Results

	Northeastern Women's Rowing			V = Varsity
	6000m Erg Test	11/28/07		F = Freshman
				F/W = Freshman Walk-on
	Name:	Time:	Average:	PR?	Exp.
1	Griffeth, Ashley	22:58.1	01:54.8		V
2	Sparano, Meredith	23:07.9	01:55.6	X	V
3	Bruno, Ashley	23:18.3	01:56.5		V
4	Forbes, Jen	23:41.6	01:58.5	X	F
5	Padilla, Anna	23:51.7	01:59.3	X	V
6	Shafer, Francie	23:58.4	01:59.8	X	V
7	Ketcham, Jillise	24:01.2	02:00.1		V
8	Townsend, Ronnie	24:01.8	02:00.2	X	F
9	Carroll, Laura	24:10.5	02:00.8		F
10	Durrant, Alida	24:13.1	02:01.0		V
11	Ward, Katie	24:20.1	02:01.7	X	F
12	Little, Kylie	24:25.7	02:02.2	X	F/W
13	Garabedian, Rachel	24:30.4	02:02.5	X	V
14	Yard, Kailyn	25:02.5	02:04.8	X	F
15	Wintermeyer, Delaney	25:11.2	02:05.9		F
16	Johnson, Annaliese	25:17.7	02:06.4	X	F
17	Lane, Nina	25:18.9	02:06.6	X	F/W
18	Guss, Raquel	25:27.9	02:07.3	X	F/W
19	Smith, Ashley	25:29.7	02:07.4		V
20	DeCesar, Bridget	25:51.5	02:09.3	X	F/W
21	Biddle, Liz	25:53.3	02:09.4		F
22	Gerstein, Rebecca	25:56.9	02:09.7	X	F
23	Brand, Sarah	26:01.7	02:10.1	X	F
24	Hoekstra, Geneva	26:06.6	02:10.5	X	F/W
25	Patteson, Hilary	26:11.9	02:11.0	X	F/W
26	Pino, Lindsay	26:21.5	02:11.8	X	F/W
27	Rowan, Kayleigh	26:39.3	02:13.3	X	F/W
28	Karcich, Lisa	26:43.7	02:13.5		F
29	Belanger, Heather	26:46.5	02:13.9	X	F/W
30	Ciminelli, Maria	26:56.3	02:14.6	X	F
31	McCusker, Meghan	27:03.2	02:16.2	X	F
32	Bernstein, Dallas	27:18.5	02:16.6	X	F/W
33	Snoey, Robin	27:41.0	02:18.4	X	F
34	Catanzaro, Regan	27:44.2	02:18.6	X	F
35	Meritz, Rebecca	28:02.8	02:20.2	X	F/W
36	Ledwell, Allison	28:38.5	02:23.2	X	F/W
37	Darby-Matteoda, Bianca	Rx	Rx		F/W
38	Breen, Hester	Rx	Rx		F/W
39	Ghilardi, Christina	Rx	Rx		F/W
40	Zeh, Heather	Rx	Rx		V
41	Fisher, Emily	Rx	Rx		V

The Horizon

What's on the horizon for the Huskies?

Presently they're in their final evaluation week of the fall season. An evaluations consists of three ergometer (rowing machine) tests: 40-minute test, 6000m test, 2000m test. These primarily measure fitness, but three of the most challenging tests in one week with weight circuits in between the testing days creates a tough atmosphere. Because of this, the tests are very good indicators of mental toughness: who can perform three times in one week during grueling physically and mentally draining workouts? When you take a test on the erg, unlike running or swimming, your power/speed output is right in front of you on a monitor. You can see your splits every stroke and know exactly where you are in the test and how well you're doing. This can be the challenging part.

The evaluation week will begin the selection for the spring. From now through the Florida winter training trip, winter training on land during January and February, and the Tennessee spring training trip, the whole team will be evaluated. In women's rowing, unlike men's rowing, freshman can row up in varsity events their first year if they can make an impact on the speed of the varsity boats. So many of the freshman are being considered for this and this time is very important. Some of the walk-on athletes are stunning the team: freshman walk-on Kylie Little took her first 6000m test ever and had the 12th fastest time out of 41, smoking some experienced sophomores and freshman who've been rowing for years.

Now is the time to make some noise, Huskies! Train hard.

Foot Results

The Huskies faced their competition at the Foot today with a fierce, 15-20 mph headwind down a frigid Charles course. The bright sun provided little warmth for the athletes racing on the 2.25-mile course.

The results were strong for the Husky rowers. The Northeastern Novice A 8+ finished third in their race in a time of 16:04.2. Brown won the race in 15:12.7 and Radcliffe was second in 15:28.7. This particular Husky boat has dramatically improved over the season and raced hard and well with Rachel Buff navigating a demanding course and avoiding crashes with ease. "I was very happy with their result," said Coach Paris. "Our goal was to go out hard and leave nothing on the water. We did that today. Now we know who we're going to have to train for during the winter."

The Varsity 4+s had a strong race as well: The Northeastern Varsity 4+ B finished .4 ahead of the A boat in 16:23.1. The A boat's time was 16:23.5. Radcliffe's A boat won the race in 15:50.8, with Brown behind them in 16:05.2 and BU's A boat in 16:18.2.

Foot of the Charles

The Huskies are prepping for their upcoming race this weekend, also their final race of their fall season, the Foot of the Charles. Held annually by one of the Boston schools (Boston University, Northeastern, Harvard, etc.) it is a shortened version of the Head of the Charles course. The course starts at the MIT boathouse in the basin and travel 2.25 miles upstream to end at Havard's Newell Boathouse. The format is slightly different: Coaches put their best varsity athletes in 4+s and the novices row in 8+s.

We'll be racing against Boston College, MIT, Radcliffe, BU, Dartmouth, Brown, URI, UMass and Army. The varsity will look to improve on their 3rd-place finish last year and the novices are looking to be top three at this race with some of the fastest novice crews here: Brown was the 2007 Eastern Sprints Champion in the Novice Eight last year.

Green Monster Results

Dartmouth holds an all-novice/freshman event every year for the local New England D-I teams called the Green Monster. The race is simple--all the novices launch together in the frigid cold of Hanover's early interpretation of November. The row up to the start and mill around above the start line until all the boats are there, and then start en masse to the finish line down the Connecticut River. The top two boats from each program are supposed to be even and the combined fastest time of the winner earns their team a Ben & Jerry's Vermonster. How appropriate.

The NU Novices brought 3 of their 4 Novice 8+s up to the race and did very well. The A boat finished just two seconds behind Radcliffe, which was a great improvement on their last race at the Charles. Dartmouth only entered one boat and won, with Radcliffe and NU close on their heels. The B and C boat finished 12th and 15th, respectively.

The Novice team is looking forward to their final race of the year--along with the Varsity squad--the Foot of the Charles on Nov. 17th.