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2024-25 Men's Heavyweight Rowing Roster

Fergus Ritchie

  • Class Senior
  • Hometown Hasting, New Zealand
  • High School Lindisfarne College

Biography

Senior 2024-25

Club A Eight at Head of the Charles (Oct. 19)....Three seat of the Varsity Four at Eastern Sprints, 2nd (May 18).

Junior • 2023-24

Two seat in the 2V at the Sunshine State Invitational (Mar. 29-30)...Raced in the two seat of the 2V in the Robinson Cup win vs. Cornell (Apr. 6)...Raced in the two seat of the 2V in the Compton Cup vs. Princeton (Apr. 20)...Two seat of the 2V at the Smith Cup win vs. Northeastern (Apr. 24)...Raced in two seat in the 2V win at the Adams Cup vs. Navy/Penn (Apr. 27)...Sat in the two seat of the 2V at Eastern Sprints, placed second overall (May 19)...Raced in the two seat of the 2V at IRA Championships (May 31-June 2)...Two seat of the 2V in the Harvard-Yale Regatta (June 7)


Sophomore • 2022-23

Sat in the two seat in the Club 8 A race at the Head of the Charles Regatta ... Rowed in the two seat for the team's C-entry at the Foot of the Charles ... Sat in the eight seat for the 4V8 victory over Cornell at the Robinson Cup ... Rowed in the eight seat for the 3V8, which took down Brown and Boston University at the Stein Cup ... Sat in the eight seat in the 3V8's win over Princeton at the Compton Cup ... Rowed from the eight seat in the 3V8 boat that beat Navy and Penn at the Adams Cup ... Part of the 3V8 boat (six seat) that defeated Northeastern at the Smith Cup ... Stroked the 3V8 at Eastern Sprints ... Sat in the two seat for a 3V8 boat that took second at the IRA National Championship ... Competed in the two seat for a 3V8 boat that beat Yale at the Harvard-Yale Regatta.

First-Year • 2021-22

Rowed in the second seat for the 4V boat against Cornell … Helped the boat record a 30.0 second victory over the Big Red’s 4V crew with a time of 6:30.8 in the team’s first Spring race in three years … Rowed in the second seat on the 4V boat in the dual against Brown … Helped guide the crew to a 21.3-second victory in the race with a time of 7:23.2 … Sat in the second seat on the 4V crew in the dual against Princeton on the Charles River … Helped the boat win its race by more than 18 seconds while posting a time of 6:48.1 … Rowed in the second seat on the 4V boat in the regatta with Penn and Navy on the Charles River … Helped his crew post a 13.9 second win in the race with a time of 6:01.5 … Sat seat six on the 3V boat in the dual race again Northeastern on the Charles … Helped the boat post a 14-second win in the race with a time of 5:57.8 … Sat seat six on the Crimson 4V boat at the Eastern Sprints Regatta … Helped the boat claim first-place in the grand final by posting a time of 5:59.637 … Finished in second place at the IRA National Championships with the 3V crew in the boat’s six seat … Rowed in the sixth seat on the 3V boat in the two-mile race against Yale on the Thames River.

Before Harvard

Letterwinner in rugby, 2010-16, ski racing, 2010-17 and rowing 2014-18 … Team captain of rowing 2017-18 … 2015 NZ National Rowing Championships - 1st Men’s Novice 8+, 2nd Men’s Novice 4+ … 2017 NZ Secondary Schools Rowing Champs (Maadi cup) 3rd  Boys U17 1x … 2017 NZ National Rowing Champs - 1st Men’s Senior 8+, 2nd Men’s Club 8+ … 2018 NZ Secondary School Championships - 2nd Boys U18 1x … 2019 North Island Championships - 1st Men’s U20 1x … 2020 North Island Championships - 2nd Men’s Senior 1x … School Academic Tie and Colors … John Jackson (Uncle) - Played rugby at Cambridge University … Rachel Ritchie (Mother) - track athlete.

Historical Player Information

  • 2021-22First-Year

  • 2022-23Sophomore

  • 2023-24Junior

  • 2024-25Senior