The Family and Friends of Navy Lightweight Crew
Folks…
Another excellent weekend of EARC racing:
* Navy LWs, in a late change, add Delaware to their schedule. The Mids will get some competition in for the entire Varsity and Plebe squads on the Severn River, Saturday morning. Last week Delaware fell to Dartmouth, but was competitive in racing on Lake Quinsigamond.
Continue reading “Rowing This Weekend; Rankings; and other good stuff …”
Folks…
A quick summary of this weekend’s racing. Articles from the respective sports guys and results from www.row2k.com are included below.
* Navy LWs sweep Orchard Beach Lagoon — varsity and plebes all victorious over Columbia
Continue reading “Racing Results — Wins {and some brooms} All Around For The Folks In Blue”
Folks…
Navy HWs and Women both were winners on the first day of racing at the George Washington Invitational on the Potomac River. Rick Clothier’s HW 1V managed a five second victory over Gonzaga from the west coast. Navy W had a 3 length (11.4 second) margin over MIT. Navy W 2V defeated Iowa by a bit of open water (5.5 seconds).
Continue reading “Friday Results at George Washington Invitational”
Folks…
All squads will be competing this weekend. Yale HWs and Women at home and all the rest on the road.
* Olympic Axe: Yale (HW) vs. Dartmouth, Housatonic River, Derby, CT
* Wit Cup: Columbia vs. Rutgers, Navy (LW), Orchard Beach Lagoon, Pelham, NY
* Jimmy Joy Cup: MIT vs. Georgetown, Yale (LW), Charles River, Cambridge, MA
Continue reading “Racing This Weekend”
Folks…
A couple of articles of interest:
* row2k interview with Tom Weil. This is a follow-on to the earlier reports on Tom’s collection and the opening of the rowing exhibits at Mystic Seaport
* From today’s Yale Daily News on the history of rowing competition and betting of shirts.
Enjoy … Cheers!
Best regards,
Coach and TB406
Continue reading “Tom Weil Q&A and Oarsmen must win to keep shirts on their backs”
Folks…
It is opening day at Fenway Park. Celebration of the 2007 World Series championship. a beautiful day in the neighborhood. {I agree with Coach Andy Card that we hope that the Red Sox are playing much better in October than they have so far in April!}
Thought that you all might like to hear what the scribes are saying about last weekend’s racing in the Yale Daily News.
Continue reading “Johnson and Copley Cups from Yale Daily News”
Folks…
The Light Blue Lions of Columbia got off to fast start, led by a length at mid-race and finished 6 seats (2.7 seconds) ahead of Rick Clothier’s 1V in racing on Lake Carnegie this morning. The win was the first for Columbia since racing for the Maxwell Stevenson Trophy renewed in 2002.
Next for the Navy HWs — Adams Cup versus Harvard and Penn on the Schuykill River in Philadelphia next weekend. The rest of the Navy HW squad will race Columbia on May 4. That same weekend the Navy HW 1V will travel to Seattle to race the 2007 IRA National Champion Washington Huskies.
Continue reading “Navy HWs fall to Columbia and lose Stevenson Trophy Race”
Folks…
The results are in, cheering is over and the focus is now on practice and finding speed for next week’s competition.
Continue reading “Yale wins “Battle of the Blues”; Navy retains Callow Cup; Yale Women take Cayuga”
Folks…
Earth Hour 2008. As cities and households turn off their lights for an hour, remote sensing imagery shows the world getting enveloped in a calm, temporary wave of darkness. Images from past year have been fantastic – really shows our presence on the planet.
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