Wednesday, March 2, 2005
March is here, and that means competition for the women’s rowing team is right around the corner.
The Saturday immediately following spring break, the KU team will head to Austin, Texas.
Competition starts a little earlier for some other teams though. Kansas State and Texas will start competition at the Longhorn Invitational, March 18-20.
All three teams are still working on getting prepared for that first day, whether it be on the water or in the weight room.
Kansas coach Rob Catloth stressed the importance of staying in shape and said, “We’re trying to get as fit as we can.”
With less than three weeks of practice before the first race, practices have changed a little for the Wildcats, K-State coach Patrick Sweeney said.
“We need to be able to get on the water now,” he said. “Last week, we had the opportunity to get on there. But as for Monday’s practice, we were blown off the water by the wind.”
Texas coach Carie Graves also emphasized the importance of fitness.
“We are really working on creating a solid base for fitness and technique,” she said. “We had an outstanding recruitment of freshmen, and we have good senior leadership. It’s nice to have that on both ends.”
Having leadership on both sides of the team helps.
“A lot of our performance depends on our upperclassmen,” Catloth said. “We also need the sophomores to push the program along.”
For K-State, upperclassmen leadership is an issue. The team has only three returning from last year’s first boat.
“We’ve got a young team this year with little experience, but they are a good group of athletes,” Sweeney said. “We do have some youngsters, but they have grown quite nicely.”
Coach Graves said that turnover was part of college sports.
“You have different people every year,” she said. “There are some things that could be better than last year. But some things are better.”
Because teams lose and gain athletes every season, the competition between teams changes as well, Graves said.
But rowing against other teams in the Big 12 Conference is a more important factor.
“There is not a lot of competition in this part of the country,” Graves said. “So it is intense — literally intense — when you’re racing someone in the league.”
Catloth said he agreed.
“We always want to race well against conference schools,” he said. “We don’t look at them lightly.”
He said the competition made rivalries stronger. The rivalry between K-State and Kansas was apparent to Sweeney.
“Everybody is your rival, but obviously there is a rivalry between us and KU,” he said. He said that is what made a race even more fun.
The rivalry between teams is apparent on the part of the Jayhawks as well.
“It’s always a good match-up,” Catloth said. “The rivalry is there in every sport between the two schools.”
Texas has become a tough rival for Kansas as well. Catloth said the Longhorns were usually pretty fast — they’ve gone to the NCAA Championship the last two years.
Graves said that her team always brought good, hard racing.
“We want them to do the best they can on training and to love rowing,” she said. “Winning is a benefit of those things. When they do win, they’ve done their best.” She said only one team wins the National Championship and that it needs to do its best to get there.
She expected that kind of performance from the Jayhawks.
“KU always has good, solid racers,” Graves said.
The two will match up on Saturday, March 26.
Edited by Jennifer Voldness
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