Philadelphia Scholastic Rowing Association

Philadelphia Scholastic Rowing Association
AbbreviationPSRA
Formation1955[a]
FounderManuel A. Flick
Type501(c)(3) nonprofit corporation
Tax ID no. 23-2940243
Legal statusIRS ruling year 1998
PurposeScholastic rowing competition and advocacy
HeadquartersP.O. Box 60641, King of Prussia, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Location
Region served
Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware, New York
Members76 member schools and programs (2026)
President and regatta director
Leslie Pfeil
Vice-president
John Monaghan
Secretary
Anne Miller
Chief referee
Duncan Hudson
Main organ
Board of Directors (seven elected members)
Websitephillyflicks.com

The Philadelphia Scholastic Rowing Association (PSRA) is a Pennsylvania nonprofit corporation that organizes the high school rowing season on the Schuylkill River in Philadelphia. Its principal event is the Manny Flick–Horvat Series — commonly the Manny Flicks, the Flicks or Philly Flicks — a series of five one-day regattas rowed on consecutive spring Sundays on the Fairmount Park course beside Kelly Drive, which culminates in the two-day Philadelphia City Championships.[1][2] The association hosts seven regattas a year in all.[3]

The series was created by Manuel A. Flick, a Philadelphia accountant turned restaurateur who had never rowed and never learned to swim. After visiting Boathouse Row with his teenage son in 1955 and learning that public and parochial school crews raced only two or three times a season, he organized a recurring race of his own; the first Manuel A. Flick Regatta followed in 1956.[4][5] The event was later co-named for Don Horvat, a Yugoslav oarsman who helped run it through the 1970s and early 1980s and died in 1984. It appears under the combined name in the association's own results archive by 1997, and although the regattas are formally the Flick–Horvat Series the older name remains in universal use.[4][6]

The PSRA describes itself as an association of more than 75 high school crew programs from Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware and New York, and as a "populist grassroots organization" whose leadership, rules and policies are voted on by coach representatives from its member teams.[3][7] Roughly 3,000 rowers compete across the five Flicks each spring,[4] and about 800 athletes contest the City Championships, which serves as a qualifier for the Scholastic Rowing Association of America national championships.[2][8] Because the regattas close Kelly Drive for the day and draw large crowds to the riverbank, they are a recurring feature of Philadelphia's spring calendar and of local news coverage.[9][2]

The association is legally and administratively distinct from the Schuylkill Navy and from the individual Boathouse Row clubs, and maintains its registered office in King of Prussia.[10] In practice the two bodies are closely intertwined: the PSRA's own rules subordinate the scholastic season on the Schuylkill to the Navy's control of the river, many PSRA member schools are tenants of Schuylkill Navy boathouses, the organizations co-sponsor officials' training, and individuals hold office across both.[11][12]

History

Origins

Manuel A. Flick was an accountant who left the profession to run a restaurant, the Pilgrim Gardens Lounge; he neither rowed nor learned to swim.[4] In 1955 a family friend, George Mattson, then coaching at St. Joseph's College, drove Flick and his fifteen-year-old son Bill down to Boathouse Row. It was the first time Flick had seen racing on the river. He contacted the Fairmount Rowing Association, whose president John Carlin invited him to bring boys to the boathouse.[4]

At the time the only competitions open to public and parochial school crews were the end-of-season regattas — chiefly the Stotesbury and the City Championships — although the Catholic League private schools raced one another.[4] Flick considered two or three races a season inadequate, and by 1956 had organized a recurring race for a trophy, the Manuel A. Flick Regatta. Among the first entrants were Monsignor Bonner, La Salle, St. Joseph's Prep and West Catholic.[4]

The regatta became a family undertaking. Flick's son Ned managed the Bonner program and helped devise the points system leading to the trophy; his daughter Kris distributed mimeographed racing schedules and presented the trophy; his son Peter administered the trophy until his death in 2009.[4] Bill Flick rowed at Bonner, at Columbia and for Vesper Boat Club, competing with John B. Kelly Jr. at the 1958 world championships in Poland; his 2020 obituary credits him with helping to found the regatta alongside his father and brother, and notes that the family continued to award the Manny Flick Point Trophy.[4][13]

