The Riverside Boat Club Masters Women Sweep program is a competitive team of rowers age 30+.
We are a roster of approximately 20 women who love to train hard and row fast while balancing personal and professional lives.
We race in local regattas, including the Cromwell Cup and Head of the Charles; regional New England regattas; US Rowing Masters National Championship; and occasionally international regattas, such as World Rowing Masters Regatta and Heineken Regatta.
Our formal program runs from April through October, though some members stay on the water until the river freezes. Members are encouraged to participate in weekly team training sessions during the winter months. We recognize our teammates’ work and family commitments and try to provide a balanced training approach.
Practices
Coached on-water practice runs from 5:15AM to 6:45AM on Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday each week.
We train and race in 8+s, 4s (+/-), 4xs, and 2xs. While this is primarily a sweep team, members are strongly encouraged to develop their sculling skills.
TRY-OUTS
The team welcomes new members age 30+ as space allows via a 3-session try-out. Applicants should be fit, technically proficient, and have experience rowing and racing at a competitive level. Skilled coxswains of any age are welcome.
Please contact the captains if you are interested or need more information.
You may also complete a Riverside Boat Club application and indicate that you are interested in joining the Master's Women program, and we will get in touch with you.
HEAD COACH
Kelsey Barolak is a 2017 graduate of Harvard University where she rowed for Radcliffe, and is currently pursuing a Masters at Boston University in counseling and sport psychology.
Kelsey rowed in the 2018 winning Cambridge Blue Boat, and with Riverside’s High Performance Group and Open Women’s Sweeps program. She previously coached the Washington College women, and recently coached the junior men and masters teams at Greenwich Crew.
Kelsey joined the RBC Masters Women as Head Coach in 2025. In addition to our program, Kelsey coaches the U17 boys at CRI.
COACH
Kelsey Barolak
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Captains
Jennifer Huck
jennifer.huck@riversideboatclub.com
Marloes Rozing
marloes.rozing@riversideboatclub.com
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