Rochester Rowing Club

Last night, we were preparing for a piece on Silver Lake, I glanced up to see a spectacular American Bald Eagle overhead whose head and tail feathers gleamed brilliant white in the setting sun. I told the kids to look up and what a spectacular sight they saw. We all looked on with awe as the eagle circled and flew back over us.

Mike Teti, coach of Princeton and the 2004 Gold Medal winning Olympic men’s eight described an identical practice stopping event on Lake Carnegie during preparation for their victorious season. He was coaching our high school reunion eight on Lake Carnegie when he stopped our row to tell us that story. We were spellbound. Mike had never seen an eagle flying overhead at Lake Carnegie before and now it flew right down the lake where the men’s eight was headed.

Both the Lake Carnegie and Silver Lake events were practice stoppers – an omen for the gold medal men’s eight and for our RRC rowers.

We will always remember this spectacular sight.