The founding of the Flicks is treated at length by the journalist Dotty Brown, a former reporter and editor at The Philadelphia Inquirer and a member of Vesper Boat Club, whose history of Boathouse Row devotes attention to what its publisher describes as the forgotten forces behind the rise of high school rowing on the Schuylkill.[5][14] The association links to Brown's account of Flick as its own published history.[15]

The Horvat name

Don Horvat, who had been a leading oarsman in Yugoslavia before bringing the sport with him to Philadelphia, became involved in running the regattas in the 1970s and early 1980s as the number of participating schools grew. He died of a heart attack in 1984, six years after Manuel Flick's death.[b] His son Paul Horvat, who has served as Commodore of the Schuylkill Navy, said that his father's name was added to the series in recognition of his contribution to it.[4]

No source gives the year of the renaming, but the association's results archive lists every regatta of the 1997 through 2000 seasons under the "Manny Flick-Horvat Series" heading, placing the change no later than 1997.[6] The event is formally the Flick–Horvat Regatta, though it continues to be known universally as the Manny Flicks.[4]

Institutionalization

The Pennsylvania Barge Club boathouse at #4 Boathouse Row, known as the Hollenback House, was turned over to caretaker organizations in 1955 after the club's post-war decline in membership, and thereafter served as an administrative center for Philadelphia rowing. Among the bodies that leased space there were the National Association of Amateur Oarsmen (later USRowing), the Schuylkill Navy, the Middle States Regatta Association, the Dad Vail Rowing Association and the scholastic rowing association.[16]

The PSRA is now a Pennsylvania nonprofit corporation exempt under section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code, with the Employer Identification Number 23-2940243, an IRS ruling year of 1998, and a registered office at a post office box in King of Prussia.[7][17][10] Its amended and restated bylaws were adopted on December 1, 2010.[10] The association has used RegattaCentral as its registration platform since 2005 and as its registrar since 2017, renewing that arrangement for a further five years in 2023.[3][18] It reports that its membership grew by about 40 percent over ten years, and that it raised dues once, by nine percent, over a period in which its expenses rose by nearly 30 percent.[7]

Season structure in the late 20th century

Surviving season summaries show the shape of the scholastic calendar in the late 1990s. In each of the 1997 through 2000 seasons the association listed five Flick–Horvat regattas from mid-March to late April, followed by a Catholic League Championship Regatta, the Philadelphia City Championship Regatta in early May, and a Dr. White Regatta a week later.[6] The current rules still provide for a Robert White Regatta open to associate members.[11]

Race sheets that survive on the association's website give a sense of the scale of the early series. The first Flick of 1998, held on March 15, comprised ten events run at ten-minute intervals from noon, all of them in men's categories — freshman, novice, lightweight, second, junior varsity, midweight and varsity — with entries from St. Joseph's Prep, La Salle, Upper Merion and Northeast.[19] The corresponding programme in the 2020s runs to several hundred entries across men's and women's sweep and sculling events.[20][1]

Organization

Governance

The PSRA is managed by a board of seven directors elected by the permanent members for staggered two-year terms in two classes. The board elects an executive committee consisting of a president, vice-president, secretary and treasurer. Standing committees for finance and audit and for nominations are drawn from the board; three standing advisory committees — Rules, Membership and Racing — are drawn from coaches, representatives of permanent member schools and officials, and each must have at least five members. The Racing Committee must include at least one referee. Directors are unpaid, and the fiscal year is the calendar year.[10]

Members meet three times a year — in the fall, in January and after the season — with the January meeting designated the annual general meeting.[10] The association characterizes its own governance as "completely democratic," with leadership, rules and policies voted on by coach representatives from member teams, and notes that although its regattas are largely staffed by volunteers they are run to professional standards.[7] A chief referee is appointed for each regatta and holds jurisdiction over time changes, weather delays and cancellations.[11] The board has adopted a code of conduct binding on all participants.[1]

As of 2026 the officers were Leslie Pfeil (president), John Monaghan (vice-president), Anne Miller (secretary) and Duncan Hudson (chief referee), with Antoinette Calimag, Bill Ernst, Megan Kennedy, Bruce Konopka and Jonathan Lees serving as board members.[21] Pfeil, who also serves as regatta director, was appointed to a USRowing national leadership group for scholastic and junior rowing alongside representatives of the Scholastic Rowing Association of America and other regional associations,[22] has been consulted by the rowing press on national junior championship planning,[23] and in 2017 became the eighth woman in 57 years to receive Malta Boat Club's Dr. George Morton Illman Award, given annually since 1960 for behind-the-scenes contributions to Philadelphia rowing.[12][24]

