Upper Yough Race

Upper Yough Race The Upper Yough Race is a premiere whitewater race held the fourth Sat in July. The course is 5+ miles of remote, continuous class IV whitewater.

Last post race results wrap up---the unofficial/official WORKING CLASS. This is a shout out to the 5 fine folks who work...
08/05/2026

Last post race results wrap up---the unofficial/official WORKING CLASS.
This is a shout out to the 5 fine folks who worked on the river, hustled back up to the put in, paddled that flatwater again and raced!

From left:
Matt Kennedy, 16th overall 33:27.2
Matt Fithian, 7th overall 32:20.2
Nick Parsons, 14th overall 33:18.7
Andrew Brant, short boat winner 34:37.8
Hannah Studdard, 4th w's short boat 38:37.3 (not pictured)

Thanks for your support and great job!

Hit me up--IR has prizes for yinz. 🎁

📷 K Rico Photography

Super tight race for the win. 💪💪💪Congratulations to the men's long boat podium! from left:🥈2nd place Ian Wingert 31:01....
08/03/2026

Super tight race for the win. 💪💪💪
Congratulations to the men's long boat podium!

from left:
🥈2nd place Ian Wingert 31:01.7 (3x winner)
🥇1st place Andrew McEwan 31:00.0 (8th win!)
🥉3rd place George Boss 31:54.2

I don't know why we need to ship these guys in from Washington to win this thing 😆, but George Boss and the rest of the top 10 are putting the pressure on to change that.

Here's the rest of the top 10:
4th Daniel Smith 31:57.5
5th Justin Stevens 31:57.6
6th Mason Smith 32:09.4
7th Matt Fithian 32:20.2
8th Ben Perrin 32:30.1
9th Quinn Frassetta 32:35.3
10th Ben Zurflieh 32:42.9

📸 K Rico Photography

Less than 19 seconds between these 3 rock stars. 🤩 Congratulations to the women's long boat podium--and the entire long ...
08/03/2026

Less than 19 seconds between these 3 rock stars. 🤩 Congratulations to the women's long boat podium--
and the entire long boat class. STRONG WORK!
From left:

🥉 3rd place Elsa Kelley 34:51.9
🥈 2nd place Christina Kossis 34:45.5
🥇 1st place Alex Horne 34:32.9
💪💪💪

📸 K Rico Photography

I'm bias-- I love this class. I just love the idea of having to work together, navigating the lines and paddling hard on...
07/31/2026

I'm bias-- I love this class. I just love the idea of having to work together, navigating the lines and paddling hard on this river.

Introducing.... the Raft class.

Largest raft class with 5 boats this year--would love to see this grow and all the rafting companies sponsoring teams...

1st place Brandon Brown and Meredith Wessel
2nd place Travis Cowles and Travis Cowles 🤣💪
3rd place Nic Williams and Ray Weiss

📸K Rico Photography

These folks raced in a 2 person kayak!👯‍♀️Presenting the Duo class podium. 🥈2nd place Noah Yohn and Lucas Kashon 35:30.2...
07/31/2026

These folks raced in a 2 person kayak!👯‍♀️

Presenting the Duo class podium.

🥈2nd place Noah Yohn and Lucas Kashon 35:30.2
🥉3rd place Noah Wisdom and Cassidy Fosdick 36:29.4
🥇1st place Ethan Hartley and Kirby Simeon 34:31.7

📸 K Rico Photography

Our lonely OC-1 podium Aaron Lewis with a time of 39:51.3. 👏Anyone else brave enough to attempt the race in an open cano...
07/30/2026

Our lonely OC-1 podium Aaron Lewis with a time of 39:51.3. 👏
Anyone else brave enough to attempt the race in an open canoe? Let's get a class together next year 🤞

up next: women's short boat podium 👏3rd place Charlotte Szekely1st place Jessica Catherine Cook2nd place Jennifer Stoner...
07/29/2026

up next: women's short boat podium 👏

3rd place Charlotte Szekely
1st place Jessica Catherine Cook
2nd place Jennifer Stoner (not pictured)

A regular sight on release day-these three have been pushing each other for years, trading podium spots and making every race a battle. Times were almost as close as the women's long boat class. https://racesplitter.com/races/BE68A2132?split=1&groups=K-1+WOMEN+SHORT+BOAT
Great job ladies!

Can not express enough how much joy it brings me to see so many women on the river-having fun and racing hard! 🙌 🤠

loving these photos K Rico Photography

Ladies and gentlemen-your Junior podium (revised)from left2nd place Reggie McCauley3rd place Michael Smith1st place Domi...
07/28/2026

Ladies and gentlemen-your Junior podium (revised)

from left
2nd place Reggie McCauley
3rd place Michael Smith
1st place Dominic Morrell

This was Reggie and Michael's first year racing. 🙌

Reggie was our youngest competitor who just turned 13! Fantastic! and sorry I missed that Reggie!

Our next youngest, Michael at 14, completed the family quartet--racing with his two brothers (not so long ago juniors) and dad.

And Dom...Dom has been racing in the UY race for so long that I was certain he wasn't still a junior--but guess what--he'll be a junior next year too. And he was 12th overall!

Great job! Love watching these guys progress!

Thx K Rico Photography

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