Friday, April 28, 1989 / University Daily Kansan
Jewett navigates crew team
- Continued from p. 17
"I've had people who rowed last year tell me that things are so much different now," Jewett said. "Sometimes they say there's just a different feeling. I think that it's a little bit more organized now because that's one of the things that I saw as a priority."
Leann Esser, Toecka junior, has been with the crew for three years. She has rowed under Cliff and his wife, Libby Elliott Libby was the varsity woman's coach last year and left when her husband did. Essar said that she had definitely noticed a change in the club's organization.
"I'm still friends with the Elliottis and I wouldn't say that anyone coaches better than them, but Dan is more organized than Cliff," she said.
At times, organization has been tough for Jewett. Members of the executive board, the crew's governing body, have quit throughout the year. This causes more adjustments to the club's organization. Reasons for this generally include a lack of time and resources because crew takes a lot of each.
Practices last at least two hours, five days a week. The team rows on the Kansas River and has off-the-water workouts in the boothhouse. Expenses can be as much as $1,000 an year for each member.
"I'd like it to get into a situation where the financial drain on the rowers isn't as great," Jewett said. "We're in pretty good shape, but we don't have a lot of room for error. We have all these people and all this
equipment and all this potential to do well, and it just always is hanging by the thread of having enough money."
The reason for the financial drain on its members is that crew a club sport. It receives financing from Students University it is not subsidized by the University.
One way to alleviate the financial strain would be to make it a varsity sport. Jewett said he thought often about this option.
"I think about it, a lot because I see us growing, and I see us becoming very competitive on a varistype level," he said. "I probably mistake you for thinking I think we still have some growing to do before we get to stage."
But Jewett said that the crew could not become a varsity sport until they could guarantee enough alumni to finance the program.
"In a way, whether we're club or varsity, we have to up with the cash." Jewett said.
One reason Jewett is hesitant to turn crew into a varsity sport is the diversity found among crew members. "It's almost almost more important than money."
"I think there are a lot of people participating in the program that wouldn't necessarily do it if it was a varsity sport," he said.
Jewett has been dealing with money and time constraints in other ways. When a rover tells him that he must take his children to practice.
"They don't get penalized for missing practice, and I know they're
doing what they said they were." he said. "We just started doing that this year, and it's worked really well."
The crew has raised money through various fund-raising activities, including 24-hour e-g-t-shirts, row-a-shirts and selling T-shirts and sweatshirts to the public. An erg, or worker, is an indoor rowing machine.
One of Jewett's goals is to raise the community's awareness of crew.
"One big thing we're doing this year is running a summer rowing program," he said. "we're going to have a lot of fun." The involved, get the townspeople out."
Jewett has settled into his role as coach, but he has some loose ends in his life. His liberal arts degree is from a school he had no plans having ideas to do different things with his life. Before he started coaching, he coordinated performances for a musical group, the Skryders Drum and Bugle Corps, of Hutchin-
He said that he thought his career would be in teaching music. However, Jewett is happy being crew's coach.
"When I started this job, he sure if I stick with it very long," he said. "But I've gotten really comfortable — I haven't got complacent, but I feel like I've found a place for myself here."
"I'd like to stick around and see what we can do here because I think this program has an incredible benefit." "Maybe it could be seen if I can make something of it."
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