MONTREAL, Que. – A total of 23 student-athletes from the Guelph Gryphons rowing program made the trip to the Olympic Rowing Basin on Ile-Notre Dame in Montreal to compete in the 2025 Canadian University Rowing Championships. This year's national championship event featured a record 28 schools and 385 student-athletes from across the country converging in Montreal for the 28th annual Canadian University Rowing Championships, hosted by McGill. The Gryphons women's team finished in 8th (out of 28 schools) while the U of G men came in 9th (out of 28 schools) in the final team standings.
 
The Gryphons rowing team sent 11 women, 10 men and 2 coxswains to the Olympic Rowing Basin for the 2025 national championships. The highlight for the Gryphons, and the lone medal from nationals, came from the women's double skulls (2x) pairing of Megan Livingstone and Ceilidh Aho who took home the gold medal in the event. It marked the first in seven years in which the Gryphons who claimed a gold medal at the Canadian University Rowing Championships (with the last Gryphons to claim national gold being Carly Zanatta & Kaitlyn Dennis in the Lightweight Women's Double in 2018). Livingstone is a third-year environment resource management major from Mount Brydges, Ontario while Aho is second-year animal biology major from Newmarket. The pair qualified for the final by posting the second-fastest time in Saturday's time trial event with a time of 7:49.60. Livingstone and Aho were among the six teams that raced in Sunday's (Nov. 1) finals in the women's 2x, as they were the first team to finish with a time of 7:50.08 to win a national gold medal. The duo finished six seconds ahead of the Brock Badgers. 
 
The Gryphons got a great performance from Harry Denton and Franklin Goodfellow in the men's 2x event as they finished in 4th-place with a time of 7:09.72, narrowly missing out on a podium finish as they were three seconds behind Saskatchewan who came in 3rd. Ceildih Aho had a fantastic national championship as she crossed the finish line in 5th-place in the women's 1x, while Kira Moor, Jenna Nicholson, Steffanie Atanassov, Ella O'Connor and Gyidi Simpson also raced in Sunday's final in the lightweight women's four, finishing in 6th-place.
 
The Queen's Gaels won the women's championship with 119 points while the UBC Thunderbirds captured the men's championship with 112 points.
 

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Women's Final Point Standings
 
Queen's - 119
Western - 100
Victoria - 82
UBC - 76
Brock - 54
Toronto - 43
Trent - 42
Guelph - 39
Ottawa - 34
McGill - 30
Calgary - 29
Montreal - 28
Carleton - 16
McMaster - 12
Dalhousie - 5
Waterloo - 3
Nipissing - 2
Saskatchewan, UQAM - 1
Alberta, Concordia, ETS, Fraser Valley, UNB, Simon Fraser, StFX, Ontario Tech, Trinity Western – 0
 
Men's Final Point Standings
 
UBC - 112
Brock - 100
Victoria - 89
Queen's, Western - 73
McGill - 59
Toronto - 41
Ottawa - 40
Guelph - 34
Calgary - 21
McMaster - 19
Trent - 18
Carleton, Nipissing - 15
Montreal - 14
Saskatchewan - 10
Dalhousie - 4
Concordia - 3
Waterloo - 2
Alberta, ETS, Fraser Valley, UNB, Simon Fraser, StFX, Trinity Western, Ontario Tech, UQAM - 0