College Rowing Database?

Athletic Recruits
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<p>Hey everyone! I was going through the threads on here about college rowing recruiting and I found some amazing website that listed colleges and coaches entered that they were looking for in an athlete and some of them entered 2k times they were recruiting and more information about their programs. Unfortunately I didn't bookmark the website, and despite my best searching efforts, I can't find the website again! Does anyone know what I'm talking about? </p>

<p>It's NOT this one by the way (College</a> Rowing Database | Sparks Consulting)</p>

<p>Thanks!</p>

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<p>[Online</a> World Ranking from Concept2.com](<a href=“http://log.concept2.com/rankings.asp]Online”>Concept2 Logbook | Search Rankings)</p>

<p>Try here.</p>

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<p>That wasn’t it, but thanks very much!!</p>

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<p>Many facets in regard to “posting” and “rowing” can be found at Row2K, if that’s what you are thinking of.</p>

<p>[Rowing</a> and Sculling for Rowers and Scullers - row2k.com](<a href=“http://www.row2k.com/]Rowing”>http://www.row2k.com/)</p>

<p>In addition, USRowing has a fairly new college recruiting site.</p>

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<p>Hi folks - thanks for the mention on our database (which is more about searching through all aspects of finding the a college with rowing - majors, size, cost, etc) though it does indicate program type, link to row2k’s team headquarters, and link to our reports on specific programs. </p>

<p>Currently, there is no listing of erg scores and/or information about programs that has proven consistently updated by all college coaches. There have been multiple attempts (including the USRowing one) with limited or inconsistent participation - indeed, by our count there are at least five serious efforts, three rowing specific and two multi-million dollar multi-sport companies - but the model is a tough one to run in rowing compared to other sports given the way the recruiting market works in rowing.</p>

<p>It’s important to understand that in rowing (unlike other sports), recruiting is a college coach’s market. Whereas there are only about 170 places to row in college - 90 of which you’ve probably heard of - there are thousands of junior programs in the US and abroad. As such, the “market demand” favors college coaches heavily. Additionally, given how late athletes can develop into good oars people, there is little incentive for recruiting/assistant coaches to spend their valuable, overworked time updating websites when some can merely check their inboxes and/or do some on campus recruiting. Don’t get us wrong - they’ll try - but it will be tough to get the practice adopted uniformly. For a recruiting coach at a decent program early enough in the year, if it doesn’t work with one potential recruit it will probably work with another. As such, we believe it’s important for parents and athletes to understand the recruiting market in rowing is different - thus (maybe somewhat wonderfully), the mechanisms by which the process works tend to be old fashioned. Personal contact with coaches via e-mail (from students after their sophomore year per rules) with questions on their recruiting goals may be a good place to start. </p>

<p>As a post script, very few schools recruit consistent 2K erg averages. This would contravene program development - more here: <a href=“http://www.rowingrecruiting.com/2014/05/recruiting-2k-erg-scores/”>http://www.rowingrecruiting.com/2014/05/recruiting-2k-erg-scores/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;