Rowing Recruiting with Good Academics

mom2jgd
Wed, 18 Apr 2018 03:22:02 +0000

I’m not an expert on the topic, but I believe you’re much more likely to receive a recruitment advantage as a rower. You’re a lightweight. Erg scores are important for initial contact with collegiate coaches, but they mean less for LW (a rower twice your weight could pull erg times twice as fast as you but would slow down a boat in the water). There are fewer colleges with lightweight women’s programs, but many are highly selective colleges: Stanford, Princeton, MIT, etc. Here’s a list: http://www.row2k.com/teams/ The colleges with LW next to them have lightweight women’s programs. If you’re rowing with a club and have multiple clubs to choose from, find one that has enough lightweights to send an 8 to Nationals.