On April 11, Jesuit Crew participated in the Route 66/ Catoosa regatta, the second regatta of their spring season. Racing on the course of the Verdigris River, the team extraordinarily took first in every single eight event in which they entered. This course is the shortest in which the team will participate this year, sitting at a length of...
On March 21, Jesuit Crew participated in its first regatta of the spring season, the OKC Junior Invitational in Oklahoma City. The race took place on the familiar course of the Oklahoma River, which the team had previously competed in at the beginning of this school year as the first regatta of its fall season. Fortunately, the Rangers performed...
Mitchell Opatowsky '15 slowly turns his head to face an alarm clock on his bed stand. The flashing LED display reads 5:45 AM, and a startled Opatowsky leaps out of bed. Snatching his Jesuit Crew tank top and shorts from his closet, he races out of the house, grabbing a Clif Bar on the way. He jumps into his...
This past Saturday, November 29, Jesuit alumni gathered for a crew race at White Rock Lake. Four boats participated in the competition: two alumni boats, one current varsity boat, and one current junior varsity boat.
This Jesuit tradition spans back four years and is a very exciting yet laid back event. With well over 100 people in all, alumni,...
Battling tough competition and rough weather conditions, Jesuit Crew competed in the Head of the Hooch Regatta on the Tennessee River in Chattanooga, Tennessee on November 1st and 2nd.
In all, this massive regatta consisted of over 9,000 rowers and over 1,200 boats from all over the country. Jesuit brought about 50 rowers, who made up a total of...
The Jesuit Dallas Varsity 8 Crew rowers traveled to Cambridge, Massachusetts with the distinct honor of representing a Catholic high school at the world's larger venue of rowers on October 19th for the Head of the Charles Regatta. The scenic course takes place over a 3 mile upstream course on the Charles River, which includes several tight turns, bridges...
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...
Last weekend, the crew team competed in its first regatta in Oklahoma City on the Oklahoma River, and had great success, bringing home 24 gold medals, 4 silver, and 20 bronze.
At this regatta, all of the Jesuit Rowers competed. Jesuit entered a Varsity 8, Lightweight 8, JV 8, Freshman 8, 3 Varsity fours, 3 Lightweight fours, and 2 freshman fours....
