Upcoming Home Race

NU Crew has been working hard every morning to get ready for our next race…right here at home! This Saturday, April 19 we will be hosting a regatta at the Dammrich Rowing Center (3220 Oakton St.) in Skokie.  Crews from the University of Notre Dame, Wheaton College and North Park University will be coming out.  In the men's varsity 8 event, crews will be competing for the "Alumni Blade" trophy.  Races start at 8 am and should run until about 1 pm.  There are several viewing sites along the course and we strongly encourage anyone in the Chicagoland area to come and cheer! 


Racing season is in full swing!


Last Saturday, the men headed to Spring Lake, MI for the second running of the Other West Coast Regatta.  Nine universities attended the event, the first major regatta on Spring Lake in over 120 years. It was a tough day for several of NU's lightweights who rowed up to four races during the four-hour regatta.  NU rowed seven lightweights in the varsity 8 event and still managed to finish 5th of the 8 boats that entered.  In the lightweight 8 event, NU finished 2nd to a very improved Grand Valley State University crew, but beat Ohio State's lightweights.  The men are currently training to close the gap with GVSU before the crews face off again at MACRA in May. 

In a rare turn of events, while the men battled it out in Michigan, the women headed to St. Louis, MO for the Washington University Invitational Regatta.  The women raced five universities on the 1750-meter course.  The day started off strong with the varsity 8 coming in 2nd, overpowering a strong North Park University crew. The varsity lightweight 4 was narrowly defeated by Washington University, while the varsity 4 came in 2nd to WashU, but triumphed over NPU.  The novice 4 A boat came in 3rd behind NPU and WashU, but easily outdistanced its other competitors, including St. Louis University.




New Year's Resolutions

As the new year begins, the men and women of Northwestern Crew are beginning winter training, gearing up for the Spring Season.  Looking ahead, the Chicago Indoor Erg Race in February and a training trip at the end of the quarter have the teams excited and determined to extend the success they earned during the Fall season.