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Kansas University’s rowing team announced Wednesday the signing of 10 student-athletes to letters of intent.
“All the rowers had great junior years and we are looking forward to strong senior campaigns for them before they move to collegiate rowing,” KU coach Rob Catloth said. “With the inexperienced rowers we feel with their athleticism and competitive nature they should fit in and have successful rowing careers.”
The Class of 2013 is: Maddie Irelan (Dublin, Ohio), Lexie Lanphere (Shorewood, Wis.), Kat Young (Chesterfield, Mo.), Emma O’Neill (St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada), Madi Hovis (St. Peters, Mo.), Olivia Loney (Lawrence Free State), Rayna Barnes (Peabody), Kylee Dewey (Silver Lake), Brittney Railsback (Lenexa) and Emily Kaye Ruble (Leavenworth).
“We are excited about the entire class and looking for all of them to compete for spots in boats from the get-go,” Catloth said.
Rowing clinic September 17, 2011
KU dedicates new boathouse for rowing team March 1, 2009
Rowing coach Rob Catloth dedication speech March 1, 2009
Athletic Director Lew Perkins boathouse dedication speech March 1, 2009
Chancellor Robert Hemenway boathouse dedication speech March 1, 2009
Comments
Maximus140 5 months, 1 week ago
How does one get recruited to row in college for rowing?
HawkOverseas 5 months, 1 week ago
Interesting question... I recall walking down Jayhawk Boulevard a couple years ago, and on Wescoe Beach there were rowing coaches recruiting girls to come try out for the team.
There's obviously few high school rowing teams, but the coaches just recruit athletic girls from all kinds of sports backgrounds. If you're an athletic girl, particularly a tall one, you can get a rowing scholarship.
snewell636 5 months, 1 week ago
My son goes to school with Katherine Young. Katherine rows with a club in St. Louis and it is not part of Parkway West High School.
The wonderful irony is that the Young family are all MU Tigers and now their daughter is a Jayhawk.
pepper_bar 5 months, 1 week ago
“With the inexperienced rowers we feel with their athleticism and competitive nature they should fit in and have successful rowing careers.”
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sandycove 5 months, 1 week ago
Rowing is extremely technical and taxing aerobically, anaerobically and psychologically. An "athlete" cannot simply jump in a boat and expect any measure of instant success. Public high schools would not have the funds or infrastructure to field teams, a few private institutions do. One needs a boathouse on proper water, an inventory of expensive training and racing shells, ergs, coaches, more. Elite university rowing programs recruit from town or regional rowing clubs whose members might have been training four days a week and competing in regional and national regattas since middle school.
pepper_bar 5 months, 1 week ago
I wonder if this is what the designers of Title IX had in mind. I hope not.
sandycove 5 months, 1 week ago
Title IX was not "designed" with athletics in mind at all. It was an extension, in 1972, of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, and intended to end gender discrimination in employment. The legislation was amended to include provisions favorable to university women. Subsequent efforts before and after passage to reduce the impact on athletic department budgets failed. Rowing certainly did not beget Title IX. But Title IX certainly did beget women's university rowing, as athletic directors scrambled to satisfy the provisions and interpretations of the law. Club rowing was a major beneficiary, as well, as young women discovered that the sport was a viable ticket to competitive and increasingly expensive colleges.
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