Boston Rowing Federation

Four BRF athletes who we have directly supported competed at the Paris Olympic and Paralympic Games. Clark Dean won a bronze medal with the men’s eight, in a time of 05:25.28, behind Olympic Champions Great Britain and the Netherlands. The USA was in bronze medal position throughout the race, and beat 4th place Germany by […]

Belgrade, Serbia September 10, 2023. The World Championships in a pre-Olympic year have more on the line than just podium places. While no US athlete can directly qualify for the Olympics from the World Championships, they can qualify their respective boat classes, and thus avoid the dreaded Final Olympic Qualification Regatta (FOQR). BRF athletes competed […]

June 12, 2023. After a selection camp in Chula Vista, and training camp on Lago Di Pusiano in Italy, 5 BRF athletes are ready to race at the second World Rowing World Cup in Varese, Italy this weekend. For most of them, this is an opportunity to produce another result in the USRowing selection process, […]

Chula Vista, CA, 4/28/2023 BRF athletes just completed racing at the national selection regatta in Chula Vista, California. A key step in the selection process for the 2023 US National Team, the regatta offered spots in the women’s single (Michelle Sechser) and women’s double (Emily Kallfelz, Molly Reckford, Mary Nabel, Cicely Madden and Maggie Fellows) […]

After a hard week of racing in Racice, Czech Republic, BRF athletes have completed the World Rowing Championships. Molly Reckford (racing with Cambridge BC’s Michele Sechser) finished with a brilliant silver medal in the lightweight women’s double sculls. Reckford and Sechser were among the favorites, after wins in their heat and semifinal, and they lived […]

Mary Jones Nabel has spent a lot of time alone this summer. “I guess I’m just a true single sculler,” she says with a 100-watt smile, “I’ve done a lot of training and coaching myself. Somehow this year has been kinda’ strange in that I haven’t linked up with normal training partners in the spring […]

August 12, 2022. BRF athletes Emily Kallfelz and Maggie Fellows were named to the Women’s Quadrupple Sculls, set to represent the United States at the World Rowing Championships in Racice, Czech Republic. For Fellows, this is her first World Championship Team after earning two medals for the United States at the 2019 Pan American Games […]