For the 2024 fiscal year the association reported revenue of about $256,000 and expenses of about $192,000.[17]

Membership

The bylaws establish three levels of participation — Permanent Member, Associate Member and Guest — of which only permanent members hold voting rights under Pennsylvania's Nonprofit Corporation Law of 1988.[10] A competing team must be composed of students enrolled at the same school, and members must hold organizational membership in USRowing for USRowing-registered regattas.[11]

Permanent membership requires that a program field crews at freshman/novice, junior varsity and varsity levels; that it have a five-year continuous record of PSRA participation; that it have at least ten student-athletes and a letter of recognition from the school; and that it be sponsored by exactly one existing permanent member. Admission requires a four-fifths affirmative vote of the permanent membership by secret ballot at the fall meeting. Permanent membership is capped at 33 schools. A permanent member forfeits its status if it fails, in two consecutive years, to enter at least three Flicks and the City Championships, or to meet its volunteer obligation.[11]

Associate members may petition for permanent status after five years of continuous participation and may enter all five Flicks, the City Championships and the Robert White Regatta. Philadelphia City Rowing, a nonprofit drawing solely on School District of Philadelphia students, was granted a five-year temporary associate membership running from the 2022 season through 2027.[11]

In 2023 the association reported more than 75 programs and 28 permanent voting members across four states.[3] Its published roster for the 2026 season listed 76 member schools and programs, 27 of them permanent members.[25]

Relationship to the Schuylkill Navy and Boathouse Row

The PSRA is not a member club of the Schuylkill Navy, which is an association of rowing clubs rather than of schools, and it is a separate corporation with its own board, bylaws and registered office in King of Prussia.[10] Its operations are nonetheless closely bound to the Navy and to the Boathouse Row clubs.

The association's rules make the length of the scholastic season on the Schuylkill a matter for "the governing body/organization that oversees that body of water," expressly naming the Schuylkill Navy, which may bar junior rowers from the river at certain times of year.[11] Racing on the river requires permits from the Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission or permission from the Schuylkill Navy, and launching from Fairmount Park land requires permission from Philadelphia Parks and Recreation; the river schedule is coordinated among all users through the Navy.[26] PSRA regatta operations centre on the Gillin Boathouse, home of Gillin Boat Club and of the St. Joseph's Prep program: boat trailers park in the Gillin lot near the Strawberry Mansion Bridge, and athlete drop-off is directed to the front of the boathouse.[27]

Many PSRA member programs are housed in Schuylkill Navy boathouses — La Salle College High School at the Pennsylvania Barge Club (#4) and Conestoga High School at Bachelors Barge Club (#6), among others.[28][29] The two organizations also share personnel and programming. Paul Horvat, son of the series' co-eponym, has served as Commodore of the Schuylkill Navy.[4] The PSRA and the Navy have co-sponsored a launch-driving class and, with the Camden County Boathouse, a regional USRowing referee academy.[12] PSRA points-trophy winners receive grants at the Schuylkill Navy Run, the Thanksgiving Day race run from Malta Boat Club since 1899 and described as the oldest cross-country run in the United States.[12] The association's president has been honored by one Navy club and appointed to national committees alongside Navy officers.[12][22]

Historically, the association's offices were among those quartered in the Pennsylvania Barge Club boathouse at #4 Boathouse Row after 1955, alongside several other rowing bodies.[16]

Manny Flick–Horvat Series

Format and schedule

The series consists of five one-day regattas held on Sundays between mid-March and mid-April, followed by the two-day Philadelphia City Championships in early May. In 2026 the Flicks fell on March 15, 22 and 29 and April 12 and 19, with the City Championships on May 2 and 3 and the fall Hidden River Chase on November 1; the association had already published dates for 2027 by the following summer.[1]

Entries are made through RegattaCentral. Teams must file a roster on a PSRA form, and every athlete must have a completed online waiver, documented proof of swimming proficiency and, for lightweight events, a lightweight certification confirming a medically cleared weigh-in.[1] Lightweight weigh-ins begin at the third Flick.[1]

