<p>^^ lol, i would like some ripped abs :-)</p>
<p>Is there a height requirement for crew?</p>
<p>I wouldnt think so....don't you sit down in a boat or something?</p>
<p>Maybe not extremely ripped abs, but nobody would ever think of picking a fight you.
Being tall would probably help, idk how though, you'll have to ask an actual coach or person who does crew.</p>
<p>I row for a very competative club team and yes it is helpful to be tall. I am 6'0" but at least on my team there is no height requirement. To answer the question about 4s vs 8s you can get recruited rowing either type.</p>
<p>The crew program at St. Andrew's School in Delaware is really great :)</p>
<p>There's no height or weight requirement, but it helps infinitely more if you are a big person. On the other hand, if you are tiny who weighs 80-90pounds, you can still join. The crew team will hunt you down and beg you to cox for them! </p>
<p>Crew is an amazing way to get into college. It's a relatively exclusive sports - not many students have opportunity to participate in this sports unless you attend certain prep schools. Colleges are well-aware of this, and they will recruit at prep schools like with all the intensity they have.... In other words, if you make first boat and second boat who win New England regularly? you're a shoo-in at Ivies and top LAC. No joke.</p>
<p>As a rower who recently completed the recruting process I would just like to warn people that to join crew or really anything for that matter just to get into college is a bad idea. Crew requires a certain kind of person and and to be any good IMHO a passion for the sport both the good and the bad. You've got to want to work harder than you've ever worked, be in some pretty intense (yet excellent at least for me) pain, and you have to enjoy it. I thouroughly recommend trying crew because I didn't learn that stuff about myself until about a year in. It's the best sport ever and it can teach you so much about yourself and teamwork.</p>
<p>And rowing in crew makes you buff. And healthy. Obviously.</p>
<p>St. Paul's School was the first American high school crew team to win the Helmsley Regatta in England a few years ago. All of those first team crew team members were courted by several Ivies.</p>
<p>Coldwind --</p>
<p>SPS has a great rowing tradition, but fif is almost positive that the first American HS crew to win at Henley was Kent.</p>
<p>Doesn't Exeter also have a very strong crew program? Exeter</a> Crew » Results</p>
<p>Oh, and is 5'6" too short for girl's crew? Just curious... Thanks! :)</p>
<p>From Tabor's wikipedia page:</p>
<p>The men's and women's crew teams have been active participants in the Henley Royal Regatta and the men's team won the Princess Elizabeth Challenge Cup in 1965 and the Thames Challenge Cup in 1936, 1937 and 1939. In 1919 Tabor Academy was one of the first American prep schools to establish a rowing program. Then in 1951 Tabor was one of the original founding members of the New England Interscholastic Rowing Association along with Belmont Hill, Choate, Gunnery, Salisbury, St. George's, Brown & Nichols, Phillips Exeter, Pomfret, South Kent, St. Mark's, Kent, Halcyon and Shattuck (clubs from St. Paul's), and Shrewsbury. [2]</p>
<p>I know the boathouse is right on campus and Tabor rows right on Sippican Harbor which campus sits on. From what I know, Tabor fields a lot of boats for being a smaller school (around the same as Andover and Exeter despite being less than half the size) so it's really easy to get involved.</p>
<p>Deerfield is big on crew (more people wanted to than could when I was there). The reason you don't hear as much about them is because they compete in the NEIRA's in 4s. This is, as far as I know, A coaching decision because 4s rowers from HS tend to be technically stronger. My Junior year our first boat placed 2nd in nationals, so there is a strong history.
In terms of college placement, I have no doubt that crew made a huge difference in my college placement.</p>
<p>"St. Paul's School was the first American high school crew team to win the Helmsley Regatta in England a few years ago."</p>
<p>Coldwind -- you do realize, don't you, that the above regatta was discontinued after Ms. Helmsley's dog decided it was too costly to fund...?!</p>
<p>I'd like to do crew, but I'm not sure how good I would be. Do any schools have thirds crew? Or something below varsity?</p>
<p>Tabor usually has 5 eights on both the boys and the girls side. I think the way it goes is that 1st and 2nd boats are varsity, 3rd is JV, and 4th and below are "novice." They will field as many boats as there is interest, I'm pretty sure no one gets cut from crew.</p>
<p>Kent, Salisbury, SPS, Andover and Exeter all field er, water, at least five boats for
competition in eights. Not sure about NMH. Many of the "fours" schools have at least that many, and they all get to race. Typically, 1-3 are varsity.</p>
<p>SPS typically has 5 boats each for boys and girls. Additionally, they have club crew which is a recreational/learning level.</p>