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BennyBeaver
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7:10 for 2k this am.
Could have broke 7 if I knew what I was doing.
I don’t think that too bad a time for an old, fat noob.
Could have broke 7 if I knew what I was doing.
I don’t think that too bad a time for an old, fat noob.
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Yes this is the strokin' bored.
1:47 splits is perfectly respectable for fat old noobs like us. Granted elite women's college rowers are all under 7 mins, but still...
In college I pulled 6:06...1:31 splits. Glory days they'll pass you by -
Didn't you row a bit on the Willamette BTW?
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In college you didn't have a music board on a cesspool websiteYellowSnow said:Yes this is the strokin' bored.
1:47 splits is perfectly respectable for fat old noobs like us. Granted elite women's college rowers are all under 7 mins, but still...
In college I pulled 6:06...1:31 splits. Glory days they'll pass you by -
I still cannot understand Bruce Springsteen ditching Julianne Phillips for Patty Scialfa.YellowSnow said:Yes this is the strokin' bored.
1:47 splits is perfectly respectable for fat old noobs like us. Granted elite women's college rowers are all under 7 mins, but still...
In college I pulled 6:06...1:31 splits. Glory days they'll pass you by
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When I was in college the internets was a blinking curser.Pitchfork51 said:
In college you didn't have a music board on a cesspool websiteYellowSnow said:Yes this is the strokin' bored.
1:47 splits is perfectly respectable for fat old noobs like us. Granted elite women's college rowers are all under 7 mins, but still...
In college I pulled 6:06...1:31 splits. Glory days they'll pass you by -
Negative.YellowSnow said:Didn't you row a bit on the Willamette BTW?
Never been in one of those skinny rowboats. -
*your a wise man.BennyBeaver said:
Negative.YellowSnow said:Didn't you row a bit on the Willamette BTW?
Never been in one of those skinny rowboats. -
I ain't buyin' it Beav.BennyBeaver said:7:10 for 2k this am.
Could have broke 7 if I knew what I was doing.
I don’t think that too bad a time for an old, fat noob. -
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I routinely forget how bad music videos were in the 80s. Jeebus they were bad.YellowSnow said:Best song of all time about strokin'...
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=P7gMkiOPSeA -
Oh I don't know Creep; it's not chinconcievable that a non ex rower who's in pretty good old guy shape to pull around 7:10. Besides, falsifying erg scores is a felony offense so we gotta give the Beav the bennefit of the doubt.creepycoug said:
I ain't buyin' it Beav.BennyBeaver said:7:10 for 2k this am.
Could have broke 7 if I knew what I was doing.
I don’t think that too bad a time for an old, fat noob. -
I lied.creepycoug said:
I ain't buyin' it Beav.BennyBeaver said:7:10 for 2k this am.
Could have broke 7 if I knew what I was doing.
I don’t think that too bad a time for an old, fat noob.
7:10.5 -
Don't let it happen again.BennyBeaver said:
I lied.creepycoug said:
I ain't buyin' it Beav.BennyBeaver said:7:10 for 2k this am.
Could have broke 7 if I knew what I was doing.
I don’t think that too bad a time for an old, fat noob.
7:10.5 -
I thought this thread was about masturbation - and wondered how anyone can pull on it for 7:10 and women do it under 6. Hell I can't last 30 - 40 seconds...
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Pulled a 6:22 my Freshman year. Quit after that.YellowSnow said:Yes this is the strokin' bored.
1:47 splits is perfectly respectable for fat old noobs like us. Granted elite women's college rowers are all under 7 mins, but still...
In college I pulled 6:06...1:31 splits. Glory days they'll pass you by -
That's a respectable freshman year time for back in the day. The time's they are getting now are ridiculous. Most of the 1V and 2V are at or under 6:00. In the 90's you might have 1 or 2 guys go under 6:00 in the 1V and no one in the 2V.Edwin_Bambino said:
Pulled a 6:22 my Freshman year. Quit after that.YellowSnow said:Yes this is the strokin' bored.
1:47 splits is perfectly respectable for fat old noobs like us. Granted elite women's college rowers are all under 7 mins, but still...
