KU crew ready for new season

Thursday, August 27, 2009

With a new boathouse, the KU crew has seen a spike in interest in the program.

Inquiries and e-mails from interested students, which usually number approximately 150 this time of year, have tripled. The boathouse allows for students a place to regularly practice rowing techniques.

The boathouse’s existence in a region fairly unfamiliar to the sport of rowing may be peculiar to some, but the spectacular facility will act as a boon for the club sport for years to come.

Contributed photo. KU crew team members train. The new boathouse has the team to receive more inquiries about joining.

“The boathouse works as a great allure,” coach Jeremy Struemph said. “It’s phenomenal,”

The KU crew is not the same team as rowing, which operates within the Kansas Athletics Department and NCAA.

Since its recognition by the University in 1977, crew has worked diligently to set the standard for club sports excellence and determination. One way of doing this is to strongly encourage club members to create and adhere to an effective schedule.

For varsity members, the 5:30 morning practice should be enough to coax out a bit of responsibility and discipline. This practice is necessary because it takes skilled technique to correctly generate power from the legs, the trunk and the upper body and arms in tandem.

Meticulous attention must be paid to conditioning, form and posture. Rowing is a maintenance of fairly high level cardiovascular work, so the athlete must endure a prolonged effort. To not scare any prospective members away, there are some encouraging words.

“Anyone who wants to work hard at crew is welcome,” Paul Thorne, Lenexa sophomore, said.

Crew positions include coxwains, which act as the leaders and motivators of a boat; port, a rower on the left side; then starboard, a rower on the right. Men help comprise the team alongside women, and members of the club pay dues in order to facilitate travel around the country.

“It’s really cool because we get to compete in an Olympic sized facility,” Kylinn Gerstner, Colby sophomore, said .

The facility is in Georgia where the team travels yearly.

Instead of relying on the boathouse, the team prefers for its performance to put itself on the map.

The women’s novice four finished third nationally, and the team collectively brought home more than 250 medals for the 2008-2009 season.

The club begins its varsity season in Des Moines, Iowa, on Sept. 26.

— — Edited by Tim Burgess

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