Gender-specific racing begins at the second Flick, with boys and girls alternating morning and afternoon sessions across the second, third and fourth regattas; the fifth Flick has no gender split.[1] Any event drawing more than twelve entries is run as a head race rather than side by side, and from the third Flick onward the Racing Committee seeds varsity events to produce closer racing.[11] There is no separate entry fee for the Flicks, which are covered by membership dues; scratch and late fees of $25 accumulate through the series and are settled with the City Championships entry.[11][1]

The first Flick habitually draws a small field, since crews are only weeks into water training and the weather is often cold and windy; by the third regatta most first-year rowers have made their racing debut.[30][31] Local coverage has described the fifth Flick as the end of the scholastic regular season before the May championship regattas.[32]

Course

All PSRA races are rowed over 1,500 meters.[11] The course runs on the Schuylkill River alongside Kelly Drive in Fairmount Park, the same water used by the Stotesbury Cup Regatta and historically by the Dad Vail Regatta, with the finish near the Columbia Bridge.[20][27] Racing closes Kelly Drive to through traffic; the detour has run from the Strawberry Mansion Bridge to Fountain Green Drive.[9] Stake boats at the start are used at the discretion of the Racing Committee, and coaches may not approach within 100 yards of the starting line.[11]

Silt accumulation on the racecourse, unaddressed since a dredging in 2000, became a serious concern for Philadelphia's regattas during the 2010s, with rowing organizations raising $4.5 million toward a project that removed some 60,000 cubic yards of sediment beginning in June 2020.[33] Related river work later drove the collegiate Dad Vail Regatta off the Schuylkill to the Cooper River in New Jersey for consecutive years, while the scholastic regattas remained in Philadelphia.[34]

Events and eligibility

The association offers events in the eight (8+), coxed four (4+), pair (2-), single (1x), double (2x) and quad (4x), across novice, freshman, junior varsity, second and varsity categories, with lightweight events in the four, eight and double.[11]

Competition is open to students in grades nine through twelve, with four consecutive years of eligibility from the September of a rower's first enrollment in ninth grade; post-graduate and fifth-year students may not compete. A rower or coxswain must not have turned 19 before September 1 of the academic year. Junior events are restricted to eleventh grade and below. Lightweight limits are 150 pounds for male athletes and 130 pounds for female athletes on the day of the regatta, with no crew average. A novice is an athlete in a first year of rowing or coxing, assessed separately for sweep and sculling. Composite crews are barred, no athlete may race twice in the same regatta, and an athlete may be affiliated with only one program between March 1 and June 15.[11]

The PSRA follows the USRowing Rules of Rowing and the Safe Sport policies of the USOPC and USRowing; member teams must maintain Safe Sport policies, and officials undergo Safe Sport training and criminal background checks.[11][35]

Points trophies

Four perpetual points trophies are awarded at the City Championships on the cumulative results of the second through fifth Flicks. Each school's five highest-scoring boats per regatta count toward each category, and points are awarded to first, second and third place on a scale set out in the rules — a varsity eight win, for example, is worth 39 points, a varsity four 27, and a varsity single 15.[11]

PSRA points trophies[11][36]
TrophyCategoryBoat classes
Manny Flick TrophyBoys' sweep8+, 4+, 2-
Brigantine TrophyGirls' sweep8+, 4+, 2-
Horvat Series TrophyBoys' sculling1x, 2x, 4x
Kate Godwin TrophyGirls' sculling1x, 2x, 4x

Two of the trophies carry the names of the men the series itself is named for. The Kate Godwin Trophy honors a longtime USRowing referee who officiated scholastic and collegiate racing on the Schuylkill for decades and received USRowing's Jack Franklin Lifetime Achievement Award in 2012; the Dad Vail Regatta later named its coach-of-the-year award for her as well.[37][38] The origin of the Brigantine Trophy's name is not documented in any published source.

Mount Saint Joseph Academy has dominated the girls' sweep trophy: the school reported an eighteenth consecutive Brigantine Trophy in 2019, and by 2026 had won it 22 times in 23 years.[39][40]

Guest crews

Schools that are not members may enter as guests where lanes are available; no additional heats are created for them. Guests may enter no more than three Flicks, must register with a guest coordinator and submit paperwork at least two weeks in advance, pay per-event entry fees, and are not eligible for the Philadelphia City Championships.[11][1] The association reports that the number of non-member teams entering has risen each year.[7]

Philadelphia City Championships

The City Championships close the PSRA season on the first weekend of May and are run over two days, with time trials on the Saturday and semifinals and finals on the Sunday; entries must be signed by the head of school, principal or athletic director.[11][12] Unlike the Flicks, the championship is seeded on a traditional progression, and qualifying events with more than six entries are run as head races.[11]

