2023 women's D1 rowing recruiting advice

blueberriesforsal
Sat, 21 May 2022 19:44:08 +0000

You brought up an old memory for me: 30+ years ago I was in a fast boat out of Seattle. We had no attention from any of the schools “back east” because we were just so far away and the west coast wasn’t considered that great for rowing. The invitational camps weren’t interested in anyone in the boat either, and yet our times were terrific and we went off to USRA championships that summer to see what we could do.

We won each of our heats with open water over the national camp boats.

Uh oh…maybe we shouldn’t have pulled so hard in the heats - they must be holding back a lot and they’re probably going to walk right through us in the final. Maybe we screwed up our race plan, oh no…

Well in a wonderful Cinderella final, we won gold; 2.5 lengths over the closest national camp boat - the boat that was on it’s way to Worlds.

We all went home to Seattle, and I got a phone call from Brown the next week.