News Archive from the 2006 - 2007 SeasonCase Crew 2006-2007 Season RecapBelow is the academic year 2006-2007 racing schedule for Case Crew with links to the results and photos for each event. For a write up about each event continue to scroll down.
Case Men Advance to Semi-finals at Dad VailsMay 11-12, 2007: Case sent a Varsity Heavyweight Men's 4+ to this year's Dad Vail Regatta. After placing 2nd in their heat on Friday, they progressed to the semi-final on Saturday. This was the first Case men's crew to advance to the semis since 2002. Coach Marcovy was able to ride along the course and watch the heat and semi unfold. In the heat, Case was in the lead rowing hard, yet smooth at the 1200m mark, but Fordham and Temple (both fully funded varsity programs) began their charge. One blade touched a navigation buoy at one point, yet the shell quickly regrouped and kept themselves together well enough to finish within five seconds of Fordham and 1.5 seconds ahead of Temple.
For the semi-final, the crew drew the dreaded lane six. The race course in Philly has a bend and in lanes 5 & 6 the crews start staggered behind the others. If a crew is able to overcome this mental obstacle and stay with the pack around the bend, they then have to contend with the current and turbulence as they come along Peter's Island right before the finish. The Case four improved 12 seconds over their time in the heat (an improvement margin not matched by the other teams) but were still not able to advance to the finals. Their semi was won by the eventual winners, Dowling College.
Of the six collegiate boats entered in this year's Vails from the Cleveland area, Case was the only crew racing on Saturday. And without any Eastern European national team members. GO SPARTANS!!! WV Governor's Cup Cancelled at Mid-day
Racing was halted due to the unrowable conditions and a number of boats sinking. One of the boats that sank was the Case Men's Varsity 4+ in the Sweet J. As the hull was filling up with water, the rowers noticed the 11 year old shell starting to bow so the crew jumped into the water and hung on until the fire boat could pull them out. Rowing at Case = ingenuity and sacrifcing oneself to save one of the few pieces of equipment the team has. Agata Toborek '08 took a few photos to record the event: Photo 1 and Photo 2. Everyone involved was unharmed despite how long it took the rescue boat to come due to the number of shells in distress.
For full results of all the heats and the few finals that were run click
HERE (html). Case Crew Alumnus Featured in New Book
Alumni Regatta a Huge Success
April 22, 2007:
Case Crew hosted it's second annual Alumni Regatta
on the Cuyahoga with alumni coming from as far away as Colorado, Virginia, and Iowa to participate. The Alumni Men won each heat of the
round robin racing format, but were upset in the final by Case's top four by a couple lengths.
The weather gods were smiling and the alumni event went off without a hitch. The evening before racing, the students
and alums headed to Great Lakes Brewing for a mixer. Thankfully, everyone made it down to the races Sunday morning without incident.
Thank you to Case Crew and Brian Chorney '07 for organizing such a great event. 2007 Alumni Regatta Photo Gallery
After racing was completed, SARA held it's Annual General Meeting (AGM) at the boathouse. Click on the link below for minutes from the meeting.
The Spring Fundraising Drive was a huge success and brought in over $3,000 to help support Case Crew!!! At the AGM we also elected two
new officers (Dan Bachmann '97, MED'02 as Vice President and Brian Chorney '07 as Secretary) and added one additional seat on the Board of Directors that
will be filled by Tom Hudak '92. Tom was one of the founders of Case Crew and is looking forward to getting re-engaged with supporting the team.
Please welcome and thank Dan, Brian and Tom for volunteering to help the team reach new levels of success.
Case Crew Senior Featured in Spartan Spotlight
Marietta Coach & Case Crew Alumna Stepping DownApril 5, 2007: Karen Glowacki is stepping down as women's rowing coach at Marietta College at the end of the spring season. If you were a part of Case Crew in the 1990's you'll know Karen well. She was instrumental in helping build Case Crew into a successful team and we all wish her well. To read the university press release click HERE. As you'll see from the article she was involved in just about everything with the team during her time in Cleveland. Men's and Women's Eights Each Take Bronze at UAA Championships!April 1, 2007: Case Crew took on its UAA rivals at the annual University Rowing Association Championship Regatta held at Lake Arthur just north of Pittsburgh. Crews from Wash U, U Rochester, Carnegie-Mellon, NYU, and U Chicago were in attendance.
