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Rowing Memoir. "All hands are down?Attention?GO!" the official yelled, signaling
the start of the final race at the Youth Invitational for Junior Rowers. ...
Submitted by Crewgrl05 on December 16, 2005
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"All hands are downÂ…AttentionÂ…GO!" the official yelled, signaling the start of the final race at the Youth Invitational for Junior Rowers. It would be the last race that I would be competing in, as a varsity rower for Everett Rowing Association. June sixth started like every other regatta day. I woke up to the alarm blaring in my ear with three other girls stirring about getting everything ready for the day. Not wanting to wake up at that moment I lay there in the hotel bed with the starchy white sheet over my head. Trying unsuccessfully to block out the brightness of the fluorescent lights in the room from reaching my eyes. Apparently I was taking too much time to put my feet on the floor. So Ashley, Erin and Jessica decided to take it upon themselves to get me out of bed. They tore the thin sheet off me and exposed my body to the cold air conditioning of the hotel room.
"Why on earth do you think that is going to make me move any faster?" I groaned as my teammates stood staring at me.
"I don't know, maybe because you are freezing now and won't be able to go back to sleep" Ashley replied. Ashley was the novice who had learned everything about rowing in the course of eight months and had managed to make the varsity boat.
There were nine girls in our boat, including myself. The boat we would be rowing in the final was an eight person racing shell. There also was a coxswain, Kendra in our case. The coxswain is "the person steering the boat who also motivates the rowers, helps them keep their pace and helps to correct technique and unify the crew"(Campbell). The boat is set up so that there are four sets of pairs; each pair of girls is of similar size and strength. Bow pair or seats one and two are usually the lightest people of the boat, since they are perched on the front of a boat. These two help to set the boat so that it does not rock from side to side. The middle four girls are called the engine room, seats three, four, five, and six....
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