CENTERVILLE, Mass.—The Harvard
heavyweight and lightweight crews swept all four postseason awards
for the 2011 Eastern Association of Rowing Colleges season, Eastern
College Athletic Conference commissioner Rudy Keeling and ECAC
director of rowing Gary Caldwell announced Tuesday.
In balloting by his peers, Harry Parker, The Thomas Bolles Head
Coach for Harvard Men's Crew, was voted the EARC Heavyweight Coach
of the Year while the Crimson easily outdistanced Wisconsin, 9-1,
for selection as the EARC Heavyweight Crew of the Year.
In his 49th season, Parker led Harvard to perfect dual seasons
and victories in the top three races at the EARC Sprints as well as
a victory in the Rowe Cup team competition. The Rowe Cup win was
the Crimson's seventh in 10 years and 31st overall. It was only the
ninth top-three heavyweight sweep by any school in the 65-year
history of the Sprints. It was Harvard's 27th varsity Eastern
Sprints title in school history.
The Harvard varsity eight posted a 7-0 dual season, its second
straight Sprints title and a runner-up finish at the
Intercollegiate Rowing Association National Championships. It
was the second year in a row that the heavyweight varsity eight was
named the EARC's top boat. The members of the Sprints-winning
Harvard heavyweight varsity eight were coxswain Chris Kingston and
oarsmen Patrick Lapage, Jason Phillips, Nick Jordan, Matthew
Edstein, Anthony Locke, Michael DiSanto, Josh Hicks and James
O'Connor.
On the lightweight side, Harvard coach Charley Butt edged Dan
Roock of Dartmouth and Yale's Andy Card for the honor of EARC
Lightweight Coach of the Year. Butt received three votes followed
by Roock and Card with two and one, respectively.
In his 26th season, Butt directed the Crimson to its 25th EARC
varsity and 27th second varsity crowns, both for the first time
since 2005. Harvard also took home the Jope Cup team title for the
second time in three years, fourth in eight and 21st overall.
Harvard's lightweight varsity eight, the EARC Lightweight
Crew of the Year, entered the 2011 EARC Sprints with a perfect
record for the season straight season and went on to rally to an
Eastern title and place second at the IRA National
Championships. The members of the Crimson lightweight varsity eight
were coxswain Angela Chang, Matt O'Leary, Austin Meyer, Will
Newell, Erich Schultze, Tim Moore, Andrew Trott, Jared Dourdevelle
and Tom Nesel.
2011 EARC Postseason Awards
Heavyweight Crew of the Year
Harvard varsity eight
Lightweight Crew of the Year
Harvard varsity eight
Heavyweight Coach of the Year
Harry Parker, Harvard
Lightweight Coach of the Year
Charley Butt, Harvard
