Author: Coach and TB406

Folks:

Blue Crews will all face off at the Princeton Chase on Sunday. 3 miles head race fashion on Lake Carnegie in Princeton, NJ. Navy women will only compete Saturday at the Head of the Schuylkill in Philadelphia.

Princeton Chase limits entries to collegiate men’s and women’s crews, so no all-star internationals this weekend.

The following URL will lead you to updated results for the Princeton Chase:

http://secure.powerhousetiming.com/powerhouse/webpages/raceResults.jsp?raceId=201

[More in articles from Navy and Yale Sports below.]
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HOCR results are now official and it appears that the Harvard LW 8+ was able to prevail in their appeal of the one minute penalty assessed for starting out of order. Official order of finish for Men’s LW 8+:
New York Athletic Club 15:28.295
Princeton 15:32.725 [includes 10 sec buoy violation]
Harvard 15:36.607
Continue reading “10/23/2009 – Upcoming Princeton Chase”

Men’s Lightweight 8+:

Navy finished third overall [15:37.129] and second among collegiate eights. NYAC, nearly all of the 2009 World Championships silver medalists, finished first among 21 entries, only 8.8 seconds in front of the Mids after 3 miles. Princeton rowed the fastest time of the event [15:22.725], but finished second after a 10 second buoy violation.

Yale LWs finished sixth [15:55.939], trailing Georgetown and Cornell. Harvard posted a finishing time of 15:36.07, good enough for third place, but were penalized a full minute for course violations, adjusting their final result to 18th. The Yale lightweights also had a second entry in the Lightweight Eights comprised of only freshmen. The boat moved up one position from its starting sport and finished with a time of 16:38.716.

Men’s Lightweight 4+:

Continue reading “10/18/2009 HOCR – Racing in the Snow!”

Folks…

Third weekend in October is the time to head to the Charles River for the 45th running of the HOCR. Blue Crews will be well represented.
Navy LWs — Championship LW 4+ and Championship LW 8+
Yale LWs — Championship LW 4+ and Championship LW 8+ [2 entries in each event.
Navy HWs — Championship 4+ and Championship 8+
Yale HWs — Club 8+; Championship 4+ and Championship 8+
Yale Women — Club 8+; Championship 4+ and Championship 8+
You can follow results and other matters of interest at:

http://www.hocr.org/competitors/ScheduleDraw09.asp

Continue reading “10/16/2009 45th Head of the Charles”

Folks…

It was a good opening weekend for the Navy LWs with a win over four miles on the Hudson River in Poughkeepsie, NY and strong performances in the Occoquan Challenge in Fairfax, VA.

On Saturday, tradition was revisited on the Hudson River with a re-row of four miles of the Poughkeepsie Regatta {forerunner of The Intercollegiate Rowing Association (IRA) National Championship Regatta} that was held here from 1895 to 1949. The Poughkeepsie Regatta also provides an experience that is quite possibly unlike any other that the crews will encounter this season. While most fall races are usually head-style races against the clock, this race will be a side-by-side competition for four miles on a straight stretch of the river.

Navy LW Coach Steve Perry, reported the following on www.NavyLites.org:
Continue reading “10/5/2009 Navy LWs show depth and speed at Poughkeepsie Regatta and at Occoquan Challenge”

Folks…

Following we have assembled a number of comments and quotes on the EARC Sprints. On site reporting from Tom Weil. Comments from Blue Crew Coaches – Andy Card, Nick Baker and Rick Clothier. Comments from Brown Coach Paul Cooke — make sure you see the remarks on the depth of the Bruno squad as well as the fact that the 1V boatings were not finalized until Thursday! The entirety of a well written article from the Boston Globe. From the Daily Princetonian, good reporting on the LW 1V and 2V. Just for perspective of achieving “gold” from Columbia Sports.

Row2k featured a video of the 2009 Eastern Sprints V8 HW Grand Final. You can check it out here:

http://www.row2k.com/video/view.cfm?vid=7208

You can get a good feel for the windy conditions and there were some interesting comments about steering by Harvard in lane 2.

