The University of Chicago Crew Club In this edition:

Winter Training 2011

The Maroon Lagoon

Chicago Indoor Rowing Championships
The UChicago Crew Team put forth an excellent effort at CIRCs this year. Emily Greenwood, a lightweight novice, had the fastest 2k among all the other lightweight novices. As you can see by the screen shot from the race, below, Emily blew the competition away! Novice lightweight man, Alex Murray, also annihilated the competition in his category and received first place.

Chicago Indoor Rowing Championships (CIRCs) p 1-2

Chicago State University February 26th, 2011

Article by Aurelie Merlo p3 Erg-A-Thon Article by Sophia Arabadjis p4 Medal Ceremony & Other Pictures p 4-5 Compiled and Edited by Chelsea Steffen

The womens relay team, consisting of 4th years Sonya Ringer and Kelly Wolenberg, 3rd year Chelsea Steffen, 1st year Erin Ferguson, and graduate student Ruth Anne Whitfield also did a great job representing the UChicago Crew Team but beating out the other competition, and placing a new record for the open relay event.

The mens relay team was made up of 3rd years Kenneth Oshita, Sasha Ostapenko, and John Kohler, as well as 1st years Alex Murray and Hans Glick.

Overall, it was a great performance from the UChicago Crew Team! One of the best parts of erging is watching everyones faces while theyre doing it-check out even more pictures of the UChicago Crew Team on the official Chicago Indoor Rowing Competition site: http://www.chicagoindoorrowing.com/records/

The photo above was taken during the womens relay race, with Ruth Anne Whitfield ending the race with an amazing sprint. You can see the sea of maroon in the back left as the other members of UChicago Crew cheer on their teammates! Photos by Daphna Gall

The screen at left shows the place of each of the competitors in the lightweight novice event. Emily Greenwoods time is represented by the top boat, far ahead of the other girls in her category!

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More CIRCs Pictures

Clockwise from top: First year novices Alex Murray and Matt Xu preparing for their 2k. 4th year varsity member Kelly Wolenberg discussing the 1k coxswain race with 2nd year and novice coxswain Rachel Richman (L-R) Novice men Robert Kramer, Alan McCormick, Jonson Berman, John Fallon, and Hans Glick Varsity women Angela Hwangpo and Anna Arsenault Varsity woman Sonya Ringer at the beginning of the relay race, with Angela Hwangpo and novice Maddy Pendergast holding the straps down to help make the transitions faster. All photos by Daphna Gall

Eight Minutes at CIRCs

Its funny. The thing I remember most from Winter quarter only lasted about 8 minutes. Its like that with crew. You train for 8 weeks for a race that will only lasts 8 minutes. A week of training only gets you a minute in. Im not even referring to the 8 minutes during which I was competing. I did compete - and it did last a bit over 8 minutes and, yes, it was memorable. Painfully memorable. And yet the 8 minutes I remember best were the minutes spent cheering for our relay teams at CIRCs. I certainly was not on the relay team (ew sprinting!), but I was there to cheer our teams on.

by Aurelie Merlo

time our novices felt like they were really a part of UChicago Crew, not just any crew team. Both of our squads did admirably well. Our womens squad even won! But our team got more than a victory out of the relays. At CIRCs we turned the page on the individual sport of erging to focus on the team sport of rowing. We got the taste of victory that we need to tackle Spring season, but also the team cohesion we need to finish that long season ahead.

So there you have it. The 8 minutes I take away from Winter quarter I wasnt really doing much. I was cheering. But in those 8 minutes I rememThe relays constitute my fondest memory bebered why I do crew. I do it for the 45 other cause during the event we became a team. It people on our team who are cheering and comwas the first time we were not competing peting. Now, Spring season is here. Get ready, against other UChicagoans. It was the first time because not only will our team be cheering the the Men and Womens squads were together and loudest, but well be cheering for a reason-we able to encourage one another. It was the first want to come in first!

Medal Ceremony
The mens and womens varsity squads both did exceptionally well at The Head of the Charles this year, with both teams placing and receiving medals. The womens team took 3rd for the second year in a row and the mens team placed 5th.

The medal each member of the team received is pictured above. The varsity mens team, l-r: Kenny Oshita, coach Bjorn Boquist, coxswain Lauren Fish, Dhruv Kedar, John Kohler, and Sasha Ostapenko. Photos by Emily Lo

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This past The University of Chicago Crew March, Team couples with local high the school rowers from the Chicago Training Center to work the event, who complete the hourlong workout alongside the U of C athletes. Along with pledges of support from various alumna University of Chicago Crew and parents, erg-a-thon profits team hosted its 7th annual come in from penny-wars, where Erg-a-thon. Set up in the Reynstudents can donate coins to olds Club, every year athletes their friends on the teams. The bring a few rowing-machines or money raised goes to transporergs and row continuously for tation fees, equipment mainte12 hours, rotating through the nance, and Regatta (competisquads. Each athlete completes tion) costs. an hour of power on the ergs at some point during the day to Erg-a-thon also provides an opraise money for the teams travel portunity for other students to and functioning expenses. race-a-rower on an erg, talk to

First year novice Won Huh during her hour of power at Erg-A-Thon Photo by Daphna Gall

Erg-A-Thon
March 2nd, 2011
by Sophia Arabadjis
team captains and coxswains, as well as learn about the team in general. It really helps raise awareness about the crew team on campus, says Aurelie Merlo, fundraising chair on the teams student-operated board. It also attracts potential recruits.

Due to the efforts of students, alumni, and parents alike, this past Erg-a-thon was our most successful event yet, with an increase of 55% in total profits; and the University of Chicago Crew Team sends a warm thanks to everyone who donated to make this event possible!

More Pictures From Winter Season

The past two years we have stored our boats in Kankakee to protect them from the vicious Chicago weather. We always hope that by the time spring break comes around, the weather will be better and bringing our boats out of storage will be a pleasant, wonderful experience. Unfortunately, that was not the case this year, and the freezing, rainy weather created conditions that were not exactly conducive to our truck drivers tires....

Despite the crew teams considerable brains and brawn, we were unable to remove the truck from the muddy depths, and the driver resorted to calling a tow truck. All the boats made it safely back, and we got some pretty amusing pictures out of the whole ordeal. Photos by Emily Chen

The UChicago Crew Team had a holiday party with a Secret Santa gift exchange this year. Gifts ranged from homemade goodies to veggie action figures. Of course, we had a full spread of delectable holiday treats, including the yummy donuts pictured abovebecause we all know the crew team loves their donuts-made by Sonya Ringer.

Top photo, back row, l-r: varsity 2nd year Emily Chen, varsity 3rd year Lauren Fish, varsity 3rd year Kenny Oshita, novice 1st year Tony Domel; front row, l-r: novice 1st year Alison Roberts, novice 1st year Alex Murray, and novice 1st year Connie Lu Left photo, l-r: varsity 4th year Kelly Wolenberg and varsity 4th year Sonya Ringer Photos by Emily Lo

Please feel free to e-mail me with any comments or questions! chelsea.steffen@gmail.com Check out our website for even more photos and updates: rowing.uchicago.edu

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