Penn Athletic Club Rowing Association

Penn Athletic Club Rowing Association
Location #12 Boathouse Row, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.
Home water Schuylkill River
Established 1871
Navy admission 1878
Former names West Philadelphia Boat Club
President Mike Wherley
Vice President Daphne Klausner
Secretary Justin Keen
Treasurer Jake Ervin
Captain Erick Winstead
Coaches M Sean Hall
Colors Navy      and Yellow     
Affiliations The Shipley School and Monsignor Bonner High School
Website pennac.org
Penn Athletic Club Rowing Association
Location Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Coordinates Coordinates: 39°58′11″N 75°11′19″W / 39.96968°N 75.18856°W / 39.96968; -75.18856
Part of Boat House Row (#87000821[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

See also

References

  1. ↑ National Park Service (2007-01-23). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service.
  2. ↑ Sweeney, Joe. "The History of the Penn Athletic Club Rowing Association: Part 2 - Beginning of the Clubs". Schuylkill Navy. Archived from the original on 20 June 2010. Retrieved 30 April 2010.
  3. ↑ Sweeney, Joe. "The History of the Penn Athletic Club Rowing Association: Part 3 - Penn AC is Formed". Schuylkill Navy. Retrieved 7 May 2010.
  4. ↑ "Thomas Eakins Head of the Schuylkill Regatta 2009 Program" (PDF). Thomas Eakins Head of the Schuylkill Regatta. 2009. p. 20. Archived from the original (PDF) on 12 May 2010. Retrieved 30 April 2010.
  5. 1 2 3 4 "USRowing Announces 2008 Olympic Games Roster". USRowing. 27 June 2009. Archived from the original on January 25, 2009. Retrieved 5 May 2010.
  6. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 "USRowing Announces 2007 World Championships Roster". USRowing. 6 August 2007. Archived from the original on April 21, 2010. Retrieved 5 May 2010.
  7. ↑ Jeff McLaughlin sports-reference.com
  8. ↑ George Loveless, sports-reference.com
  9. ↑ Dan Barrow sports-reference.com
  10. ↑ Charley McIlvaine, sports-reference.com
  11. ↑ Paul Costello sports-reference.com

Further reading

  • "Boathouse Row". Living Places. Retrieved 30 April 2010.
  • "National Register of Historic Places Inventory--Nomination Form". NPS Focus, National Register of Historic Places, National Park Service, US Department of the Interior. 27 November 1983. pp. 664–65. Archived from the original on 14 December 2012. Retrieved 7 May 2010.
  • 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. (15 August 1888). "West Philadelphia Boat Club". Outing Library of Sports: American Amateur Athletic and Aquatic History 1829-1888. New York. p. 214.
  • 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. 3. L. H. Everts & Company. p. 1871.
  • Stillner, Anna (2005). The Philadelphia Girls’ Rowing Club: An Incremental Historic Structure Report (Thesis). p. 105. Retrieved 30 April 2010.
  • "Penn Athletic Club Rowing Association on Boathouse Row". About.com. Retrieved 6 May 2010.
  • Penn AC on wikimapia.org
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