Hugh McAdam ’08 Makes US National Team for 2018 World Rowing Championships

PRINCETON, N.J. — Last week, 2008 Washington College graduate and former four-year member of the school’s men’s rowing team Hugh McAdam was officially named by USRowing to the 72-person roster that will represent the United States at the 2018 World Rowing Championships September 9-16 in Plovdiv, Bulgaria.

McAdam will race for the U.S. in the lightweight men’s double sculls along with Peter Schmidt. McAdam and Schmidt qualified for the team by winning the lightweight men’s double sculls at the Senior II/Para II Trials in West Windsor, N.J., earlier this month.

This will be McAdam’s second appearance at the World Rowing Championships. He was in the fifth-place boat in the lightweight men’s quadruple sculls at the 2015 World Rowing Championships. Since graduating from Washington College, McAdam has excelled as a sculler on the national and international level. His other top finished include eighth place in the lightweight single sculls at the 2013 World Rowing Cup II and an 11th place finish in that same event four years later.

A native of Hollis, N.H., McAdam began rowing as a walk-on at Washington College as a freshman in 2004 and served as team captain as a senior. He was a two-time All-Mid Atlantic Region selection for the Shoremen and finished fourth overall in the men’s lightweight four at the 2008 Dad Vail regatta.