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Six members of the crew strain to finish their endurance workout Monday under the "hustle orders" of Coach
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By the time they finish, their bodies are steamino
Five days a week, 40 minutes a day, it's catch, drive,
finish, release, catch, drive, finish, release ... a constant
cycle. Then they're through. Six or eight people sit
in a dimly lit room, steam trailing upward around them
through the perspiration. In the cool air of the boathouse
the UNL Crew has just finished another endurance
workout.
"They've accepted a challenge," crew coach Ashton
Richards said. "They discover something new about
themselves everyday through the rowing."
Richards knows from experience. A first-year coach
and a world-class oarsman himself, Richards is a 1982
graduate of Syracuse University, where rowing has the
largest athletic budget on campus next to football.
While some might not think of Nebraska as being a
good place to work on their rowing skills, during the
winter, the crew has found ways to beat the cold With
two huge tanks of water separated by a boat-like
platform, endurance and rhythm techniques are worked
on constantly. Also present is the "Erg", a rowing
simulation machine called an ergometer. :
The crew was recently the host of the Midwest Rowing
Clinic, a yearly event conducted last weekend in the
Nebraska Engineering Center and in the boathouse.
Rowers and coaches from as far away as Minnesota and
New York attended the two-day seminar, which included
everything from racing tactics to coaching techniques.
Now that the clinic is over, however, it's back to the
dai y practices. All crew members, from novice to varsity,
male or female, must work out on the tanks at least three
days a week for 25 minutes. Men's varsity goes the longest
with its40-minute five-day-a-week sessions.
"It's tough," said Jamie Mct'lain, a movice oarsman
from Des Moines, Iowa. "Sometimes you just kinda blank
out " he said. Tammy Meyers, a junior from Daykin,
said she loves the travel and the staying in shape that go
along with being a crew member, but when rowing in
the tanks, she said she thinks of "anything to keep your
mind off what you're doing," she said.
But until spring break arrives, bringing with it the
crew s first race in Austin, Texas, workouts in the
boathouse will have to do. As Dan Foster, a sophomore
crew member put it, "It's kind of fun ... I guess . . .
in a way," he said.