In college I pulled 6:06...1:31 splits. Glory days they'll pass you by -
Yea this was at a smaller east coast school. I’m only 6’0 tall so I didn’t have any great upside. Certainly not like the rowers at UW who are all trying to make the Olympic programs for their respective countries and win National Championships. I was just doing it to stay in shape and be a part of a team.YellowSnow said:
That's a respectable freshman year time for back in the day. The time's they are getting now are ridiculous. Most of the 1V and 2V are at or under 6:00. In the 90's you might have 1 or 2 guys go under 6:00 in the 1V and no one in the 2V.Edwin_Bambino said:
Pulled a 6:22 my Freshman year. Quit after that.YellowSnow said:Yes this is the strokin' bored.
1:47 splits is perfectly respectable for fat old noobs like us. Granted elite women's college rowers are all under 7 mins, but still...
In college I pulled 6:06...1:31 splits. Glory days they'll pass you by
Eventually I realized I liked drinking beer more than waking up at 5am to row on a half frozen river and get stomped by the good Ivy programs, Navy, and Syracuse and that was the end of my rowing career. -
If you were getting stomped by Navy, your school sucked at crew. My kid rows in the NESCAC and they crush the academies all. the. time. Army, Navy and Coast Guard. If the AF academy has a boat, I've not seen it.Edwin_Bambino said:
Yea this was at a smaller east coast school. I’m only 6’0 tall so I didn’t have any great upside. Certainly not like the rowers at UW who are all trying to make the Olympic programs for their respective countries and win National Championships. I was just doing it to stay in shape and be a part of a team.YellowSnow said:
That's a respectable freshman year time for back in the day. The time's they are getting now are ridiculous. Most of the 1V and 2V are at or under 6:00. In the 90's you might have 1 or 2 guys go under 6:00 in the 1V and no one in the 2V.Edwin_Bambino said:
Pulled a 6:22 my Freshman year. Quit after that.YellowSnow said:Yes this is the strokin' bored.
1:47 splits is perfectly respectable for fat old noobs like us. Granted elite women's college rowers are all under 7 mins, but still...
In college I pulled 6:06...1:31 splits. Glory days they'll pass you by
Eventually I realized I liked drinking beer more than waking up at 5am to row on a half frozen river and get stomped by the good Ivy programs, Navy, and Syracuse and that was the end of my rowing career.
Row Boat is weird as it relates to the collegiate divisions, at least on the women's side. Sure, the top Ivies and programs like UW, Cal, Tejas, Stanford, UVa, Wisky, Michigan and others are on a different level altogether. But the lesser Ivies and many other D1 boats aren't that fast. I've seen fast D3 boats smoke 1V boats at D 1 schools like UConn (several times), Boston College and others several times.
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Alas, my dream of more hawt rowing talk is cuming true!creepycoug said:
If you were getting stomped by Navy, your school sucked at crew. My kid rows in the NESCAC and they crush the academies all. the. time. Army, Navy and Coast Guard. If the AF academy has a boat, I've not seen it.Edwin_Bambino said:
Yea this was at a smaller east coast school. I’m only 6’0 tall so I didn’t have any great upside. Certainly not like the rowers at UW who are all trying to make the Olympic programs for their respective countries and win National Championships. I was just doing it to stay in shape and be a part of a team.YellowSnow said:
That's a respectable freshman year time for back in the day. The time's they are getting now are ridiculous. Most of the 1V and 2V are at or under 6:00. In the 90's you might have 1 or 2 guys go under 6:00 in the 1V and no one in the 2V.Edwin_Bambino said:
Pulled a 6:22 my Freshman year. Quit after that.YellowSnow said:Yes this is the strokin' bored.
1:47 splits is perfectly respectable for fat old noobs like us. Granted elite women's college rowers are all under 7 mins, but still...
In college I pulled 6:06...1:31 splits. Glory days they'll pass you by
Eventually I realized I liked drinking beer more than waking up at 5am to row on a half frozen river and get stomped by the good Ivy programs, Navy, and Syracuse and that was the end of my rowing career.
