2016-17 Men's Crew (Heavyweight)

Stephan Riemekasten

  • Height 6-4
  • Weight 180
  • Class Senior
  • Hometown Berlin, GER
  • Highschool Alexander von Humboldt

Biography

2016-17 (Senior): Stroked the Yale first varsity to a national championship, an EARC Sprints title and a 7-0 dual racing season that included a victory in the Yale-Harvard Regatta... Received First Team All-Ivy Honors.

2015-16 (Junior): Rowed in the boat that won the Men''s Championship 8+ at the Head of the Charles Regatta.

2014-15 (Sophomore): Rowed in the Varsity at the Head of the Charles and Princeton Chase... Left Yale to join the Olympic Training Camps in Germany.

2013-14 (Freshman): Inelligible for racing.

National Team: Won gold medals for Germany at the Junior World Championships in 2010 and 2011… Won a silver medal at the 2012 World Rowing Under 23 Championships in the double… Finished fifth at the 2013 World Rowing Under 23 Championships in the double... Won a gold medal at the 2015 World Rowing Under 23 Championships in the double.

Before Yale: Rowed for the German National Team.

Personal: Member of Silliman College.