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There are enough people who love and promote the sport for lifelong fitness, the relationship to the water, the ability to be part of a team in perfect sync and the friendships that grow from the time together that it takes to achieve that state.

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I respect your opinion and admire that you can wax poetic based on your experience and memories, but imo it is an awful sport. This thread reeks of striver parents searching for an athletic hook for their tall and potentially goofy/unathletic kids.  Let your kids play volleyball or soccer for the luv of god - let them have some fun.

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former goofy ivy rower [/quote]

You’re clearly intellectually goody as well.  You’re a sample size of one, and you clearly do not speak for the thousands of boys who truly love rowing.

My son is a gifted athlete who played travel basketball and before specializing in bball, lacrosse and soccer. He tried out for crew on a lark and fell in love with it.

He says there is something special about crew. It requires a oneness and unity that no other team sports do. There’s also a clear means to measure progress. Discipline and hard work  pay off visibly. He started with a 7:15 2K erg time and is now at 6:12 a year later.

I have never seen him so devoted to a sport. He loves it for its own sake, nothing to do with college admissions.

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From another crew parent, I have to second this.  My super uninterested in athletics kid, who tried every other traditional sport and said "no", tried crew as last resort and it didn't take more than a week-long learn to row program for him to say "sign me up".  He's now more than 4+ years into the sport and I have never seen him so dedicated to something.  The discipline this sport has given him is also something really unique.  It's not an easy sport by any means (the brutal schedule of AM/PM practices, the blisters that hurt like you're on fire, practicing in rain/sleet and temps that most kids don't have to experience) but there's something about this sport that resonates with certain individuals and then there are no complains about it.  They show up and give it their all.  [/quote]

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