Rowing team tests its strength

Friday, October 2, 2009

It all starts tomorrow on the western basin of the Oklahoma River. It starts after a team of athletes dared to try something new, studied and then mastered a craft once foreign, now second nature. It starts after the miles put in during practice, muscles burning like dry wood, blood boiling to regatta-ready temperatures. After all the preparation, the first competition is here.

The Kansas rowing team’s schedule begins tomorrow in Oklahoma City, Okla., with the “Boot of the Oklahoma,” its first of four regattas this fall. The regatta entails a long race of 4000 meters and a sprint of 500 meters. While the event has no affect on season rankings, coach Ray Catloth said that it is important in translating work from practice into results on competitive waters.

“We’ve been working on raising our fitness level and technical performance,” Catloth said. “But it’s still early.”

With only four regattas in the fall compared to the seven regattas in the spring, this time of year is seen more as in-season training.

“We just want to go out and race hard and apply the changes we’ve been trying to make in practice on the race course,” Catloth said.

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