Rowing Begins Season Friday

March 19, 2009

NORMAN, Okla. -- The University of Oklahoma rowing team begins its spring season March 20-22 in Austin, Texas at the Longhorn Invitational. Duals begin Friday and run through Sunday. First-year head coach Leeanne Crain and the Sooners are looking forward to the competition.

"We're looking forward to good racing this weekend in Austin,” Crain said. “We'll face some great competition and the Henley style (dual boat) format will provide us the opportunity to race several times over the weekend, which is ideal this early in the season."

• Oklahoma, Texas, Iowa, Wisconsin, Duke, Central Florida and Kansas State are attending the invitational.

• Racing is dual format (two boats at a time) and the race distance is 2000 meters.

• The Sooner second varsity four competes against the first varsity four of Iowa on Friday at 4:00 p.m. and the novice squad faces Kansas State at 5:44 p.m.

• Day two of rowing begins at 8:08 a.m. when the OU novice faces Texas and the first varsity four follows at 8:40 a.m. against Wisconsin's lightweights. In the afternoon, the OU novice team matches up against Iowa at 4:56 p.m. and the first varsity four finish the day at 5:36 p.m. versus Central Florida.

• The final day of racing beings at 8:00 a.m. where the first varsity four faces Wisconsin and the second novice team finishes the weekend against Texas at 8:08 a.m.

Varsity Four (V4+)
    Coxswain: Price
    Stroke: Dwyer
    3 seat: Moore
    2 seat: Engles
    Bow: Harrell

First Novice Eight (1N8+)
    Coxswain: Witten
    Stroke: Moon
    7: Sheppard
    6: Bowers
    5: McDonald
    4: Burguiere
    3: Kelle
    2: Rabe
    Bow: Gaines

Second Novice Eight (2N8+)
    Coxswain: Poppino
    Stroke: Hemingway
    7: Brown, B.
    6: Brannin
    5: Homer
    4: Holasek
    3: Smith
    2: Roche
    Bow: Randolph

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