Husky women's crew with historic victory
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Poasted in the WigwamDonLemonParty said:
pics?YellowSnow said:
That looks like our post practice showers back in the day.AZDuck said:
rowing traditioncreepycoug said:I'm going to get untold amounts of shit for this, but I was actually in Windsor and watched it this weekend.
All jokes aside, it was surprisingly enjoyable. The place is absofuckinglutely full of these eastern upper-tier schools and their fans (with a few not-so-upper tier schools - hello Gonzaga, Ohio State, WSU and Central Florida). Cal rowing fans travel like Nebraska classy to an Orange Bowel, outnumbering Washington fans 5 to 1 EASILY. And there's the creep: ostensibly wearing the colors of the small New England DIII college he was technically there to watch (fuck off - no more information for you), yelling like a mother fucker with the other 8 Washington fans who showed up as the Husky women just fucking annihilated the division 1 field.
This is still a major sport back east; trust me on that. And there's some fun to be had watching some old, arrogant Princeton fuck mumble to himself as he watches his beloved Tigers get their asses handed to them by a Washington crew.
But the Cal group was the best. They beat Washington in season, and lost to them at Pac 12s, so they must've thought they had a chance.
They didn't.
It got really fucking quiet when Cal realized they were out of it. Stanford had a great finish but Washington led throughout and were never really in danger of losing.
There is not a school in the country with Washington's rowing tradition. Not one.
that is seriously a rowing gif. no implied sex acts.
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I am really impressed to see this softer side of you @creepycoug - i.e., being at the NCAA Nationals for Women's Rowing. Respect...and I'm being serious.creepycoug said:I'm going to get untold amounts of shit for this, but I was actually in Windsor and watched it this weekend.
All jokes aside, it was surprisingly enjoyable. The place is absofuckinglutely full of these eastern upper-tier schools and their fans (with a few not-so-upper tier schools - hello Gonzaga, Ohio State, WSU and Central Florida). Cal rowing fans travel like Nebraska classy to an Orange Bowel, outnumbering Washington fans 5 to 1 EASILY. And there's the creep: ostensibly wearing the colors of the small New England DIII college he was technically there to watch (fuck off - no more information for you), yelling like a mother fucker with the other 8 Washington fans who showed up as the Husky women just fucking annihilated the division 1 field.
This is still a major sport back east; trust me on that. And there's some fun to be had watching some old, arrogant Princeton fuck mumble to himself as he watches his beloved Tigers get their asses handed to them by a Washington crew.
But the Cal group was the best. They beat Washington in season, and lost to them at Pac 12s, so they must've thought they had a chance.
They didn't.
It got really fucking quiet when Cal realized they were out of it. Stanford had a great finish but Washington led throughout and were never really in danger of losing.
There is not a school in the country with Washington's rowing tradition. Not one.
It gets a little murky to attempt to quantify which university has the "greatest rowing tradition". On the Men's side, I'd say it's a toss up between Harvard, Washington and CAL.
Harvard - They didn't even attend the IRA regatta - quasi NT until 1982 and official post 1995 - until the mid to late 90's. Their focus was the Eastern Sprints which they've won 29 times and the Harvard - Yale race. In a lot of those years before 1995 they would have won IRA's. They did win 6 NT's in the 80's and early 90's and the now defunct College Rowing National Championship that used to occur in Cincinnati. I'm guessing Harvard has likely had the "fastest" boat in the country in, at least, 25- 30 seasons going back to the early 1900's. They also had, arguably, the greatest coach of the sport in the modern era in Harry Parker.
Washington - 18 total national titles at the IRA's plus 1 more in 1984 and the above mentioned Cincinnati race. Washington gets points for having one, at least, one NT in every decade going back to the 1920's, except for the sixties.
California - 16 total national titles at the IRA's; their crews have actually won 3 gold medals in the Olympics as opposed to our? Boys in the Boat having only 1 in 1936. Still, beating Nazis is worth like 3 of 4 gold medals.
Honorable mention might be Cornell. They've won 22 IRA's, but the last was in 1982 and they haven't really been relevant since.
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I didn't know we won multiple national titles in '84. What a great year for UW.YellowSnow said:creepycoug said:I'm going to get untold amounts of shit for this, but I was actually in Windsor and watched it this weekend.
All jokes aside, it was surprisingly enjoyable. The place is absofuckinglutely full of these eastern upper-tier schools and their fans (with a few not-so-upper tier schools - hello Gonzaga, Ohio State, WSU and Central Florida). Cal rowing fans travel like Nebraska classy to an Orange Bowel, outnumbering Washington fans 5 to 1 EASILY. And there's the creep: ostensibly wearing the colors of the small New England DIII college he was technically there to watch (fuck off - no more information for you), yelling like a mother fucker with the other 8 Washington fans who showed up as the Husky women just fucking annihilated the division 1 field.
