On Saturday, April 7,
2018, Taylor and Ellie rowed in the Georgetown LW 8+ boat at the 30th
Annual George Washington Invitational.
This annual event is run on the Potomac River, featuring men’s and women’s rowing teams from 12 different colleges and universities over a two day period. Their race was on Saturday morning, April 7th.
This annual event is run on the Potomac River, featuring men’s and women’s rowing teams from 12 different colleges and universities over a two day period. Their race was on Saturday morning, April 7th.
The following women’s teams
(alpha order) competed:
- Dayton
- Drexel
- George Mason
- Georgetown
- George Washington (Host)
- MIT
- Rhode Island
- Saint Joseph’s
The 2,000-meter course
begins near the Sprout Run area of the Potomac River with the finish line at
Washington Harbor in Georgetown. For a
copy of the course map go HERE.
Now let’s go racing!
Yes, it was cold, damp
and gloomy but the Georgetown Women’s LW 8+ won their race in a time of 6:27.90 beating out Dayton and George Mason in the three-way competition.
If you look closely at the final results, which can be found HERE, it appears the LW’s had a better time than the Georgetown Women’s OW 8+ (6:32.80), just saying! Look at race #19 on Saturday's results list for the LW team times and race #18 for the OW team times.
If you look closely at the final results, which can be found HERE, it appears the LW’s had a better time than the Georgetown Women’s OW 8+ (6:32.80), just saying! Look at race #19 on Saturday's results list for the LW team times and race #18 for the OW team times.
While I don’t know
everything about rowing (give me time people - it took me years to figure out that thing Mav use to yell at volleyball games - side out!), but they tell me the OW teams should outperform the LW
teams every time.
All I can say to that is way to go Taylor, Ellie and your boat mates for a great race today!
All I can say to that is way to go Taylor, Ellie and your boat mates for a great race today!
And as a side bar, while
driving home, snow flurries were in the air. Having said that, there was a large contingent of spectators, including myself, that were bundled up and had a great time
watching the races from the Georgetown Waterfront area.
For pictures of the
morning race and prep, as well as, some candid’s of Taylor, Ellie and friends go HERE.
