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Alumni Highlights:
Owen Shakelton, SHHS Class of 2024: 2024 Scholastic Rowing Association Boys Double Sculls Bronze Medalist, currently rowing for Colgate
Kate Hahnenberg, SHHS Class of 2021: rowed with the USRowing Olympic Development Program and at Cornell University.
Natalia Miklos, SHHS Class of 2020: 2022 and 2023 MAAC Championship silver medalist and 2021 MAAC Champion in the Varsity 8+ at Marist College
Sophia Calabrese, SHHS Class of 2019: 2019 Scholastic Rowing Association Girls Single Sculls Champion, 2022 NCAA National Champion at the University of Texas, U.S. women's quad at the 2025 World Rowing Championships, and 2025 Head of the Charles Women's Championship Doubles
Xavier Aniton, SHHS Class of 2016: fourth captain of the SHHS men's team, captain for Jacksonville University, coached for Dallas United Crew, now in his second year as Shaker's head coach.
Ilana Polster, SHHS Class of 2011: coxed at Princeton where she took the 2V to a bronze medal at the Eastern Sprints and helped Princeton reclaim the Vogel Cup at the annual H-Y-P regatta
Cara Murphy, SHHS Class of 2010: captain for Mount Holyoke College, currently head coach for Mount Holyoke
Shaker Heights High School Women’s Rowing team was formed in 1997 when two high school students - Emily Caldes and Kerri Welsh - approached principal Jack Rumbaugh about creating a varsity team. At the time it was one of only two public high school rowing teams in Ohio. The Men’s team was launched in 2012, and the class of 2016 was the first class that rowed all 4 years as a combined team.
Currently, SHHS Rowing is one of four Teams-in-Residence at the Foundry, sharing the boathouse with Magnificat, St. Edwards, and the Foundry Juniors rowing programs.
SHHS Rowing has advanced boats to the Scholastic Rowing Association of America (SRAA) National Championships thirteen times. Our student-athletes have gone on to row at Colgate University, Cornell University, Jacksonville University, Purdue University, Smith College, University of Kansas, University of Pennsylvania, University of Texas, University of Vermont, West Virginia University, and more.