Friday, November 6, 2009
Although the fall season is winding down, the rowing team will have many things to consider when it competes this weekend in the Head of the Hooch regatta.
The two-day event on the Tennessee River in Chattanooga, Tenn., not only marks the last event of the fall season but will also indicate how the team stacks up against top-flight rowing programs across the country.
The Kansas rowing team pulls together during the inaugural Big 12 Rowing Championship at Wyandotte Lake in May. The team will compete at the Head of the Hooch regatta this weekend.
“It’s good getting to go against all these good teams we don’t get to see all the time,” Stacy Rachow, Phillipsburg senior, said. “It helps get a sense of where we stand.”
Coach Rob Catloth said that succeeding amid the level of talent at Tennessee will require great effort from his team.
“It’s a bigger regatta with some really competitive schools, so we’ve definitely got our work cut out for us,” Catloth said.
Among the packed field at the Hooch, the second largest regatta in the U.S behind the Head of the Charles, are teams such as Clemson, Duke, Miami, Texas, and Tennessee. Although the talented opponents in the regatta will certainly be a litmus test for Kansas, it will also help determine the team’s offseason regiment.
“It’ll be a good measure for what we need to improve on over the winter,” Catloth said.
Although the team does not compete again until spring, winter is far from being downtime.
“Winter is definitely the most difficult time of the year for rowing because we’re indoors the whole time,” Lindsey Lawrence, Lawrence senior, said. “Working on rowing machines can be really hard mentally, because it’s hard to see what your improvement is just sitting on a machine.”
Before the rigorous training of winter, however, the Jayhawks will get to both compete in and enjoy what Catloth called one of the most exciting regatta environments around.
“It’s a beautiful area. The river runs right through downtown,” Catloth said. “It’s good for all the student athletes. There’s the experience of competing, but also just being there is an experience in itself.”
— Edited by Samantha Foster
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