Help Michelle Get to Bulgaria -or- Visit Michelle’s USRowing Donations Page West Windsor, NJ — Vesper Boat Club’s Michelle Sechser secured her position on Team USA, for 2018, by winning the USRowing National Team Trials, in the lightweight women’s single sculls. Michelle rowed from behind—until the final 250m—to defeat the […]
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John Hooten, Jr., longtime coach at Vesper Boat Club and a four-time U.S. National Team coach, passed away on March 5th after falling out of his single on Lake Natoma. He was 66. Hooten, a Granite Bay, California-resident, coached at Vesper for many years, helping 32 rowers make the national […]
Vesper Remembers John Hooten
Sarasota, FL— Vesper Boat Club’s Michelle Sechser, paired with Potomac Boat Club rower and Philly native Emily Schmeig, rowed to a bronze medal finish at the 2017 FISA World Rowing Championships, in Sarasota, FL. In the final of the lightweight womens’ double sculls, the USA duo sat back in 5th […]
Vesper’s Michelle Sechser Earns World Championships Bronze Medal
April 25, 2015, Mercer County, New Jersey— At the 2015 USRowing National Selection Regatta I Vesper Boats showed success in first step towards the 2016 Rio Olympics. All seven Vesper boats which raced at the NSR made the A finals. • Men’s Pair: Yohann Rigogne and Tom Peszek finish 2nd […]
Vesper Athletes Successful at National Selection Regatta I
The 2014 World Rowing Championships in Amsterdam, Netherlands will feature a few familiar faces from Vesper Boat Club. This is the largest contingent of rowers to have worn the V on their backs since the mid-80s. They will depart Philadelphia on August 15th to compete in the regatta from August […]