Penn Athletic Club Rowing Association

Location	#12 Boathouse Row, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Home water	Schuylkill River
Established	1871
Navy admission	1878
Former names	West Philadelphia Boat Club
Key people	Mike Wherley (President) Erika Jorgensen (Vice-President) M Sean Hall (Coach) Justin Keen (Captain)
Colors	Navy   and Yellow
Affiliations	The Shipley School and Monsignor Bonner High School
Website	pennac.org
Penn Athletic Club Rowing Association
U.S. Historic district – Contributing property
Philadelphia Register of Historic Places
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Location	Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Coordinates	39°58′11″N 75°11′19″W / 39.96968°N 75.18856°W / 39.96968; -75.18856
Part of	Boathouse Row (ID87000821[1])
Added to NRHP	February 27, 1987

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.^[2] 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.^[3][4]

Prominent members

• Ted Nash, 2008 US Olympic Team Coaching Staff^[5]
• Matt Schnobrich, 2008 US Olympic Team (Bow in Men's Eight) and 2007 US National Team member (Men's Four)^[5][6]
• Micah Boyd, 2008 US Olympic Team member (4 Seat in Men's Eight)^[5]
• Renee Hykel, 2008 US Olympic Team member (Bow in Lightweight Women's Double Sculls)^[5]
• Dan Beery, 2007 US National Team member (Men's Four with Cox)^[6]
• Ivan Baldychev, 2007 US National Team member (Men's Lightweight Single Sculls)^[6]
• Steve Kasprzyk, 2007 US National Team member (Men's Pair with Cox)^[6]
• Ted Farwell, 2006, 2008 US National Team member (Men's Pair with Cox)^[6]
• Pat Godfrey, 2007 US National Team member (Men's Pair with Cox)^[6]
• Dave Florio, 2007 US National Team member (Men's Pair with Cox)^[6]
• John Riley, 2007 US National Team Coaching Staff^[6]
• Luke Agnini, 2007 US National Team Coaching Staff^[6]
• Andrew Medcalf, 2007 US National Team Coaching Staff^[6]
• Christopher DeFelice 2004 US National Team member (Men's Pair with Cox)
• Jeff McLaughlin, 1992 & 1988 US Olympic Teams member^[7]
• George G. Loveless, 1936 US Olympic Team^[8]
• Dan Barrow, 1936 US Olympic Team^[9]
• Charles J. McIlvaine, 1928 US Olympic Team^[10]
• Paul Costello, 1920, 1924 & 1928 US Olympic Teams member^[11]

Photo gallery

• 
  Penn AC Rowing Assoc., 12 Boathouse Row, 1972.
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  Penn AC in 2010.

See also

• Robert Desino
• Edward Marsh

References

Further reading

• "Boathouse Row". Living Places. Retrieved April 30, 2010.
• "National Register of Historic Places Inventory--Nomination Form". NPS Focus, National Register of Historic Places, National Park Service, US Department of the Interior. November 27, 1983. pp. 664–65. Retrieved May 7, 2010.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: deprecated archival service (link)
• Burt, Nathaniel (1999). "The Schuylkill Navy". The Perennial Philadelphians: the anatomy of an American aristocracy. University of Pennsylvania Press. p. 297. ISBN 978-0-8122-1693-6.
• Heiland, Louis (1938). The Schuylkill Navy of Philadelphia, 1858 - 1937. Philadelphia: The Drake Press, Inc. p. 76.
• Janssen, Frederick W. (August 15, 1888). "West Philadelphia Boat Club". Outing Library of Sports: American Amateur Athletic and Aquatic History 1829-1888. New York. p. 214.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
• Kelley, Robert F. (1932). American rowing; Its Background and Traditions. G. P. Putnam's sons. pp. 59 & 65.
• Scharf, John Thomas; Westcott, Thompson (1884). "Public Squares, Parks, and Monuments". History of Philadelphia, 1609-1884. Vol. 3. L. H. Everts & Company. p. 1871.
• Stillner, Anna (2005). The Philadelphia Girls' Rowing Club: An Incremental Historic Structure Report (Thesis). p. 105. Retrieved April 30, 2010.

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Penn Athletic Club Rowing Association.

• "Penn Athletic Club Rowing Association on Boathouse Row". About.com. Archived from the original on July 7, 2011. Retrieved May 6, 2010.
• Penn AC on wikimapia.org