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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]All these answers are anecdotal based on the ONE person you know.  My DD is at a top NESCAC crew team and there’s no way any recruited girl will get on the team with no water experience or not being athletic.  [/quote]

Seriously! The coach may have said to the kid, please come and you’ll have a spot on our novice squad. But I seriously doubt any coach would use one of their recruitment slots for a kid who may never become a good rower.

As for runners making good rowers…sort of. Runners are generally light and small, and great rowers are heavy (not fat) and tall, so the body shape is kind of opposite. But certainly runners are conditioned for the hard work of the erg, so they have that advantage.

The “rowers don’t need to be athletic” thing is so odd - rowing is the single best full body conditioning there is, both strength and cardio and once. I saw a study recently looking at the amount of muscle pre-historic women used to carry, and as a baseline for current muscular/strong women they used rowers. You’re not making any college boat unless you are seriously strong.[/quote]

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