Stotes or the Stotesbury cup regatta is the world's largest high school regatta and held annually on the Schuylkill river in Philadelphia PA. It is a major event for the rowing community in the east coast and most schools participate. A non profit organization of 11 rowing clubs in PA, known as the Schuykill Navy, help runthis event and a volunteer committee organizes it.

Coming towards the end of the rowing season, it is a festive event for most teams to join with friends and family and celebrate the last season !

More information at : https://stotesburycupregatta.com/about/

The traffic routes around kelly drive are blocked during the regatta days and parking is not trivial.

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Sidwell teams may row in multiple categories; but the coaches will decide on participation each year. The lineups are circulated among the rowers a week or so in advance, when possible.

The team (including those not rowing) leave Thursday morning for Philadelphia. Once there, they rig the boats and have a practice row. The regatta involves "heats" on Friday, with each category of boats (Varsity, V2, Freshman, etc.) setting off about every 15 seconds in a race against the clock. These are time trials, unlike the competitive heats. So the top 12 or 18 times qualify for semifinals.

The schedule will be posted on the regatta website (link) as well as updated on SFS rowing (link)

Stotes is a great event for the rowing community at Sidwell.

Sidwell rents a tent along Kelly Drive, and we set it up for parents to watch and rowers to rest/relax and cheer for their teammates. We have food and drinks for all. Bring your chair, your binoculars, your camera, and your water bottle. Kelly Drive, which runs along the race course on the Schuylkill River, is mostly closed to traffic, so you will either need to park and walk or take an Uber/Lyft from your hotel.

We will send more specific directions on this each year, closer to the regatta

The team will stay together in a hotel, with rooms shared between rowers. Parents do not stay with the rowers - although there may be parent accommodation in the same hotel.

SFS rowing will coordinate a block of reservations each year, which parents can reserve if they like. Information about this will be included in the group emails; but please email sfsrowing if you are not sure.