Coach Thrasher

US National Team visits Palo Alto Rowing Club

We had an awesome morning on the water today. Palo Alto Rowing Club had US National Team coach Kris Korzeniowski come for a visit, on the water. Having leadership of that caliber available to our junior rowers, was a fantastic privilege for the program. The US Women's Lt 2x also joined us, consisting of Julie Nickols and Renee Hykel. The kids asked numerous questions and had good opportunities to interact with Kris, Julie, and Renee. It's extremely rare to have this kind of interaction with elite level people, it will be remembered for a long time.

After practice all of the coaches, and Renee and Julie, went to Hobbies in Palo Alto for some local coach's breakfast grub. It really struck me while we talked that the US team are very down to earth: they are real people. Sometimes I feel I miss that when seeing them in the media. We shared stories and talked about rowing and coaching. They've had a great journey to this point. Renee and Julie: Good luck in Beijing in 2008!

Posted at 04:00PM Feb 24, 2007 by jason in Rowing  |