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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]A lot of people posting here have no idea what they're talking about. My daughter was recruited for lightweight rowing to Princeton. That means she had to weigh in at under 130 pounds...for boy lightweights 160 pounds. Heavy weight boys have no weight limit nor do "open weight" girls.

Mine started rowing after 7th grade in a summer program. She went to a private school here. There were some kids on her summer team from BCC and Whitman who were recruited...one was a cox recruit at Harvard. When daughter was being recruited, we bought some books about recruiting from Amazon. They were very helpful. I just googled to find some free information about the recruitment process for rowing:
https://crewconnection.squarespace.com/recruiting-101/college-recruiting-101. In addition to summer rowing for club team, daughter rowed for HS team. Not for the faint of heart, but she loved it. It is true that it is easier for girls to be recruited than boys. That is because of Title 9. Schools have to balance numbers of girl sport recruits to boys. So since there are bigger boy teams such as football, baseball, etc., that doesn't leave slots for boy rowers.

AMA - daughter loved HS + college rowing. She left college rowing after 2 years because of injuries from other sports.[/quote]

How tall are lightweight rowers, usually? Did you or she worry about weight gain in college? I’d hate to have a kid focusing on maintaining weight for any sport.

Bummer she got injured, what else did she play?

Was she always a morning person?[/quote]

My daughter is 5'7" " inches. It was hard to weigh in below 130 because rowers are very muscular. She got injured doing a marathon. She was also recruited for D1 Ivy Field Hockey. But rowing is a 2 season sport fall & summer, so she couldn't do FH. She preferred rowing. She was never a morning person to answer your question, so luckily most of her practices were after classes. Rowing is very hard work and people LOVE it![/quote]

Yes, being 5'7"-5'8" and under 130 with a very top erg time is a unicorn body type. The few I know who had it were phenomenal runners.  Jackson Reed had two within the past half dozen years (one went on to row lightweight at Harvard and one at Stanford) and both were the very top cross country runner in DC when they were solely running. That's the level of fitness that they were capable of with relative ease. They weren't girls who went from recreational athlete to elite lightweight rower. [/quote]

Good point...most rowers have excelled at another sport which rowing coaches love.[/quote]

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