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Stuart Crew fielded eight boats in the VASRA Virginia Championships this season with three of those boats qualifying to progress to the SRAA Nationals in Camden, NJ. A fourth, boat, the Women's Quad, may join them after a petition process. The crews of these boats will travel to Camden on Memorial Day weekend and represented JEB Stuart Crew. Congratulations to the whole team on a great year and especially our States and Nationals competitors!
Nationals competition crews:
Ali Hijazi and Taylor Simpson - Men's Junior Double
Zach Danker-Feldman - Men's Varsity Single
Connor Slocum and Ali Lahrime - Men's Lightweight Double
Ana Telleria, Shannon Sullivan, Laura Hegemann and Kate Wright - Women's Junior Quad |
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Crew is the sport of rowing a boat as fast as it will go! It is a challenging, intense, and fun sport which develops stamina, strength, and responsibility. It is a co-ed sport which emphasizes teamwork. Unlike other sports, most people have not been rowing since they were young. So in high school, if you have never rowed before, you can still be competitve with the others. You don’t feel like you will never catch up with the athletes who have “dedicated their life” to the sport since they were 6. And there is a lightweight category. Like wrestling, weight categories help even the playing field for those of who are not quite as big, but still want to work hard and have fun competing. Even really small people have a place in crew as coxswains who command and steer in some of the boats.
Rowing is a total body workout. It is one of the few sports that involves all the body's major muscle groups. Arms, legs, chest, back, abs—even your mind. Your whole body gets a complete workout from the efficient, rhythmic motion of rowing. It is also a low-impact sport on the joints.
Rowers are probably the world's best athletes! The sport demands endurance, strength, balance and mental discipline. Rowing has been included in Olympic events since the first Olympic games in 1896.
JEB Stuart Crew is a spring sport. The program starts in early February with indoors and land training at JEB Stuart. Water training begins on Lake Barcroft in late February and moves to Sandy Run Regional Park on the Occoquan in mid-March. The season runs through mid-May. The team travels to Mathews, VA, and selected rowers compete in Philadelphia and other locations.
JEB Stuart Crew holds two Interests Meetings, one in October and the other in January. Please plan to attend a meeting to find out more about crew or go to our How to Join the Team page.
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