Around 800 athletes compete, and the regatta acts as a qualifier for the Scholastic Rowing Association of America national championships.[2][8] The Sunday semifinals and finals are livestreamed by the association; in 2025 the PSRA warned that a fraudulent website was soliciting credit card details from people seeking to watch, stressing that its own livestream is free and that only links posted on its own site are legitimate.[12][1]

The association publishes a standing inclement-weather plan under which medals are awarded on time-trial results if finals cannot be run, races move to four-minute centers and floating starts after a delay, and the whole regatta may be rescheduled subject to the availability of the venue, Fairmount Park, officials and volunteers.[12]

Other regattas

Besides the five Flicks and the City Championships, the association runs the Hidden River Chase, a fall head race for junior and scholastic crews on the Schuylkill, first held on November 6, 2016 and open to non-members as well as PSRA teams.[12][1] Its rules also provide for the Robert White Regatta, open to associate members; season summaries for 1997 through 2000 list a Dr. White Regatta in mid-May, after the City Championships.[11][6] In those seasons the association also listed a Catholic League Championship Regatta between the final Flick and the City Championships.[6]

Spectators and race-day operations

PSRA regattas are free to watch from the riverbank, and the association publishes conduct rules for spectators. Team tents may not be erected before the morning of the regatta; grills are permitted on the grass but not on the street or in parking lots; pets must be leashed; alcohol, smoking and unauthorized drones are prohibited, as are team golf carts and scooters; and teams that bring their own portable toilets must remove them by the Monday after the regatta. Spectators are asked to bag trash and to separate recyclables into clear bags supplied by the association, and are reminded that sportsmanship off the water matters as much as on it.[41][1]

Race-day traffic on the closed stretch of Kelly Drive runs one way from north to south, divided into four lanes: parked vehicles nearest the river, then parent food trailers — known as chuckwagons — then buses and cars, with the outermost lane reserved for emergency vehicles and staff. A ten-mile-per-hour limit applies. Parking passes are issued to teams in March in proportion to squad size, are single-entry, and are collected on arrival. Boat trailers park in the Gillin Boathouse lot near the Strawberry Mansion Bridge; oversized school buses and vans park beyond the finish line at the Columbia Bridge. Chuckwagons must be marked with the school's name or logo and carry a seasonal permit, priced on a sliding scale according to when it is bought.[27]

Remote parking lots and a free shuttle service begin with the second Flick. Monitored parking is cashless and costs $20 a day, and shuttles — including one wheelchair-accessible minibus — run roughly every 20 to 35 minutes between about 8 a.m. and 6 p.m., with drivers instructed to stop on request so that parents can be set down near their team tent.[27][1] At the City Championships the closure is more extensive: vehicles are admitted in staggered order from 6 a.m., beginning with boat trailers, officials and staff and ending with spectators, and Kelly Drive is closed to all traffic overnight between the two race days.[27] The association states that its parking system is designed both to serve participating families and to address the concerns of the Philadelphia Police Department and the Fairmount Park authorities about illegal parking and congestion on Kelly Drive.[27]

Member schools

The following schools and programs were listed as permanent or associate members for the 2026 season. Permanent (voting) members are marked with an asterisk.[25]

Points trophy winners

Trophies were not awarded in 2020, when the season was cancelled, or in 2021.[12] For 2015 and 2016 the association published the four winning schools — Mount Saint Joseph Academy, St. Joseph's Prep, Conestoga and Roman Catholic in both years — without stating which school won which trophy, so only the individually attested results are given below.[c]

Points trophy winners, 2015–2026[12][36]
YearManny Flick Trophy
(boys' sweep)		Brigantine Trophy
(girls' sweep)		Horvat Series Trophy
(boys' sculling)		Kate Godwin Trophy
(girls' sculling)
2015Not specifiedMount Saint Joseph Academy[39]Not specifiedNot specified
2016Not specifiedMount Saint Joseph Academy[39]Not specifiedConestoga[42]
2017St. Joseph's PrepMount Saint Joseph AcademyMalvern Prep[43]Conestoga[43]
2018St. Joseph's PrepMount Saint Joseph AcademyMalvern PrepConestoga
2019St. Joseph's PrepMount Saint Joseph AcademyConestogaConestoga
2020Season cancelled (COVID-19)
2021Not awarded
2022St. Joseph's PrepMount Saint Joseph AcademyConestogaAgnes Irwin
2023La Salle College High SchoolMount Saint Joseph AcademyThe Haverford SchoolConestoga
2024La Salle College High SchoolMerion Mercy AcademyMalvern PrepSpringside Chestnut Hill Academy
2025La Salle College High SchoolMount Saint Joseph AcademyMalvern PrepAgnes Irwin
2026La Salle College High SchoolMount Saint Joseph AcademyMalvern PrepConestoga

