Senior Colleen Gillis Anchors Medal-Winning Rowing Team

West Windsor, NJ – Princeton National Rowing Association’s Mercer Rowing Club (PNRA/Mercer) women’s youth 8 plus coxswain crew won a coveted medal at the Head of the Charles Regatta (HOCR) on Sunday by finishing third out of 85 high school-aged crews in the event.  Known as the biggest regatta on earth, the HOCR attracts 11,000 masters, collegiate, and junior rowers from around the world to compete in a three-mile race.  HOCR is a head race, so boats start sequentially approximately 15 seconds apart and compete against one another and the clock. Crews start the race in the sequence that they finished in the previous year’s regatta.

 

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