Best School For Crew

laughalittle
Mon, 30 May 2011 08:29:07 +0000

They do participate in the Head of the Charles race. Here is what peddie.org has to say about their girl’s crew:

Girls crew win gold at USRowing Youth National and Scholastic Nationals

The names change, but the results have been nothing less than spectacular. At the 2009 USRowing Youth National Championships in Cinncinati, the girls four boat of senior stroke Shelley Pearson (Harvard), senior three seat Reva Geier (Virginia), senior two seat Erica Lockard (UCLA), sophomore bow Sarah Libfraind and senior coxswain Emily Boudreau (Cornell) landed on the victory stand with a dominating 9.49-second victory in the grand final. It’s the third gold in the last four national regattas for a Falcon quartet.

Just three weeks prior to Youth Nationals, the same Peddie boat along with sophomore cox Avery Steele overwhelmed the field to win the gold at Scholastic Nationals on Mercer Lake. By the first 500 meters in the grand final, it was clear that Peddie had the superior boat as they blitzed their nearest competition by a whopping 9.8 seconds.

Pearson helped the United States to gold in the women’s eight at the 2009 World Rowing Junior Championships in Brive-la-Gaillarde, France.

Today, Peddie crew offers a unique opportunity to both experienced rowers and interested newcomers. Most boats in the inventory are sweep fours with coxswain. Under the direction of the program’s head coach Barbara Grudt, crew is growing in scope and can boast regional and national achievements.

Thanks to the generosity and vision of the late Finn M.W. Caspersen, class of 1959, Peddie Crew was re-established in 1987 after a hiatus of more than 50 years. Peddie actually had its first crew in the fall of 1930 courtesy of legendary Princeton University Coach Charles (“Chuck”) Logg who organized several informal races on Carnegie Lake pitting Tiger freshman against a competitive “Old Gold and Blue” contingent.

Rowing at nearby Mercer County Lake, the team has access to the state-of-the-art Caspersen Rowing Center equipped with six boat bays, an erg room, office and meeting rooms as well as a three-story finish line tower. The world class facility was the official U.S. Olympic Training Site for the 2008 Summer Games in Beijing.

Head races are typically held in the fall. In this form of racing competitors row against the clock and the crew with the fastest time is deemed to be the winner. Racing usually takes place in different categories (for different boat classes and abilities). The length of these races is usually between two and three miles and include the Head of the Christina, Navy Day, Head of the Charles and Schuylkill.