Row Boat is weird as it relates to the collegiate divisions, at least on the women's side. Sure, the top Ivies and programs like UW, Cal, Tejas, Stanford, UVa, Wisky, Michigan and others are on a different level altogether. But the lesser Ivies and many other D1 boats aren't that fast. I've seen fast D3 boats smoke 1V boats at D 1 schools like UConn (several times), Boston College and others several times. -
YellowSnow said:
Alas, my dream of more hawt rowing talk is cuming true!creepycoug said:
If you were getting stomped by Navy, your school sucked at crew. My kid rows in the NESCAC and they crush the academies all. the. time. Army, Navy and Coast Guard. If the AF academy has a boat, I've not seen it.Edwin_Bambino said:
Yea this was at a smaller east coast school. I’m only 6’0 tall so I didn’t have any great upside. Certainly not like the rowers at UW who are all trying to make the Olympic programs for their respective countries and win National Championships. I was just doing it to stay in shape and be a part of a team.YellowSnow said:
That's a respectable freshman year time for back in the day. The time's they are getting now are ridiculous. Most of the 1V and 2V are at or under 6:00. In the 90's you might have 1 or 2 guys go under 6:00 in the 1V and no one in the 2V.Edwin_Bambino said:
Pulled a 6:22 my Freshman year. Quit after that.YellowSnow said:Yes this is the strokin' bored.
1:47 splits is perfectly respectable for fat old noobs like us. Granted elite women's college rowers are all under 7 mins, but still...
In college I pulled 6:06...1:31 splits. Glory days they'll pass you by
Eventually I realized I liked drinking beer more than waking up at 5am to row on a half frozen river and get stomped by the good Ivy programs, Navy, and Syracuse and that was the end of my rowing career.
Row Boat is weird as it relates to the collegiate divisions, at least on the women's side. Sure, the top Ivies and programs like UW, Cal, Tejas, Stanford, UVa, Wisky, Michigan and others are on a different level altogether. But the lesser Ivies and many other D1 boats aren't that fast. I've seen fast D3 boats smoke 1V boats at D 1 schools like UConn (several times), Boston College and others several times.
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Definitely wasn’t a crew powerhouse. Navy didn’t really stomp us, we were equal to them not sure why I included them. We beat the fuck out of Army. I think the best my boat did my Freshman year was ranked just inside the top 20 and won the Freshman race at Dad Vails. We weren’t elite by any means but we weren’t trash.creepycoug said:
If you were getting stomped by Navy, your school sucked at crew. My kid rows in the NESCAC and they crush the academies all. the. time. Army, Navy and Coast Guard. If the AF academy has a boat, I've not seen it.Edwin_Bambino said:
Yea this was at a smaller east coast school. I’m only 6’0 tall so I didn’t have any great upside. Certainly not like the rowers at UW who are all trying to make the Olympic programs for their respective countries and win National Championships. I was just doing it to stay in shape and be a part of a team.YellowSnow said:
That's a respectable freshman year time for back in the day. The time's they are getting now are ridiculous. Most of the 1V and 2V are at or under 6:00. In the 90's you might have 1 or 2 guys go under 6:00 in the 1V and no one in the 2V.Edwin_Bambino said:
Pulled a 6:22 my Freshman year. Quit after that.YellowSnow said:Yes this is the strokin' bored.
1:47 splits is perfectly respectable for fat old noobs like us. Granted elite women's college rowers are all under 7 mins, but still...
In college I pulled 6:06...1:31 splits. Glory days they'll pass you by
Eventually I realized I liked drinking beer more than waking up at 5am to row on a half frozen river and get stomped by the good Ivy programs, Navy, and Syracuse and that was the end of my rowing career.
Row Boat is weird as it relates to the collegiate divisions, at least on the women's side. Sure, the top Ivies and programs like UW, Cal, Tejas, Stanford, UVa, Wisky, Michigan and others are on a different level altogether. But the lesser Ivies and many other D1 boats aren't that fast. I've seen fast D3 boats smoke 1V boats at D 1 schools like UConn (several times), Boston College and others several times.
