CLEMSON, S.C. – Head Coach Stephen Fazier Wong and the Clemson Rowing program announced Wednesday its 2024 Spring Schedule. Joining Head Coach Stephen Frazier Wong, Associate Head Coach Ted Nagorsen, Assistant Coach Mandy Merritt, and Graduate Assistant Coach Ciera Devenuto-Wyeth this season is recently hired Assistant Coach Amy Hildebrandt.
“We are looking forward to this racing season,” said Head Coach Stephen Frazier Wong. “We’ve got some big championship-style events where we will get to compete against the best in the country. We’re excited to show the work we’ve been putting in every time we get on the starting line.”
Leading the Tigers this season are captains Caroline Emerson and Kristen Dutkin. Julia Walsh, Amelia Anglin and Abby Dutton join Emerson and Dutkin to make up the 2023-2024 Leadership Council.
The Tigers enter the 2024 Spring Season following a successful fall season where they raced in the Head of the Oklahoma and the Secret City Head Race. At the Head of the Oklahoma, Clemson’s Varsity Eights took home first place and its Novice 8+ defeated all four Tennessee boats to win first place at the Secret City Head Race.
Clemson will open its spring season with two home races on Lake Hartwell, starting with the Carolina Cup on Saturday, March 2nd and then a scrimmage against Boston University on Saturday March 9th. The next week, the Tigers will travel to Oak Ridge, Tenn. to compete in the Cardinal Invite on March 16th and 17th . About a month later, Clemson will race in the Big 10 Invite on April 19th and 20th in Sarasota, Fla. Clemson is once again set to finish its regular season at the Lake Wheeler Invite in Raleigh, N.C. on April 26th and 27th. Then the Tigers will return to Raleigh, N.C. for the ACC Championship races on May 17th and 18th.
