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So, uh, Fullmetal (crew) - yvonne - 05-18-2014

Who are the Pac-12 women's rowing champions?

#youreslipping

Congrats to Women's Crew! - Nan3cy - 05-19-2014

For their first Pac-12 championship!  :)



http://www.paloaltoonline.com/news/2014/05/18/cardinal-women-discover-a-championship-at-lake-natoma

Re: So, uh fullmetal - fullmetal - 05-19-2014

I just got back from refereeing the Conference USA rowing championship (the rowing members are an ad-hoc collection of Big 12, SEC, C-USA, and some west coast crews--Oklahoma won the automatic qualifier, but they will not win NCAAs).  I did see the Pac-12 results, and the women's crew did an amazing job--or rather, they showed that the past year or two's work has been amazing.  Racing only shows you the quality of your practices.  The women are now definitely in the hunt for a national title with that kind of finish.  Ohio State swept the Big 10, Virginia won the ACC, and Princeton won the Ivy League.  Those three, plus the rest of the Pac-12 field, will all be chasing each other for the title in two weeks.  Make no mistake though, the Pac-12 finishes were extremely tight.  Stanford edged out wins, showing great poise down the stretch, but those margins were close, and there will be a large bullseye on the team's back as they head into the NCAA regatta.

The Stanford men are having a tough season, but it is the senior season for superlative collegian Austin Hack, so one can only hope that their IRA (national champ) regatta showing will be better than their Pac-12 showing.

Re: Congrats to Women's Crew! - Hulk01 - 05-19-2014

The team's coach is the son of my best friend from Stanford.

Proud moment!

This is a big deal. Over on BI ? [sound of crickets cheeping] - Redrum - 05-19-2014

As they never tired of reminding us,  Kal has pretty much owned us over the years.  The Bears have won 8 of the last 10 conference titles.  This time only Kal's novice 8 beat Stanford.  Stanford won the varsity 4,  Varsity#2 8  and Varsity 8 by 1.2 seconds over Washington and 1.8 seconds over Kal in third place.

Tried to find out what the similar record over the same period of time was for Big Row, but for some reason the common collegiate hosting server for both Stanford and Kal is down.

Kids tend to leave boxes of stuff  @ their folks' houses after college and  in our house there is a Redrumette box with a rowing medal from the Pac-10s in the early 2000s,  for the novice four.  Rowing was a great experience for a smallish but dogged athlete who delighted in her time out on Redwood City harbor channel.  And not just looking back with nostalgia.  It's a great sport and I'm glad she tried it before putting away childish things.



Re: So, uh, Fullmetal (crew) - CowboyIndian - 05-19-2014

(05-19-2014, 02:57 PM)garvin link Wrote:. Most surprising thing was a nearly complete set of Baseball Digests from 1966 to 1970.

My grandmother worked at the press where those were printed...along with Basketball Digest...so I had bunches of all of them from the '50s and early 60s. For some reason one that sticks in my mind is a cover pic of Bailey Howell....All-American from Mississippi State. Wish I had 'em now.

Re: This is a big deal. Over on BI ? [sound of crickets cheeping] - fullmetal - 05-19-2014

(05-19-2014, 01:58 PM)Redrum link Wrote:Kids tend to leave boxes of stuff  @ their folks' houses after college and  in our house there is a Redrumette box with a rowing medal from the Pac-10s in the early 2000s,  for the novice four.  Rowing was a great experience for a smallish but dogged athlete who delighted in her time out on Redwood City harbor channel.  And not just looking back with nostalgia.  It's a great sport and I'm glad she tried it before putting away childish things.

Wait, Redrumette rowed?  For Stanford...?

Indeed, but briefly - Redrum - 05-19-2014

She did it for the right reasons,  for the experience.  Early morning practices, seat racing, rowing to the San Mateo Bridge, rowing at Redwood Shores course.conditioning runs and lifting.  But she was pretty clear-eyed about it.  There were some real athletes coming into the team.  Taller, bigger, stronger.  I saw some of them.  Impressive.  So the Redrumette put in a season,  plus some offseason work,  saw the writing on the wall and went on to other things.  She did say that early mornings on the water were magic and she almost always came back to campus revved up.  The whole experience was a real gift, among many, that Stanford gave her.  I was jealous.

Re: So, uh, Fullmetal (crew) - Nan3cy - 05-19-2014

That's a lovely story about Redrumette. My son (there is no way to come up with a masculine equivalent to Nan3cy, so I won't even try) went out for crew his freshman year at Brown. Unfortunately they didn't have a lightweight crew, which he would have been perfect for (at 33, he is 6'2" and weighs less than 150, soaking wet), so he was on the same squad with the 220-pounders. He lasted six weeks, three of which he had a cold that turned into bronchitis that turned into pneumonia.

