more trials results

From: Jordan Smith

Date: Jul 20, 2005 3:11 PM
Subject: [GTCA] more trials results

Hi gang, just one last and somewhat related report from trials.  This morning, Sarah Hirst-Smith (Emory Univeristy), Mike Smith's (Smitty) wife, raced for time standard in the Vesper LW quad on the last possible day and hit the time right on the nose (6:38 exactly). Congratulations to the other Smith household.

Jordan Smith

Jordan Smith becomes 4th GT Alum to make the National Team!!!

Hello Alumni,

Just minutes ago, Jordan Smith became the 4th Georgia Tech Crew alumni (and first Heavyweight) to make the US National Team. Jordan has been training at Penn AC for the past year and made his charge for this year's Worlds in Gifu, Japan in the Pair with cox. Incidently, this is the same event that UTC alum Dan Beery rowed in the year before making the 8+ in last year's Olympics. In order to qualify for the event, Jordan and partners had to win to finals and meet a time standard.

Their first final saw a 4 second advantage over second place, yesterday's final was a closer race with a 1 second advantage. Unfortunately through the first two races, the conditions were not so favorable for meeting the time standard which meant they had through Wednesday to hit it. This morning, they rowed at a base 37, took a bunch of 20s, and pulled a 7:04.741 to beat the standard by .259 seconds and secure the right to represent the United States in Japan next month. Please join me in congratulating Jordan for this huge accomplishment.

I'll pass along more updates as I get them...

Ethan

article LINK

Here is a picture of the actual Gold Medal winning crew - and you can find the alumni magazine article online!

Hey alumni!

Everyone should check their Georgia Tech Alumni Magazines because GT Crew is featured in this issue.

Theresa (your alumni relations officer)

Faset is here

This weekend the cycle starts again. July 10th is the first faset for the incoming freshman class. This is always an exciting time for us because we get to talk the team up and get these kids pumped up about rowing. We know full well we'll never see 80% of them again(and of that 80%, maybe 5% stick around) but many of you learned about crew the first time at faset so its worth it. It also reminds me of my first orientation back in Tallahassee - how much of a change this is in a kid's life. Everything is bigger and no one makes you get up to go to class.

What got you interested in rowing at Tech the first time? Post a comment.

Ethan