The Brock Badgers men's and women's rowing teams turned in a strong opening performance in their first regatta of the season, competing at the Western Invitationals in London, Ont., on Saturday, Sept. 19.
 
The Badgers collected an impressive 13 podium finishes across a variety of events, highlighted by nine gold medals, along with three silver and one bronze medal.
 
List of top three finishes at Western Invitational (in order of event schedule):
 

• Gold in the lightweight men's pair (Ivan Fernandez and Levi Patterson-Raby), 07:23.7
• Gold in the lightweight men's double (Riley Watson and Joe Coughler), 06:55.5
• Silver in the open men's double (Charles-Etienne Tabet and Ethan Postma), 07:07.2
• Gold (Maddox Harrison and Euan Coulson) and bronze in the open men's pair (Keithan Woodhouse and Domenico Patitucci), 07:11.7 and 07:23.9
• Gold in the women's double (Kristina Harris and Maelie Lamontagne), 07:49.2
• Silver in the women's pair (Hailey Mercuri and Jordan Rogers), 08:00.9
• Gold in the lightweight men's single (Jonas Masys), 07:32.4
• Gold in the women's four (Hailey Mercuri, Jordan Rogers, Maelie Lamontagne, Kristina Harris, Avery Coles), 07:25.7
• Gold in the men's four (Hunter Guillermette, Shawn Nesbitt, Josh Vanderbaart, Jack Coulson, Daniel Phillips), 06:44.0
• Silver in the lightweight men's four (Griffin Wick, Levi Patterson-Raby, Ivan Hernandez, Arden White, Haley Knott), 06:58.7
• Gold in the open men's eight (Maddox Harrison, Ethan Postma, Keithan Woodhouse, Shawn Nesbitt, Hunter Guillermette, Jack Coulson, Josh Vandervaart, Euan Coulson, Haley Knott), 06:05.6
• Gold in the lightweight men's eight (Riley Watson, Joe Coughler, Griffin Wick, Arden White, Ivan Fernandez, Daniel Hunt, Gavin Lewis, Jonas Masys, Daniel Phillips), 06:10.7

 
Up next, the Badgers are back in action on Saturday, Oct. 3 at the Head of the Trent in Peterborough, Ont., looking to build on their early momentum.