Jason Joy '15

Crew is a team-oriented sport, in which all of the members of a boat have equally important roles in winning a race. While the sport may seem as simple as athletes just rowing a boat down a river, there is a man behind the scenes who is a vital component to the whole of the boat, the coxswain. The coxswain has...

Right before the biggest race of the year at the National Championships in Sacramento, California, the Jesuit crew team attended the Stotesbury Cup in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania from May 16-17. The Stotesbury Cup, which is hosted on the majestic Schuylkill River, is the largest scholastic regatta in the world and hosts over 5,000 rowers, 1,000 boats, and 10,000 spectators. It...

  The Jesuit crew team has had a spectacular season, rowing successfully throughout the spring in hopes of reaching Nationals. More specifically, Jesuit has dominated the competition at two particular events, the Route 66 Regatta and the Central District Regional Championship. The first event, the Route 66 Regatta, was held on April 26 in Tulsa, Oklahoma. An invitational race, this regatta...

The Jesuit crew team had a busy schedule ahead of them on the weekend of April 12-13. On April 12, the team flew to Middletown, Del. to attend the Noxontown Regatta hosted by St. Andrew’s School and on April 13, the team went to Philadelphia to attend the 5th Manny-Flick Regatta. After all their hard work during spring break...

Muscles clenched, hands firmly grasped on the racket, eyes locked on his opponent, the tennis player ran abruptly to the left to send the green fuzzy tennis ball back to his competitor, sending the ball to the very corner of the court, just out of his opponent's reach, to clinch the win. Such a description portrays the success the...

After training rigorously during spring break and giving a stellar performance in Austin at their last regatta, Head Coach John Fife and the Jesuit crew team looked forward to carrying  their success through Oklahoma City for the Oklahoma City Junior Invitational on Saturday, March 22, in which five different teams competed: Jesuit Dallas, OKC Riversport, White Rock Boathouse, Tulsa...

Determined to get on pace for the spring season, the crew team pushed themselves down the majestic White Rock Lake, sweat pouring down, faces red, eyes set on victory. On March 2 and 3, the Jesuit crew team attended its first actual boat regatta of the year, the Heart of Texas Regatta. Hosted by the Austin Rowing Club, the Heart...

Four distinguished Jesuit alumni addressed the student body at a prayer service in their honor last month in the Terry Center. The alumni, who were from four different classes and are celebrating reunions this year, were Joe Weaver ’64, Steve Neuhoff ’84, Augustin Gonzalez ’94, and John Ryan Koeijmans ’04.  The men spoke about how the morals and principles...