<p>Who has the most stuff crammed into their day? I'm betting that it's not me, but I'll post one of my days from last week up anyway.</p>
<p>5:15 - 7:00 AM Crew practice
8:00 - 2:55 School
3:30 - 6:00 PM crew pratice
6:30 - 7:30 PM Tutoring an 8th grader in social studies
8:00 - 10:30 Have dinner, do some homework, and then collapse</p>
<p>Hey, sorry for getting off topic, but I had a few questions about crew.</p>
<p>1) Are you planning on competing in college?</p>
<p>2) How difficult is it to pick up? I.e., would a reasonably athletic person with good endurance and pain tolerance be able to make a college crew squad by sophomore year or so?</p>
<p>3) What is the dividing line between light and heavyweight crew?</p>
<p>Thanks</p>
<p>I can take a shot-</p>
<p>2) Crew is a very, very difficult sport. If you are good at swimming, cross-country, nordic skiing and/or cycling, you have a pretty good chance of making varsity. Part of the reason is that you need a lot of endurance and upper body strength (although it works your entire body). In a Div. III school, like Williams, you could probably make varsity just walk-on. But at Dartmouth, it's apparently a little harder. They take fewer walk-ons, more recruits.</p>
<p>what if i just want to be a coxswain in college? i'm pretty sure i pass the smallness test (5'2", 100lbs), but i've never done crew in h.s. before. i know you're not in college yet, but do you think it'll be hard for me to make the team in college? and altho i don't do organized sports, i work out consistently at home so i'm physically fit.</p>
<p>How do you do diner and hw in 2-1/2 hours? Gawd,
I've got 6 hours a night!!!</p>
<p>haha i think the key there is "do SOME homework"</p>
<p>No problem, I'll gladly tell you more about crew.</p>
<p>I'm competing in college for sure, because I was recruited by the heavyweight men's coach.</p>
<p>The men's team I know takes a bunch of walk-ons, because each boat has 8 rowers and a frosh squad will usually have 2-3 boats of guys. I don't know exactly what they look for in someone who's never done crew, but I'm guessing that they look at size and athleticism mostly. For a heavyweight, you should be 6' or taller at least, and good heavies are usually over 185 pounds. I'm 6'2" and 195 and I feel small sometimes. For lightweights, you should naturally weigh around 150-160. If you're this size and can run, bike, swim, ski, etc. well, then you should have a decent chance of walking on. But before you get to Dartmouth you should talk to either Scott Armstrong (head men's coach) or Will Scoggins (men's frosh coach) about joining the freshman squad. As for coxswains, I think that Dartmouth men only use women. Not sure on this though. You should definitely be small, but at races they make coxes weighing less than 120 carry stones in the boat so that no crew has a cox weighing less than 120. Other than size, being able to motivate and lead people and being loud are important. And it helps if you're just a chill person in general.
Definitely try crew though. It's one of the only sports where you can start out with no experience freshman year and be in a national championship regatta by the time that you're a senior.</p>
<p>And skyandsea hit the nail on the head by emphasizing "some."</p>
<p>Theo</p>
<p>Take your list and replace crew with hockey and there I am.</p>
<p>Hmm...yah i know good rowers that picked it up in college that I've swam with. Even a girl was on the Olympic 8s and was alternates for the 4s.</p>
<p>yah, my schedules like that but swimming. maybe that would be fun...I'd hecka be a lightwieght. hehe but i'm not a lightwieght in other dartmouth aspects lol.
hmm..i talked to coach wilson about swimming, but i'm kinda burnt out. I need to pick up a polo ball again. Haven't done that in months.</p>
<p>oooo volleyball would be fun.</p>