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| Subject: Re: How do they figure individual awards for rowing? |
| Posted by: cavman11 on Wed Jun 6 2012 7:30:39 AM |
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They row so many times the coach has a pretty good idea who the best
ones are. Boats are determined roughly by erg times (the rowing machine) and then mixing up boats at the beginning of the season, seat races (having 2 equal boats race, switching out a person from each boat, racing again and seeing the result), etc to figure out the best combination of girls. It's not really an exact science and there have been teams torn apart from dissent over choices, luckily it doesn't seem to be much of an issue for us. As for order of the boat roughly the idea is to put the heaviest, strongest people in the middle. Because as you row the boat is literally lifted out of the water a little at the bow you put the lightest girls there. Then the stern pair (including the stroke seat) is whoever the coach finds that can control the boat and can follow the race plan the best. I have no detailed knowledge of the team FYI, this is just basic rowing info |
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Post-season honors for WRowing! -- NickS Tue Jun 5 2012 9:12:10 AM |
How do they figure individual awards for rowing? -- Hoos in da house Wed Jun 6 2012 3:27:24 AM |
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CavMan has a pretty good summary below on selection. -- NickS Wed Jun 6 2012 11:02:29 AM |
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Meant "erg scores" not "erg power" although the latter sounds cool. ** -- NickS Wed Jun 6 2012 11:03:04 AM |
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Re: How do they figure individual awards for rowing? -- cavman11 Wed Jun 6 2012 7:30:39 AM |
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Nick, I know Cowburn is a graduate student from the UK! Is this year... -- shakerhoo Tue Jun 5 2012 1:22:39 PM |
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She could return for another season. -- NickS Tue Jun 5 2012 1:54:00 PM |
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Congratulations, ladies! Thanks for all you did for UVa. ** -- WahooKnows Tue Jun 5 2012 11:34:34 AM |
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Quite a statement for the V1 boat -- congrats to all! ** -- molo83 Tue Jun 5 2012 10:38:23 AM |
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