Williams was the one Nescac school I remember we couldn’t really compete against. -
That list is now Wesleyan, Bates & Williams. Trinity used to be a power, but they suck now. Hamilton came out of nowhere and is now fast af. They just lost to Bates the other day by 2 seconds, have lead most of the way. Bates is defending national champs. I think the pre-season top 5 in D3 women Had Bates and Wesleyan in at 1 & 2, with Hamilton and Williams also in the top 5.Edwin_Bambino said:
Definitely wasn’t a crew powerhouse. Navy didn’t really stomp us, we were equal to them not sure why I included them. We beat the fuck out of Army. I think the best my boat did my Freshman year was ranked just inside the top 20 and won the Freshman race at Dad Vails. We weren’t elite by any means but we weren’t trash.creepycoug said:
If you were getting stomped by Navy, your school sucked at crew. My kid rows in the NESCAC and they crush the academies all. the. time. Army, Navy and Coast Guard. If the AF academy has a boat, I've not seen it.Edwin_Bambino said:
Yea this was at a smaller east coast school. I’m only 6’0 tall so I didn’t have any great upside. Certainly not like the rowers at UW who are all trying to make the Olympic programs for their respective countries and win National Championships. I was just doing it to stay in shape and be a part of a team.YellowSnow said:
That's a respectable freshman year time for back in the day. The time's they are getting now are ridiculous. Most of the 1V and 2V are at or under 6:00. In the 90's you might have 1 or 2 guys go under 6:00 in the 1V and no one in the 2V.Edwin_Bambino said:
Pulled a 6:22 my Freshman year. Quit after that.YellowSnow said:Yes this is the strokin' bored.
1:47 splits is perfectly respectable for fat old noobs like us. Granted elite women's college rowers are all under 7 mins, but still...
In college I pulled 6:06...1:31 splits. Glory days they'll pass you by
Eventually I realized I liked drinking beer more than waking up at 5am to row on a half frozen river and get stomped by the good Ivy programs, Navy, and Syracuse and that was the end of my rowing career.
Row Boat is weird as it relates to the collegiate divisions, at least on the women's side. Sure, the top Ivies and programs like UW, Cal, Tejas, Stanford, UVa, Wisky, Michigan and others are on a different level altogether. But the lesser Ivies and many other D1 boats aren't that fast. I've seen fast D3 boats smoke 1V boats at D 1 schools like UConn (several times), Boston College and others several times.
Williams was the one Nescac school I remember we couldn’t really compete against.
Far and away the top D3 conference in rowing (and a bunch of other sports). -
D3 sports: For people who were mediocre in High School.creepycoug said:
That list is now Wesleyan, Bates & Williams. Trinity used to be a power, but they suck now. Hamilton came out of nowhere and is now fast af. They just lost to Bates the other day by 2 seconds, have lead most of the way. Bates is defending national champs. I think the pre-season top 5 in D3 women Had Bates and Wesleyan in at 1 & 2, with Hamilton and Williams also in the top 5.Edwin_Bambino said:
Definitely wasn’t a crew powerhouse. Navy didn’t really stomp us, we were equal to them not sure why I included them. We beat the fuck out of Army. I think the best my boat did my Freshman year was ranked just inside the top 20 and won the Freshman race at Dad Vails. We weren’t elite by any means but we weren’t trash.creepycoug said:
If you were getting stomped by Navy, your school sucked at crew. My kid rows in the NESCAC and they crush the academies all. the. time. Army, Navy and Coast Guard. If the AF academy has a boat, I've not seen it.Edwin_Bambino said:
Yea this was at a smaller east coast school. I’m only 6’0 tall so I didn’t have any great upside. Certainly not like the rowers at UW who are all trying to make the Olympic programs for their respective countries and win National Championships. I was just doing it to stay in shape and be a part of a team.YellowSnow said:
That's a respectable freshman year time for back in the day. The time's they are getting now are ridiculous. Most of the 1V and 2V are at or under 6:00. In the 90's you might have 1 or 2 guys go under 6:00 in the 1V and no one in the 2V.Edwin_Bambino said:
Pulled a 6:22 my Freshman year. Quit after that.YellowSnow said:Yes this is the strokin' bored.
1:47 splits is perfectly respectable for fat old noobs like us. Granted elite women's college rowers are all under 7 mins, but still...
In college I pulled 6:06...1:31 splits. Glory days they'll pass you by
Eventually I realized I liked drinking beer more than waking up at 5am to row on a half frozen river and get stomped by the good Ivy programs, Navy, and Syracuse and that was the end of my rowing career.
