quieteyes

Can anyone on the lightweight crew team shed some light on how much of a time commitment is involved? Do you do other extracurriculars or is crew the only thing because it's such a time-suck?

Spontaneity

It's pretty time consuming. Usually they row M-F 5-7am (you'd have to get up around 4am since they drive us over to Jack London) and also Saturdays 8-10am. The team does conditioning (lifting, erging, etc.) in the early evenings too.

Races are SUPER fun and everyone on the team is really nice. You can also give your coxswain a lot of s**t for anything that happens out in the water =P

Note: I used to be a coxswain for crew, but I had to quit since I would only get an hour of sleep every night...(finishing psets by 2-3am haha).

starryburst

Since you have experience spontaneity- is it usually only freshmen or students of all ages? had you done crew before?

Spontaneity

There's a fair amount of newcomers on the team--mostly freshmen, but there's also a large amount of upperclassmen too.

The only time I did crew was when I came to Cal. We didn't have that program at my high school.

haloshots

I'm planning on joining too, about how many asians are on the team? just curious

Spontaneity

Not many when I joined. Including me, I think there were about three or four?