This is still a major sport back east; trust me on that. And there's some fun to be had watching some old, arrogant Princeton fuck mumble to himself as he watches his beloved Tigers get their asses handed to them by a Washington crew.
But the Cal group was the best. They beat Washington in season, and lost to them at Pac 12s, so they must've thought they had a chance.
They didn't.
It got really fucking quiet when Cal realized they were out of it. Stanford had a great finish but Washington led throughout and were never really in danger of losing.
There is not a school in the country with Washington's rowing tradition. Not one.
Washington - 18 total national titles at the IRA's plus 1 more in 1984 and the above mentioned Cincinnati race. Washington gets points for having one, at least, one NT in every decade going back to the 1920's, except for the sixties. -
@jecornel is getting shredded in this thread.YellowSnow said:
I am really impressed to see this softer side of you @creepycoug - i.e., being at the NCAA Nationals for Women's Rowing. Respect...and I'm being serious.creepycoug said:I'm going to get untold amounts of shit for this, but I was actually in Windsor and watched it this weekend.
All jokes aside, it was surprisingly enjoyable. The place is absofuckinglutely full of these eastern upper-tier schools and their fans (with a few not-so-upper tier schools - hello Gonzaga, Ohio State, WSU and Central Florida). Cal rowing fans travel like Nebraska classy to an Orange Bowel, outnumbering Washington fans 5 to 1 EASILY. And there's the creep: ostensibly wearing the colors of the small New England DIII college he was technically there to watch (fuck off - no more information for you), yelling like a mother fucker with the other 8 Washington fans who showed up as the Husky women just fucking annihilated the division 1 field.
This is still a major sport back east; trust me on that. And there's some fun to be had watching some old, arrogant Princeton fuck mumble to himself as he watches his beloved Tigers get their asses handed to them by a Washington crew.
But the Cal group was the best. They beat Washington in season, and lost to them at Pac 12s, so they must've thought they had a chance.
They didn't.
It got really fucking quiet when Cal realized they were out of it. Stanford had a great finish but Washington led throughout and were never really in danger of losing.
There is not a school in the country with Washington's rowing tradition. Not one.
It gets a little murky to attempt to quantify which university has the "greatest rowing tradition". On the Men's side, I'd say it's a toss up between Harvard, Washington and CAL.
Harvard - They didn't even attend the IRA regatta - quasi NT until 1982 and official post 1995 - until the mid to late 90's. Their focus was the Eastern Sprints which they've won 29 times and the Harvard - Yale race. In a lot of those years before 1995 they would have won IRA's. They did win 6 NT's in the 80's and early 90's and the now defunct College Rowing National Championship that used to occur in Cincinnati. I'm guessing Harvard has likely had the "fastest" boat in the country in, at least, 25- 30 seasons going back to the early 1900's. They also had, arguably, the greatest coach of the sport in the modern era in Harry Parker.
Washington - 18 total national titles at the IRA's plus 1 more in 1984 and the above mentioned Cincinnati race. Washington gets points for having one, at least, one NT in every decade going back to the 1920's, except for the sixties.
California - 16 total national titles at the IRA's; their crews have actually won 3 gold medals in the Olympics as opposed to our? Boys in the Boat having only 1 in 1936. Still, beating Nazis is worth like 3 of 4 gold medals.
Honorable mention might be Cornell. They've won 22 IRA's, but the last was in 1982 and they haven't really been relevant since. -
Sorry. It was in the pre-digital age.DonLemonParty said:
pics?YellowSnow said:
That looks like our post practice showers back in the day.AZDuck said:
rowing traditioncreepycoug said:I'm going to get untold amounts of shit for this, but I was actually in Windsor and watched it this weekend.
All jokes aside, it was surprisingly enjoyable. The place is absofuckinglutely full of these eastern upper-tier schools and their fans (with a few not-so-upper tier schools - hello Gonzaga, Ohio State, WSU and Central Florida). Cal rowing fans travel like Nebraska classy to an Orange Bowel, outnumbering Washington fans 5 to 1 EASILY. And there's the creep: ostensibly wearing the colors of the small New England DIII college he was technically there to watch (fuck off - no more information for you), yelling like a mother fucker with the other 8 Washington fans who showed up as the Husky women just fucking annihilated the division 1 field.
This is still a major sport back east; trust me on that. And there's some fun to be had watching some old, arrogant Princeton fuck mumble to himself as he watches his beloved Tigers get their asses handed to them by a Washington crew.
But the Cal group was the best. They beat Washington in season, and lost to them at Pac 12s, so they must've thought they had a chance.
They didn't.
It got really fucking quiet when Cal realized they were out of it. Stanford had a great finish but Washington led throughout and were never really in danger of losing.
