PHOTO; RIORDAN 2^nd FROM LEFT

Riordan Morrell 4^th in the IRA eights Final

2.6.13 In a memorable Varsity Eight Grand Final, the Huskies; Northeastern university rowed a determined race that put them on the brink of a medal-winning finish. The fourth-place performance for the Red and Black equals its best in the IRA Varsity Grand Final in 20 years .

Men’s Varsity 8+ Grand Final

Order	Entry	Result
1	Washington	5:39.683
2	Harvard	5:42.246
3	Brown	5:42.539
4	Northeastern	5:42.721
5	California	5:45.069
6	Princeton	5:49.546

 

Riordan Morrell 6^th at the Head of the Charles…

Thanks to ; http://gonu..com/news/2012/10/22/MROW_1022121014.aspx for photo and article. RIORDAN MORRELL 2 SEAT.

10/22/2012 2:55:00 PM. The annual Head of the Charles Regatta (Oct. 20-21) afforded the men's and women's programs an opportunity to compete against both intercollegiate and international competitors.

 Sunday provided a stiff headwind prevailed through much of the day, resulting in noticeably slower times for most races.
The following event was the men's Championship 8+, with the Huskies looking to build on a ninth-place finish from last year. Racing against the US National Team, defending collegiate national champions University of Washington, and a boat entirely comprised of medalists from this summer's Olympic games, the men's boats blazed down the course, earning sixth and 14th place finishes, good for fifth and 12th, respectively, among college crews in the event. The men's and women's teams will travel next weekend to Lake Carnegie in Princeton, N.J., to race at the Princeton Chase.

Men's Championship Eight;  6^th; 14:53.21; 14^th; 15:13.48

 

IRA Regatta

Sat 2.6.12

Riordan Morrell and the Huskies Freshman Crew took Bronze at the Intercollegiate Rowing Regatta in the US .

The medal-winning performance is the first for a Northeastern freshman eight since 1994, when the Huskies took home the silver. It also is the best-ever performance by the Northeastern freshmen since the

IRA Regatta was officially recognized as the national championship event nearly a decade ago.

2012 EARC SPRINTS

Riordan Morrell is going great guns in the States in his Freshman season.

WORCESTER, Mass., May 13, 2012

The EARC is the qualification regatta for the IRA (Intercollegiate Rowing Assoc Regatta)

Freshman Eight

1. Harvard - 6:02.621

2. Northeastern - 6:04.801

3. Cornell - 6:07.154

4. Brown - 6:10.108

5. Princeton - 6:16.568

6. Navy - 6:17.750

Rowing in America at Ivy League level…

I have had interest from friends of friends out of town and have been meaning to do this for ages…

 

ROWING OVERSEAS Contact ;Head Coach of Crew at the University.

IVY LEAGUE ENTRY REQUIREMENTS Yale and the other 7  Ivy League Universities do not give scholarships, they give financial aid. The student has to be generally , in the ’excellence’ category in all subjects, to qualify for entry into Yale, Harvard, Princeton, Pennsylvania , Columbia, Dartmouth, Brown, Cornell. Ivy League cannot give a place to a student who doesn’t fit the academic criteria. The student will have to complete SAT 1 and SAT 2 tests before acceptance and these are carried out in Auckland approximately 3 times a year . search ‘SATS Auckland ‘

FINANCIAL AID From memory …at Yale University if the joint income of both parents is under US$65000.00 the international  student qualify for financial aid of some sort. Search eg; ‘Yale Financial Aid’ and then ’International Student’ .The total cost for 2010 was cUS$57000 per year, includes tuition, books, travel (to camps for rowing) room and board , health insurance . I think food is additional. There are no interest free loans available from Nz to study overseas, as yet.

AIR FARES Travelling AIR NZ or QANTAS generally are

Christmas 2010; NY -AK return c$4300-$4500.

Jun - Aug 2011; NY to AK return c$1300

NON-IVY LEAGUE But in saying all of this…The other universities  (non-ivy league ) do give scholarships in rowing and I would contact the Head Coach of ‘Crew’ at either University of Washington or University of California…2 of the top rowing schools in the US.

