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Let’s Rallie at HOSR
New for 2024, HOSR is proud to partner with the Philadelphia-born app, Let’s Rallie to help you navigate the regatta weekend. With an interactive map to highlight the most important places along the banks, a unique scavenger hunt for fun and prizes, and real-time...
Calling All Photographers! The 8th Annual Cover Art Contest is Open!
The Head of the Schuylkill Regatta invites photographers (amateur and professional) to submit photographs taken at the HOSR regatta to be used as the cover image for the 2024 Regatta Keepsake Program Book. Amateur and professional photographers are invited to submit...
HOSR Adds Collegiate 1x, 2x & 4x Events
In support of providing more opportunities for collegiate sculling, the HOSR has added Womens and Mens 1x, 2x and 4x events. Each event will award medals for first, second and third place. While collegiate competitors may still compete in the Championship level...
And the Cover Art Contest Winner is…
The Head of the Schuylkill Regatta is pleased to announce that Bob Cody's ‘Before the Trailers’ has been selected as the original art for the cover of the 2023 keepsake HOSR program book. Cody's painting flawlessly captures the idyllic three angels epicenter in the...
Call to Action: Preserving Rowing Archives
TO ALL GENERATIONS OF THE ROWING COMMUNITY AND FRIENDS: PLEASE READ ON BEFORE YOU DISCARD OR STOW AWAY ROWING RELATED ARCHIVES AND OBJECTS! The Urgency: Significant amounts of rowing history in the form of records, memorabilia, and Club and individual collections are...
Goudy and Lynch Join HOSR Board of Directors
The Head of the Schuylkill Regatta, Philadelphia’s largest and most inclusive regatta presented by NSM Insurance Group, today announced that Hope McNelis Goudy and Jimmy Lynch, Ed.D, have been named to the Board of Directors for three-year terms. “The Board is honored...
Call for Artwork – 7th Annual Program Book Cover Contest
Call for Entries — Program Book Cover Artwork
Deadline to Submit: Monday, August 7, 2023
Drum Role Please…The Winner of the 2022 Program Book Art Cover Contest is…
The Head of the Schuylkill Regatta is pleased to announce that Joe Sweeney's ‘October Regatta’ has been selected as the original art for the cover of the 2022 keepsake HOSR program book. Sweeney's painting beautifully captures the northern tip of Boathouse Row,...
The HOSR Welcomes Giddings and Savell to Board of Directors
The Head of the Schuylkill Regatta, Philadelphia’s largest and most inclusive regatta presented by NSM Insurance Group, today announced that Dr. Amy Giddings, Professor and Department Chair of Sport and Recreation Management at Temple University in the School of...
Call for Entries — Program Book Cover Artwork
Deadline to Submit: Monday, August 8, 2022 For the sixth year, The Head of the Schuylkill Regatta, Philadelphia’s largest and most inclusive regatta, invites artists and art students in the Philadelphia area to submit original artwork to be used as the cover image for...
Division II & III Classifications Offered in All Champ & Collegiate Events
There's nothing like an iconic head race in the heart of American rowing to get your team excited about racing (and training hard through the winter!) In 2022, all Championship and Collegiate events (1x, -2, 2x, 4x, 4+, 8) will offer Division II and Division III...
Fifth Annual Cover Art Contest – Call for Entries
Call for Entries — Program Book Cover Artwork Deadline to Submit: Monday, August 2, 2021 For the fifth year, The Head of the Schuylkill Regatta, Philadelphia’s largest and most inclusive regatta, invites artists and art students in the Philadelphia area to submit...
