Head of the Charles® Regatta

Wheaton Crew's Varsity Women's Four placed fourth among 32 other competitive collegiate crews from across the country in the 43^rd Head of the Charles^® Regatta on Saturday. This is the highest any Wheaton Crew entry has ever placed at this internationally recognized regatta.

Wheaton's Men's Four also had a good showing, placing 18^th of 31. With two sophomore rowers and only one senior, the Men's Four did well considering their size and experience and looks forward to another go next year at this very competitive race.

Both coxswains demonstrated impressive steering on this course, where the difficult turns and narrow bridge arches always present a challenge. No contact was made with other crews, and neither Rachel nor Maria deviated from the most direct course.

Wheaton Crew thanks all the students, alumni, and family who joined us for this weekend of racing and fun in Boston.


Men's Four (bow to stern)
c Rachel English
Lars Anderas
Greg Hahl
Andrew Jones
John Hutson
Results

Women's Four
c Maria Zuber
Elizabeth Eichling
Molly Teune
Mary Sley
Caila Diehl
Results

Wheaton Crew's Trip to Head of the Charles

Wheaton Crew will leave this Thursday morning for the 34th Head of the Charles Regatta in Cambridge, MA, the largest two-day rowing event in the world. The two Varsity A Fours have been training for two weeks exclusively for this event. We will race in the men's and women's Collegiate Fours, held Saturday beginning at 1:39 PM. 31 other college crews from across the country will race the men, and 34 will race in the women's category. Results and splits will be posted in real-time here.

Quad Cities Classic Regatta

As always, Wheaton Crew had a great showing at the Quad Cities Classic Regatta. The Women's Varsity Four won their first race of the season after a narrow miss the week before. The Men's Varsity Four lost by ten seconds to their Quad Cities rivals Washington U. The Men's Novice Eight made "exponential improvement" by coming in third, and only six seconds from a silver medal. Unsurprisingly, the Mixed Eight won the Mayor's Cup, as Wheaton has since 1999. At the last collonade of the season, the entire team partook of pazookies out of this grand trophy.

MV4+ A: 2nd of 9
B: 5th of 9
WV4+ A: 1st of 12
B: 7th of 12
MN8: 3rd of 7
WN4+ A: 8th of 12
B: 4th of 12
Mixed Eight: 1st of 9
B: 3rd of 9

Full Results

Head of the Des Moines

Wheaton Crew's trip to the Head of the Des Moines Regatta featured two trips to Maria Zuber's hometown of Amana, Iowa, Octoberfest, lederhosen, handcrafted root beer, a high school football game, and some great rowing. Many boats finished towards the top of their events, including the Women's Novice 4+ A with a silver medal. The Men's Varsity 4+ A took 4th of 16 despite the substitution of their stroke.

MV4+ A: 4th of 16
         B: 9th of 16
WV4+ A: 7th of 19
          B: 12th of 19
MN8: 7th of 8
WN4+ A: 2nd of 8
          B: 7th of 8
Full Results

Crew Captains and Cabinet for '07-'08

Men's Captains
Stephen Powell (Senior)
John Hutson (Junior)

Women's Captains
Caila Diehl (Senior)
Kristi Larned (Junior)

Chaplains: Greg Hahl and Becca Terhune
Social Coordinator: Mary Sley and Molly Teune
Business Manager: Maria Zuber
Equipment Manager: Andrew Jones
Raiser of Funds: Elizabeth Eichling
Trip Coordinator/Goddess/Führer and Assistant to the Men's Junior Captain: Rachel English

East Fork Chase

In their first race of the year to include novices, Wheaton Crew's performance at the East Fork Chase in Cincinatti was markedly improved from the week before. This course was 2.8 miles and included a sharp turn to starboard for the last third of the race. The Women's V4+ A raced in adverse conditions compared to their competition, but still managed to come within 20 seconds of the leading Indiana University. The Men's Varsity 4+ A beat Xavier University by a staggering minute and fifteen seconds.

