Penn State Crew :: Rowing Regattas Sports Athletics Essays

Penn State CrewPenn State Crew is a completely student run organization consecrated towards preparing its members towards rowing competitions, called regattas. Since its inception in 1994, the team has seen periods of immense growth. No longer is the day when Penn State Crew is struggling to compete for dead last. Instead, we are transport home the hardware as evidenced by our very successful fall and winter seasons (for complete results, please visit the teams homepage.) The team just of late purchased two eight-man Vespoli shells and a new boathouse is currently in the design phase and is planned on being constructed at the teams home lake, Bald Eagle Lake, dictated about thirty plus minutes from the University Park campus. Penn State Crew is very fortunate because it is unrivaled of a few club sports here at Penn State that has actual, paid, highly qualified coaches who bring an immense rowing knowledge base to the team. We are looking forward to this Spring 2003 season as one filled with much promise, lofty expectations and phenomenal competition with some of the nations premier rowing squads. Please follow our progress all season at the teams homepage, http//www.clubs.psu.edu/psucrew/.The campaign We Do This...A fierce shriek pierces the serene darkness of night. Snoring is still heard from the football players who live next door as a figure stirs in the lofted bed. Groggily, without glasses or contacts, a calloused hand reaches out towards the annoying sound that all non-morning people have come to hate. suddenly complete, utter silence is restored as the alarm is shut off. A yawn and swing of the legs soon lands bare feet on the cold floor of a student residence room in Hartranft Hall at Penn State. Eyes are rubbed and open and shut five or six times rather rapidly as they try and focus on the iridescent green digits that stare back. 437 reads the alarm clock and radio contraption designed with an alarm jazzy enough to wake Satan fro m deep slumber in the bowels of hell. Without any warning, a whirlwind of action commences and within fifteen minutes, the rower emerges from the shadows and is on his way to other Penn State Crew practice.Craziness. Sheer craziness is how the athletes on the crew team are most commonly described by anyone at all who resides on this campus.