College Boat Club

College Boat Club
Location#11 Boathouse Row, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Home waterSchuylkill River
Established1872
Navy admission1875
Former namesCollege Barge Club
Key people
  • Al Monte (Hwt Men's Coach)
  • Colin Farrell (Lwt Men's Coach)
  • Bill Manning (Women's Coach)
  • Alanna Shanahan[1] (Athletics Director)
NicknameQuakers, Men of Penn
UniversityUniversity of Pennsylvania
ConferenceEastern Association of Rowing Colleges
Ivy League
AssociationNCAA Division I (Women only)
ColorsRed and Blue
   
Websitepennathletics.com
College Boat Club
College Boat Club is located in Pennsylvania
College Boat Club
College Boat Club is located in the United States
College Boat Club
LocationPhiladelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Coordinates39°58′10″N 75°11′09″W / 39.96948°N 75.18590°W / 39.96948; -75.18590
Part ofBoathouse Row (ID87000821[2])
Added to NRHPFebruary 27, 1987

The College Boat Club of the University of Pennsylvania is the rowing program for University of Pennsylvania Rowing, which is located in the Burk-Bergman Boathouse at #11 Boathouse Row on the historic Boathouse Row of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Its membership consists entirely of past and present rowers of the University of Pennsylvania.[3]

It hosts both heavyweight and lightweight varsity men's teams and an openweight varsity women's team. The Wharton Crew Team, however, rows out of Fairmount Rowing Association (FRA). College Boat Club was founded in 1872 by the school's students, shortly after the school's campus was relocated from Center City to West Philadelphia.[4] College Boat Club was admitted to the Schuylkill Navy in 1875.[5]

  1. ^ "Alanna Shanahan is returning to Penn as athletic director".
  2. ^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. January 23, 2007.
  3. ^ "Thomas Eakins Head of the Schuylkill Regatta 2009 Program" (PDF). p. 19.[dead link]
  4. ^ "Penn Crew in the 1800s". Archives.upenn.edu. Archived from the original on June 13, 2010. Retrieved October 27, 2010.
  5. ^ Janssen's A History of American Amateur Athletics and Aquatics (1888) p. 211. May 5, 2005. Retrieved October 27, 2010.