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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
MONDAY, OCTOBER 28. 2014
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Two Kansas rowers make their way underneath a bridge at the Jayhawk Jamboree on Saturday. The Jayhawk Jamboree was only the second home regatta Kansas has held since 2005.
GEORGE MULLINIX/KANSAN
Kansas women's rowing hosts Jayhawk Jamboree
A team of Kansas rowers carries their boat to the banks of the Kansas River at the Jayhawk Jamboree on Saturday.
PAIGE STINGLEY
@paigestingley
The Kansas Band played "Row Row Row Your Boat" while the cheerleaders danced along on Saturday morning as hundreds of athletes and fans gathered at the University of Kansas Boathouse along the Kansas River.
The KU Women's rowing team hosted its second Jayhawk Jamboree on the Kansas River on Saturday. The jamboree is only the second home regatta the rowing team has held since 2005.
Women's rowing teams from Kansas State, University of Tulsa, Drake University and University of Iowa all participated in the event along with several men and women's club teams.
The Jayhawks finalized their roster just a couple of weeks ago, adding 19 novice members to the team. The regatta was the team's first event this season.
The women's varsity squads placed seventh and eighth in
the women's Varsity Eight race (out of 14 teams), along with sixth, eleventh and eighteenth in the Women's Varsity Four (out of 23 teams). The novice squads took fourth and sixth in the Women's Novice Eight (out of 13 teams) and third, sixth and seventh in the Women's Novice Four (out of 14 teams).
"It was so nice to compete at home in front of a home crowd."
ANGIE ALLEN
Freshman from Waterloo, Iowa
This is one of the rare opportunities the team has to compete in front of a home crowd. "It was so nice to compete at home in front of a home crowd," said Angie Allen, a freshman from Waterloo, Iowa. "We could really feel the support of our fans especially when they were loud and
cheering for us."
the Jayhawk Jamboree is one of two fall regattas that the team will participate in. They will travel to Chattanooga, Tenn., for the Head of the Hooch competition on Nov. 1.
Allen also added that a majority of the Jayhawk novices are freshmen who have little to no experience rowing. Other schools, including Kansas State, redshirt their freshmen to give them more experience before they compete on the novice team as sophomores.
"Seeing how close we were to beating them today is really encouraging, especially since we're freshmen and they're sophomores," Allen said.
Maggie Hornick, a junior from Lansing, Kan., is excited to see what the rest of the season will look like after positive results from these races.
"Today gave us a good baseline for the rest of the season," Hornick said. "And seeing how well we did today, that's really encouraging."
— Edited by Ashley Peralta
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