WHAT AN OPPORTUNITY There is little to be said against it (see below for that)

i)                     The fantastic opportunity of a degree from one of the Ivy League universities is undeniable. Harvard is considered the top university in the world, Oxford is 2^nd and Yale is considered 3^rd.

ii)                   The chance for an independent student  to mingle and study alongside peers in an overseas environment

IT’S NOT FOR EVERYONE Some of the disadvantages are ;

i)                     Summer school may be necessary to get the credits necessary to pass each year. That incurs costs Ivy League Universities do not pay the student to do extra work (they do subsidize though)and that can mean the student cannot come home for US summer break (our winter)

ii)                   When the student comes home for US summer break there is little possibility of a job for such a short time to gain extra money.

iii)                  The student rowing has little time to work at university. Rowing and studying is a full time job.

iv)                  Homesickness…it is hard to see family more than 2 times a year .

v)                   Rowing camps are usually  ‘spring break’ and again on the 27^th Dec to the 10^th jan and that is the Christmas break gone for parents.

 

Yale takes the Varsity and the 2^nd Varsity…

PHOTO; Yale Heavyweight Crew. Derek Johnson holding the Blackwell Cup. ( COURTESY OF BRIAN JOHNSON-(HVYWGT CREW CAPT DEREK JOHNSON’S FATHER) http://www.yalebulldogs.com/sports/m-crewhvy/index

Rotorua’s Harry Simperingham was out a boat due to illness.

DERBY, Conn. – Yale Defends Blackwell Cup Despite Bad Conditions.

PRE RACE REPORT -14.4.11 The Blackwell Cup, against the Penn Quakers and Columbia Lions , is one of rowing's biggest trophies, is awarded in honor of George Engs Blackwell, an 1880 graduate of Columbia.  Since Columbia, Penn and Yale started racing for the cup in 1927, Yale has won the most with a total of 38 times, including last year with a 2.5-second win in the varsity eight on the Schuylkill River in Philadelphia.  In recent years Penn and Yale have traded the trophy back and forth almost exclusively, up until 2008 when Columbia won for the first time in 67 years.  This year, with Columbia, Penn and Yale already having dual season wins under their belts, all three teams will be contenders.

RACE REPORT -16.4.11 In its final home race of the season, the Yale heavyweight crew team claimed the Blackwell Cup for the second year in a row Saturday when the Bulldog varsity eight won by open water over Ivy League rivals Penn and Columbia.  Yale's second varsity eight also won its race, and by an even more impressive margin.  Unfortunately the waters of the Housatonic were too rough later in the day for the remainder of Yale's crews to compete.

Due to weather concerns the varsity eight race for the Blackwell Cup was moved from 11:15 a.m. to 9:45 a.m.  The Bulldogs drew lane three and started six seats up to account for being on the outside of the turn.  This margin grew to open water by the time crews were moving into the third 500 meters of the race course.  Yale finished in a time of 6:22.9, with open water back to Penn (6:35.4) and Columbia (6:47.3).

The second varsity followed with another win, this time by an even greater margin.  Yale posted a time of 6:41.0.  In second place was Penn with 7:16.1 and Columbia in third with 7:56.1.

Conditions began to deteriorate after the 2V race.  With winds upwards of 20 mph, races were cancelled before the freshman eight was able to get underway.  The 3V and 4V/2F 4+ did not get a chance to compete either.

The Bulldogs are away next weekend as they race Princeton and Cornell for the Carnegie Cup in Princeton, N.J. 

VARSITY 8+

Yale                        6:22.9

Pennsylvania       6:35.4

Columbia              6:47.3

2^ND VARSITY 8+

Yale                        6:41.0

Pennsylvania       7:16.1

Columbia              7:56.1

PHOTOS thanks to Brian Johnson; Harry in 5 seat. The Olympic Axe won by Yale Varsity .

