Photo by: Alison Morrison
In Allie's wake: Carving up the water, and pumpkins
November 01, 2018 | Women's Rowing
Badgers shared the water, and some fun at Michigan State
Senior and Chanhassen, Minnesota, native Allie Lohrenz is giving regular updates this year from Porter Boathouse and around the country as the women's rowing team travels through the 2018-19 season. A third generation Wisconsin student-athlete (grandfather played football and mom was a rower), Lohrenz played lacrosse and competed in motocross before walking onto the Badger rowing program her freshman year.
MADISON, Wis. -- Halloween weekend started early, at 6 a.m. to be exact, when the iconic red double-decker Badger Bus rolled its way out of the Babcock cul-de-sac and lumbered east under the cover of dawn. This particularly special weekend meant not that we would be getting dressed up and overindulging in spooky treats, but that we would be testing our speed yet again against another team, this time on the waters of the Grand River in Lansing, Michigan.
After a long morning of circumnavigating the southern tail of Lake Michigan (six hours is like time travel if you have a pillow and snacks), we arrived just after noon to set up camp in Spartan territory and got ourselves ready for the battle that awaited. A fleet of Wisconsin and Michigan State varsity fours took to the river to compete in a head-race-style scrimmage, sporting our pink hats in all boats as a sign of support and awareness for breast cancer survivors.
With only one piece on tap for Saturday, all boats hit the course full throttle and held nothing back, which made for aggressive race calls and moves from start to finish. We raced our hardest and ultimately executed our race plans with confidence and precision, which led to fast times and favorable results for the Badgers. This was also our first weekend traveling with our novice team, which made for a great show after the varsity races. Red coats and motion W's lined the shoreline as the novice boats came barreling down the course at what I presume will not be their top speed in May.
To wrap up the first evening, Badgers and Spartans alike huddled up together in the MSU boathouse, ferociously carving pumpkins and devouring plate after plate of hot food and buttery bread rolls, of which I may or may not have had four. Pumpkins etched with oars, crooked smiles and missing teeth made for a spectacular mixture of creative jack-o-lanterns, with the holiday activity bringing out the art major in some and the applied mathematics major in others.
Sunday morning brought cooler temperatures and yet again perfect water conditions as we lined ourselves up in eights to sprint with and against the current. Blasting up and down the course as hard as you can never gets old, and we gave it our everything in each piece yet again in true Badger fashion. As a team, this weekend left us feeling confident in our progress and our work that we've done this fall. Stay tuned as we have yet another team coming to town this weekend for some more racing in one of our last weekends on the water for 2018.
MADISON, Wis. -- Halloween weekend started early, at 6 a.m. to be exact, when the iconic red double-decker Badger Bus rolled its way out of the Babcock cul-de-sac and lumbered east under the cover of dawn. This particularly special weekend meant not that we would be getting dressed up and overindulging in spooky treats, but that we would be testing our speed yet again against another team, this time on the waters of the Grand River in Lansing, Michigan.
After a long morning of circumnavigating the southern tail of Lake Michigan (six hours is like time travel if you have a pillow and snacks), we arrived just after noon to set up camp in Spartan territory and got ourselves ready for the battle that awaited. A fleet of Wisconsin and Michigan State varsity fours took to the river to compete in a head-race-style scrimmage, sporting our pink hats in all boats as a sign of support and awareness for breast cancer survivors.
With only one piece on tap for Saturday, all boats hit the course full throttle and held nothing back, which made for aggressive race calls and moves from start to finish. We raced our hardest and ultimately executed our race plans with confidence and precision, which led to fast times and favorable results for the Badgers. This was also our first weekend traveling with our novice team, which made for a great show after the varsity races. Red coats and motion W's lined the shoreline as the novice boats came barreling down the course at what I presume will not be their top speed in May.
To wrap up the first evening, Badgers and Spartans alike huddled up together in the MSU boathouse, ferociously carving pumpkins and devouring plate after plate of hot food and buttery bread rolls, of which I may or may not have had four. Pumpkins etched with oars, crooked smiles and missing teeth made for a spectacular mixture of creative jack-o-lanterns, with the holiday activity bringing out the art major in some and the applied mathematics major in others.
Sunday morning brought cooler temperatures and yet again perfect water conditions as we lined ourselves up in eights to sprint with and against the current. Blasting up and down the course as hard as you can never gets old, and we gave it our everything in each piece yet again in true Badger fashion. As a team, this weekend left us feeling confident in our progress and our work that we've done this fall. Stay tuned as we have yet another team coming to town this weekend for some more racing in one of our last weekends on the water for 2018.
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