Row Boat is weird as it relates to the collegiate divisions, at least on the women's side. Sure, the top Ivies and programs like UW, Cal, Tejas, Stanford, UVa, Wisky, Michigan and others are on a different level altogether. But the lesser Ivies and many other D1 boats aren't that fast. I've seen fast D3 boats smoke 1V boats at D 1 schools like UConn (several times), Boston College and others several times.
Williams was the one Nescac school I remember we couldn’t really compete against.
Far and away the top D3 conference in rowing (and a bunch of other sports). -
Your real/poor ballers are going the community college/JC route for PT.BennyBeaver said:
D3 sports: For rich people who were mediocre in High School.creepycoug said:
That list is now Wesleyan, Bates & Williams. Trinity used to be a power, but they suck now. Hamilton came out of nowhere and is now fast af. They just lost to Bates the other day by 2 seconds, have lead most of the way. Bates is defending national champs. I think the pre-season top 5 in D3 women Had Bates and Wesleyan in at 1 & 2, with Hamilton and Williams also in the top 5.Edwin_Bambino said:
Definitely wasn’t a crew powerhouse. Navy didn’t really stomp us, we were equal to them not sure why I included them. We beat the fuck out of Army. I think the best my boat did my Freshman year was ranked just inside the top 20 and won the Freshman race at Dad Vails. We weren’t elite by any means but we weren’t trash.creepycoug said:
If you were getting stomped by Navy, your school sucked at crew. My kid rows in the NESCAC and they crush the academies all. the. time. Army, Navy and Coast Guard. If the AF academy has a boat, I've not seen it.Edwin_Bambino said:
Yea this was at a smaller east coast school. I’m only 6’0 tall so I didn’t have any great upside. Certainly not like the rowers at UW who are all trying to make the Olympic programs for their respective countries and win National Championships. I was just doing it to stay in shape and be a part of a team.YellowSnow said:
That's a respectable freshman year time for back in the day. The time's they are getting now are ridiculous. Most of the 1V and 2V are at or under 6:00. In the 90's you might have 1 or 2 guys go under 6:00 in the 1V and no one in the 2V.Edwin_Bambino said:
Pulled a 6:22 my Freshman year. Quit after that.YellowSnow said:Yes this is the strokin' bored.
1:47 splits is perfectly respectable for fat old noobs like us. Granted elite women's college rowers are all under 7 mins, but still...
In college I pulled 6:06...1:31 splits. Glory days they'll pass you by
Eventually I realized I liked drinking beer more than waking up at 5am to row on a half frozen river and get stomped by the good Ivy programs, Navy, and Syracuse and that was the end of my rowing career.
Row Boat is weird as it relates to the collegiate divisions, at least on the women's side. Sure, the top Ivies and programs like UW, Cal, Tejas, Stanford, UVa, Wisky, Michigan and others are on a different level altogether. But the lesser Ivies and many other D1 boats aren't that fast. I've seen fast D3 boats smoke 1V boats at D 1 schools like UConn (several times), Boston College and others several times.
Williams was the one Nescac school I remember we couldn’t really compete against.
Far and away the top D3 conference in rowing (and a bunch of other sports).
D3 ball is like really expensive intramurals.
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Bingo.PurpleThrobber said:
Your real/poor ballers are going the community college/JC route for PT.BennyBeaver said:
D3 sports: For rich people who were mediocre in High School.creepycoug said:
That list is now Wesleyan, Bates & Williams. Trinity used to be a power, but they suck now. Hamilton came out of nowhere and is now fast af. They just lost to Bates the other day by 2 seconds, have lead most of the way. Bates is defending national champs. I think the pre-season top 5 in D3 women Had Bates and Wesleyan in at 1 & 2, with Hamilton and Williams also in the top 5.Edwin_Bambino said:
Definitely wasn’t a crew powerhouse. Navy didn’t really stomp us, we were equal to them not sure why I included them. We beat the fuck out of Army. I think the best my boat did my Freshman year was ranked just inside the top 20 and won the Freshman race at Dad Vails. We weren’t elite by any means but we weren’t trash.creepycoug said:
If you were getting stomped by Navy, your school sucked at crew. My kid rows in the NESCAC and they crush the academies all. the. time. Army, Navy and Coast Guard. If the AF academy has a boat, I've not seen it.Edwin_Bambino said:
Yea this was at a smaller east coast school. I’m only 6’0 tall so I didn’t have any great upside. Certainly not like the rowers at UW who are all trying to make the Olympic programs for their respective countries and win National Championships. I was just doing it to stay in shape and be a part of a team.YellowSnow said:
That's a respectable freshman year time for back in the day. The time's they are getting now are ridiculous. Most of the 1V and 2V are at or under 6:00. In the 90's you might have 1 or 2 guys go under 6:00 in the 1V and no one in the 2V.Edwin_Bambino said:
Pulled a 6:22 my Freshman year. Quit after that.YellowSnow said:Yes this is the strokin' bored.