‘Junior Varsity’ has best time of the day…

(Coach)Gladstone moved  3 rowers from the line-up in the Varsity eight, he put up against Brown, a fortnight ago . Harry Simperingham; 3-seat (graduating year 2013) moved to 5-seat in the 2V for the Yale v Dartmouth regatta. The captain- Derek Johnston; Varsity 2-seat (2011) and Varsity stroke ; Spyridon Mastroyannis (2011) were also moved down to the 2V (or is that sideways?). Harry was pleased they won their 2V race in a faster time than the Varsity race.

“There was a slight head wind for the Varsity race” he said, “yet unlikely that would account for all of the  4 seconds faster speed in the 2V“.

 Grant Stagelmann (2013)  took Harry’s place in the Varsity . Stagelmann is the same height as Simperingham at 6’7. Victor Romanov (2013), Nate Reeve (2011), were the other rowers moving up to the Varsity from the 2V line-up at the Brown v Yale regatta.

Harry is working towards being the Varsity for the ‘Eastern sprints’ on May 15^th.  We can expect the Varsity lineup, by then, to be staying constant and ready for the ‘Yale v Harvard’ race-

May 28th and then the ‘IRA’ (Inter-Collegiate Rowing  Assoc National Champs); June 2,3,4 ..Simperingham is home on June 7 for the USA Summer break ..

SHIFTING ROWERS

Name                                                      Cl.           Ht.           Wt.          Hometown/High School

Derek Johnson                       Sr.           6-2           195          Hillsborough, Calif. /

St. Ignatius

Spyridon Mastroyannis         Sr.           6-2           175          Washington, D.C. /

St. Albans

Nathaniel Reeve                     Sr.           6-6           195          Concord, Mass. /

Groton

Viktor Romanov                     So.          6-2           205          Moscow, Russia /

Lowell

Harry Simperingham             So.          6-6           210          Rotorua, New Zealand /

Rotorua Boys' High School

Grant Stegelmann                  So.          6-6           193          Darien, Conn. /

Deerfield 

………………… Report filed by Yale Sports Publicity  http://www.yalebulldogs.com/sports/m-crewhvy/index ...............

NEW HAVEN, Conn. – The Yale heavyweight crew team rowed its home opener in style Saturday as all five of its crews defeated the Dartmouth Big Green.  The conditions on the Housatonic were near perfect during the freshman race as the Yale Class of 2014 tasted victory for the first time and the Yale varsity eight had a five second victory over the Big Green to capture the Olympic Axe.

After a 20-minute delay to let the morning fog roll through, racing began with the third varsity eight.  Yale started down six seats because it had the inside lane, but the Bulldogs had their bow in front before the first 20 strokes were through.  Yale had open water by the 500-meter mark and walked it up even further around the inside of the turn.  Yale won in a time of 6:01.6 to Dartmouth's 6:14.1. 

Dartmouth had its most inspired race in the freshman eight event.  The Big Green outpaced Yale at the start, hitting a 39 stroke rate to Yale's 37.  At the halfway point only about three or four seats separated the two crews, but with favor to Yale.  Yale stepped out slowly but surely, and with a five-seat lead heading into the last 500 the Bulldogs really turned it on.  Yale won in 6:01.6, a length ahead of Dartmouth in 6:04.6. 

In the second varsity eight Yale was again on the inside.  The Bulldogs had a six seat lead going into the second 500 and broke open by the half despite Dartmouth making a big move around the turn.  Yale crossed the line in 5:50.5, the fastest time of the day.  Dartmouth finished two lengths behind in 5:56.2.

By the time the varsity eight went off a slight headwind had started to blow.  The Bulldogs, however, handled the conditions famously and rowed a clean race down their home course.  Yale's time was 5:54.5 to Dartmouth's 5:59.6, a gap over twice as big as last year's margin of victory.

