Queen's Rowing pulled off the double, winning the gold medal on both the Women's and the Men's side at the OUA Rowing Championships in St. Catharines, Ont. this past weekend.

On the Women's side, it was the fourth straight gold medal performance for the Gaels. While on the Men's side, it was the first gold medal performance since 2008 for Queen's. The Women's side finished with a total of 501 points across the weekend, more than 100 more points than the second place finishers, the Western Mustangs. The Men's side finished with 483 points over the weekend, 61 more points than the second place finishers from Western.

Overall, the Gaels finished with nine gold medals, five silver medals, and two bronze medals. Queen's also came away with three of the four major awards at the championship. Kaija Erickson (Kinesiology and Health Studies) was named the Women's Student-Athlete of the Year for the Gaels while the Queen's coaching staff won both the Women's Team and Men's Team Coaches of the Year awards, with Scott Feddery and Kathleen Rankin being named the Women's Team Coaches of the Year and Stu Robinson being named the Men's Team Coach of the Year.

Winning gold for Queen's over the weekend on the Women's side were the Women's 2X crew, Women's 2- crew, Women's 4+, Lightweight Women's 4+, Lightweight Women's 8+, and on the Men's side were Lightweight Men's 2X crew, Lightweight Men's 2- crew, Lightweight Men's 4+, and Lightweight Men's 8+.

Julia Schuurmans (Medicine) and Abigail Cox (Sciences) won gold in the Women's 2X. Jacquie Groenewegen (Computer Engineering) and Erickson won gold in the Women's 2-. Groenewegen, Erickson, Mackenzie Thompson (Applied Science), Seija Erickson (Kinesiology and Health Studies), and cox Ava Wong (Arts) won gold in the Women's 4+. Isi Ferguson (Civil Engineering), Sophie Aspinall (Health Sciences), Orla Bailey (Sciences), Gillian Jansen (Life Science: Specialization), and cox Nicole Schmidt (Nursing) won gold in the Women's Lightweight 4+. And Jansen, Isabel Geiger (Biology-Psychology), Ferguson, Aspinall, Sophie Robbins (Physics and Computer Science) Ayva Cottrell (Arts & Science), Hadley Michael (Geological Sciences), Juliet Fandrich (Arts & Science), and cox Rowan Lawlor (Life Sciences and Biochemistry) won gold in the Lightweight Women's 8+.

Nigel Radhakrishnan (Electircal Engineering) and Leo Biancaniello (Applied Science) won gold in the Lightweight Men's 2X. Markus Muller (Engineering Chemistry) and Kieran Fitzpatrick (Commerce) won gold in the Lightweight Men's 2-. Dennis Ovdiyenko (Mining Engineering), Alexander Ladage (Graduate Studies), Liam Shapland (Electrical Engineering), James Cuff (Life Sciences), and cox Madeline Worthy (Arts) won gold in the Lightweight Men's 4+. And Jackson Schwandt (Mathematical Physics), Ladage, Shapland, Benjamin Schindler (Concurrent Ed/Arts), Fitzpatrick, Cuff, Ovdiyenko, Muller, and cox Lauren Schwandt (Geological Engineering) won gold in the Lightweight Men's 8+.

Winning silver for the Gaels were the Lightweight Women's 2X, Lightweight Women's 2-, Lightweight Men's 1X, Men's 2X, and Men's 2-.

Cox and Lucy Finlayson (Health Sciences) won silver in the Lightweight Women's 2X and Geiger and Michael won silver in the Lightweight Women's 2-. 

Biancaniello won silver in the Lightweight Men's 1X, Peyton Williams (Applied Science) and Radhakrishnan won silver in the Men's 2X, and Alexander Wittstock (Smith School of Business) and James MacNeil (Kinesiology) won silver in the Men's 2-.

And winning bronze medals for Queen's were the Men's 1X and the Men's 8+.

Williams won bronze in the Men's 1X while Chase Morris (Smith Engineering), Liam Haughian (Engineering), Joshua Mills (Applied Science), Andrew Schrompf (Chemistry), MacNeil, Connor Dickson (Applied Science), Aiden MacPhail (Arts Econ), Wittstock, and cox Sean O'Connor (Economics) won bronze in the Men's 8+.

Queen's Rowing will close out their 2026 season at the Canadian University Rowing Championship (CURC) from Nov. 6-8 in London, Ont.