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he women's sowing team e: Uf
hovi-g identity problems.
I he team has the status of a club, but it connxues
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si t v teams from other schc ob
A.corH:ng to Coach Peter Zuivjbe.gen, tcn. r
tvgi-ivil "embei if the first mf!:v io.v'pi 1.t 'i; ct
'JNL fir years ago,. the team is not a ciub
"h's r.ct o rftc :;tioi i'! tyf : oi mmo. It s
i.-.tsircoMegiti'o sport," he sa(J.
Zandbergen said the women compete with team
from the University of Minnesota, Notre Dcme,
University of Wisconsin, Washburn University and
many Fasten schools.
A i ; rowhy teams, men's or vvo!:.?ii'ii, are heaoed
order one progtw t;t UNL, Zandtxraen s lid. This
prourjm is funded by the Pepartment of I n-r?-uob
,v.d Frcmt ion, by privTo donation; aod by team
r.-cmb is.
in comparison the University of Wisconsin fully
fuijif.; h; rowing program, he said. Wisconsin's
j-totjr-.m has about 120 men ami women involved and
fsur or five coaches.
UNL's rowinq team currently has 35 women, but
Z.idix:rcfP said he hopes to recruit about lb more.
Equipment for men's and women's rowing is
.i.,i, :-:!, with a few exceptions, he ':-r.' A now- shell or
boit costs $4,000, while new oars aie $3GU He said
ibis year they are peUino osrs, the t:rl new
tc-'i-.-mei.t they've gotten in four ye....
andbetgun said every fail he writes all the other
i owing programs to see if the have f.qoijjm.ott to
oai.iu; cr to sell.
"Thai's the way wc net nuM of our eqmor.vnt.
It's a iea' challenge when you have ,. us; eMU'pmert
"hat's ) or so yats oid ao-l ,xmi -eie -i-yrst ti;,i-.u
..von i.e.'; quipment," he said.
While 'It .quipment is :no.-fi- si i-:; !, Zandnerqen
:;.; mi ') and women's teams aie definiti.lv scuree.
"I'm for women's athletics, h.. I f'-el thert- must
hi a definite separation. I fee! I'-cd 'hoi you sta-l
nixinu mf-n and women on r.r. 'UM be bdvis, U's
di.-.ji adioy io both." he said.
"Rowin.;) is a tradition bound sport Women's
rowing is fairly new, but there m still a great many
programs that absolutely refuse to have women in the
UNL women's rowing team
boathoijje."
UNL's women's rowing team is the second such
team in t..c K'idwest, he said. It was started last
spn i
' iVoniui's rowing probably is the fastest-growing
s-p.-,i t in :.he U.S.," he said.
He said the Olympic committee if. spending a lot
of money to o.t national teams started. In the past,
The rov'r.jj p!.werhouses were in the U.S., but now
thev 8ie in Euronean and Asian countries where they
ate fully qovernmen tally funded, he said.
One of tire laig-.-st and most prestigious races in
the world is the Head of the Charles regatta in
boston. This race, held in the fad, is a distance race,
he said.
"The (UNL.) women had been on daily workouts
aif summer for this tace. We had planned to take
them, tut ihrn at the lest minute we found we didn't
have ep'.v-yh fiends," Zandberqen said.
Rowing is a rwo-season sport, fall and spring, and
aitbouyh the women are through racing for the fall,
troy .'re or: a daily workout schedule, he said.
. k! prom also is trying
oois to set up programs in
concentration," he said.
Zandbernen ::aisl ?h; i.
to get other iViidwe; i.
rowing for mer- a d :VO,;'-..i't.
"We're giving one. of ojr r.hclis to Oklahoma State
to get them started," ZaodUciyen said, adding that
this was the ?.hf !i ".bat w..i dmtc'.j when a group of
persons put it In bp fouo? en behind the Nebraska
Union about a r.-on-.h u.
''It'll never f abic to i used for racing, but it
can be a trainirii) bo-at," re s;d. "We have to repair
the shelf this winter Odicrwise they would have had
it by now. it puts Gidahoma State back half a year
though," ho said.
Zandbergen also said be hopes to set up a youth
program like the Lincoln Parks and Recreation
Department or the YMCA.
"Hopefully, then we can get rowing into the high
schools. Wichita, Ken. already has high school rowing
for guys. We want to cxpad the sport as much as we
can," he said.
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held at Branched Oak Lake
! inroin. -where the rowinq teams have a
book complex thai was funded by ASUN, he said.
Wh'.r; du water freezes, they move inside for training.
"7c out shell in the Abel Hall pool tor training
Zandbergen suid he
recognized as an ir.ierc.
a club at UNI...
;.os didt soon rowing will be
; i i .y sooii, rather than just
and
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ui-vtino the physical conditioning," he said.
Besides keeping up with training, Zandbergen said
he just completed the fall recruiting program.
Howewer, he is stdl looking for more interested
people.
"Any" ie ran join whenever they wish. All they
havp to do is coMact me or come down to the dock
complex, You don't have to be experienced, and size
isn't a factor. With rowing, you can make up for size
"i- ftrengih with belter technique and mental
"Rirht "iow, the rowing (i.am is beginning to try
to work with ti c lotreetivji and Recreation
Department and other club., to set up a governing
body to coordinate fndi and mher problems.
"It (a central yovetiiln bo.iv ) would be more
efficient for the clubs and whoever we're trying to
work with. ! thiok itb neirti,.'f''d I hope we'll have
it by spring," Zandbergen said.
He said one of the bio events the team is looking
forward to is the national championship for women's
rowing in Oakland.
"We were aSKed to it. last year, out wc didn't have
the funds to yo. This hme we're pi .-inning on going,
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