If you row at UWashington can you really find time for your studies. They say there are academic support services but are they really helpful and available?
The answer is yes. There are academic liasons who work for the athletic department (and i think are assigned by team) who can help with everything from course selection to arranging tutors to working with profs on exam schedules if they conflict with regattas.
If you can row for UW, you are pretty lucky! Nice boathouse, lots of history…
My daughter was recruited. The coach told her there had never been during his lengthy tenure there a first varsity rower who was also in the honors college. That kind of did it for her.
Rowing at Washington is a big deal. The rowing part will be a big chunk of your life, and you won’t get anywhere on that team unless it is your full-time occupation. We are talking about the tippy top Division I program in the country. Even getting out on the water in a varsity boat is an accomplishment.
Maybe not in the “honors college” but definitely in the “Honors Program.”
These rowers seem to find time for their studies:
http://gohuskies.com/news/2018/6/5/mens-rowing-forty-one-uw-rowers-earn-pac-12-academic-honors.aspx
http://gohuskies.com/news/2016/6/14/211017887.aspx?path=mrow
Is there a difference between the honors college and the honors program? Confused by your post. I wasn’t attempting to get the precise name of the program set forth precisely. My daughter was admitted to it; but we haven’t given it much thought since the moment she decided to take another opportunity.
It is an impressive thing, indeed, for anybody to row for Washington and do well academically in a difficult major. On both the women’s and men’s side, it is the Alabama of rowing schools. Never meant to suggest that anybody who plays a division one sport can’t get good grades. That would be an absurd contention.
But I also think that people who can really pull both off are not the norm.
That said, it isn’t easy to do it at a competitive division three school either. At some point, practice is practice, and it takes the hours that it takes. At the division one schools, however, the coaches have a little more sway Over the students schedules. The D3 coaches are reigned in a bit by comparison.
A to “Q”: Yes.
I think you missed the point of the question.
Do your links to the academic all-conf. honors teams, which exist in every college athletic conference for every sport every year, mean to serve as evidence that those rowers are part of UW’s separate honors college/program/department/school?
Or are you saying what the coach told us was wrong - that varsity rowers do, in fact, successfully manage the honors program//school/college/department, and btw check out the all-conference team?
Are you familiar with Washington crew, how many people are on the team and what it takes to row there? It’s a fairly elite athletic program and requires hours and hours of grueling dedication.
Every sport at every level has those people who can really excel at both but it’s far from typical.
Doing it at a high level at a program like Washington is very very hard to pull off, which was the point to the OP’s question. I’ll go ahead take the long-tenured coach’s word for it.
In #5, I was answering your question in #4.
The links in #3 were intended to answer OP’s question and evidence the academic support described in #1.
Yes, there have been women’s varsity rowers who “successfully managed” the Honors Program.
Getting recruited by UW’s “fairly elite” rowing program (with which you are undoubtedly familiar on a number of levels over several decades) and Cal’s program (to boot) after only about a year of rowing experience is quite impressive. Continued success to your daughter at Wesleyan!
No. I don’t have “several decades” of UW rowing knowledge. I have answers to questions I, and she, asked a handful (including UW) of significant D1 coaches. That’s all. I’m not a crew coach.
I stand by my original response to the OP: rowing at a place like Washington and excelling in rigorous academics would be a very hard thing to do. There are those very very tippy top people who can win NCAA titles and go on to medical school. That’s pretty impressive. I wouldn’t count on it for mere mortals.
Consensus: It is a very hard thing to do, but it can be done by exceptional individuals.
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