Women's Rowing Releases 2006-07 Schedules
August 29, 2006 | Lightweight Rowing
Head coach Bebe Bryans released the women's rowing schedules on Tuesday, as both the openweight and lightweight programs open their fall competition season Saturday, Sept. 16 at the Milwaukee River Challenge.
The two programs look to have similar schedules throughout the fall, beginning on Sept. 16, then taking part at the Head of the Rock on Oct. 8 on the Rock River in Rockford, Ill. On Oct. 14, Class Day Races take place at Porter Boathouse in Madison, Wis., for which UW alumni are invited to return to campus to race against one another and among current UW rowers.
The lightweights compete at the prestigious Head of the Charles regatta on Oct. 21-22 on the Charles River in Boston. The lightweight eight placed third overall, but first among collegiate crews at the 2005 event.
On Oct. 29, both programs compete at the Head of the Iowa in Iowa City, Iowa, which will close out the lightweight falls season. The openweights will send some of its student-athletes to Princeton, N.J., for the Princeton Chase that same weekend, then close out the fall on Nov. 12 in Charlottesville, Va., at the Rivanna Romp.
After winter training in Cocoa Beach, Fla., from Jan. 10-20, Wisconsin's first spring racing takes place in Indiana. The openweights meet Indiana and Notre Dame on April 7 in Indianapolis, while the lightweights are tentatively scheduled to compete at the Indiana Championships that day.
The remaining spring schedule for the openweights includes April 14 in Minneapolis against Minnesota and Oregon State and then April 21 on Lake Wingra in Madison for the Midwest Rowing Championships. The following weekend, April 28, the Badgers play host to the 2007 Big Ten Championships on Lake Wingra.
A weekend off leads to the NCAA Central/South Regional on May 12-13, before the 2007 NCAA Championships, May 25-27. Both events take place in Oak Ridge, Tenn.
The UW lightweights, three-time defending national champions, visit Camden, N.J. on April 14 for the Knecht Cup. That same weekend, a trip to the Windermere Classic is tentatively scheduled for the some of the team's rowers. The Midwest Rowing Championships on April 21 lead to a dual race against Georgetown on April 28 at a location to be determined.
The Badgers will battle May 13 in Camden, N.J., for their third-straight Eastern Association of Women's Rowing College Championship. The Eastern Sprints are the program's conference championships. Then it is back to Camden, N.J., June 2-3 for a shot at the program's fourth-straight national title at the 2007 Intercollegiate Rowing Association National Championships.
