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Spracklen Announces 2025 Fall Rowing Slate
9/25/2025 1:14:00 PM | Rowing
DURHAM, N.C. – Duke rowing head coach Adrian Spracklen has announced the team's fall schedule for the 2025-26 campaign. The Blue Devils are set to compete in three regattas in October and November.
The fall season begins Sunday, Oct. 5 in High Point, N.C., as Duke competes in the annual High Point Rowing Festival, hosted by Triad United Rowing Association. The Blue Devils will go head-to-head with crews from Edinburgh University Boat Club, University of Oxford and High Point as they look to capture the 2025 Dr. Lenny Peters Cup on Oak Hollow Lake.
The team then travels to Cambridge, Mass., to race against crews from around the world in the 60th Head of the Charles Regatta Oct. 17-19. Duke will race three boats, Women's Championship 4+, Women's Championship 8+ and Women's Alumnae 8+, along the historic three-mile course. In their last appearance in 2023, the Blue Devils' Club 4+ crew of coxswain Mia Khamish, Florine Lijesen, Vivienne Foley, Mikaela Voinov and Eliza Straayer highlighted the weekend with a first-place finish against a highly competitive field of 52 entries. The Club 4+ captured the Marcia Hooper Trophy and set a new course record in the women's division with a time of 17:46.122, over 15 seconds ahead of the second-place crew from Radcliffe.
The Blue Devils wrap up the fall slate with a scrimmage against North Carolina Nov. 1.
The spring schedule for Duke will be announced at a later date.
Spracklen enters his second season with the Blue Devils after being named the program's third head coach on July 12, 2024. He came to Durham after a 32-year stint as the director of rowing at Mercyhurst University. In his first year with the program, Spracklen led the Blue Devils to a second-place finish at the annual Lake Wheeler Invitational and fifth-place finish at ACC Championships, advancing four of five boats to grand final races. The Blue Devils' Varsity Four and Second Varsity Four earned ACC Crew of the Week honors for their strong performances in the Rocky Top Invitational and Big Ten Invite, respectively.
To stay up to date with Blue Devils rowing, follow the team on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook by searching "DukeROW".
#GoDuke
The fall season begins Sunday, Oct. 5 in High Point, N.C., as Duke competes in the annual High Point Rowing Festival, hosted by Triad United Rowing Association. The Blue Devils will go head-to-head with crews from Edinburgh University Boat Club, University of Oxford and High Point as they look to capture the 2025 Dr. Lenny Peters Cup on Oak Hollow Lake.
The team then travels to Cambridge, Mass., to race against crews from around the world in the 60th Head of the Charles Regatta Oct. 17-19. Duke will race three boats, Women's Championship 4+, Women's Championship 8+ and Women's Alumnae 8+, along the historic three-mile course. In their last appearance in 2023, the Blue Devils' Club 4+ crew of coxswain Mia Khamish, Florine Lijesen, Vivienne Foley, Mikaela Voinov and Eliza Straayer highlighted the weekend with a first-place finish against a highly competitive field of 52 entries. The Club 4+ captured the Marcia Hooper Trophy and set a new course record in the women's division with a time of 17:46.122, over 15 seconds ahead of the second-place crew from Radcliffe.
The Blue Devils wrap up the fall slate with a scrimmage against North Carolina Nov. 1.
The spring schedule for Duke will be announced at a later date.
Spracklen enters his second season with the Blue Devils after being named the program's third head coach on July 12, 2024. He came to Durham after a 32-year stint as the director of rowing at Mercyhurst University. In his first year with the program, Spracklen led the Blue Devils to a second-place finish at the annual Lake Wheeler Invitational and fifth-place finish at ACC Championships, advancing four of five boats to grand final races. The Blue Devils' Varsity Four and Second Varsity Four earned ACC Crew of the Week honors for their strong performances in the Rocky Top Invitational and Big Ten Invite, respectively.
To stay up to date with Blue Devils rowing, follow the team on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook by searching "DukeROW".
#GoDuke
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