The next year he switched to Ultimate Frisbee, which he loved and stuck with for three years. It was a club sport that wasn't as much of a time sink and worked much better with his bioengineering major and premed requirements.


Love those stories - Mick - 05-19-2014

I had a roommate at SCU who ran dam faces at Lexington every morning at 5 a.m.  Just ridiculously great conditioning.  Our lightweight eight in 1982 was good enough to be invited to the Henley Royal Regatta, last SCU team invited.  The captain of that scull, Mike Connors is the women's crew coach at Sac State.

Re: So, uh, Fullmetal (crew) - fullmetal - 05-20-2014

I know the asst coach for the Sac State women pretty well--they were one of this year's C-USA rowing members.  Next year they'll be part of the American Athletic Conference (something like that?), and their conference championship regatta will be in New Jersey.  The travails of a smaller school...subject to the whims of conference realignments and painful travel budgets.

Redrum, I was a coxswain for Stanford during some of that time period.

Re: So, uh, Fullmetal (crew) - fullmetal - 05-25-2014

Women's rowing is ranked #2, behind Ohio State, coming into the NCAA championship regatta next weekend.  The selections for the regatta were announced here: http://www.ncaa.com//news/rowing/article/2014-05-20/field-selected-2014-di-womens-rowing-championships



Memory jog...Sac St. - Redrum - 05-26-2014

When I was rowing my single during my Sacramento days (wife in law school at McGeorge)  I would put in on the Sac St. facility at Lake Natoma.  They really invested in building up that place.  It was the Sac St. crews (men and women) that would do training in the heat of the day in late afternoon.  I would "race" against them, which involved a head start and holding them off as long as I could.  Even in a single there are times when the boat has rhythm and it feels great...until the women's eight comes by you at speed and you realize it's esthetically pleasing but you're not that fast.  It was even worse when their little pipsqueak coxes (sorry fullmetal)  were really feelin' it and made too-close passes for the hell of it.  Nice risk of some very expensive blades but I can't blame them.  Not a lot of thrills for sale in Sacramento summers and the upper end of Natoma toward Folsom dam is surrounded by high bluffs.  A regular furnace.  Buzzing me was probably the only fun anybody had.

Re: So, uh, Fullmetal (crew) - fullmetal - 05-29-2014

Coxswains have a bad habit of fixating on objects in their view and unconsciously steering toward them.  It's similar to how you'll steer a car toward something you're looking at.  Having said that, coxswains do take liberties with letting everyone in a given body of water that they're there...

En route to Mercer Lake, NJ for the IRA regatta.  Anyone in the Philly/NJ/NYC area should come down this weekend to watch some excellent racing.  The Stanford lightweight women are looking to repeat their national championship (this would make it a 5-peat?).  The Stanford men have a tough road ahead this weekend.

Re: So, uh, Fullmetal (crew) - Mick - 05-29-2014

(05-29-2014, 10:02 AM)fullmetal link Wrote:Coxswains have a bad habit of fixating on objects in their view and unconsciously steering toward them.  It's similar to how you'll steer a car toward something you're looking at.  Having said that, coxswains do take liberties with letting everyone in a given body of water that they're there...

En route to Mercer Lake, NJ for the IRA regatta.  Anyone in the Philly/NJ/NYC area should come down this weekend to watch some excellent racing.  The Stanford lightweight women are looking to repeat their national championship (this would make it a 5-peat?).  The Stanford men have a tough road ahead this weekend.


I'll be four miles away (as crow flies).  I'll try to get there if I can, but my schedule is pretty full this weekend.

Re: So, uh, Fullmetal (crew) - BigEasyCard - 05-30-2014

Stanford Women's Rowing placed first in all three heats this morning.  Next event for each boat is their respective semifinal tomorrow morning.

Geaux Cardinal!

Re: So, uh, Fullmetal (crew) - fullmetal - 05-30-2014

IRA race starts will go from 8AM until 1PM Saturday, and 8AM until 12:45PM on Sunday. 

Re: So, uh, Fullmetal (crew) - TreeWeird - 05-30-2014

Any way to follow the finals live online?



Re: So, uh, Fullmetal (crew) - fullmetal - 05-30-2014

NCAA (women's): http://www.regattatiming.com/results/ncaa/

IRA (men's, lightweight women's): http://ira.qra.org/ (As BigEasyCard posted in another thread)

Re: So, uh, Fullmetal (crew) - BobK - 05-31-2014

All three Stanford boats/teams to the Finals Sunday morning