Ridgewood Crew: Maroons Rack Up Medals at 2024 Stotesbury Cup

RIDGEWOOD, NJ — Finishing up its spring season, Ridgewood Crew showed out at the 2024 Stotesbury Cup, the largest scholastic rowing event in the country, by taking home five medals — two gold and three bronze.

"This team is peaking at the right time, with scholastic and US rowing nationals coming up," said Ridgewood Crew Head Coach Boris Roque-Alvarez. "To earn a medal at Stotes is an incredible achievement. Some of these events featured dozens of entries from some of the top high school rowing teams in the country."

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The sophomore pair of Uhmjoo Han and Matt Moomjy earned Ridgewood's first medal, a bronze, in one of the closest finals of the day, with just 1.05 seconds separating first from third place.

Two events later, the twin sister duo of Anais and Elsa Friedrich won gold in the Girls Lightweight Double race.

Ridgewood took home bronze medals in both the Girls Junior Quad and the Boys Senior Double races, with the quartet of Samantha Ponomarciuc, Ryan Mincey, Thelma Flowers, and Aiofe Ali, along with the duo of Will Carroll and Luciano Saladino all taking third.

Ridgewood’s most dominant high school boat continues to be the Boys Junior Quad, crewed by freshman Tristan Riedel, sophomores Sam Scharfenberg and Will Nasr, and junior Lucas Evers. This group, which won its time trial, semi-final, and final races at the Garden State Regatta, repeated the victorious hat trick this past weekend at Stotes in an event that included 30 different boats at the outset. In Saturday’s final, Ridgewood ultimately cruised to gold, winning by a margin of more than four seconds.

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