<p>"whats a coxswain? sounds dirty..."</p>
<p>hahahaha.</p>
<p>also, i was interested in the whole yelling at people and telling them what to do without actually exerting myself thing, but then you said 4:30. ouch.</p>
<p>im a rower, and i have rowed with a lot of coxswains. there are the cox's that kinda look forward to crew but when a regatta comes up they just freak out and the coach tells the its ok.</p>
<p>then there are the cox's that look forward to crew and make it so their boat looks forward to crew, the coxswains that will take the time to seriously plan each turn on the regattas and find out what motivates their boat, the coxswains who tell the COACH not to freak out when the regatta comes up...</p>
<p>wow that sounded like some mastercard commericial or soemthing. </p>
<p>idk, i have a friend who was a once in a lifetime cox and she was recrutied to hobart and williams smith and coxed their womens varsity 8+ as a freshman. if u are a good cox, and u love it and feel u could be a valuable asset to the team, make a video or a recording of ur coxing a regatta or race. show ur results. treat it like an oarsman would treat his recruiting experience. </p>
<p>and GOOD LUCK!</p>
<p>apparently andover's coxswain was recruited by princeton last year, or maybe the year before, or something</p>
<p>I know a girl who was recruited by Princeton as a coxswain.</p>
<p>Did she have above avg stats?</p>
<p>Actually being coxswain takes a lot of work and motivation. It’s a lot harder than it seems… rowers gain so much more respect for their cox when they have to cox a race. lol. They have to steer the boat, motivate their rowers, give out orders to make sure everything goes smoothly from getting the boat out of the boathouse to getting it back in. They are like a coach on the water. </p>
<p>Also, colleges do recruit for cox. There are many cox’s here that get recruited to Princeton, Harvard, Yale etc from Andover</p>
<p>Also, east coast colleges recruit a TON for crew =)</p>
<p>Coaxwain… reminds me of Boatswain from the Tempest.</p>
<p>I was discussing rowing positions on the board that shall not be mentioned. Whenever someone asked, “Do you think I could be a coxswain for [insert college here] @ Cambridge?” The on;y question they’d get is “Are you loud?” Nonetheless, being a good coxswain is a good thing, and since there are only a few of them per every so many rowers (would you say one per regatta?) and rowers are already desirable and rare, I’d guess being a coxswain would be a plus. If you’re a good coxswain, even better. My friend who rows always talks about her coxswain like she’s the second coming or something. Or maybe the first, since she’s Jewish.</p>
<p>I couldn’t give you an actual percentage for your chances, but coxswains are recruited. I believe most ivy’s will give support to 9 people; 8 rowers, 1 coxswain. For top consideration, make sure to send in audio, and video if you can, and of course your race resume. Also, athletic teams often have a set average GPA for that teams recuits, so to get a very fast rower with a lower GPA, they will need a coxswain with a high one.
I hope this helps.</p>
<p>They do…The Eton cox of the Great Eight of two years ago is the cox at Yale and he was definitely recruited. Coaches check the films of those races which are cox’s races (Head of the Charles for example–straight races such as Dorney Lake aren’t much of a cox’s course…) in which the cox getting the right line and being able to get the most out of the boat over a head race long course (easier to motivate a crew when there is a boat beside you…)makes a great deal of the difference in how a boat places. Then, the coach will rely upon the evaluation of the high school/club coach as to how well the cox acts as a leader of the boat–not just while in a race but during practice both in and out of the water-- remember a cox is a quasi-coach and coaches know this, yet because they are peers of the crew they have to tread a fine line…).<br>
Being a cox is not just going along for the ride, but can be the special ingredient for victory–coaches know this and don’t, if they can at all, rely upon “teaching” a newbe how to do it.</p>
<p>You can trust that Harry Parker knows this.</p>
<p>^And you don’t want your boat to “catch a crab”, but you do want to look forward to being ceremoniously thrown into the water after a successful race!</p>