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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 4. 2009
Current team holds more experience than ever
BY MAX ROTHMAN
mrothman@kansan.com
There is a scarce something that speeds one boat ahead of the others. The spectators may credit skill. The rowers may simply call it a "good day." The trained eye knows that comfort lies with a familiar face on the boat.
Synchronization is the foundation to success in rowing. A standard race amounts to a lengthy 2,000 meters. A rower's stroke rate approximates to 38-40 strokes per minute at the start of a race, descends to 28-34 in the middle of the race and can then swiftly accelerate to 42 strokes-per-minute to cap it all off. If an entire boat of eight rowers can gracefully glide as one, the result is a punishing tempo. To regulate this tempo stems from a tool mastered with time: experience.
"The whole team is more experienced than we have been in the last three or four years," coach Rob Catloth said.
It is this widespread experience that presents Catloth with a good problem to have. How will he pick the first varsity eight to represent the team?
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tion and hard work — these are the things that get anyone a spot," Catlloth said.
Following the essentials are the intangibles. After 1,800 meters of pounding muscles all across your body, who can reach down into the depths and find that extra burst when you need it most?
"Everyone wants to be on that first boat," senior Stacy Rachow said. "You have to come out and give it your all."
If one rower isn't keeping her pace with the rest, several other worthy suitors will be waiting.
"It's not like anyone is thinking, 'That's how it's going to be for the rest of the year,'" Rachow said. "Competition will keep the first boat the best."
Catloth said that depth is a dangerous weapon for this year's team.
"We have a good, strong group of women that will be vying for that first and second eight," he said.
the fiery desire to creep into the
cream stirred with years of rowing experience has translated into practices that are far more productive than they used to be. What was once reviewing technicalities has turned into pushing for more meters every day.
In adding the help of Catloth and his cronies, such as new assistant coach George Jenkins, to the concoction, the team looks poised for triumph.
"[Jenkins] is going to be a real benefit for our team, bringing different ideas and vocabulary and different ways to get better," Rachow said.
Catloth believes that this year he will find the components of a true team to beat.
"Rowing is a team sport, not an individual sport," he said. "It's about finding twenty fast rowers."
As the blades of eights oars hover over mysterious waters, sometimes knowing that your team is with you for the ride is that scarce something.
"When you depend on each other every practice, there's no doubt in your mind that everyone else is giving it their all," Rachow said.
Edited by Megan Morriss
KANSAN FILE PHOTO
This year's KU rowing team is more experienced that in the past, leading coach Rob Cattoth with a tougher-than-usual time picking the variety squad. The depth on the team leaves more time to focus on increasing speed and synchronization.
MLB
Former Red Sox pitcher won't rule out run for Senate
Curt Schilling may campaign for Kennedy's seat
BY GLEN JOHNSON Associated Press
BOSTON — Former Boston Red Sox pitcher Curt Schilling said Thursday the chances of him running to replace Democrat
Edward M. Kennedy in the U.S.
Senate are "slim to none" but he
will not rule it out.
The three-time World Series champion said he retired from baseball in March to spare his family the downside of the public spotlight. He has also invested millions in his fledgling videogaming business, 38 Studios.
Yet the 42-year-old told a Boston radio station that Massachusetts is in "desperate" need of fresh political blood.
"This state, next to Illinois, is
probably looked on as one of the very hard to pick up the pieces most corrupt, laughable politi of debris and start to reform and
cal scenes in the nation, and it should be just the opposite," he said during one of his regular appearances on WEEIAM, a sports radio station. "I think there's so much broke here, that the Penguins have
"The chances of it happening are slim to none, but they ran with it I've been thinking about it', so it's gone nuts."
CURT SCHILLING
Former Red Sox pitcher
don't think you'd have to look
fix it.
While Schilling has never run for or held political office, he said it was an asset because he was unencumbered by special interest connections.
"My credentials are that I have no baggage." he said.
The typically blunt Schilling
also wasn't afraid of speaking in a politically incorrect manner.
"The person that works 9-to-5 for crap dollars gets spat on, and it's becoming a state that's next to impossible to live and prosper in, and I think it was anything but when it was founded," he said at one point. At another, he proclaimed, "The status quo sucks. The status quo is not working.
Kennedy died last week of brain cancer at age 77. A primary is scheduled for Dec.8 and the general election will be Jan.19.
Schilling has campaigned for Republicans but would have to run as an independent because his voter status is "unenrolled."
He said he would have to make a decision "in relatively short order" but gave no specific deadline. And he expressed surprise at the reaction after he told a cable television reporter he was considering a campaign.
"The chances of it happening are slim to none, but they ran with 'I've been thinking about it,' so it's gone nuts," he said.