Penn Athletic Club Rowing Association

Penn Athletic Club Rowing Association (commonly known as Penn AC) is an amateur rowing club located at #12 Boathouse Row in the historic Boathouse Row of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Penn AC was founded in 1871 as the West Philadelphia Boat Club.^[1] Penn AC has been a destination for elite rowers looking to make the US National Team, ever since John B. Kelly, Sr. joined Penn AC after a schism with his former club, Vesper.^[2][3]

Prominent members

• Ted Nash, 2008 US Olympic Team Coaching Staff^[4]
• Matt Schnobrich, 2008 US Olympic Team (Bow in Men’s Eight) and 2007 US National Team member (Men’s Four)^[4][5]
• Micah Boyd, 2008 US Olympic Team member (4 Seat in Men’s Eight)^[4]
• Renee Hykel, 2008 US Olympic Team member (Bow in Lightweight Women’s Double Sculls)^[4]
• Dan Beery, 2007 US National Team member (Men’s Four with Cox)^[5]
• Ivan Baldychev, 2007 US National Team member (Men’s Lightweight Single Sculls)^[5]
• Steve Kasprzyk, 2007 US National Team member (Men’s Pair with Cox)^[5]
• Pat Godfrey, 2007 US National Team member (Men’s Pair with Cox)^[5]
• Dave Florio, 2007 US National Team member (Men’s Pair with Cox)^[5]
• John Riley, 2007 US National Team Coaching Staff^[5]
• Luke Agnini, 2007 US National Team Coaching Staff^[5]
• Andrew Medcalf, 2007 US National Team Coaching Staff^[5]
• Jeff McLaughlin, 1992 & 1988 US Olympic Teams member^[6]
• George G. Loveless, 1936 US Olympic Team^[7]
• Dan Barrow, 1936 US Olympic Team^[8]
• Charles J. McIlvaine, 1928 US Olympic Team^[9]
• Paul Costello, 1920, 1924 & 1928 US Olympic Teams member^[10]

Photo gallery

See also

• Edward Marsh

References

Further reading

• "Boathouse Row". Living Places. http://www.livingplaces.com/PA/Philadelphia_County/Philadelphia_City/Boathouse_Row.html. Retrieved 30 April 2010. 
• "National Registry of Historic Places Inventory--Nomination Form". NPS Focus, National Register of Historic Places, National Park Service, US Department of the Interior. 27 November 1983. pp. 664–65. http://image1.nps.gov:9001/StyleServer/calcrgn?cat=NHLS&item=Text/87000821.djvu&style=nps/FOCUS-DJview.xsl&wid=640&hei=480&oif=jpeg&props=item(SUMMARY,COPYRIGHT),cat(Name)&page=15. Retrieved 7 May 2010. 
• Burt, Nathaniel (1999). "The Schuylkill Navy". The Perennial Philadelphians: the anatomy of an American aristocracy. University of Pennsylvania Press. p. 297. ISBN 9780812216936. http://books.google.com/books?id=L9ueb6r1uXgC&pg=PA297. 
• Heiland, Louis (1938). The Schuylkill Navy of Philadelphia, 1858 - 1937. Philadelphia: The Drake Press, Inc. p. 76. http://books.google.com/books?id=vRdrOgAACAAJ. 
• Janssen, Frederick W. (15 August 1888). "West Philadelphia Boat Club". Outing Library of Sports: American Amateur Athletic and Aquatic History 1829-1888. New York. p. 214. http://books.google.com/books?id=j2p68grSMFoC&pg=PA214. 
• Kelley, Robert F. (1932). American rowing; Its Background and Traditions. G. P. Putnam's sons. pp. 59 & 65. http://books.google.com/books?id=4v2BAAAAMAAJ&q=penn-athletic. 
• Scharf, John Thomas; Westcott, Thompson (1884). "Public Squares, Parks, and Monuments". History of Philadelphia, 1609-1884. 3. L. H. Everts & Company. p. 1871. http://books.google.com/books?id=8uYkAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA1871. 
• Stillner, Anna (2005). The Philadelphia Girls’ Rowing Club: An Incremental Historic Structure Report (Thesis). p. 105. http://repository.upenn.edu/hp_theses/41. Retrieved 30 April 2010. 

External links

• "Penn Athletic Club Rowing Association on Boathouse Row". About.com. http://philadelphia.about.com/library/gallery/blkelly_drive39.htm. Retrieved 6 May 2010. 
• "Penn AC Juniors 2008". Facebook. http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=20332148031. Retrieved 6 May 2010. 
• Ted Nash, Julie Nichols, Renee Hykel (5 January 2007). Olympic Rowers on the Schuylkill (youtube video). Philadelphia: Boundless Philadelphia, gophila.com/outdoors. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IbZxEkxCltE. 
• Penn AC on wikimapia.org