CHERRY HILL, N.J. – The Northeastern men's rowing team kicked off the 2026 season with victories in the first and second varsity boats at Penn. The victory in the 1V returns the Burk Cup to Henderson Boathouse for the 31st time in series history, and seventh time in the last eight meetings.
 
It was a day of tight racing, with all races decided by one second on the Cooper River. 
 
The Cup was placed into competition in 1970 by "Friends of Pennsylvania Rowing" to honor Joseph Burk, a member of Penn crew from 1931 to 1934 and coach of the Quakers from 1950 to 1969. 
 
The Huskies will be back in action next weekend when Northeastern travels to Sarasota, Fla. for the IRA Invitational at Nathan Benderson Park. The two-day event will feature competition against some of the top crews in the nation in Harvard, Yale, Washington, Stanford and Brown. 
 

	First Varsity	Second Varsity	Third Varsity	Fourth Varsity
	1. Northeastern - 5:48.57	1. Northeastern - 5:50.08	1. Penn - 5:54.51	1. Penn - 5:59.52
	2. Penn - 5:49.12	2. Penn - 5:50.76	2. Northeastern - 5:55.63	2. Northeastern - 6:00.02
	- -	- -	- -	3. Penn 5V - 6:22.00
C	Alex Stamas	Connor Burke	AJ Hwangbo	Lal Yatagan
S	Julian Leonhardt	Maximilian Brill	Max Jarvie	Giovanni Santaniello
7	Alexander Willott	Luca Mezzanotte	Logan Smith	Marcus Mantecon
6	Mark Kakoma	Ned Botherway	Riley Putnam	Daniel Kelly
5	Edward Lopas	Aidan Murphy	Will Donovan	William Van Nice
4	Krystof Janac	Thomas Byass	Max Cossill	Charlie McLaren
3	Brandon Mark	Harry Oliver	Franklin Baron	James Burnham
2	Jakub Kyncl	Chase Brown	Miles Kramer	Quin Avery
B	Luke Hickling	Finn Houghton	Michael Kourakos	Collin Rydecki