<p>Is there anyone out there who is a coxswain and got recruited to go to an ivy league school?</p>
<p>whats a coxswain? sounds dirty…</p>
<p>small build, rower, sits in fore or boat facing toward crew, microphone, calls the stoke. A nice job really and shorter, lighter than rest of crew.</p>
<p>does he row? is he an athlete? yelling out strokes doesn’t seem very impressive to me (no offense)</p>
<p>haha I don’t know much about rowing, but i’m 5’4" 115 lbs. haha, maybe i’d be good at it.</p>
<p>The coxswain doesn’t actually do the rowing, he basically tells all of the rowers what to do. I mean, there isn’t exactly a coach out on the water. From the little I know, I think he tells the rowers how hard to stroke, keeps them in sequence, and directs/steers them.</p>
<p>wow i would be really good at that.</p>
<p>and what an awesome title: Coxswain.</p>
<p>I say yes, just because it is a really cool title. </p>
<p>Seriously, unless there is a dearth of coxswains at Harvard, I don’t think it will be a significant “tip” factor unless you are recruited. If coxwains aren’t recruited athletes, then it will be just another EC. If you have devoted a lot of time to it, it could be a cool one and also turn itself into a cool essay, but other than that I don’t think simply being a coxswain is an advantage.</p>
<p>Lol I get tickled using that word. Coxswain. Hehe</p>
<p>Harry Parker runs summer programs…have you gone to any of those? Also each and every boat has a Cox…try your best to get on the radar for recruitment. Good Luck…rowing on the Charles is a grand experience.</p>
<p>They don’t need to recruit coxswains… the coaches literally just ■■■■■ the lines at registration pulling out random first-years who are really small… very little training, they basically just throw you in the mix…</p>
<p>When I was a first-year, I weighed something like 120, 5’5"… coach just threw my a crew t-shirt and told me to show-up at the boat house… I only did it for one semester…</p>
<p>wow. i’m really interested in being a coxwain now… haha</p>
<p>You might want to get in touch with a coach - it wouldn’t hurt. Obviously, Harry Parker and the heavy men are the best around, and I’d venture to guess that if he recruited a coxie this year that the coxswain applied early. However, there are also the light men, coached by Charley Butt, and then the women’s squads. Have you had any contact with any of these coachs in the past? Coxswain recruitment is based a lot less on hard facts like erg scores for rowers, and much moreso on race experience, personal relationships, etc. If you’re looking to get recruited this year, you’re way late in the game, but if you’ve got something great to offer, there’s always a chance you could get support regular - although recruited rowers apply through the SCEA program, for the most part. Best of luck to you.</p>
<p>just a tip: it’s not pronounced like it’s spelled.</p>
<p>My roommate’s a coxswain, and it’s not just something that you can start up and immediately be good at…you really have to know the sport to be good at it…you have to know not only how to motivate, but how to correct things, tell people what they’re doing wrong during a race and how to correct it, and do it at a fairly rapid pace, all the while steering the boat, which i hear isn’t as easy as it sounds…there are definitely good coxswains and bad coxswains…so many people think that all they do is yell…i know for sure that i couldn’t do it.</p>
<p>and u have to wake up at like 4:30 in the morning…</p>
<p>Like all other Ivy coaches, rowing coaches get to give a list with their preferred recruits to the admissions office for “special” consideration. The conventional wisdom holds that a rowing coach will list only oarsmen and won’t give up a spot on the list for a coxswain. That being said, however, definitely get in touch with the coach and see if there’s any other assistance or encouragement he/she can provide.</p>
<p>i wish they recruited coxswains…</p>
<p>is it easy to walk-on to Harvard crew or something…? ive heard that somewhere before…</p>
<p>Does anyone know the academic requirements to be recruited by an ivy league school for a coxswain?</p>
<p>Well IF a Cox is recruited the score and GPA would be just as you might expect. Whatever it takes to survive…you could be purely average but it would be nice to be higher than that. You are asking about a sport that demands great talent and is popular but Cox is a very different thing than oarsman as has been pointed out. A true academic, never having had the opportunity to Cox, but has an interest is reasonably trainable and size is the ticket. Good hearing, size and leadership.</p>
<p>i bet it would help, it seems that most harvard recruits are in rowing. (may not be true, but it seems like that.) i guess rowing is a big deal out east. its kinda like how we have hockey. not super popular, but popular enough for most schools to have a team.</p>