California Lightweight Rowing

This past Friday, Cal Lights was lucky enough to host our end of the year banquet. We celebrated our achievements this season, including record numbers of recruitment, non-profit establishment, financial independence, and another gold at WIRA. We recognized the incredible work of our coaches and exec team this year, and exceptional performances from athletes. 🏆

Most Outstanding Novice Woman: Kristina Krusteva
Most Outstanding Novice Man: Brady Subaru
Most Outstanding Varsity Woman: Marley Michel
Most Outstanding Varsity Man: Ben Ramirez

Most Inspirational Oarswoman: Annette Leber
Most Inspirational Oarsman: Rohan Aggarwal
Sophie Marxer Leadership Award: Rohan Aggarwal

We want to recognize the efforts this year of our student executive team: Sami Khayatei Houssaini, Lucia Zima, Gabe Rothman Tierney, Nora Buchanan, Marley Michel, and Rohan Aggarwal. Thank you for all your hard work!

To our coaches, Gian Sandhu, Marissa Marsh LoVullo, and Paul Rathke: Your dedication has been nothing short of incredible. We could not have done any of this without you. Thank you from the bottom of our hearts.

We’re also endlessly grateful to our donors for their continued support.

Thank you for a great season. As always, Go Bears! 🐻

We had a great weekend competing at Covered Bridge Regatta in Lowell, Oregon! Thank you to University of Oregon for hosting us.🌲Congrats to the Women’s Varsity 2x for their first place finish! 🥇🐻

Covered Bridge Lineups! Tomorrow, Saturday 2/4, we’ll be racing at Dexter Lake near Eugene, Oregon. Looking forward to a great day of racing! ☀️ Go Bears!!!🐻

Cal Lights are traveling to two coasts this weekend to race in San Diego and New Jersey! Our women’s
double and men’s four race Saturday, while our women’s four races Sunday. Go Bears!

Cal Lights Alumni Day! Thank you to all of our incredible alumni for coming out this past Saturday! We celebrated with some 500 meter races, and lots of continued Cal Lights spirit! ☀️☀️☀️ Go Bears 🐻

We had a great scrimmage with UC Davis, Humboldt, and Orange Coast College yesterday! ☀️ Our spring novices had their first race and all novices got their first 2k under their belt! Congrats to the Women’s Varsity 8+, Women’s V4+, W2x, and Novice Women’s 8+ for their first place finishes. Thank you to UC Davis for hosting a great day of racing. Go Bears! 🐻

🚨First Race Alert!🚨

This weekend the Cal Lights are traveling up to race Davis, Humboldt, and OCC! We’re excited to kick off the season and get our novices a taste of spring racing! 💙💛

We had a great weekend in Seattle racing at Head of the Lake! 🏞️ Our crews rowed through some windy weather, visited the UW campus, and had two clean races! Until next year - GO BEARS!! 🐻💙💛