INDIANAPOLIS - The Wisconsin men's rowing program sent eight different boats of underclassman to Indianapolis, Indiana, on Sunday to compete at the Head of the Eagle. The Badgers sent two varsity fours, two freshman/novice eights and four freshman/novice fours.

The team shined in the freshman/novice eight. Boat A came in second place, finishing in 11:04.7, and boat B was not far behind, coming in third.

In the varsity four, the first Badger boat came in seventh place with a time of 12:22.5. The second boat finished in 11th place, completing the race in 13:25.1.

Wisconsin sent four freshman/novices four boats to Indy, and boat A finished in second (12:07.6), B in 6th (12:42.9), C in 13th (14:07.5), and D did not finish. 

Up next: The Badgers get the winter off from racing and are next scheduled to compete on March 25 at Marietta in Ohio.

Straight From the Shore
Assistant Coach Beau Hoopman
"We've gotten in quite a bit of mileage in the last two weeks. However, usually we would have a couple races under our belts by the time this regatta rolls around, and our lack of racing experience showed."

"The ultimate goal of freshman year is to teach them how to be racers; we aren't going to out muscle our competition at the very top.  Sometimes you need to learn the hard lessons early to understand what the point is; how they react in the next 5 months will determine if they will make it as collegiate oarsmen."

Head of the Eagle
Nov. 6, 2022
Indianapolis, Indiana
Eagle Creek Reservoir

Varsity Four
7. Wisconsin A; 11. Wisconsin B
A – Coxswain Henry Benton, Mitchell Lafferty, Henry Voeller, Andrew Sabee, Jaden Halom
B – Coxswain Liam Smith, Victor Bulat, Theo Evans, Cooper Polczinski, Peter Davis.

Freshman/Novice Eight
2. Wisconsin A; 3. Wisconsin B
A - Coxswain Charles Ramquist, Lucas Farmer, Eliot Karger, Blake Whittaker, Lukas Weinhold, Andrew Soman, Elias Strasman, John Savage, Mateo Miller
B - Coxswain Alexander Quinn, Max Gersch, Eric Stuve, Bergen Peters, Max McCartney, Thomas Dupont, Hunter Kokkinen, Alexander Beer, Benjamin Cook

Freshman/Novice Four
2. Wisconsin A; 6. Wisconsin B; 13. Wisconsin C; DNF. Wisconsin D
A - Coxswain Charles Ramquist, Eliot Karger, Lucas Farmer Lukas Weinhold, John Savage.
B - Coxswain Liam Smith, Theo Evans, Blake Whittaker, Elias Strasman, Mateo Miller.
C - Coxswain Alexander Quinn, Andrew Soman, Bergen Peters, Cooper Polczinski, Alexander Beer.
D - Coxswain Henry Benton, Colin Wallrich, Henry Wurdell, Max McCartney, Christian Rhodes