Rowing team anticipates successful season

By Bryan Wheeler

Monday, August 20, 2007

The Kansas rowing team is looking to improve from last season’s success with the return of four members of the First Varsity Eight crew: Carrie Selden, Valerie Jackson, Lindsey Lawrence and Kara Boston, as well as the coxswain to the First Varsity Eight crew, Katie Brosious.

Kansas rowing gained varsity status in 1995 and has been improving ever since. Under coach Rob Catloth, the rowing team finished ninth in the Central regional teams last spring. In the NCAA South-Central Regionals, Kansas finished one of its best seasons to date, placing 16th.

The team finished just six points behind Texas and three places ahead of Kansas State.

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Coach Catloth said that, this season, the team’s main goal is “trying to make a push to make it past Texas and stay ahead of K-State.” Texas and Kansas State are the only other Big 12 Teams that compete at the Division I level.

The biggest key to their success this season, according to coach Catloth, will be developing talent. The team may have some key members returning to the First Varsity Eight crew, but the rest of the team is very young. Coach Catloth stated the team “will be looking for a lot of improvement out of [its] younger women.”

The Kansas rowing team finds most of its players by recruiting walk-ons on campus. Assistant coach Jennifer Myers will hold meetings this week at 5 p.m. on Wednesday, Aug. 22 and Thursday, Aug. 23 in the Wagnon Student Athlete Center in the Hadl Auditorium. She will be looking to recruit new athletes to the team.

The walk-ons recruited at the meetings this week will have a chance to participate on the rowing team’s novice crew for their freshman season and work their way up to varsity status, potentially earning a scholarship.

With plans underway to build a new $6 million rowing boathouse and walk-on recruitment, the team has come a long way since it first became a varsity sport at Kansas. This season looks to see Kansas rowing continue its success and compete as a Division I sport.

— Edited by Kaitlyn Syring

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