MV4+ A: 1st of 5, 15:50.87
         B: 2nd of 5, 16:35.9
WV4+ A: 3rd of 5, 17:13.63
         B: 4th of 5, 18:33.65
MN8: 3rd of 3, 22:19.12
WV4+ A: 1st of 2, 21:54.96
         B: 2nd of 2: 22:37.8
Full Results

Milwaukee River Challenge

Wheaton Crew opened up the season at the Milwaukee River Challenge on September 15th. This is a double head race, with 2 2.2 mile races in opposite directions. Very much a coxswain's race, the course curves through many bridges. Varsity rowers only participated. After just a few practices and against stiff competition, no one was hurt and no equipment was damaged in the race.
MV4+ A: 11th of 13, 24:43.1
MV4+ B: 13th of 13, 26:12.9
WV4+ A: 10th of 16, 26:00.3
WV4+ B: 16th of 16, 27:55.6
Full Results

 
In all seriousness, Wheaton Crew had an enjoyable time in Milwaukee and a good warm up for the rest of the season. Following the race, many Wheaton rowers jumped into the freezing Lake Michigan.

Boats Formed for Fall '07 Season

Wheaton Crew's boats for the Fall '07 season are:

MV4+ A (bow to stern)
c Rachel English
Lars Anderas
Greg Hahl
Andrew Jones
John Hutson

WV4+ A
c Maria Zuber
Elizabeth Eichleig
Molly Teune
Mary Sley
Caila Diehl

MV4+ B
c Brittany Belt
Mike Resig
Stephen Downey
Peter Girgis
Will Duval

WV4+ B
c Megan Hunt
Brittany Klooster
Becca Terhune
Kara Vance
Kristi Larned

I don't have the novices yet.

'07-'08 Regatta Schedule

September 15th: Milwaukee River Challenge (Varsity only)
September 22nd: East Fork Chase Regatta (Cincinatti)
September 29th: Head of the Des Moines Regatta
October 6th: Quad Cities Classic (Moline, Iowa)
October 20th: Head of the Charles (Boston) (Varsity A only)

Welcome Back, Wheaton Crew!

I hope everyone's had a relaxing summer, because it's time to get back to work. Here's the schedule for the next few days.

Monday: Meet at the SRC for practice at 9am (hopefully on the water), afternoon practice to be announced.

Tuesday: Practice at 9am, We will man a booth at the "Opportunity fair" from 2:30 to 5. (Talk to a captain to find out what we're doing in the evening).

2007 Wheaton Crew Video

Thanks Becca's family and Molly!

Fall '07 Returning Rowers

Wheaton rowers should plan to return to campus on Wednesday, August 22nd if possible for pre-season practice and recruiting. You need to send Kristi an email to confirm or deny that you can come immediately if you have not done so already.

Also, rowers may come up to HoneyRock before classes start for free to row and work around camp for about a week. More details later.

Enjoy your summer!

Welcome to Wheaton Crew's blog

Crew,
This blog is intended to disseminate important information to rowers and anyone else interested in crew. Events will be announced, schedules will be posted, and anything else that leadership thinks is important will be posted here. I would also like to document everything that goes on just for the sake of memory, which is why I've posted stuff that already happened this season. I think this will be better than a webpage, since it is easy to add information quickly and it is easy for me to give posting privileges to leadership.

Great Plains Rowing Championships

Wheaton did very well at their first trip to the Great Plains Champs, with with six medal performances. In only their fourth time rowing together, the Men's Varsity Eight walked away with a gold medal by the narrow margin of 3.5 seconds in a chaotic race in choppy water. The Novice Men also had a slim margin with just four tenths of a second between them and Nebraska.

Wheaton closes the season with six gold medals, two silver, and three bronze.

This was an extremely windy regatta. After Wheaton's first race, the Men's Varsity Eight, the rest of the day's racing was moved to a 400m course, which was less windy. All starts were floating.

MV8: (race in two heats, fastest time taken)
1st, 6:10.4 (with a huge tail wind)
MV4A+: 2nd in heat, 1:16; 2nd in final, 1:17.7
MV4B+: 1st, 1:31.3
MN4+: 1st, 1:21
WV4+: 4th, 1:31.8
WN4A+: 1st, 1:29.3
WN4B+: 3rd, 1:58.1

America's Other West Coast Regatta

Both of our Women's Novice Fours did very well at this race, with a silver for the A boat and a gold for the B. The Men's Varsity Four A and the Women's Varsity Four also received bronze medals. This was the Men's Varsity Eight's first time rowing together.

Season medal count: 2 gold, 1 silver, and 2 bronze.

Complete Results

1700m upstream, strong current. Floating start.

MV8: 6th, 6:55.48
MV4A+: 3rd, 7:02.10
MV4B+: 3rd, 7:38.67
MN4+: 4th, 7:41.20
WV4+: 3rd, 8:54.71
WN4A+: 2nd, 8:29.6
WN4B+: 1st, 8:55.5

Lake Lanier Rowing Sprints

Wheaton Crew did well against stiff competition in their first regatta of the year in Gainesville, GA. A gold medal was won by the Men's Varsity Four A, and the Women's Varsity Four advanced to their semi-final round in a very competitive race.