Conestoga and Malvern Prep have divided the sculling trophies for much of the modern era, while La Salle College High School has held the Manny Flick Trophy continuously since 2023, displacing St. Joseph's Prep.[36][12] Malvern Prep's 2024 Horvat Series Trophy was its first since 2018,[44] and The Haverford School's 2023 win was the first sculling points trophy in that program's history.[45]

Disruptions and relocations

Spring conditions on the Schuylkill regularly force changes to the racing program. High water and debris after heavy rain have prompted the cancellation of freshman, novice and small-boat events with varsity and lightweight racing continuing,[46] and unruly water has caused races to be scrapped on the morning of a regatta.[47] Cold and high winds routinely thin the field at the first Flick.[30]

In 2019 the association moved the third Flick to the Cooper River in Camden County as a deliberate trial run, anticipating that dredging, flooding, extreme weather or construction might render the Schuylkill unusable in a future season. The third regatta was chosen as neither the smallest nor the largest of the five and therefore the easiest to relocate.[12] The precaution proved well judged: river works later drove the Dad Vail Regatta to the same New Jersey course for consecutive years.[34]

The entire 2020 season was cancelled because of the COVID-19 pandemic. The first Flick was called off on March 12, 2020 as member schools closed; the second through fourth followed the next day after the City of Philadelphia banned gatherings of more than 1,000 people; and the fifth Flick and City Championships were cancelled on March 25.[12] A shortened 2021 season ran under a COVID-19 mitigation plan, with three Flicks in April and the City Championships on May 1 and 2.[12] Points trophies returned in 2022 after what the association called a two-year hiatus.[12]

Community role

The PSRA has directed funds and organizational effort into the shared infrastructure of the Schuylkill racecourse. In 2017 it donated $20,000 toward a new dock built by Temple University Crew and made available to the wider Philadelphia rowing community, which the association credited with improving the safety and efficiency of launching at its regattas.[12] It has co-sponsored USRowing referee candidate workshops in the Mid-Atlantic region with the Schuylkill Navy and the Camden County Boathouse, and a launch-driving class with the Navy at the Conshohocken Rowing Center.[12] Its stated mission includes serving as an advocate for junior and scholastic rowing, and it identifies keeping the sport affordable for families as a continuing challenge.[48][7]

Two PSRA rowers, Caitlin Cecere of Montclair High School and Ava Smith of Mount Saint Joseph Academy, were selected to row in the United States women's eight at the 2026 World Rowing U19 Championships.[1]

See also

Notes

  1. ↑ The race series was created by Manuel A. Flick in 1955 and first ran as the Manuel A. Flick Regatta in 1956.[4] The Philadelphia Scholastic Rowing Association, Inc., the Pennsylvania nonprofit corporation that now runs it, is much younger: its IRS ruling year is 1998,[7] and its amended and restated bylaws were adopted December 1, 2010.[10] A scholastic rowing association of some form existed earlier, being listed among the bodies quartered at #4 Boathouse Row after 1955.[16]
  2. ↑ Manuel Flick's date of death is not directly documented in any located source. It is inferable only from Paul Horvat's statement, reported by Dotty Brown, that Don Horvat died in 1984 "six years after Manuel Flick's death," which places it in about 1978.[4] No obituary has been identified, and this article therefore gives no precise date.
  3. ↑ The Brigantine Trophy for 2015 and 2016 follows from Mount Saint Joseph Academy's documented run of eighteen consecutive wins as of 2019,[39] and Conestoga's 2016 Kate Godwin Trophy is reported by PA Prep Live.[42] The remaining assignments cannot be sourced. Because Roman Catholic and St. Joseph's Prep are both all-boys schools they must hold the two boys' trophies, but no located source says which took the sweep trophy and which the sculling trophy.

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