There is not a school in the country with Washington's rowing tradition. Not one.
that is seriously a rowing gif. no implied sex acts. -
And the Women won that year as well, so 2 for crew + the quasi Sooner Schooner Natty.Gladstone said:
I didn't know we won multiple national titles in '84. What a great year for UW.YellowSnow said:creepycoug said:I'm going to get untold amounts of shit for this, but I was actually in Windsor and watched it this weekend.
All jokes aside, it was surprisingly enjoyable. The place is absofuckinglutely full of these eastern upper-tier schools and their fans (with a few not-so-upper tier schools - hello Gonzaga, Ohio State, WSU and Central Florida). Cal rowing fans travel like Nebraska classy to an Orange Bowel, outnumbering Washington fans 5 to 1 EASILY. And there's the creep: ostensibly wearing the colors of the small New England DIII college he was technically there to watch (fuck off - no more information for you), yelling like a mother fucker with the other 8 Washington fans who showed up as the Husky women just fucking annihilated the division 1 field.
This is still a major sport back east; trust me on that. And there's some fun to be had watching some old, arrogant Princeton fuck mumble to himself as he watches his beloved Tigers get their asses handed to them by a Washington crew.
But the Cal group was the best. They beat Washington in season, and lost to them at Pac 12s, so they must've thought they had a chance.
They didn't.
It got really fucking quiet when Cal realized they were out of it. Stanford had a great finish but Washington led throughout and were never really in danger of losing.
There is not a school in the country with Washington's rowing tradition. Not one.
Washington - 18 total national titles at the IRA's plus 1 more in 1984 and the above mentioned Cincinnati race. Washington gets points for having one, at least, one NT in every decade going back to the 1920's, except for the sixties. -
Well, of the D3 schools that fit my description, you had Wellesley, Wesleyan, Williams and Bates, and it wasn't Bates. I'll leave it to speculation which of the Ws it was.seatownfunk said:Williams?
PLU was there and got spanked. It's pretty humorous, the whole "our confrunce is so tuff" thing ... it extends all the way to D3 and all the way to rowing. In small college, pretty much all of the top rowing programs are in the NE, and 98% of those are in New England proper. So PLU pretty much walks into the NCAAs because the other small college programs around here are terrible, but once there they get their asses kicked. That's why Gonzaga was there in Division 1, even though Gonzaga would likely finish dead last in the Ivy League and probably would have their hands full in D3 New England.
It's a goofy sport, but at the end of the day, Washington is very, very, very good at it. It's also an honest sport. There's a some technical skill there, but in the final analysis, it's a fucking boat race: who has it between the ears to apply brute force for 2k and not fold and give it to the pain. I am convinced one of the reasons why Washington is so good is that they train year around in this shit weather of ours on Lake Washington in very shitty training conditions. They're like fucking Leonidas and his 300 by the time competition rolls around. -
^ to add on the training thing ... whenever the wind would pick up and cause even a ripple on the water, those eastern pussies hosting the event would shut down and hold up the races until it calmed down. I'm guessing the Washington coach is watching this and thinking, "fuck, this a nice calm summer day on Lake Washington ... let's fucking race."
So fucking bad ass. The Alabama of rowing schools.
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I used to think rowers were faggots. Then I got on a rowing machine several years ago and almost died after 20 minutes of what would be moderate to low exertion for a serious rower. Now I just think they are mildly gay, as opposed to full on power bottoms. I wil never get on a rowing machine again. I think I still hurt.
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It always was and always will be the goofy, non-revenue that Washington should excel at for both men and women. When situate your university next to several lakes and have an abundance of tall Viking descendants in the PNW, you have no choice but to kick ass at row boat.creepycoug said:
Well, of the D3 schools that fit my description, you had Wellesley, Wesleyan, Williams and Bates, and it wasn't Bates. I'll leave it to speculation which of the Ws it was.seatownfunk said:Williams?
PLU was there and got spanked. It's pretty humorous, the whole "our confrunce is so tuff" thing ... it extends all the way to D3 and all the way to rowing. In small college, pretty much all of the top rowing programs are in the NE, and 98% of those are in New England proper. So PLU pretty much walks into the NCAAs because the other small college programs around here are terrible, but once there they get their asses kicked. That's why Gonzaga was there in Division 1, even though Gonzaga would likely finish dead last in the Ivy League and probably would have their hands full in D3 New England.
It's a goofy sport, but at the end of the day, Washington is very, very, very good at it. It's also an honest sport. There's a some technical skill there, but in the final analysis, it's a fucking boat race: who has it between the ears to apply brute force for 2k and not fold and give it to the pain. I am convinced one of the reasons why Washington is so good is that they train year around in this shit weather of ours on Lake Washington in very shitty training conditions. They're like fucking Leonidas and his 300 by the time competition rolls around.
On we sweep with threshing oar