Sorry, Luke. I checked the usual sources and there were not any quotable comments from Cambridge.
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Continue reading “5/12/2009 – Comments on the Sprints – IRA Selection Update”

Folks…

In the HW division the early speculation was that this would be the day for the Badgers, but it ended with a sweep for the Brown Bruins in the HW 1V, 2V, and 1F taking the Rowe Cup in a dominant fashion.

Among the LWs it was once again very competitive with the Princeton 1V leading wire to wire. Yale took gold in the 2V and Cornell was first in the 1F. With medals in all three events — silver, bronze and silver — Harvard claimed the Jope Cup by 2 points over Princeton and Yale.

Winds lessened a bit in the afternoon, but there still were strong gusts with the middle 1,000 meters in the outside lanes still treacherous. Higher seeded crews from the morning heats had the advantage of the inside lanes and lee shore.

Continue reading “5/10/2009 – EARC Finals and off to the IRA for Some”

Folks…

While most of the Blue Squads were training for upcoming EARC and EAWRC Sprints, two crews wrapped up their regular season with defeats and loss of “silver”.

Navy HWs managed only one win in the 1F, while dropping the remaining two races 1V, and 2V. It rained on Lake Carnegie, but as George Pocock said — rain is good – knocks down the hills and fills in the valleys — so conditions were fair and good. With the 1V loss to Columbia, the Maxwell Stevenson Trophy will be retained by the Light Blue Lions.

You can check out details from Navy Sports below and photos at

http://www.row2k.com/gallery/gallery.cfm?action=gallery&dir=2009Spring/0503ColNavyHM&label=Columbia%20vs%20Navy,%20heavy%20men,%20May%203%202009&hi=yes

Continue reading “5/6/2009 Weekend Rowing and Off to the Sprints”

Folks…

Another excellent weekend of racing … hoping that the conditions are up to the competition of the crews:

* Haines Trophy – #5 Navy LWs vs. #2 Harvard Crimson on Charles River in Cambridge, MA. Navy defends against strong Harvard squad. GO NAVY … FLUSH THE JOHNS!
* Durand Cup – #3 Yale LWs vs. #7 Dartmouth in morning on Housatonic River at Derby, CT. Yale defends against Steve Perry’s Big Green LWs.
* Yale LWs vs. #6 Cornell Big Red in afternoon on Housatonic River at Derby, CT. Over the past three years Cornell has won 5 of 6 EARC Sprints and IRA National Championships.
* Stagg Trophy – Goes Trophy – #13 Navy HWs face off against #9 Cornell and #10 Syracuse on Lake Onondaga at Syracuse, NY.
* Blackwell Cup – #14 Yale HWs vs. #6 Columbia and un-ranked Penn on Orchard Beach Lagoon – Long Island, NY. Light Blue of Columbia defends and is having another great season.
Continue reading “4/18/09 – Blue Crews Racing this weekend”

Folks…

While the Navy LWs and Yale HWs will train on their home courses, all other squads will find competition on the road this weekend with exciting racing, traditional rivalries and lots of classic silver at stake.

* On the Charles River in Cambridge #1 and undefeated Yale LW 1V will face #2 and once defeated {by Navy in the Joe Murtaugh Cup} #2 Princeton and #8 Harvard in competition for the oldest trophy in LW rowing — the Vincent Bowditch Goldthwait Cup {1918}. Yale last won in 2006, with Harvard winning four of the last five HYP contests. Princeton’s last 1V victory came in 1999. The Bulldog, Tiger and Crimson squads will also compete overall for the David H. Vogel Cup. Yale last won in 2006, with Harvard winning three of the last five Vogel Cups. Yale won the initial competition in 2003. Dave Vogel and Tom Weil will be at the race, so we will look forward to on-site insight.
Continue reading “5/3/2008 – Collegiate Rowing Polls and This Weekend’s Racing”