<p>I'm currently in the process of emailing/ sending transcripts to coaches for men's lightweight rowing. Has anyone here rowed in college or is currently rowing? How demanding is it? How much time does it take up? What school do you go to, and how to balance rowing with homework, especially if you row at an ivy or equally demanding school? </p>
<p>As you can see, I have a lot of questions. Please respond and let me know!</p>
<p>Well I don't know personally, but I'm at an Ivy and one of my friends rows. He goes to the gym 6 days a week, I think. It does take a lot of time out of his schedule (he's tired a lot), but he manages.</p>
<p>heyhey i am a coxswain going through the same process...we can talk if you want!</p>
<p>You need to see which schools have NCAA rowing versus schools that only have it as a Club sport. I'd assume the rowing association websites would have this readily available. Four of my roomies rowed at my HYP college. They put in grueling hours -- but we were all overachievers and balance was the name of the game. It's like any top level collegiate sport -- lots of dedication is required. The rewards are many however. Good luck to you and keep cranking on the Ergs!</p>
<p>Katie: Didja know that Anderson Cooper (CNN360) was a college coxswain?</p>
<p>I rowed as a freshman (women's lightweight). I quit after that year to have more time for other things.</p>
<p>It was a massive time-sink, even at MIT, where athletics don't tend to get the kind of prioritization that they do some other places, and even though I was only on the novice team. It was theoretically 12 hours/week, but in reality it was about 18. And the coach was new and had come from some school with a top team where athletics got much higher priority and the academic workload was much less, and was constantly unhappy that we weren't putting in even more hours, like his previous team. A lot of people quit because they were irritated over his failure to understand his new environment and constant guilt-tripping, and he left within a year or two.</p>
<p>People who rowed mostly couldn't fit much else in besides rowing and studying. You had to love it to stay with it, because you gave up a lot of other opportunities. I gave up a lot of exploration of activities and other new things that I could have been doing as a freshman in order to do it (once I quit, I was then able to do that sort of exploration as a sophomore).</p>
<p>The rowing itself was fun, though.</p>
<p>My mom rowed at Georgetown, and it seemed to be pretty demanding- dawn practice and after school. She graduated cum laude in the school of foreign service though, so it must be doable!</p>
<p>I've sent my transcripts to Upenn... I'm limited because I'm only 160 pounds so I can't pull as hard as the heavy weights, and there are very few REAL lightweight men's teams that are D1 and not club. I'm really struggling to find colleges that don't require a sub 6:40 2k and actually have a lightweight team</p>
<p>The problem is not too many schools have inter-collegiate level ltweight teams -- so the standards can be high (given the no. of guys who try for the teams). The other option are schools w/club teams...</p>
<p>Good luck w/your research.</p>
<p>Anyone know of any good schools academically who have a lightweight men's rowing team? Ones with admissions pull would be great too! I'm a good rower but a novice, so my approach has been that I'm a great student (IB diploma, 4.1 W GPA, 32 ACT 11 writing) a decent rower for my 4 months of experience (7:06 2k, my 4 beat juniors 4's that went to the head of the charles) and a good, committed athlete (3 years premier club soccer, 2 years varsity soccer, 2 years varsity lacrosse)</p>
<p>All the ivies I am pretty sure have lightweight men....the reality unfortunately is..since you are a novice, it would be extremely hard for coaches that have admissions pull to recruit you. You have a good time, but the thing they will want is someone with a reasonably good foundation for technique and thus they won't have to worry much about that when the season starts and they can focus mainly on strategies and power. </p>
<p>I am not trying to be harsh but doing just one season will be hard for coaches to be convinced that you are ready for competitive collegiate rowing, also it makes it seem like you did crew just to try to get into college. are you looking at any soccer or lacrosse teams, since it seems like you have more experieence there?</p>
<p>anderson cooper was a cox?! lol actually I can kinda see that...but isn't he a little tall? I always pictured him to be around 5'9 5'10... but that's really cool nonetheless</p>
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<p>MIT. And anyone who wants to walk onto the novice teams can, regardless of prior experience. I walked onto lightweight women's having never even seen a crew shell outside of photographs, nor held an oar.</p>
<p>Google some discussion boards on the subject. They are out there. They can give you more exact info. To be recruited there are minimum ergs required and experience as well as size for a number of schools. I know that our high school does well with their rowers in terms of college placement.</p>