Coach Thrasher

End of the Season

Wow, I can hardly believe it, the rowing season is over. We started off with 8 varsity rowers and 8 novice rowers, and finished with 6 varsity and 6 novice, with two novice coxswains. Nobody was cut from the team, but as often happens with rowing, it's so much work that people naturally opt-out when they need to.

Championships were held at Lake Natoma on Saturday and Sunday. Of the 7 men's boats entered, 4 of them made it through heats to the finals. Those 4 boats were all varsity sculling boats: 1x, 2x, 2x-LT, and 4x. Our MN4+, MV4+, and MN8+ didn't make the finals this year. The sculling boats that made it, did very well. They effectively placed in the top half of all boats in the Southwest USRowing region.

Official results have been posted for Saturday and Sunday. For Palo Alto Rowing Club, our results are as follows:

M2x Heat1: 3/7, Final: 5/6, Overall: 5/13

M2x Lt Heat1: 3/6, Final: 6/6, Overall: 6/11

M1x Heat2: 2/7, Repechage: 1/7, Final: 5/7, Overall: 5/26

M4x Heat2: 2/5, Final: 5/6, Overall: 5/14

MV4+ Heat3: 6/6

MN4+ Heat3: 5/7

MN8+ (this boat included two novice girls to make an 8) Heat2: 7/7

The 2x, which had rigging issues in the last podcast, was fixed by raising the rigging up about 3/8 of an inch using stainless steel washers as a spacer. The boat ran really well with the riggers raised.

I have a considerable amount of video from the regatta that I'll put up on the podcast once I get around to editing it.

Posted at 11:50AM May 23, 2007 by jason in Rowing  |