Taft’s girls’ crew program was founded in 2001 on Bantam Lake and it has grown to become one of the largest spring teams at Taft, enjoying notable recent successes. During the 2024 season, Taft girls crews won the Founders Day Regatta, the du Pont Cup, and the Alumni Cup. Taft girls placed two crews in the Grand Finals at New Englands and earned a spot at USRowing’s Youth National regatta. In 2025, Taft's first-varsity boat again finished fifth in the Grand Finals at New Englands, once more earning a bid to USRowing’s Youth National regatta.

Many of our most successful varsity rowers start out in our novice program, which emphasizes the good technique, physical strength, and self-discipline that the sport demands. Taft offers an intramural fall rowing program, providing experienced rowers an opportunity to hone their skills while also giving new rowers a chance to learn the sport. Our annual spring-training trip to Florida, in March, offers another ideal opportunity for novices to learn to row, and an ideal opportunity for experienced rowers to prepare for the season ahead.

Taft maintains a rigorous schedule with weekly races against some of the strongest fours programs in New England. The racing season begins in mid-April and concludes with the New England Interscholastic Rowing Championship Regatta (NEIRA) at the end of May.

Many graduates of Taft crew have gone on to row in college at both the Division I and Division III levels. Taft rowers have joined crews at schools such as Dartmouth, UPenn, Clemson, Cornell, Bates, Williams, George Washington, Georgetown, Holy Cross, Amherst, Stanford, Boston College, and Brown.

Alumni Athletes

2024 - Sydney Grogean (Dartmouth College); Sabrina Moffa (University of Pennsylvania)

2022 - Annabelle Williams (Notre Dame)

2021 - Posey Durling (Brown)

2020 - Logan Clew-Bachrach (Oxford University); Erin Farrell (Georgetown); Elly McKay (Stanford)

2019 - Hayley Jubitz (Georgetown); Maggie O’Leary (Holy Cross); Lauren Pelosi (Amherst)

2018 - Emma LaRose (George Washington)

2017 - Sophie Kamhi (Dartmouth College and Oxford University)

2015 - Becky Frank (Cornell)

2014 - Rita Catherine O'Shea (Clemson University); Amelia Wilhelm (Bates College)

2012 - Anne Tewksbury (Williams); Alanna Fogarty (University of Ottowa); Hanna Dethlefs (UPenn)

Email Head Coach Tessie Salatas

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