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. Comprised of seven boats, the team is home to novice and experienced rowers. The goal of Taft girls’ crew is to create a supportive environment where coaches and teammates push each other toward competitive success as individuals, as a boat, and as a team.

Many of our athletes begin their rowing experience at Taft. For that reason, we place special emphasis on our novice program where we focus on developing the good technique, physical strength, and self-discipline that the sport demands. The challenge is then to develop novice rowers into competitive varsity athletes in a short period of time. Most of our most successful varsity rowers started as novices at Taft.

For all boats, the racing season is geared toward the New England Interscholastic Rowing Championship Regatta (NEIRA). Since joining the league in 2001, Taft girls’ crew has seen increasing success and maintains a rigorous schedule against some of the strongest fours programs in New England.

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

Alumni Athletes

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)

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