UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Friday, November 10, 1995
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Rowing team heads for dry land
Winter conditioning includes running stairs, using rowing machines
Pam Dishman / KANSAN
Kansas senior Becky Ederer and her sister, sophomore Birgit Ederer, work out on ergometers in Allen Field House. The Kansas women's rowing team uses the rowing machines in its off-season conditioning.
By Erin Johnson
Kansan sportswriter
Waking up for practices at 6 a.m. just got harder for the Kansas women's rowing team.
Varsity rowers use to get up for 6 a.m. daily for practices at Clinton Lake. But now that the Jayhawks are in the offseason, they are practicing twice a week in the morning at Allen Field House and twice a week in the afternoons.
Kansas senior Paige Geiger said getting up for the early-morning practices was easier when they were rowing in boats.
"There's nothing like being out in the water," Geliger said. "That's the whole beauty of the sport. The reason we row is because we like the water and the boats. This is the time that's hard."
In the offseason, the rowers train with rowing machines, which also are known as ergometers, or ergs. The
ergometers are designed to simulate rowing.
Rowers work on the ergs at almost every practice and receive scores based on the time they take to row a specified distance. For example, rowers might be asked to record the time they took to row 2,000 meters. Geiger has the highest erg score for the Jayhawks.
"Some people hate it because it basically doesn't lie," Kansas women's rowing coach Rob Catloth said. "It tells you how hard you're pulling. It never quits. It never takes it easy on you."
Geiger said the ergs were good for fine-tuning what the rowers worked on in the fall season. They are the closest thing the rowers can use to work on technique during the offseason.
"If you can row well on the erg, you can row well in the water." Geiger said.
Catloth said the best training for rowing was actually doing the sport. With colder temperatures forcing practices in the fieldhouse, though, the ergs give the rowers a full workout and enable them to go through all the rowing motions.
"It's the next best thing to being out on the water," Catloth said.
Geiger said the ergs were intimidating. While practicing on the erg, the rower works with just the machine, not with eight other people as in a boat. The rowers have to be mentally tough and take a positive attitude to practice on the ergs.
Geiger said. "You can't get away with doing a half-effort workout. That's why it's so good for you mentally."
"It's very challenging,"
Now that the Jayhawks are practicing eight hours a week instead of 20, the rowers said they had more free time. However, they are hoping that running the stairs at Memorial Stadium, conditioning and work on the ergs will pay off in the spring
sprint season.
Catloth said the rowers needed to be stronger and in better condition for the sprint season than they had been in the fall distance season.
"I think it's going to pay off this spring." Geiger said. "I think we're going to feel a lot stronger and faster when we get in the boats this spring. I think it's going to make a big difference."
'Hawk lands in semis of tennis tournament with two-game victory
Kansan staff report
The Kansas women's tennis team suffered through its worst day of singles play during the fall tournament season yesterday at the Central Region Rolex Championships in Salt Lake City, Utah.
Senior Kim Webster, junior Jenny Atkerson, Blanca Kirchhof and Amy Trytek and sophomore all suffered defeats that ended their competition in the tournament.
Atkerson, who fell to Jennifer Secret of Brigham Young University, said Secret's style threw her off.
Kansas lost five singles matches, and No. 1 seed Kyle Hunt was the only successful Jayhawk as she advanced to the semifinals. She defeated Northern Arizona's Yael Stuart, 6-2, 6-3. Hunt will face Montana's Vanessa Castellano, who is unseeded, today.
She played a really different game. It was really unorthodox," she said. "I was having a hard time getting into the game. It was frustrating."
There was good news for Kansas as sophomore Maria Abatjoglou continued her quest to win the consolation championship. She defeated Veronica Wirthora of Oklahoma State, 7-6, 6-4 and then went on to defeat Nadine March of Weber State, 6-2, 7-5.
The Jayhawks' doubles teams fared better than the singles players as two teams advanced to the quarterfinals.
Eighth-seeded Kirchhof-Sim defeated Idaho State's Rauca Onilia and Robin King, 6-1, 6-2 in the second round.
The other Kansas doubles team of Webster and Abatjoglou upset the No.4 seed yesterday to advance in the tournament. Their victory against Colorado State's Sonal Patel and Alana Colgazier sets up a match against the ninth-seeded doubles team today.
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