<p>My daughter has been steering the outrigger canoe since she was 10 (she's now 15). They don't have crew or sculling in Hawaii. She took her team to the state championships 3 of the 5 years she's been steering. She also made the JV team the 1st year she tried out (all the other steersmen will be seniors, she'll be a sophomore). Any chance of her being recruited? How does one get recruited? She loves paddling!</p>
<p>HImom</p>
<p>Sorry, HImom, but I don't know anything about paddling. I'm not sure how other kids got recruited, but in my case coaches saw my name and times in the sculling events that I have entered and got in touch with me.</p>
<p>thats interesting, nevermind then. In my experience though, it is much more common to learn to sweep first. As you said though, sculling requires and shows more proficiency with technique and balance and individual skill also than sweep rowing.</p>
<p>Our experience and everything we have ever heard also agrees with coldcomfort in that scullers are far easier to convert to sweeps than the other way around. As I said in an earlier post, colleges like scullers because they can teach sweep technique and they can fit them to either side of the scull whereas sweeps rowers tend to develop muscles (and muscle memory) on one side of the body making it tougher to switch.</p>
<p>Most D1 programs don't have many scullers and do not enter sculling events in regattas. The prestige boats in college rowing tend to be the 8's and the best rowers on a team are usually grouped together in an 8. Part of this is economic as it is much more efficient from a coaching standpoint to have as many athletes in one boat as possible rather than having them in many smaller boats. So it is relatively rare to have to switch from seeping to sculling in a college program. Good young sweep rowers can make the switch to sculling rather easily as they must learn balance and technique in their boats also.</p>