Gillin Boat Club

Gillin Boat Club
Location2200 Kelly Drive, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.
Home waterSchuylkill River
Established2002
Navy admission2004
Membership200[1]
ColorsCrimson   and Gray  . - These are the official hex colors as per the university's graphics guidelines.
Website[1] sjprep.org

Gillin Boat Club is the rowing program for St. Joseph's University Rowing and St. Joseph's Prep Rowing.[2][3] It is situated at the 1,000-meter mark of the Schuylkill River race course in Fairmount Park, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Gillin Boat Club was admitted to the Schuylkill Navy in 2004, by a unanimous vote of the Navy's members.[4]

The club's state-of-the-art boathouse has the capacity for 42 eights, 14 fours (quads), and 14 small boats.[4] It was the first new boathouse built on this stretch of the Schuylkill River in 98 years.[5]

Gillin also hosts the Fairmount Park Commission's Community Rowing Program, which is designed to provide an experience for youth in the city of Philadelphia who have not had the opportunity to experience the sport of rowing.[6]

  1. ^ "Gillin Boat Club". Schuylkill Navy. Retrieved 13 May 2010.
  2. ^ "Brendan F. Quinn, "A New Era of Rowing at St. Joseph's Prep", The Bulletin, May 15, 2009". Archived from the original on 2009-05-21. Retrieved 2010-03-24.
  3. ^ "Thomas Eakins Head of the Schuylkill Regatta 2009 Program" (PDF). Thomas Eakins Head of the Schuylkill Regatta. 2009. p. 20. Retrieved 30 April 2010.[dead link‍]
  4. ^ a b "Rober Gillin, Jr. Boathouse, sjuhawks.com". Archived from the original on 2010-07-16. Retrieved 2010-03-24.
  5. ^ "Dedication of St. Joseph's Boathouse, First New One on the Schuylkill in 98 Years, Set for June 15, thefreelibrary.com". Archived from the original on 2016-01-17. Retrieved 2010-03-24.
  6. ^ "Fairmount Park Rowing Camp 2009 Brochure" (PDF).