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Novice coxswain navigates crew boats
Freshman a liaison between coach, team
Holly McQueen / KANSAN
Melissa Liem, Lenexa freshman, uses a megaphone to give commands to the members of the novice crew boat. This is Liem's first year as one of the club's coxswain, who navigates the boat and motivates the crew.
By Anne Felstet
Kansan sportswriter
Freshman coxswain Melissa Liem stands before eight crew members, guiding them and the 60-foot-long crew boat toward the water.
The other eight women, poised precariously between boat and dock, wait for Liem to tell them to shove off.
They do nothing without a direct command from the coxswain. They are a team, and they act that way.
When the boat rests peacefully on the lake, Liem, who is in charge of the novice rowers in the boat, climbs into the front seat, straps a megaphone to her head and prepares for the launch.
Yet for Liam, these women are individuals as well as a team, and she treats them that way. When she calls out commands, she calls out a rower's name, not a seat number as most coxswains do.
Freshman rower Sarah Carson said that Liem personalized commands.
Freshman rower Sue Iliff said, "She calls out your name when she tells you to do something. It makes you feel more confident and a part of the boat."
Coach Rob Catloth said Liem had made sure that she knew the team members' names before they went on the water so that she could address them personally.
Liem joined the crew team this year truly as a novice member. She has
played the violin since age four, been a classical ballet dancer since she was five, sang in the choir since she was seven. But her first encounter with a crew boat came this fall.
At the informational crew meeting a week after school started, she was hooked,she said.
"It may sound corny, but I knew I wanted to do this as I sat there listening," she said. "There is nothing else I wanted to do now."
As a coxswain, Liem is in charge of the boat. She navigates, motivates the
crew and directs rowing. She said that she was the liaison between the coach and the crew.
If the coach gives a command, she must repeat it in short, quick phrases. She said that one time the crew had responded to Catloth instead of her and that he had ordered the team to do it again to learn to take commands only from her. It teaches the team to listen to the coxswain and block out other commands in a race situation, she said.
Although the coxswain does not
row, Liem nevertheless runs and exercises with the team. She said that the workouts brought the team together and that the rowers realized that she tries to understand their experiences.
Her ballet training also has helped her understand the pain the team endures in a race situation, she said.
"When I cox, I remember what it was like to stand up on stage with bloody toes and have to keep smiling and keep going, no matter how bad it hurt," she said.
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