Members of the Brunswick School crew team produced a historic performance at the recent 2024 Head of the Charles Regatta.

Brunswick won its event – the Men’s Youth Fours race – at the 2024 Head of the Charles Regatta for the first time in school history.

The Bruins’ young crew of stroke junior George Kapp, sophomore Phil Martone, junior Quinn Evans, bow Rhodes Pollack, a sophomore and coxswain James Koester, a sophomore, started in Bow #2 (again) this year after Brunswick crews had taken second place the past two years. The Bruins were able to pass last year’s winners from California in the first mile of the race along Magazine Beach. Koester, in his debut on the Charles River, moved into clear water and steered a tight line all the way home over the famed three-mile course. Thousands of spectators lined the banks of the river on a beautiful fall weekend in Boston at what is the largest three-day regatta in the world.

The Bruins have now been the top scholastic program in their event four years in a row, but this was the first time that the school has cracked into the winner’s circle at the regatta. In fact, the historical records show this year seems to be the first time that an American school has won the Men’s Youth Fours at the Head of the Charles Regatta since 1979. Kapp, Martone, Evans, Pollack and Koester posted a championship time of 16:43.779

Greenwich Crew placed fourth in the Men’s Youth Fours at the Head of the Charles Regatta, which took place in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The Men’s Youth Fours included 90 teams. Henry Cullen, James Markline, Peter Murphey, Sam Wells and Maria Helena Napolitano finished with a fourth-place time of 16:53.037 for Greenwich Crew.