Lyme-Old Lyme Crew Victorious at State Championship Once Again

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May 19, 2025
The Lyme-Old Lyme High School crew team gathers for a photo to celebrate their victory at the CT Public School State Championships May 18 at Lake Waramaug in Litchfield. Photo submitted by OLRA.

National Learn To Row Day to be Held at Rogers Lake Boathouse on Saturday, June 7, 10-2, Free, All Welcome

OLD LYME–The Lyme-Old Lyme High School (LOLHS) crew team on Sunday continued their dominance of the Varsity Four category at the Connecticut Public School State Championships. 

The Old Lyme Rowing Association (OLRA) in a press release heralded the team’s multiple wins, as well as the return once again of the Hart Perry Points Trophy for excellence in fours. 

The LOLHS team competed in the May 18 championship event on Lake Waramaug in Litchfield, winning the three boys varsity races in four-person boats and garnering two first places finishes and a second place finish in girls varsity races. 

“The Lyme-Old Lyme High School program has dominated Connecticut public school fours competition for the last ten years, winning the points trophy numerous times,” the OLRA said. 

An escort of Old Lyme emergency vehicles accompanied the team’s buses on the final leg of their return to the high school.

On their return journey, the buses carrying the winning LOLHS crew teams traveled along Boston Post Rd. in Old Lyme accompanied by celebratory emergency vehicles with lights flashing and sirens sounding. Photo by K. Monson.

The Lyme-Old Lyme High School crew team operates out of the Fred Emerson Boathouse and is supported by the OLRA, which also hosts the Blood Street Sculls. 

The boathouse, now in its third building opened in 2017, has been an incubator for rowing excellence for over 50 years. Started in 1965 on Blood Street by Fred Emerson, the organization initially known as Blood Street Sculls has cultivated national champions and Olympians since its inception. 

Learn more about OLRA’s summer and fall programs for adults and kids at National Learn To Row Day on Saturday, June 7, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the boathouse on the corner of Boston Post Road and Town Woods Road. 

Information about the free event is available at www.oldlymerowing.org.

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Elizabeth Regan

Elizabeth started her journalism career in 2013 with the launch of The Salem Connect, a community news site inspired by digital trailblazers like Olwen Logan. Elizabeth’s earliest reporting included two major fires — one at a package store and another at a log cabin where she captured, on video, a state trooper fatally shooting the unarmed homeowner and suspected arsonist. The experiences gave her a crash course in public record searches, courthouse procedures and the Freedom of Information Act. She went on to report for The Bulletin, CT News Junkie, The Rivereast, and The Day, where she covered the Lymes and helped launch the Housing Solutions Lab on affordable housing. Her work has earned numerous awards from the Connecticut Society of Professional Journalists and the New England Newspaper & Press Association. Now, after more than a decade in digital, weekly, and daily journalism, she’s grateful to return to the place where it all started: an online news site dedicated to one small corner of Connecticut.

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