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UPCOMING EVENTS!

August 16th

Prospect Student Athletes

North East Collegiate Rowing Recruiting Expo

Poughkeepsie, NY

Marist Waterfront

ALL Prospective Student Atheltes are Welcome to attend and meet with coaches from Marist and other programs around the nation

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October 4th

Men’s Crew

Scrimmage @ Williams

Pittsfield, MA

Williams College Boat House

SPECTATORS WELCOME

October 18th

RED FOX NAVY ALUMNI

Head of the Charles Regatta

Boston MA

Former Marist Oarsmen and Women Racing in Alumni and Masters Rowing Events at the Worlds Largest Rowing Regatta!

All Spectators Welcomed and Encouraged

Contact the Coaches to Get involved in the rowing!

September 22nd

Men’s and Women’s Crew

AND ALUMNI

3rd Annual Coach Bill Austin Memorial Golf Tournament

Poughkeepsie NY

McCann Memorial Golf Course

All Participants Welcome!

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October 25th

Men’s and Women’s Crews

Head of the Schuylkill Regatta

Philadelphia PA

Schuylkill River Trail

Racing in a Wide Variety of Events throughout Saturday

SPECTATORS WELCOME!!!

October 5th

Women’s Crew

Riverfront Regatta

Hartford CT

Riverfront Recapture Community Boathouse

SPECTATORS WELCOME!!!

November 2nd

Men’s Crew

Princeton 3-Mile Chase

Princeton NJ

Princeton Shea Rowing Center

Eights and Fours

SPECTATORS WELCOME!!!

September 20th

Men’s and Women’s Crew

AND ALUMNI

Marist Rowing Alumni Day

Poughkeepsie, NY

Marist Waterfront

ALL Alumni, Family, Friends, and Current Oarsmen and Women and their families are Welcome!

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November 1st

Women’s Crew

Heart of the Housatonic Regatta

Shelton CT

Sacred Heart University Boathouse

Racing in a Variety of Events and Crews

SPECTATORS WELCOME!!!

October 18th

Women’s Crew

Head of the Charles Regatta

Boston MA

Christian A Herter Park

Racing in the Club Eight and Club Fours Events

SPECTATORS WELCOME!!!

October 19th

Men’s Crew

Head of the Charles Regatta

Boston MA

Christian A Herter Park

Racing in the Collegiate Eight and Collegiate Fours Events

SPECTATORS WELCOME!!!

March 25th

Men’s and Women’s Crews

AND ALUMNI

Marist Giving Day

MARK YOUR CALENDARS!!!

Join the Red Fox Navy

If you are a Marist Rowing alum, family member or friends of the program, we invite you to join us in supporting the Red Fox Navy! Navy Members are making powerful and meaningful contributions to the competitive outcomes and experiences of Marist Rowers every season!

WHY ROW?

For a crewman, there is no reason to row. He may approach the sport to test his strength, for he has heard it requires power. He may seek in it a place to belong, noticing the natural camaraderie which is common to oarsmen. He may endeavor to unlock the secret of its beauty, seeing the rhythm and synchronization of an “eight”. But once he is a part of that unique fraternity of athletes, he no longer wonders what, why or how. He simply knows without explanation.

Yet we could say that it is the realization of the existence of these attributes, without flaunting them, that causes a man to sacrifice himself for crew. He feels power in the flex of the oars, hears it in the unified snap-click of the oarlocks. He trusts every man in the boat to do his best, fully aware that they are depending on him for an equal output. An “oar” does not seek glory, for he is but one of nine working to perhaps grab fleeting fame as a unit.

The strange grace and beauty which belongs to the sport is more of a feeling than a sight. Who but an oarsman can comprehend all the literal blood, sweat and tears that culminate in an eight going all out with a precision, finesse, and smoothness unusual to an individual - fantastic in a nine-part unit? Who but an oarsman could know what self-denial had to be practiced having that bow surge so cleanly, so powerfully over the water? Spectators watch, sigh and exclaim, applaud, and cheer, but they just do not know, they cannot know what their brief plaudits are for.

With all the anonymity, with all the sacrifice, with all the laborious tedium involved: why does a man row?

Because he HAS rowed.

                                                                              

Stanley “Stosh” Becchetti ‘66

Captain - Marist Varsity Crew

    1965-66 Season

*as published in the President’s Cup Regatta program April 30th, 1966