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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It’s a great sport for an average or non-athletic kid to pick up with an incredible work ethic.  No one starts much before high school so it’s a very level playing field.

Incredibly time consuming and a lot of expectations from parents.

For serious rowing you need the tall and lean body type but doesn’t matter as much in high school.[/quote]

This is the opposite of our experience with two boys. It was completely toxic.

Sure it's great at the beginning, but then it will become cutthroat, unless you're son is the coach's pet. They ignored injuries. They ignored individual erg scores/broke promises for placement.

If you play football, even if you're on the sidelines, you are more or less with the team. However, if you're not in the boat for practice, you're running on dry land with maybe one other kid.

We had two coaches and both were objectively terrible. Honestly, we told our BS troop leader about one incident and he said he'd never heard about such awful/unprofessional treatment in all his years.

Girls crew on the other hand, totally fine. [/quote] Girls crew was the same in our experience. Toxic from the top down and was that way for many rowers/families.[/quote]

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