"As soon as you hear that buzzer, all bets are off and all the sound around you fades away. All you can hear is the sound of your own heart beat and heavy breathing, and when that last 500 meters is coming, you start the 40 story plummet straight into hell. I got 1st in my division and I...
In their last regatta of the fall season, Jesuit Crew vowed to put their best foot forward as they took home gold in their race in Austin. As they prepared for this race, the crew team kept in mind the shortcomings of their performance the previous week in Boston and hoped to go into the winter off-season with a...
Gusting winds and cold weather greeted Jesuit crew as they flew into Boston last weekend for yet another major fall regatta. The Rangers were set to square off with 84 other teams from all over the nation, as well as all teams from Great Britain and Canada. Up the three mile Charles River the Rangers would race, and because...
After weeks of grueling practice, the Jesuit Crew team finally received the opportunity to showcase its talent at Saturday’s regatta in Oklahoma City. This 2012 group, like most Jesuit teams of previous years, shows great potential and hopes to achieve huge success during this upcoming year.
Since the beginning of the school year, the crew team has been diligently working...
On September 4, the crew team, led by Coach Fife, tested its athletes with a twenty-minute ergometer standard piece , or exercise, set at “easy” splits . A split is the level of push that each stroke gets, as set by Coach Fife.
The ergometer, or indoor-rowing machine, is an important part of the crew team’s training. This “torture device,”...
Over the weekend of May 12-13, the Jesuit Crew Team trekked all the way up to Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, for the Central District Regional Youth Rowing Championships. Each year this event brings together top crews from Colorado, Nebraska, Missouri, Kansas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, New Mexico, Louisiana and Texas for a day of spirited racing and district championships.
Much was at stake...
On April 29th the freshman crew team once again dominated the competition by winning first place in both events they entered at the State Rowing Championships in Austin, Texas.
After their previous win at the Oklahoma City Invitational, Coach John Fife took his freshmen crew team to Austin to race in an 8+ and 4+ race. The match that took...
Despite the wind trying to thwart their chances of winning, the Jesuit crew team still succeeds. With only one boat not winning first place honors, last month’s area match was a good spring-board toward the regional championships in Oklahoma City later this month.
On April 21-22, Jesuit crew rowed against local crew teams in East Dallas’ White Rock Lake. Both...