1:47 splits is perfectly respectable for fat old noobs like us. Granted elite women's college rowers are all under 7 mins, but still...
In college I pulled 6:06...1:31 splits. Glory days they'll pass you by
Eventually I realized I liked drinking beer more than waking up at 5am to row on a half frozen river and get stomped by the good Ivy programs, Navy, and Syracuse and that was the end of my rowing career.
Row Boat is weird as it relates to the collegiate divisions, at least on the women's side. Sure, the top Ivies and programs like UW, Cal, Tejas, Stanford, UVa, Wisky, Michigan and others are on a different level altogether. But the lesser Ivies and many other D1 boats aren't that fast. I've seen fast D3 boats smoke 1V boats at D 1 schools like UConn (several times), Boston College and others several times.
Williams was the one Nescac school I remember we couldn’t really compete against.
Far and away the top D3 conference in rowing (and a bunch of other sports).
D3 ball is like really expensive intramurals. -
Creep's Latin blood is about to run hot in this thread.
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For rich people that were mediocre in HS? Why I never...PurpleThrobber said:
Your real/poor ballers are going the community college/JC route for PT.BennyBeaver said:
D3 sports: For rich people who were mediocre in High School.creepycoug said:
That list is now Wesleyan, Bates & Williams. Trinity used to be a power, but they suck now. Hamilton came out of nowhere and is now fast af. They just lost to Bates the other day by 2 seconds, have lead most of the way. Bates is defending national champs. I think the pre-season top 5 in D3 women Had Bates and Wesleyan in at 1 & 2, with Hamilton and Williams also in the top 5.Edwin_Bambino said:
Definitely wasn’t a crew powerhouse. Navy didn’t really stomp us, we were equal to them not sure why I included them. We beat the fuck out of Army. I think the best my boat did my Freshman year was ranked just inside the top 20 and won the Freshman race at Dad Vails. We weren’t elite by any means but we weren’t trash.creepycoug said:
If you were getting stomped by Navy, your school sucked at crew. My kid rows in the NESCAC and they crush the academies all. the. time. Army, Navy and Coast Guard. If the AF academy has a boat, I've not seen it.Edwin_Bambino said:
Yea this was at a smaller east coast school. I’m only 6’0 tall so I didn’t have any great upside. Certainly not like the rowers at UW who are all trying to make the Olympic programs for their respective countries and win National Championships. I was just doing it to stay in shape and be a part of a team.YellowSnow said:
That's a respectable freshman year time for back in the day. The time's they are getting now are ridiculous. Most of the 1V and 2V are at or under 6:00. In the 90's you might have 1 or 2 guys go under 6:00 in the 1V and no one in the 2V.Edwin_Bambino said:
Pulled a 6:22 my Freshman year. Quit after that.YellowSnow said:Yes this is the strokin' bored.
1:47 splits is perfectly respectable for fat old noobs like us. Granted elite women's college rowers are all under 7 mins, but still...
In college I pulled 6:06...1:31 splits. Glory days they'll pass you by
Eventually I realized I liked drinking beer more than waking up at 5am to row on a half frozen river and get stomped by the good Ivy programs, Navy, and Syracuse and that was the end of my rowing career.
Row Boat is weird as it relates to the collegiate divisions, at least on the women's side. Sure, the top Ivies and programs like UW, Cal, Tejas, Stanford, UVa, Wisky, Michigan and others are on a different level altogether. But the lesser Ivies and many other D1 boats aren't that fast. I've seen fast D3 boats smoke 1V boats at D 1 schools like UConn (several times), Boston College and others several times.
