Dominik85 posted:RJM posted:CaCO3Girl posted:Wow....okay so female "Rowing" is down 58%....and yet it's offered at D1 schools as a Varsity sport with 20 scholarships available....excuse me I have to go check my daughter out of school and figure out where the heck to go rowing.
I believe it was after a mother told me she didn't realize how easy it was to play a college sport that I nearly committed my first homicide.
Women's rowing is the only place I've heard of this occurring. And it doesn't happen at many colleges. I assure you in Boston and Philadelphia anyone rowing on a scholarship is recruited. Head of the Charles and Dad Vail are the largest rowing regattas in the country. They're also huge parties that are a lot of fun.
If anyone thinks rowing is easy try to get into a single shell without help.
Yeah physically rowing is super tough at high levels. The last minute of a race you are dying because the lactate is so high. It is basically start fast and then slowing down as little as possible for 6 to 7 minutes or so. Not a fun thing.
It actually sounds like a fun thing. My daughter is going to be very tall. I lucked out with her brother, at 6 he picked up a baseball and never looked back. It's harder finding her a sport and it's important to me that she play one, but there is time.