Men’s Rowing Begins Fall Season With Multiple Medals at First Coast Head Race

10/11/2025 6:44:00 PM | By: Kyrin Mayfield | @k_mayfield97

Results
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. - Embry-Riddle Men's Rowing's first-ever appearance at the First Coast Head Race was a successful one as the Eagles grabbed three gold medals on top of one bronze. ERAU was victorious in the second and third varsity eight races as well as in freshman/novice fours. The Eagles brought nearly their entire team as 34 of the 37 rowers on the roster competed.

Embry-Riddle earned 91 points to place third in the team standings behind the Orlando Area Rowing Society (174) and Space Coast Crew (96) but ahead of Jacksonville (62) and Florida Tech (50).

THE WATER

Course: Arlington River
Length: 3 miles or 4,800m

THE BOATS

V8+ | Couper Carpenter/Connor Goepfert/James Zbitnoff/Aidan Powers/Sam Clode/Igor Martinovic/Roman Linkugel/Maximus Weitekamper/Connor Matthews (Cox)
2V8+ | Sebastian Sanchez/Kemal Cengiz/Kian McLaughlin/Sawyer Dalton/Jose Manuel Lopez Martin/Noah Koors/Parker Mehlhorn/Michael Chemi/Aaron Kustin-Salee (Cox)
3V8+ | Quinn Calzada/Ian Ranker/Dan Ronen/Luca Awad/Keegan McHugh/Griffin King/Griffin McElmurray/Val Hudson/Sam Prelewicz (Cox)
V4+ (A) | Zbitnoff/Powers/Clode/Goepfert/Chase Kinniry (Cox)
V4+ (B) | Sanchez/Cengiz/Dalton/Chemi/Prelewicz (Cox)
V4+ (C) | Linkugel/Martinovic/Calzada/Weitekamper/Kustin-Salee (Cox)
V4+ (D) | Ronen/Ranker/King/Hudson/Tyler Chong (Cox)
V4+ (E) | Carpenter/Mehlhorn/McHugh/Koors/Matthews (Cox)
F/N4+ | Collin Massey/Connor Westlake/Remy Blunier/Jonmikel Incavido/Collin Chong (Cox)

THE RESULTS

V8+ | 3rd of 4 - 8:23.69
2V8+ | 1st of 3 - 8:35.29
3V8+ | 1st of 2 - 8:42.15
V4+ (A) | 7th of 11 - 9:19.17
V4+ (B) | 5th of 11 - 9:17.41
V4+ (C) | 11th of 11 - 9:40.18
V4+ (D) | 10th of 11 - 9:37.48
V4+ (E) | 6th of 11 - 9:19.09
F/N4+ | 1st of 2 - 9:53.21

UP NEXT
The fall slate concludes as the Eagles host the Florida Fall Invite on Nov. 8 on the Halifax River.

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