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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Is 5'9 tall enough for a boy?[/quote]

My Boston area college had a sign for new freshman boys. "Are you 6'4 or above? Come try out for crew!" [/quote]

Crew has one of the highest quit rates of college sports.  Any sport that is just always exhausting (practices, meets, etc.), requires a commute to practice and has almost zero general student engagement has a high quit rate.

Actual college crew teams have a fair number of walk ons to replace the recruited kids who quit.[/quote]

They aren’t quite the same as walk ons for soccer or swim team, though. Colleges have novice teams, and you can only spend a year on novice. Doesn’t matter your year, you can be a sophomore or junior novice, but in rowing a “novice” is in their first year of competition. Not all novice rowers will make the varsity or junior varsity the next year. So yes, novice rowers fill spots vacated by rowers who quit (though most who make it through their first collegiate year stay) and others are cut. No crew anywhere is putting people who haven’t rowed into varsity or junior varsity boats. The boat wouldn’t be able to function - you need to learn to row first.[/quote]

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