Many area rowers came home with medals from last weekend's Philadelphia City Championships. Crews worked through qualifying rounds on Saturday and early Sunday morning in order to reach the finals later on Sunday.

All but about the last hour of Sunday's racing was done under rainy weather conditions.

In one of the first final-round races, Germantown Friends had Sophia McCrea (stroke), Mikaela Orenstein, Katalin Mardeusz, and Evalina Heep win the gold medal in the girls' freshman quad. At the end of the day, the rowers in Mount St. Joseph Academy's varsity eight (Angelina Baker - cox, Vanessa Ksiazek - stroke, Maya McCottry, Caroline Johnson, Addy Smith, Eva Getty, Ava Smith, Clara Pagano, Ellie Fazio) won their final by seven seconds over the runner-up boat.

The GFS girls also won the championship in the JV quad thanks to  Isabella Ammon (stroke), Nola Schaenen, Lyla Comley, and Lila Donovan. In the second eight final, the Mount won with a line-up consisting of Sydney Fluke (cox), Anna Ledwith (stroke), Molly Maher, Emily Feilke, Meghan Krumenacker, Shay Gura, Norah McGlynn, Julia Fede, and Layla Seward.

Penn Charter picked up a pair of gold medals in the girls' doubles events, with Sophia Toncich-Madel and Miranda Dziedzic taking first in the freshman/novice double, and with the veteran duo of Claire Lewis and Ellie Choate winning by eight seconds in the varsity double.

Mount St. Joseph won silver medals in the JV eight and varsity four, and a bronze medal in the freshman eight. Penn Charter won a silver medal in the girls' JV double and a bronze in the boys' varsity single.

GFS won a bronze medal in the girls' varsity quad, and Springside Chestnut Hill Academy won bronze medals in the girls' gig/novice single and the girls' JV quad.