Bucknell Men’s Crew closed out its Fall Season with the Nittany Lion Chase this past weekend, hosted by Penn State Crew on Foster Joseph Sayers Lake, in Bald Eagle State Park. New to the calendar last year, this race was a 2000m sprint race between Bucknell, Penn State, La Salle and Susquehanna Universities. This is…
Bucknell Men’s Crew traveled to New Brunswick, NJ this weekend to compete in the Rutgers Fall Classic against Rutgers and Navy’s Lightweights and Heavyweights. As a somewhat unique event, every team is to boat their top two crews as “even” lineups with the winning team determined by the combined time of each boat. Novices race…
The Bison Men and Women joined many other crews in the Nation, and World, in the annual migration to Boston, MA for the 54th Head of the Charles; the largest race that all crews find themselves competing in, from Juniors to Olympians, Parents to Coaches. After last year’s record setting weather conditions, this year proved…
Bucknell Men’s Crew opened their fall season with a home race against Penn State on the Susquehanna River. Originally, the Bison (both Men and Women) were to open the season by hosting Army and Drexel during the 35th Anniversary weekend but the Susquehanna River levels were on the rise and were creating unsafe racing conditions,…
The Bucknell Men’s and Women’s teams celebrated the 35th Anniversary of Rowing at Bucknell from September 28-30th in Lewisburg. Events were attended by current student-athletes as well as over 100 alumni from the last 35 years. Senior John Leasure, a member of the varsity 8, began racing with the team in 2015 and raced in the varsity…
