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2019-20 Men's Rowing Roster

Chris Tzekov

  • Height 6-4
  • Weight 195
  • Class Senior
  • Hometown Bellevue, Wash.
  • Highschool Newport

Biography

2019: Sat in the three seat as the third varsity raced against Northeastern and No. 12 Penn’s second varsities, placing second ahead of No. 12 Penn with a time of 5:55.89 in the Burk Cup (Mar. 30) … Was the three seat for the third varsity, helping them to a time of 6:06.78 against No. 2 Washington (Apr. 6) … Raced with the third varsity in the three seat, defeating No. 18 Oregon State with a time of 6:06.5 (Apr. 6) … Helped the third varsity to a time of 5:58.78 in the three seat in a victory over No. 13 Stanford (Apr. 7) … In the three seat, earned a second-place time of 6:55.40 with the varsity four against two Boston University crews in the Arlett Cup (Apr. 14) … Sat in the three seat as the third varsity was defeated by No. 5 Brown’s third varsity (6:50.0) at the Dreissigacker Cup (Apr. 20)... Was the three seat as the third varsity finished in 5:53.5, losing to No. 3 Harvard at the Smith Cup (May 4)…Sat three seat for third varsity, finishing in 5:50.1 to defeat No. 14 Wisconsin in the petite finals of the Congram Cup (May 5)... Sat two seat on third varsity as they finished first in the petite finals (5:52.326) ranking seventh in the nation at the IRA Championships (June 2).

2017: Sat in the seven seat for the second varsity against Boston University (Apr. 7), finishing first with a time of 6:26.5 … Was the seven seat for the second varsity at Brown (Apr. 15), helping the boat to a first place finish at 6:22.8 ... Was the seven seat for the Smith Cup (Apr. 29), finishing second in the first varsity to No. 4 Harvard with a time of 5:51.420 … In the seven seat, helped first varsity to victory in the Congram Cup, topping No. 13 Wisconsin (Apr. 30) with a time of 5:39.3 … Helped the second varsity to an 11th place finish nationally in the three seat at the IRA Championships (Jun. 2-4) with a fifth place finish in the Petite Final (5:56.791).

Before NU: Attended Newport High School and competed for the Sammamish Rowing Association from 2011 to 2016 under coach Steven Freygang, where he also served as captain.
 
Personal: Chris Tzekov … Born to Svetla and Latchezear Tzekov … Intends to major in pharmacy … Class of 2022.

Historical Player Information

  • 2016-17Freshman

    6'3" 200 lbs
  • 2017-18Sophomore

    6'4" 195 lbs
  • 2018-19Junior

    6'4" 195 lbs
  • 2019-20Senior

    6'4" 195 lbs