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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The time commitment is major: practice four days a week and regattas all day Saturday during the season, and because you have to get to the boathouse there is more transit time than most high school sports, depending on where you live. Lots of cleaning and hauling boats. It helps to be very tall. You have to be the kind of person who enjoys/thrives at doing repetitive actions while facing someone else’s back. My dh and one kid have the right build and mind for it and love it; [b]my other kid and I find erging boring and painful—[/b]we are runners and it’s a different mentality, I think. Can’t really articulate beyond that.

Be aware that for girls there are genuine recruiting opportunities for college. Lots of girls from our school go into college rowing. For boys, it’s d3 only but I know only one boy who rows in college and it might be club rowing,[/quote]

Everyone - especially rowers - find erging boring and painful. Rowing and erging are different, rowing is where the love is.

OP, middle or high school are good times to get kids interested in rowing. Summer can be a good time to try it out since clubs often have camps, or novice summer leagues. It's a great sport, is especially good at teaching teamwork since there is no "star" of the team in the way that you think of the QB as the star of the football team. I rowed in high school but not college, and I've rowed off and on as an adult too. Highly recommend. [/quote]

That is not true.

Indoor erg competitions are already popular and they grow bigger every year.[/quote]

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