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2025-26 Men's Lightweight Rowing Roster

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Finn Kiely

  • Height 6-2
  • Class Senior
  • Hometown Westport, Conn.
  • Highschool Hopkins School

Biography

2024-25
  IRCA Scholar Athlete
SPRING
  *NCLI: Second Varsity 8+, 4 seat (1st/3, 6:00.8; 2nd/3, 6:05.7)
  *Cornell/Harvard (Leonard Cup): Second Varsity 8+, 2 seat (2nd/3, 5:33.0)
  *Columbia/Yale (Colgan Cup): Second Varsity 8+, 2 seat (1st/3, 6:15.30)
  *Princeton/Gtown: Second Varsity 8+, 2 seat (1st/3, 6:26.1)
  *at Navy (1919 Trophy): Second Varsity 8+, bow seat (1st/2, 6:13.6)
  *EARC Sprints: Second Varsity 8+, bow seat (2nd/10, 5:58.387 heat/5:56.578 grand final)
  *IRA Nationals: Second Varsity 8+, bow seat (2nd/8, 5:43.880 heat / 5:41.300 grand final)
 
2023-24
  Helped Penn win Jope Cup (total points) at EARC Sprints for second time in program history (also 1967)
  IRCA Scholar Athlete
SPRING
  *NCLI: Varsity 8+, 4 seat (1st/2, 6:02.174; 1st/2, 6:00.464)
  *at Cornell w/Harvard: Varsity 8+ (Matthews Trophy), 4 seat (3rd/3, 6:01.5)
  *at Columbia w/Yale: Varsity 8+ (Dodge Cup), 4 seat (1st/3, 6:01.8)
  *at Princeton w/Georgetown: Varsity 8+ (Wood-Hammond), 4 seat (1st/3, 5:38.3)
  *vs. Navy: Varsity 8+ (Callow Cup), 4 seat (1st/2, 5:41.2)
  *EARC Sprints: Varsity 8+, 4 seat (2nd/9, 5:34.170 heat / 5:38.471 grand final)
  *IRA Nationals: Varsity 8+, 4 seat (3rd/8, 5:37.126 / 5:40.484 grand final)

2022-23
SPRING
  *Lightweight Invitational 1: Second Varsity 8+, stroke seat (1st/3, 5:51.9)
  *Lightweight Invitational 2: Second Varsity 8+, stroke seat (1st/2, 5:55.3)
  *Matthews/Leonard: Second Varsity 8+, stroke seat (1st/3, 5:45.5)
  *Dodge Cup: Second Varsity 8+, stroke seat (2nd/3, 6:13.9)
  *Wood-Hammond Cup: Second Varsity 8+, stroke seat (2nd/3, 6:28.4)
  *Callow Cup: Second Varsity 8+, stroke seat (1st/2, 5:53.3)
  *EARC Sprints: Second Varsity 8+, stroke seat (5th, 5:45.784 heat / 5:46.585 grand final)
  *IRA Nationals: Second Varsity 8+, stroke seat (6th/7, 5:59.080 grand final)

High School: Varsity rower, two-year captain at Saugatuck Rowing Club under head coach Dave Grossman … Helped his boat finish fourth in Youth Eights at Head of the Charles and sixth at Youth Nationals … Graduated cum laude … Earned a Presidential Scholarship Nomination.
 
Personal: Father rowed collegiately at Holy Cross … Enrolled in the College of Arts and Sciences.
 
Why Penn? “I chose Penn because it offers a chance to both study and compete at the highest level, and because I felt an instant connection with the values and culture of the team.”

Historical Player Information

  • 2022-23Freshman

  • 2023-24Sophomore

    6'2"
  • 2024-25Junior

    6'2"
  • 2025-26Senior

    6'2"