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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Crew programs today make me sad. I am a former D1 varsity rower and also attended a top NE private school program (Junior Olympic level). I never experienced the discouraging and frankly dangerous level of intensity that 13-14 YO student rowers face today.

My middle school and HS aged kids are perfect for crew as far as body type and have love of it, but the intensity of 6 days per week practices (including at 5am before school and on Saturdays). 2 hour long erg sessions 4x a week. Mandatory 6 day per week winter training. Mandatory erg relays. Mandatory spring break travel training. Even for freshman and novice rowers at the 13-14 YO range in PUBLIC school. It’s wayyyyy too much. And I say that as a former D1 varsity rower. This is deeply concerning and setting these kids up for serious lifelong injury to knees and lower back. One of my kids stopped going to practice because they kept seeing team mates vomiting after training and upset them. This isn’t normal. Who normalized this? [/quote]

Tiger moms [/quote]

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