Redwood Scullers to host Head of the Lagoon
Redwood Scullers will take advantage of the temperate fall California weather to host Head of the Lagoon. The two-day regatta on Saturday and Sunday, November 9-10, 2024, draws a significant fleet of small boats to the San Francisco Bay Peninsula.
“Saturday is all about masters and juniors singles,” noted race director Monica Hilcu. “We have around 205 entries on Saturday and 83 of those are all junior singles from under 19 singles down to under 15 singles. There are a couple of middle schoolers in there that will be doing their first 5K. It’s great that we have so many junior singles entries—it will be fun to watch all of them. It’s supposed to be beautiful weather here in California.”
This year marks the 27th year of the event that draws masters, colleges, and juniors and has been credited by referees for best practices. The extremely curved course offers an advantage to those who add steering to their race plans. Shaped like the number two, the race path traverses under three bridges along the boardwalk at Central Lake.
“We’re excited to watch our youngsters row,” said Hilcu, who in addition to being race director is the head coach of Redwood Scullers. “We’ve got some strong under 17 men and women on both sides and then our under 19 kids have been training in singles since August. There’s going to be a rematch on the men’s and women’s side with the under 19 quads between Redwood Scullers and Los Gatos Rowing Club. River City Rowing Club is going to be in there too. It’s going to be some good racing in the quads as well as the doubles.”
Several clubs will be returning in an attempt to defend last year’s victories as well as vie with old rivalries. In addition, several new faces will join the excitement in 2024.
“Los Gatos is a bigger club and they’ve done really well on the nOkational stage,” said Hilcu. “We’ll have some smaller clubs that will really start popping up on the medal stand like River City Rowing Club and North Bay Rowing Club. We’ve got a couple of teams coming down from Seattle, Washington.”
Race day information and results can be found at RegattaCentral.
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