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Speaker 0 00:00:01 That one stroke like stroke.
Speaker 1 00:00:03 My heart's pounding. We were like, okay, this is our race. Everything we got. Let's go hand down my stroke seat. Olivia will tell me the flat's coming up or not Trying to get my point as best as I can
Speaker 0 00:00:19 Her give me a stroke. And
Speaker 1 00:00:20 Then I'll be like
Speaker 0 00:00:21 Half, half, three quarters lake Ben fall. Let's go.
Speaker 2 00:00:29 Senior Luco WEO is a coxswain for the Northwestern university crew team. Her boat crossed the finish line first at the Illinois collegiate growing invitational in farmer city. Last weekend,
Speaker 0 00:00:40 Nine, 10 direct.
Speaker 1 00:00:42 I try to like bring out the raw power out of the rowers.
Speaker 0 00:00:47 Okay. I'm at four seats of you, Chicago. I'm at the bow for Illinois. Let's follow down link through
Speaker 2 00:00:56 Link through. This is the first time the student run club team has won the state championship. Since the Godes start in 2012, the gold typically goes to the university of Illinois. One of en U crew's biggest rivals. What's your favorite call to make?
Speaker 1 00:01:11 Is there, I guess I don't make this dream practice, but I guess the crush crush their souls,
Speaker 0 00:01:16 Chicago Holloway now crush their soul. Now crush now crush. Now
Speaker 2 00:01:24 Five out of nine Northwestern boats won the AGAs marque events. The crew garnered most of their points by winning the varsity men and women's eights and fours rowers in these boats. Each have one or a coxswain sits at the stern to steer the straightest course possible and motivate the boat to finish the race before it's competitors,
Speaker 0 00:01:43 Snow and water with you. Chicago let's guess say byebye to them. Bye bye.
Speaker 3 00:01:49 We showed up just a little different caliber speed than the rest of the competition.
Speaker 2 00:01:54 This is 27 year old Colin Darin's first year coaching. And you crew the Midwest native road throughout high school and graduated the university of Michigan in 2017, where he rode for four years. He attributes last weekend's success to the team's growing commitment to attend practice and pull harder workouts than ever before.
Speaker 3 00:02:13 I think, you know, the difference in this year between, uh, you know, this year and past years before I got here has just been, um, you know, giving the team a more challenging, um, you know, set of workouts and giving them the opportunity to rise to the occasion, right? It's just a matter of, you know, you can only pull the workouts that you're being assigned and, you know, you can only do the work that you're being given. And, um, you know, when this team was given the opportunity to work a little harder and, you know, get a little better results, uh, they rose to the, to the challenge. Two
Speaker 0 00:02:43 Shots are Andy and pickle. That's one, two on the front end,
Speaker 2 00:02:49 Senior Sarah pickles is the president of Northwestern crew. She says Darden's workouts has the team rowing almost double the number of meters that it would row during practice when she was a freshman,
Speaker 4 00:03:00 This winter, we really built our endurance, a lot of steady state. So a lot of one hour pieces. Um,
Speaker 5 00:03:09 And so you'd be on the rowing machine, the U for
Speaker 4 00:03:11 An hour. Yes, you'd be on the, the U for an hour and every stroke. Right. You're trying to go as hard as you can. Um,
Speaker 5 00:03:20 Now, is that something that you did in the past or not really?
Speaker 4 00:03:24 Not, not for that long. No. <laugh>, um, I'd say the longest steady state I would do typically before this winter was like 30 minutes or 40 was long. And then this winter, we were have hour pieces. And then on some Saturdays were like an hour 20
Speaker 2 00:03:43 Pickles won gold in the women's varsity four, just an hour later, again in the eight
Speaker 4 00:03:49 And pastor gots, maybe one boat would do well, um, at each race. And right. That was exciting at the time. Like, we're like, oh my God, this is great. But to all of a sudden have pretty much every single boat winning or right. Getting fourth or second, right. Still placing really high, like, whoa.
Speaker 0 00:04:13 It
Speaker 4 00:04:13 Was a really proud feeling
Speaker 0 00:04:15 Of
Speaker 4 00:04:16 Just everyone in that boat, knowing that everyone gave it their all, we had, um, a novice rower in, in our boat. And I was just so happy for her
Speaker 0 00:04:26 Catrina. Great job. So Catrina,
Speaker 2 00:04:30 That novice rower was five, one Weinberg, freshman Catrina, Claude.
Speaker 6 00:04:34 I remember like hearing Luca just make all her calls, like the most aggressive I ever heard her. And it was actually amazing. I was like, okay, we gotta go. We gotta go.
Speaker 2 00:04:46 <laugh> being the shortest member of the women's team. Hasn't stopped her from being one of the fastest, since joining last fall, Claude has competed in three regattas and she's medaled at every single one of them.
Speaker 6 00:04:58 I think just showing up at practice, putting in the work, just trying to figure out technique and stuff. Once we got back out, um, after winter, it was just a lot of like being able to wake up and show up to practice. And definitely just like having a bunch of people around me to just like support me, correct me, you know, all those good things.
Speaker 2 00:05:19 The Northwestern crew team will compete in the America collegiate growing association championships in Michigan on May 1st until then you can find them training on the north shore channel in Skoki from six to eight in the morning, six days a week, Rainer shine finish for w N U R news. I'm Angelina camp finish.
