Montclair HS Rowing Hosts Overpeck Fall Classic Regatta (PHOTOS)

MONTCLAIR, NJ — The following news release comes courtesy of Friends of Montclair Rowing. Find out how to post announcements or events to your local Patch site.

The Montclair High School Rowing Team is hitting the water strong for the start of the Fall 2023 season. With the largest class of rowers rounding out their middle school and high school teams since their program launch in 2002, the 2023 New Jersey State Rowing Championship Mounties have a very strong roster in place and are well positioned for another record-breaking year.

To kick off the fall 2023 season, Montclair Rowing hosted its 3rd Annual Overpeck Fall Classic on Sunday, October 8th at Overpeck Park in Leonia, New Jersey. As a leading authority in youth rowing and with the support of partner, New York Rowing Association, Head Coach Jeremy Michalitsianos and the Montclair Rowing Team welcomed over 1,000 competitors who traveled from Clubs, Universities, and High Schools throughout the East Coast for an incredible day of competitive fall head racing.

Montclair entered 20 boats, giving all of their athletes, including Middle School and Freshman Novices, the unique opportunity to compete in a full-scale regatta. In Montclair rowing tradition, they dominated the space with 14 out of 20 boats walking away with medals including, 7 Gold, 3 Silver, and 4 Bronze finishes and winning BOTH the men’s and women’s points trophies. Full list of wins are listed below.

The Montclair High School Rowing Team has a long legacy of winning state and national championships and competing internationally – a huge feat for a public high school rowing team which competes in a landscape of prestigious, privately funded prep schools and clubs. The program, which just celebrated its 20-year anniversary last year, is rich in diversity, talent, and spirit and comprised of high achieving student athletes who are consistently recruited and accepted into the most prestigious universities in the country every year.

Last year, the team recruited athletes to MIT, Duke, Northeastern, Villanova, Miami and Syracuse, and this year, they have already confirmed recruits to Cal Berkely, University of Washington, George Washington and Rutgers.

Under the guidance and training of internationally experienced coaching duo, Jeremy Michalitsianos and Lorna Rundle, Montclair Rowing has won countless national championships and is considered one of the most respected scholastic rowing programs in the country. In the 2022-23 season alone, they were Stotesbury Champions, Mid-Atlantic Champions, SRAA Champions, Philadelphia City Champions, Mercer Champions and New Jersey State Champions with boys and girls winning the points trophies. The team is well positioned to continue this winning legacy in 2024.

Given this recent success at Overpeck, Montclair isn’t showing signs of slowing down and has its sights set on the Head of the Charles Regatta in Cambridge, Massachusetts on October 20-22.

To follow their schedule, learn more or sign up for any of their rowing programs, visit www.friendsofmontclairrowing.com today.

Registration is also now open for Montclair Rowing’s winter program, open to all Montclair Public School students interested in being part of our winning program. No experience is required. For questions, please reach out to Coach Lorna Rundle at lornarundle@hotmail.com.

Men’s

• Men’s 1V4+ - 1st place
• Men’s 2V4+ - 1st Place
• Men’s 2V8+ - 2nd Place
• Men’s 2V4+ - 2nd Place
• Men’s 1V8+ - 3rd Place
• Men’s FN8+ - 3rd Place

Women’s

• Women’s 1V8+ - 1st place
• Women’s 2V8+ - 1st place
• Women’s 1V4+(A) - 1st place
• Women’s 1V4+ (B) – 3rd place
• Women’s 2V4+ (A) – 1st place
• Women’s 2v4+ (B) – 2nd place
• Women’s N2x – 1st place
• Women’s Middle School Quad – 3rd place

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