Hot and Not 2023

[lt.wolf]

Starting now and through this first week of January we bring you the Hot and Not for 2023 . As always feel free to add your own


Hot
Crew of the Year, Colligate Men - Harvard Lights, they are back!
Crew of the Year, Collegiate Women - Stanford Women, yes!


Sculler of the Year, Male, Ollie Zeidler
Sculler of the Year, Women, KAROLIEN FLORIJN (in caps for fats )

Crew of the Year, Elite Men, small boat , SUI mens 2-
Crew of the Year, Elite Women , small boat GB light women’s 2x

Program of the Year, Elite Romania


Not
Accidents on the Worlds course
USA men’s sculling having to face FQR for all events

[lt.wolf]

Hot
International Big Boats
NED men’s quad , 38 spm never looked so easy
ROU women’s eight

Hot Race of the year
B final of the Men’s Single at Worlds. Amazing finish with Paris qualifying on the line. One sculler blows up, another crabs and eventually someone goes into the water

Hot and Not
Sinkovic Brothers going back to the pair.

Hot Regatta of the year
Henley Royal - hard to beat on any level


Hot Collegiate coaches of the year
Women Derek Byrnes
Men Scott Frandsen

HOT Boathouse Award, Princeton - medals upon medals

Hot , “Surprise” Collegiate boats of the year
NU men’s varsity eight
SMU women’s varsity eight


Hot Social media account of the year
US Rowing Burner Account
Not Social media account of the year
Filippi - it’s not new if Hudson did it first.


Not
The Wintech boats in Boys in the Boat , should have been Pocock

[Cowbells123]

You’re “hot” coaches both heading up Bay Area teams. Guess SF Bay Area isn’t as bad as the rest of the country thinks it is

[lt.wolf]

Kudos to them , when you win the bullseye gets bigger. Texas , UW and more have their sights set on the title

[socalstroke]

File under Maybe

UW women finish second despite having the worst erg scores of Yas' coaching career.

[lt.wolf]

HOT
HOCR prize money , 35K
Fred Schoch retiring , kudos for making one of the biggest regattas in the world
Steve Gladstone retiring…or did he
Time standards are back for making the USA team l!
Sophia Luwis , come back of the year with a silver medal in the women’s light single

Not
Officially lightweight rowing removed from the Olympic program
Oh the rain on Sunday at the Charles this year ….4 changes of clothing
Costal Rowing, anyone can sign up and get a USA uni.
Coaches saying fall racing disrupts training programs
Club Nationals …just wait for Rowfest2024 , it’s hotter in OKC than Florida.
Those Philly referee wakes on the Schuykill
US men’s eight comes up short at worlds , bring on the Qualification regattas
Aaron Rogers
New England Patriots and Red Sox

[Cowbells123]

HOT
Another Bay Area Team that looks like a win in Vegas next month.

NOT
COVID making a resurgence. Wonder how teams will deal with exposure/protocols in spring.

[fullmetal]

File under Maybe

UW women finish second despite having the worst erg scores of Yas' coaching career.

Perhaps the worst catch timing as well, if posters on this forum are to be believed

[socalstroke]

File under Maybe

UW women finish second despite having the worst erg scores of Yas' coaching career.

Perhaps the worst catch timing as well, if posters on this forum are to be believed

Dont have to take my word. That info came from Yas herself.

[lt.wolf]

HOT
International Coach of the year, Michelle Darvill NED
Coxswain of the year Victoria-Ștefania Petreanu ROU

HOT
Helen Glover, Robbie Manson and Meghan Musnicki all comeback for 2024
CAL seat racing in the middle of the PAC 12 challenge
LaSalle mens v-8 with a great season
Cam’s timed sprint to win his Diamond race this morning over Brigham ( the one who took down Mahe a few years back )
Thomas Keller Medal Caryn Davies

NOT
The loss of Angel Fournier
The PETA people complaining of Crabs to GB Rowing
30 minute centers at the US Rowing National Indoor Championships, killed spectating .
The passing of Peter Spurrier
The dreaded 2x crab that occurred in the Harvard lightweight v8 while up 2 seats heading into the final 500
Texas JV getting goosed
No drones coverage for HRR
US Rowing with Master National Championship rings
The Harvard student who rowed a pumpkin down the Charles a week before the Head of the Charles
The passing of coaching legend Thor Nilsen at the age of 92

[fullmetal]

Perhaps the worst catch timing as well, if posters on this forum are to be believed

Dont have to take my word. That info came from Yas herself.

I believe you, I just added my own tangent. But also, it's interesting that she would say that given that her coaching career started with the resurrection of a moribund program, surely one with bad erg scores lol. No matter, I thought UW performed spectacularly, finishing second and peaking at the right time.

HOT
Ryuta Arakawa, first ever Japanese M1x to medal at a World Cup
Isaiah Harrison finally committing to Dartmouth
The Boys in the Boat -- we finally got a mainstream movie that's holding its own

HOT
SafeSport takes action regarding Conal Groom...

OR NOT
...with a seven-year suspension, less than the ban that victims' supporters had believed was deserved.

HOT and NOT?
Transfer portal continues to allow unprecedented off-season activity, including the transplant of the SMU 1V and coach to Tennessee...interesting.

NOT
USRowing Masters Natls venue this year: long walks to the boatyard from the trailer unloading areas, intense wind, poor coxing/reffing on display, long walk from the venue to the parking lots.
College football conference realignments destroy historical and traditional region-based conference rowing affiliations, ending the Pac-12 era
World Rowing's Live Tracker for completed races doesn't show the proper race positions/placements in their replays. Useless. And they used to publish race telemetry -- is that gone now?