Folks…
It’s mid week, lots of racing coming up this weekend so for those who believe in such things here are the rankings courtesy of www.row2k.com {Full detailed rankings are listed below}.
US Rowing Collegiate Poll (National)
LWs — Yale (1), Navy (3)
HWs — Yale (10), Navy (12)
W — Yale (2), Navy (NR)
This week the respective coaches also reported the first of this Spring’s seedings rankings.
EARC LW
Navy – 1V8+ (2); 2V8+ (1); 3V8+ (3); 1F8+ (5); 2F8+ (1)
Yale – 1V8+ (1); 2V8+ (2); 3V8+ (1); 1F8+ (1); 2F8+ (5)
EARC HW
Folks…
It’s mid week, lots of racing coming up this weekend so for those who believe in such things here are the rankings courtesy of www.row2k.com {Full detailed rankings are listed below}.
US Rowing Collegiate Poll (National)
LWs — Yale (1), Navy (3)
HWs — Yale (10), Navy (12)
W — Yale (2), Navy (NR)
This week the respective coaches also reported the first of this Spring’s seedings rankings.
EARC LW
Navy – 1V8+ (2); 2V8+ (1); 3V8+ (3); 1F8+ (5); 2F8+ (1)
Yale – 1V8+ (1); 2V8+ (2); 3V8+ (1); 1F8+ (1); 2F8+ (5)
EARC HW
Navy – 1V8+ (9); 2V8+ (11); 3V8+ (NR); 1F8+ (7); 2F8+ (6)
Yale – 1V8+ (7); 2V8+ (7); 3V8+ (4); 1F8+ (2); 2F8+ (2)
EAWRC W
Yale – 1V8+ (1); 2V8+ (2); 3V4+ (2); 1F8+ (6)
Navy – 1V8+ (12); 2V8+ (8); 3V4+ (9); 1F8+ (8)
And for those among you who love statistics and really need to know exactly where your favorite crew ranks among all, there is Row 2K’s cMax Ratings. The results rank teams, and more importantly, provide a relative estimate of how fast a team is. Description of methodology and the rankings are compiled below.
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Last week we offered courtesy of Bob Blase a photo of the Navy 2V in the JEVA winning on the Severn. Here are a sample of comments from the “folks”. As Luke Memminger opines maybe this will all generate some comment among the group. It is fine to “lurk” on the sidelines, but feel free to jump in …
…he looka like a starboard!…interesting that both the Navy and Yale 2V lites have starboard strokes…are there more starboard stokes these days?…. Gary Lundeen
Starboard Stroke! Thank God they didn’t take the bow from the Stbds. Luke Memminger
Has a clear favorite emerged this year among the LW 1Vs? I’ve tried to visualize what 5/100ths of a second translates to — suspect it can’t be much more than a bow ball. In years past, we would not have been able to time that difference. Calm conditions on the Severn? Wow….but I do remember some of those days. Steve Nimitz
I didn’t send that last one to everyone, You can re-release it to the group to generate some conversation. I agree that trying to get stroke is just the way boats have been seated from high school and up. However, the whole problem of changing from starboard bowman is much more critical in that you would then be fighting against the coriolis effect (northern hemisphere), which definitely gives the boat an acceleration advantage. Now if I were coaching in New Zealand or Australia, I would be training a port Bowman. but don’t tell them. It’s like trying to get a turd to go straight down the toilet. It just isn’t going to happen. Go Starboard Bowmen, especially in the northern hemisphere. You can quote me on that! Luke Memminger
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While most of the discussion in these e-mails is about the BLUE of Navy and Yale, I thought that some note should be made of the LIGHT BLUE of Columbia. I can’t help but believe that this will bring a smile to Carl Ullrich and Buzz Congram among others.
From www.row2k.com:
Crew of the Week
The Columbia Heavyweight Varsity 8 had an impressive weekend performance that saw them snap two long losing streaks; one of which dated to before WWII
Columbia Men’s Varsity Heavyweight 8 – Won the Blackwell Cup by sprinting through #9 Yale for the first time since 1941, and did it at Yale. Then drove to Princeton the next morning to face Navy, and won the Maxwell Stevenson Cup for the first time since 1963.
And all that with a Starboard Stroke … Hail Columbia … Bravo Zulu!
GO BLUE!
Cheers!
Best regards,
Coach and TB406