Pacific Rowing Club News

The coaching staff has finally been fleshed out for the coming year, and it is looking strong. There are going to be six of us overall looking after the development of the team, which now numbers over one hundred (including both novice teams and both varsity teams). As an assistant coach, I will be working with both the novice and varsity teams over the course of the year. I have been spending much of my time of late working with the novice squads (men’s and women’s), but will be focusing my attentions for the rest of the year on the women’s side. The women’s novice squad currently has just over three eights of athletes, and the girls had their first 5k test last night, producing some very good results, this being their third week. In the coming days the girls will be working in mixed boats with the varsity women to help them develop the right boat feel and awareness before their first race — the Head of the Merced, coming up in just over two weeks. So far the girls have begun to manage rowing by sixes well enough, but have not yet tackled rowing by all eight — a challenge that awaits them on Thursday of this week. Ideally, we’d like to have the first two women’s novice eights racing by all eight at the Head of the Merced, and have the third eight racing by sixes. This is in order to develop the technique while gaining some competitive experience.