Complete Results

Distance: 2km. Conditions were calm.

MV4A+: 1st in heat, 7:06.20; 1st in final, 7:04.90
MV4B+: 4th in heat, 7:45.30
MN4+: 3rd in heat (2 advance), 7:52.10
WV4+: 3rd in heat, 8:43.70; 5th in semi-final, 9:01.10
WN4A+: 4th in heat, 8:58.90
WN4B+: 5th in heat, 9:08.00

Chicago Indoor Rowing Championships

Wheaton Crew had several phenomenal performances at the CIRCs on February 7th. Tate Williams (6:15.8) and Jonathan Rosa (6:26.3) took the gold and silver for the Collegiate Men's category. Mary Sley (7:37.9) took first among Collegiate Women. Emily Huelskamp (7:29.9) was runner up for Collegiate Novice Women. The Crew also entered the Open Challenge to try and win a free erg. Men and women entered five person teams. Their average 2k times were added to a 2500m relay. Wheaton's men came in third, and the women fourth (though their average 2k time was second fastest).

Other notable finishes:

Varsity Men
Lars Anderas 5th, 6:32.5

Novice Men
Will Duval, 5th, 6:50.0
Greg Hall, 6th, 6:51.8
Andrew Jones, 10th, 7:00.8

Novice Women
Molly Teune, 4th, 7:54.3
Emily Mindrebo, 5th, 7:56.1
Becca Terhune, 10th, 8:07.4

Complete Results

Spring '07 Schedule

February 17th: Chicago Indoor Rowing Championships
March 31: Lake Lanier Rowing Sprints, Gainesville, GA
April 14: America's Other West Coast Regatta, Grand Rapids, MI
April 21: Great Plains Rowing Championships, Topeka, KS

About Wheaton Crew

Wheaton Crew is a men's and women's club sport of Wheaton College. We practice on the Fox River in St. Charles, IL, from a dock at Riverwoods Christian Center. We participate in three to five regattas each semester, including the Head of the Charles Regatta and the Dad Vail Regatta. We practice about six times a week, sometimes early in the morning. Most of our rowers compete in coxed fours, though occasionally we race a men's eight. We own six fours and one eight. Our funding comes from donations, member's dues and fundraisers. All students are welcome to join as rowers or coxswains.

Wheaton Crew's Traditions

The Cheer

Through the ages the oarsmen and oarswomen of Wheaton Crew have launched their vessels to the sweet song of this conglomeration of Evangelical buzzwords shouted from the shore by the rest of the team. Legend has it that the Cheer was inspired by a similar cheer used by MIT Crew consisting of words like "algorithm" and "differential equation." The cheer begins at a low cadence (about 24 spm) and gets faster as it goes on, climaxing in a fury of inspirational screaming.

Unfortunately, the cheer is strictly an oral tradition and is unable to be written down for any purpose. You'll just have to come to a regatta to hear it for yourself!





Victory in Jesus

At the end of a hard day of racing, no matter what the results of our effort, Wheaton Crew gathers together to celebrate the victory we have in Christ over death with this hymn.

I heard an old, old story,
How a Savior came from glory,
How He gave His life on Calvary
To save a wretch like me;
I heard about His groaning,
Of His precious blood's atoning,
Then I repented of my sins
And won the victory.

Chorus
O victory in Jesus
My Savior, forever.
He sought me and bought me
With His redeeming blood;
He loved me ere I knew Him
And all my love is due Him,
He plunged me to victory,
Beneath the cleansing flood.

Join Up

Wheaton Crew welcomes all students of Wheaton College who would like to learn to row or cox. No experience is required or expected. Though strength and size can be helpful, we have rowers of all sizes. Coxswains steer our boats and coxing is a good way to improve leadership skills. The practice is demanding, but very few find it impossible. Your boat's practice schedule will be tailored to the needs of that boat to minimize conflicts. Those interested can contact a captain: Tom Diehl (tom.diehl@my.wheaton.edu) or Charlotte Foote (charlotte.foote@my.wheaton.edu).

Donate

Wheaton Crew would not exist without generous donations from alumni and parents of rowers. If you are interested in making a donation, contact Kyle Godden at kyle.godden@my.wheaton.edu.