So this weekend was great, I’m on the Men’s club rowing team, and we had our first Regatta’s (that’s right two in one weekend). One in the Quad Cities, and the other in Rockford, Illinois. If you don’t know much about rowing that’s ok neither did I until about a month ago, but I’ll try and reduce the rowing terminology just for you guys. We had two races at the first regatta, one 8 man boat, and two 4 men boats. Overall I’d say we did pretty terrible in our 8 man boat, buuut our 4 men boats both did pretty decent (my boat finished 8th out of 20 boats). That first regatta was in the Quad Cities and while it seemed big it wasn’t half the size of the regatta in Rockford. I don’t know exact numbers but there was a TON of other crews (boat teams) and spectators there. The competition also got a lot tougher in Rockford. Notre Dame, Michigan and Purdue, were all there. My 4 man boat actually finished third but got scratched (disqualified) because our number at the front of the boat blew off from the wind (how are you going to penalize a team for that?). Even though Rockford stole our medals I walked away from this weekend feeling very excited for the rest of the rowing season.

If you’re interested in rowing you could leave me a comment, we always could use more guys!!