The last race of the day was a 4V/2F exhibition race.  In the past, each of these two programs have not always had enough depth to field a fourth varsity eight, and that both of them were able to send one down the course on Saturday is good sign of more fast racing to come in future years.  In the worst conditions of the day the Yale fourth varsity won in 6:14.9, a time that would have rivaled that of the Dartmouth third varsity.  The Dartmouth fourth eight crossed the line in 6:55.6, giving Yale over a 40 second margin of victory. 

The heavyweights are at home again next weekend as they host Penn and Columbia for the Blackwell Cup.

PHOTO Harry Simkperingham in 3 seat.

Heavyweights Look To Defend Olympic Axe

NEW HAVEN, Conn. – This Saturday the Yale heavyweight crew team will have its second race of the season, its first at home.  With the reshuffle now closed, lineups are set for Saturday as the Bulldogs take on the Dartmouth Big Green.  Yale has won the Olympic Axe for the past three years and is looking at this weekend with hopes of making it four.

Following a 7:00 a.m. coxswain weigh-in and lane draw, the races will go off in the following order: 

9:00 HWT 3V

(9:20 LWT 3V)

9:40 HWT 1F

(10:00 LWT 1F)

10:20 HWT 2V

(10:40 LWT 2V)

11:00 HWT 1V

(11:20 LWT 1V)

11:40 HWT 4V/2F

Report filed by Yale Sports Publicity

 

PHOTO AND WORDS; BRIAN JOHNSON (DAD OF Capt. DEREK JOHNSON (2011), YALE HEAVYWEIGHT MEN’S ‘VARSITY’ CREW)

YALE v BROWN ;Let the battle begin…
“For those who weren't there, you missed a good day of racing on the chilly Seekonk River.  The 4V/2F (Fourth Varsity/Second Freshmen), 3rd Varsity, and Junior Varsity all won handily, demonstrating the developing depth of the program.  The Freshmen got smoked at the start, falling behind by open water, before battling back to lose by a second, about 1/3 of a boat length, meaning that for the majority of the race they beat Brown.  The Varsity also fell behind at the start, having not worked on starts or speed work until this past week, but battled back to be ahead by 2 seats with 500 meters to go before losing by about 2 seats, 0.4 seconds.  Our guys also hadn't yet worked on sprints at the end of races, either.  All part of the building plan.

Meaning, Yale missed sweeping perennial Eastern powerhouse Brown by just 1.4 seconds.  Altogether a more than promising debut for what I'd consider the Beta version of Yale Heavyweight Crew 2011, getting the bugs out, building the foundation for the more important races later in the season, when they'll have plenty of speed work and starts and sprints under their belts.  

There's a lot of learning that goes with a new coaching team, a new rowing style, but as the Brown races showed, the rowers and coxswains are learning fast.  I think their progress, now that they're back on the water full time after the winter indoor work, will be rapid and consequential.” BRIAN JOHNSON (1971; 7 SEAT IN THE US EIGHT)

 

Yale v Brown regatta 26.3.11

BROWN WINS -Harry Simperingham was a late seat change for the Bears v Bulldogs 2000m race, taking 3 seat in his debut in the ‘varsity eight’. But nothing was going to take the lead from the home crew.

The Bears hit the ground racing from the start at 45 rating, Yale at 40-42.

Conditions were relatively good: 4V, 3V, Freshmen, JV raced against the incoming tide. Varsity raced at slack tide. 36 degrees, gusty cross/cross-tail (from WNW at 15-20 mph). Relatively flat water.

Yale sat at 34 to 35 rating from the 1st 100m to the last 50m, taking the  0.43 of a second win. The Bears maintained 36 and 37 for the entirety of the race. Brown won in a time of 5:45.54 

 Yale’s close second in Yale  5:45.97 

Brown’s use of their own water this year, does hold some advantage. "It does make a difference to be on your home course, said Head coach Paul Cooke. "Our river is different from others and the landmarks are well known. When you are going backwards down the river it helps to have a sense of where you are."

(The Yale varsity eight lost by a mere 1.8 seconds in 2010 to a Brown crew that would go on to take third at Eastern Sprints.)