Women's rowing programs release 2010-11 racing schedules
August 31, 2010 | Lightweight Rowing
Aug. 31, 2010
MADISON, Wis. –- The Wisconsin women’s openweight and lightweight rowing programs released their slates for the 2010-11 season on Tuesday. Trips to California, Texas and Indianapolis highlight the coming year’s openweight schedule, while California, Texas, Boston and New Jersey highlight the lightweight’s schedule.
Both Wisconsin programs open their fall racing seasons on Saturday, Sept. 18 at the Milwaukee River Challenge, before playing host to Class Day Races on Saturday, Sept. 25, when the programs welcome alumni for friendly racing. The Head of the Rock, which takes place on Oct. 10, and the Head of the Iowa regatta, which takes place on Oct. 31, round out the fall season. The lightweights also compete at the Head of the Charles in Boston on Oct. 23-24.
The spring seasons for both squads open at the tail end of spring break training in Austin, Texas, at the Longhorn Invitational from March 18-20, before the schedules diverge the rest of the way.
For the openweights, a trip to the San Diego Crew Classic follows on April 2-3, before the team visits Laingsburg, Mich., for a Big Ten Double Dual with Michigan and Michigan State on April 9.
A return trip to California is set for April 16-17 for the Lake Natoma Invitational in Northern California’s Gold River.
That brings the Badgers to their lone home races of the spring on May 1 when Minnesota and a team to be determined visit Lake Mendota.
Championship season begins in earnest thereafter, with the 2011 Big Ten Rowing Championships moving to a neutral site for the first time. Defending Big Ten champion Wisconsin will race in Indianapolis on Sunday, May 15 looking for its second title.
The Badger then hope for an NCAA bid and a chance to race at the 2011 NCAA Rowing Championships, which take place May 27-29 at a site yet to be determined. UW placed a program-best seventh at the 2010 event in Gold River, Calif.
The lightweights return from spring break training in Texas to take part in the Stanford Invitational on March 26-27 in Redwood Shores, Calif. Then on April 9-10, the Badgers race at the Knecht Cup on the Cooper River in Cherry Hill, N.J.
UW’s lone home race of the spring takes place April 23 when MIT and a school to be determined race against the Badgers on Lake Mendota. That day’s racing is the last before the lightweight championship season begins.
UW will look for its seventh consecutive Eastern Association of Women’s Rowing Colleges Conference Championship with its visit to Cherry Hill, N.J.’s Cooper River on May 15.
The team will then look for its sixth national title in eight years at the 2011 Intercollegiate Rowing Association National Championships that run June 2-4 on the familiar Cooper River course.
