All competitors in a boat must attend the same scholastic program, defined as all participants must be students in the same school.
Competitors (including rowers and coxswains) may enter and compete in only one event.
Eligibility is assigned to students in their freshman through senior year (9th through 12th grades). Each athlete has four consecutive years (eight consecutive semesters) of eligibility beginning in September of their freshman year (9th grade). After eight consecutive semesters, a student will have completed his/her athletic eligibility and may no longer participate in the regatta. Post-graduate fifth year students (including Grade 13) are not permitted.
Eligible competitors must not have attained the age of 19 years prior to September 1 of the year proceeding the regatta (i.e. for the 2024 regatta, athletes must not have attained the age of 19 prior to September 1, 2023).
Junior events are restricted to competitors in the junior year (11th grade) or lower. Juniors, including coxswains, must not have attained the age of 18 years prior to September 1 of the year proceeding the regatta. Senior (12th grade) students may not compete in Junior events.
A school must enter the senior eight in order to enter a second eight. A school must enter the senior four in order to enter a second four.
No “B” boats are permitted. Only one entry per school per event is permitted.
All competitors in Boys and Girls Freshman Eight and Freshman Quad events must be high school freshmen (9th graders). Middle school, 7th, and 8th graders are not permitted.
Crews of home schooled athletes representing multiple public high school districts or more than one high school in a given district are not eligible. Contact the Schuylkill Navy for documentation requirements.
Lightweight rowers need to have a certification document submitted by April 19th to be eligible to compete as a lightweight.
