FSN Freshman Phenom Coxswains Criteria:
▪️Top-10 Freshman Phenom Coxswains: All-Division 1 Men’s Rowing
The Driver. The Mastermind Behind The Scenes. The Coach’s Eyes and Ears. The List Goes On.
At the collegiate level, you often come across athletes with first-class talent, but in the coxswain realm, the insight or mere knowledge of the scene remains fairly silent to their rower counterparts.
After our recent project showcasing some of the most dynamic Freshman Rowers heading into the 2026 Season, the FSN Team sat down and curated one of the most unprecedented and historic lists of Freshman Talent, specifically for the 2025-2026 Season, across all arenas of Men’s Collegiate Rowing, being the first of its kind, and this time around, directly for the 9th Seat.
The impact that these Freshman are making both on water and land is monumental. Head Coaches identifying these mental masterminds as having such an incredible start to their collegiate career and the amount of potential each of them hold in their program is quite honestly astonishing.
Coxswains airing both coasts of the nation specifically representing their own respective conference, and in this case the 15 Eastern Association of Rowing Colleges (EARC) programs which includes all eight of the Ivy League institutions, and the now five Mountain Pacific Sports Federation (MPSF) programs, took over the FSN table as Admin discussed, heavily researched, and analyzed the respective talent pool in the Men’s Collegiate Rowing scene of elite coxswains in their Freshman Year.
With five Ivy League coxswains honored this season, four on Heavyweight Rosters and one Lightweight roster player, Cornell Men’s Heavyweight & Lightweight Rowing naturally held the highest mode of Men’s Rowing coxswains honored on FSN Pre-Season Coxswain Honors, respectively.
Each individual featured on this select list have demonstrated their ability both at the domestic and even international level during their years coxing at the Youth Level, that certify the fact that they are more than ready to take on the leadership demands of some of the best collegiate rowing programs in the country. Their pure Athlete IQ, boat feel, encouragement for their teammates on and off the water, and the ability to remain coachable in the preparation for a mighty 2026 racing season, ranges at some of the highest percentages in their class earning a proper “hat-tip” from the FSN Front Office.
2025-2026 FSN Freshman Phenom Coxswains All-Division 1 Men’s Rowing:
1. Mike Kain, California
2. Connor Miller, Syracuse
3. Peter Litwin, Princeton
4. Ginger Bernstein, Stanford
5. Rhea Kaycee, Cornell
6. Rahul Ramakrishnan, Brown
7. Yoonu Park, Cornell
8. Kavi Singh, Santa Clara
9. Cate Frerichs, Harvard
10. Emily Bruno, Georgetown