Flooded river forces moves rowing practice

Wednesday, May 9, 2007

The Kansas rowing team was forced out of its normal practice area when the Kansas River flooded last weekend.

The team practiced at Wyandotte County Lake in Kansas City, Kan., on Tuesday. The Jayhawks will practice there again today and indoors on Thursday morning before leaving for the South-Central Regionals in Oak Ridge, Tenn.

Coach Rob Catloth was part of a group that loaded the team’s equipment early Monday morning from a cage near the river in Burcham Park, which is located at Second and Indiana streets. The team’s trailer is loaded with the boats that will be used Saturday and Sunday at the regional; the rest of the equipment is stored at Memorial Stadium, which is its summer resting place, Catloth said.

The move was an inconvenience, he said, but not unlike moving from apartment to apartment.

“It’s not like it’s an everyday occurrence,” he said. “It’s the first time in 12 years it’s been this high.”

The team won’t be able to return to the river until the water level goes down, Catloth said.

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We’ve always had to watch the weather to see if we have to practice inside, but we’ve never had anything like this when we’ve had to completely go to a different place.

-senior coxswain Samira Naj

Senior coxswain Samira Naji agreed that the situation was unusual.

“We’ve always had to watch the weather to see if we have to practice inside, but we’ve never had anything like this when we’ve had to completely go to a different place,” she said.

Taking the extra time to get to and from practice added to the difficulty of the situation. Senior rower Whitney Fasbender said the team was already feeling crunched to be out of town the weekend before finals.

“It’s a little inconvenient,” she said.

But when the team hits the water, it feels like any other practice, Naji said.

“When we get to practice, everything goes back to normal again in the boat,” she said. “Everything seems to work itself out.”

Wyandotte County Lake isn’t completely unfamiliar to the Jayhawks. The lake was the location of the Big 12 Invitational, where Kansas took second, on April 29.

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

— Edited by James Pinick

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