Wednesday, September 10, 1997
The University Daily Kansan
Section B·Page 3
Women hit water rowing
Tryouts to end this week; team readies for meets
By Brad Hallier sports@kansan.com Kansan writerwriter
Even though the women's rowing season does not start until the spring, the team is working preparing for the season and its fall schedule.
The recent tryouts also will conclude this week, assistant coach Heather Galvin said.
"We had 90 girls come out for 30 spots, and that's not bad," Galvin said.
The first official day on the water was Sept. 3 for the varsity and Sept. 5 for the freshmen. The practices have been a new experience for most walk-ons.
"We've been mostly teaching the freshmen how to row," head coach Rob Catloth said. "It's like learning a whole new language for them because when we say or tell them something new, they look at us like they have no idea what we're saying."
The varsity team has two practices a day. Morning practices start at 6 a.m. and include a lot of technical work.
"Fall season is technical season," Caltho said. "They practice rowing at a slower rate and do a lot of distance work.
"We had 90 girls come out for 30 spots, and that's not bad."
Heather Galvin
assistant coach, women's rowing
"There's lot's of basic conditioning and technical improvement, like body position, involved in the morning practices," he said.
Catloth described the rowers as the engine of the boat, and they must be as efficient as possible.
The morning practices usually include six or seven miles of rowing,
The afternoon practices consist of lifting weights, work on the rowing machines and conditioning.
but Catloth said sometimes they did as many as 12 miles to 15 miles.
The team is preparing for their first meet Oct. 19 in Boston at the Head of the Charles race. Both the freshmen and varsity teams will go to the Oct. 26 meet in Iowa for the Head of the Iowa race.
Both of the October meets are "Head" meets. Catloth compared "Head" meets to the Tour de France cycling race. The course runs 2.5miles to 4 miles and is similar to a time trial. It is a race against the clock, but the teams race against each other. The winner may finish after several other boats do. The team with the best overall time wins.
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