After a (mostly) sunny day at Metros, the team is proud of how they performed today, especially against some tough competition! All of the races that had heats made it to the finals, for which the wind picked up as the day went on. Improvements were definitely seen in all crews, it shows that hard work at practice really does pay off! Results:

VM8+: 3rd of 4
VW8+ Heat: 1st of 4
VW8+ Final: 5th of 6
NM4+ Heat: 2nd of 4
NM4+ Final: 4th of 5
NM8+: 2nd of 5
NW4+ Heat: 1st of 5
NW4+ Final: 1st of 6

Awesome job everyone! To all of the parents and friends that showed up today – THANK YOU! Your support and the food/drinks many brought were greatly appreciated. Now it’s back to the water to train for Busfields next Saturday! A link to the official results will be added to the “Results” tab once they are posted by the race organizers.

Results:
VM8+: 3rd of 3 (7:09)
VW8+: 3rd of 3 (8:16)
NM8A+: 3rd of 4 (7:14)
NM8B+: 4th of 4 (TBA)
NW4+: 2nd of 3 (8:55)

RPI Crew’s Spring 2013 race schedule has been finalized. You will find it listed below and on the ‘SCHEDULE’ tab to the right.

April 7: Union Scrimmage – Schenectady, NY
April 13: Metros – New Rochelle, NY
April 20: Busfields – Binghamton, NY
April 27: SCC Scrimmage – Schenectady, NY
May 4-5: States – Whitney Point, NY

This site is still under construction, but we are quickly working to remedy that situation.  Our new webmaster will be working hard to update the information, and eventually the format, of this website to better serve the needs of our visitors.  Please bear with us in the interim while our rosters, photos, and web-forms are updated to match how we are doing in 2013.  For those of you who have visited our site before, this will be a big change since almost a year ago.

We are entering winter training at this point.  Since the beginning of December, the personal trainer in the Mueller Center has had the rowers on a lifting regimen, and we will begin erging as soon as possible.  Practice times are to be announced for the rest of the semester, and will be posted here as soon as we know when we will be working out.

In the meantime, you can visit our Facebook page to see how the team is doing.  Feel free to email me at crew-webmaster [at] union [dot] rpi [dot] edu, or contact any of the officers listed under the ‘Contact’ tab.

Have a wonderful day, and keep on rowing!

However, here’s a little bit of information about the team:

The Rensselaer Crew team is a Rensselaer Union-funded club team of approximately 40 athletes (spring 2012). Our membership typically ranges from 40 members to 70 members. Unlike the varsity teams on campus, we are a student-run organization with a group of 6 students acting as the Executive Board for the team (President, Vice President, Treasurer, Secretary, Membership Officers, and Equipment Officer). This means that students that are interested in getting involved with running the team will have ample opportunity to do so as early as your novice year!

Our varsity squad (not to be confused with the official designation as a NCAA varsity team on campus…) practices every weekday morning at 5:15am and some Saturdays as well. Our novice squad, on the other hand, practices in the evenings at 5pm. Our boathouse is located down the hill and across the river in Hudson Shores Park in Watervliet, NY.

There is no experience necessary to join the team! The majority of current team members had no rowing experience when they joined and learned to row at RPI. If you’re interested in joining, stop by our table at the Students Activities Fair in the fall! If you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to email join-crew@union.rpi.edu!

Money is due to Sarah by November 1st (today).

More information will be posted here as it become available.  If you have any questions, please contact crew-membership [at] union [dot] rpi [dot] edu.

ADK 2010 results

Thank you to all of those who participated.