Rowing novice boat earns first victory

Monday, April 16, 2007

An intense day of racing gave the Kansas novice eight boat its first victory this spring.

The novice eight boat finished first in grand finals at Saturday’s Knecht Cup in Camden, N.J., after winning its preliminary race in 7 minutes, 18.7 seconds. The novice eight boat — led by freshman coxswain Jenny Leuck and rowed by juniors Elena Larson and Emily Martin, sophomore Brianna Flickinger, and freshman Katie Beall, Amber Bortz, Sara Karcher, Stacy Rachow and Abby Green — finished the final in 7:16.0, 5.5 seconds before second-place Rhode Island.

The Jayhawks entered the final with the third-best time and didn’t know what to expect, Larson said. The Jayhawks stayed close to the other six boats for the first half of the race before pulling away in the second half, leaving a boatlength between them and the rest of the boats.

“Seeing that we were just as strong as they were, we knew we could do it,” Larson said.

Coach Rob Catloth said the novice eight boat lived up to the potential the coaching staff saw in it.

“It’s a very important win for them, a big confidence builder,” he said. “Some of it’s just getting enough races that they finally figured out what they could do.”

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We might have been a little bit raced out, but as a whole we raced really well.

-coach Rob Catloth

The varsity quad boat of seniors Lindsey Miles, Jelayna Da Silva and Tiffany Jeffers and junior Kara Boston placed first by defeating its lone competitor, Duquesne, by more than a minute, finishing in 7:44.4.

Boston said the time was slower than it could have been because the rowers knew they had other races and slowed down after initially pulling ahead. A quad boat competes without a coxswain, who is responsible for steering the boat and setting the pace, so the rowers went off “how each other felt in the boat,” Boston said.

Kansas’ first varsity eight boat placed fourth in the grand finals behind Gonzaga, who received votes in last week’s U.S. Rowing poll, Rhode Island and Boston College. The final was one of the last races of the day, almost 12 hours after the races started.

“We might have been a little bit raced out,” Catloth said. “But as a whole we raced really well.”

Kansas’ second varsity eight and varsity four A also finished fourth in their respective grand finals. The varsity four B boat finished sixth in the petite finals.

The regatta was originally scheduled for Saturday and Sunday, but Sunday’s races were moved to Saturday because poor weather was forecasted. The conditions improved throughout the day Saturday, with wind and water calming as the day progressed.

“Toward the end of the afternoon, it really warmed up well,” Boston said. “It turned out to be a beautiful day for racing.”

Kansan senior sportswriter Catherine Odson can be contacted at codson@kansan.com.

— Edited by James Pinick

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