Williams was the one Nescac school I remember we couldn’t really compete against.
Far and away the top D3 conference in rowing (and a bunch of other sports).
D3 ball is like really expensive intramurals.
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Latin blood good and hot now bitches.BennyBeaver said:
D3 sports: For people who were mediocre in High School.creepycoug said:
That list is now Wesleyan, Bates & Williams. Trinity used to be a power, but they suck now. Hamilton came out of nowhere and is now fast af. They just lost to Bates the other day by 2 seconds, have lead most of the way. Bates is defending national champs. I think the pre-season top 5 in D3 women Had Bates and Wesleyan in at 1 & 2, with Hamilton and Williams also in the top 5.Edwin_Bambino said:
Definitely wasn’t a crew powerhouse. Navy didn’t really stomp us, we were equal to them not sure why I included them. We beat the fuck out of Army. I think the best my boat did my Freshman year was ranked just inside the top 20 and won the Freshman race at Dad Vails. We weren’t elite by any means but we weren’t trash.creepycoug said:
If you were getting stomped by Navy, your school sucked at crew. My kid rows in the NESCAC and they crush the academies all. the. time. Army, Navy and Coast Guard. If the AF academy has a boat, I've not seen it.Edwin_Bambino said:
Yea this was at a smaller east coast school. I’m only 6’0 tall so I didn’t have any great upside. Certainly not like the rowers at UW who are all trying to make the Olympic programs for their respective countries and win National Championships. I was just doing it to stay in shape and be a part of a team.YellowSnow said:
That's a respectable freshman year time for back in the day. The time's they are getting now are ridiculous. Most of the 1V and 2V are at or under 6:00. In the 90's you might have 1 or 2 guys go under 6:00 in the 1V and no one in the 2V.Edwin_Bambino said:
Pulled a 6:22 my Freshman year. Quit after that.YellowSnow said:Yes this is the strokin' bored.
1:47 splits is perfectly respectable for fat old noobs like us. Granted elite women's college rowers are all under 7 mins, but still...
In college I pulled 6:06...1:31 splits. Glory days they'll pass you by
Eventually I realized I liked drinking beer more than waking up at 5am to row on a half frozen river and get stomped by the good Ivy programs, Navy, and Syracuse and that was the end of my rowing career.
Row Boat is weird as it relates to the collegiate divisions, at least on the women's side. Sure, the top Ivies and programs like UW, Cal, Tejas, Stanford, UVa, Wisky, Michigan and others are on a different level altogether. But the lesser Ivies and many other D1 boats aren't that fast. I've seen fast D3 boats smoke 1V boats at D 1 schools like UConn (several times), Boston College and others several times.
Williams was the one Nescac school I remember we couldn’t really compete against.
Far and away the top D3 conference in rowing (and a bunch of other sports).
The Washington Girl's Soccer Gatorade Player of the Year in 2012, Audrey Thomas, just concluded her career at Williams. She was really good, but didn't stand out like a sore thumb. FWIW, it's reely reely hard (hee) to be named the best prep chick soccer player in Washington ... unlike D1 football talent, we have a lot of tuff girl soccer players.
My kid was recruited to row D1 at a million schools. She's not alone in her boat.
Most of these places have much, much larger endowments on a per student basis than Cal, UW, Texas or even Michigan, and can afford much more easily to carry you if you can't write the check.
Riddle me this: what do the following schools have in common besides insanely smart kids: Williams, Pomona, Amherst, Middlebury, Bowdoin, Wesleyan, CMC, Harvey Mudd, Tufts, Washington & Lee, Wellesley, Vassar, Barnard, Swarthmore and Haverford?
100% of need met and a "no loans" policy.
Show me a poor kid at UW who isn't on football or bb scholly who doesn't have loans in his package (lol). Go head.
Smart poor kids who are good at sports are infiltrating the small ivies and their equivalents in droves.
Any kid playing a sport in the NESCAC was, by definition, a very good HS athlete. Maybe not P12 good, but then again, some of them were. Just not in men's fb or bb.
Doo sum research you motherless whores.
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