SEPTEMBER 19, 2025
ALL PARENTS AND CAREGIVERS
Parents and caregivers, please join us for our fall-season potluck, being held at the Brookline Teen Center. Re-connect with returning families, welcome new ones, and hear from coaches and FOBR leadership about the upcoming year in rowing. Please note that this event is for parents and caregivers only.
The event runs 7:30 - 9:00 PM at the Brookline Teen Center (40 Aspinwall Ave).
Please sign up here to contribute food items for the potluck.
SEPTEMBER 21, 2025
ALL ATHLETES
This is one of our largest fundraisers of the year, and is crucial to the program. During the Stuff-a-thon, rowers personalize letters soliciting donations and pledges from friends and family. All BHS rowers must attend, and bring at least 10 names and addresses to personalize letters. Enjoy an evening of pizza, letter-writing, and hanging with your teammates. Coaches and volunteers will be there to help with the letter-writing.
The event starts at 6:00 PM at the Brookline Teen Center (40 Aspinwall Ave).
OCTOBER 5, 2025
VARSITY ONLY
This is a 4500-meter head race on the Merrimack River in Lowell. The Brookline food tent will be about half a mile down the road from the boathouse. You can find directions, general information, and a course map at the Textile Regatta website.
Location: the at the UMass Lowell boathouse -- here's an area map, Google Maps link, and more.
Please sign up to contribute or help out at the food tent!
SEPTEMBER 7, SEPTEMBER 21 OCTOBER 11, 2025
SELECT VARSITY ONLY
Potential Head of the Charles teams will participate in this informal series of rowing races. Hosted by the Riverside Boat Club since 2000, its founder, Kevin McDonnell, describes it as follows: "It's not a regatta, it's a practice."
Location: select varsity athletes report to the boathouse.
OCTOBER 12, 2025
SELECT VARSITY ONLY
The "Head of the Q" is a 3000-meter head race on the Charles River, strictly for junior singles. It runs from the Eliot Bridge upstream to the North Beacon Street Bridge.
Fun fact for today's regatta: Quinobequin is the name of what we call the Charles River, in ... what language? Well, that language would be Massachusett.
Location: select varsity athletes report to the boathouse. Good race viewing all along the river, especially at the North Beacon Street Bridge.
OCTOBER 19, 2025
SELECT VARSITY ONLY
The Head of the Charles Regatta, also known as HOCR, is a rowing head race held on the second-to-last full weekend of October each year on the Charles River. It is the largest 3-day regatta with 11,000 athletes in over 2,500 boats racing in 73 events.
Location: select varsity athletes report to the boathouse. There's good race viewing all along the course, and some prime spots are the Weeks Footbridge, along Memorial Drive near Harvard Square, and the Eliot Bridge. See also the HOCR website.
OCTOBER 26, 2025
ALL ATHLETES
The Massachusetts Public Schools Rowing Association holds a semi-annual championship regatta, and Friends of Brookline Rowing will be participating fully in the Fall Championships. Varsity and Novice crews will race. This is an all-day event as our rowers will be heading up early in the morning, unloading and rigging their boats, racing in various events, and then de-rigging the boats and re-loading the trailer.
Location: the at the UMass Lowell boathouse -- here's an area map, Google Maps link, and more.
Please sign up to contribute or help out at the food tent!
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