St. Joseph Notre Dame graduate Cosmo Hondrogen, 19, now a student at Dartmouth College, won a silver medal in the men’s lightweight single sculls at the Under 23 (U23) World Rowing Championships in Poznan, Poland, this past weekend.
[1]It was Hondrogen’s third race ever in a single scull event, and the highest finish for the U.S. in the event since 2019.
Before he went away to study at Dartmouth, the Alameda native raced for the Oakland Strokes, serving as team captain in his junior and senior year at St. Joe’s. In 2023, Hondrogen finished eighth in the Under 19 World Rowing Championship [3] in Paris in the straight four event—four men without a coxswain. In 2024, he won two golds at the US Rowing Southwest Youth Championship [4] before heading to the national championship in Florida.
He won the 2024 Oakland Strokes Bozzini Scholarship, awarded to the senior student-athlete who paired academic excellence with enthusiasm, optimism, and perseverance.
Hondrogen now rows for the Dartmouth men’s lightweight rowing team [5], who earned a silver medal at the 2025 Intercollegiate Rowing Association (IRA) National Championship [6] in June, less than three seconds behind national champion Harvard and more than two seconds ahead of third-place MIT. The Dartmouth rowers racked up the second-most team points (45) for the team trophy as well.
Alameda congratulates Hondrogen on his many successes!