with their initials embroidered on the pocket<\/p>\n
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Don Ferencz \u201974 wore a kilt as he greeted the team with bagpipes on Henley Bridge when they headed toward time trials on their first day; he\u2019d done the same for Colgate\u2019s team in 2000.<\/p>\n
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The Raiders had two boats compete in the Friday time trial: the First Varsity Eight, coxed by Kat Metcalf \u201926, and the Second Varsity Eight, coxed by Victoria Reale \u201928. The 1V8+ advanced to Saturday\u2019s race against Glasgow University. Colgate was one of 16 boats to advance to Saturday\u2019s race. The 1V8+ was also one of four American crews to advance to the next round.<\/p>\n
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The 2V8+ concluded its season at the time trials, finishing approximately 2 seconds behind Sheffield University Rowing Club and Liverpool University Boat Club. <\/p>\n
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<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Saturday, in a closely contested race, Glasgow narrowly edged the 1V8+ in the final stretch and advanced, concluding Colgate\u2019s 2025\u201326 season. Despite the conclusion of the Raiders\u2019 season, the 1V8+ finished among the top 16 boats at the regatta.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n \u201c[It was an] amazing effort from both boats,\u201d Lister says. \u201cWe are very proud of the commitment from the rowers to challenge themselves in a time trial format and for the coxswains to steer an excellent course along the wooden booms with their blades feet away.\u201d<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n The team balanced its hard work with some time off to sightsee, including a day off to visit London and other places around the region. They toured the grounds and museum at Wimbledon, and had lunch at the home of co-captain Marie Clausen \u201926, who hails from London.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n \u201cAs our time in Henley came to an end, we reflected on how special the experience had been and how grateful we are for the opportunity to compete at such a historic event and share it with teammates, coaches, and especially our graduating seniors,\u201d Sarah Slember \u201926 reflected on the blog. \u201cAlthough our time in Henley is ending, the memories and friendships made here will stay with us, and we head home carrying both the experience of racing and the people who made it unforgettable.\u201d<\/p>\n <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Women\u2019s rowing traveled to England in June to compete in the Reading Amateur Regatta and the Women\u2019s Henley.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1283,"featured_media":28188,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[4242,4236,4246,4240,522,4243,4237,4238,4241,374,4239,4244],"coauthors":[135],"class_list":["post-27006","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-scene","tag-amateur","tag-crew","tag-glasgow","tag-henley","tag-racing","tag-raiders","tag-regatta","tag-river","tag-river-thames","tag-rowing","tag-thames","tag-wimbledon"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/palXSH-71A","amp_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/news.colgate.edu\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2026\/08\/IMG_5340_v2.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.colgate.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27006","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.colgate.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.colgate.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.colgate.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1283"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.colgate.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27006"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/news.colgate.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27006\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27244,"href":"https:\/\/news.colgate.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27006\/revisions\/27244"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.colgate.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.colgate.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.colgate.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.colgate.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27006"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.colgate.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=27006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/news.colgate.edu\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2026\/08\/don_small.jpg\")