Now seasoned rowers on the international stage, Campbell and Meyer are looking forward to competing on the familiar Charles River.

“[Head of the Charles] is the biggest [two-day] regatta in the world,” Muri says. “Even though it’s in our backyard, it’s still a big deal.… People who have competed in the Olympics are always happy to come back to the Head of the Charles. I know Andrew and Austin are looking forward to it as well. Everyone wants to race.”

And for many of the rowers, the regatta is almost as much a social event as it is a competition.

“Head of the Charles is one of those events for me where I get to see so many people from around the world that I know through rowing,” Meyer says. “It’s an awesome atmosphere, and it’s our home course. We get pumped up the most for Head of the Charles.”

As Campbell and Meyer get re-acclimated both to collegiate rowing and life as Harvard students, the question still remains as to whether the rowers will contend for spots on the 2016 Olympic team. Both Campbell and Meyer acknowledged tentative plans to train but deemed it too soon to know definitively.

“I would be shocked if they didn’t,” Muri says. “They are both very competitive, driven young men with tremendous amounts of talent. I can see them going on for another four years. They were so close, this time who knows. They have every opportunity to represent the U.S. in Rio in 2016.”

—Staff writer Alexa N. Gellman can be reached at agellman@college.harvard.edu.