Wash U took home both point trophies for men & women again this year. The silver Case Alumni Cup for men's team points was generously donated by SARA four years ago in support of the race. Full results can be found HERE (html). Case Crew Wins Fifth Annual Home Schools Regatta!March 24, 2007: The Home Schools Regatta is held every year in Cleveland between the local rowing colleges: Case, John Carroll, Cleveland State, and Baldwin-Wallace. The race is meant to be a spring tune up, and the format, distance, and points are decided each year between the head coaches of each program. This year's racing awarded one point to each winning crew, and races were two abreast over 1500m. Case walked away with the overall cup (now sponsored by the Cleveland Rowing Foundation) by winning 5 out of ten races. This is the second year in a row Case has won the Cleveland area cup. The Case women's team Were near perfect again this year by only dropping a race in the varsity 4+. The Case men's squad picked up wins in the varsity 8+ and 4+. Mention of the event was made in The Observer. Click here to read the article.
Full results can be found
HERE (html). Case Crew Wins 2007 Hammer Cup!February 18, 2007: The annual Hammer Ergatta was held on John Carroll's campus this year, and Case Crew won the Hammer Cup for the fourth straight year over rival John Carroll by a narrow 1.3 seconds! The Cup is decided every year by averaging of the top rowers from each squad: Varsity Men & Women and Novice Men & Women. The verdict since the Cup's inception is Case 7 wins to JCU's 6. The archive of past Hammer Cup results can be found HERE (html). Case walked away with 5 individual gold medals and a team gold in the Mixed Relay. Team Regards were also set in four events: Open Men, Open Women, Lightweight Men, and Lightweight Women. Here's a list of the best Case Crew finishers in each event:
The other notable finish from the race was Coach Tim Marcovy's time of 7:10.4 (adjusted) in the Veteran Men's race. The race rotates between John Carroll and Case every year, and full results from this year's race can be found HERE (html). Rowers Pull Hard in PittsburghFebruary 3, 2007: Case Crew doesn't normally go every year to Pittsburgh to compete in the Indoor Championships, but the team does go every once in a while. A select group of Case Crew members made the couple hour drive to the other city next to a dirty river to pull a 2k. Miranda Cullins had the strongest outing of the day taking home gold in the Open Women's event with a time of 7:13.8! She bested 23 other atheletes from Penn State, Duquesne, Three Rivers and Case to take home the gold. While Miranda's effort was the only one that resulted in hardware, other members of the team performed well. Full results from this year's race can be found HERE (html)
2007 Pittsburgh Sprints Photo Gallery Case Finishes Fall Season Strong at the SpeakmonOctober 28, 2006: Case Crew's fall season finished on a blustery note at the Speakmon Memorial Regatta in Columbus, with rowers powering through gusts as high as 40-miles-per hour along the Scioto River. Because organizers cancelled this year's Head of the Elk, the Columbus event drew many more teams than usual, including regional powerhouses like Purdue and the University of Michigan. The Spartans didn't manage to bring home hardware this time, but still posted some strong finishes. The women's 8+, which took gold at the Head of the Cuyahoga and silver at the Head of the Ohio, finished sixth of 13 at the Speakmon, behind multiple entries from Purdue and Ohio State, but ahead of Mercyhurst's Division 2 varsity program. The women's open 4+ that competed at the Head of the Charles, meanwhile, placed 5th of 11. The varsity men, still reeling from losses due to injuries and student co-op requirements, finished at the back of the pack in the open 4+, but their form and speed far exceeded what they demonstrated a few weeks earlier in Pittsburgh. Race results can be found HERE (html).
The team plans to compete at the Pittsburgh Indoor Sprints in early February, and at the Cleveland Hammer Ergatta on Feb. 18. Thanks to Coach Chris Sheridan for providing such great race reports throughout the fall season. Impressive Showing for Case Women at the CharlesOctober 21, 2006: Case Crew sent a women's club four to this year's Head of the Charles. As many of you know, the Head of the Charles is the world's largest rowing regatta, drawing teams from all over the world (China, South Africa, Sweden, New Zealand, etc.) in a two-day celebration of sport. Several countries' national teams and world championship athletes attend; Cleveland sent one single sculler, plus two 8+'s from St. Ignatius, one 4+ from John Carroll, one 4+ from Burning River Crew, one 4+ from Shaker Heights, and one 4+ from Cleveland Scholastic Rowing Association. (Case alternates between sending men and women each year).
The team placed 15th of 29 teams this year and only 14% off the winning time of
Saugatuck Rowing Club;
full results for all events are available at
http://www.hocr.org/results/results.asp.
Results for the Women's Club 4+, in particular, are HERE (html).
Teresa Shyr, Miranda Cullins, Jenna Copeland and Shannon Armstrong drove up during the day Friday, braving driving rains and winds so intense that at least one of the cars had to stop the drive for a bit for safety's sake. They arrived in Cambridge Friday evening and learned the weather had been so bad that organizers had considered shortening the race the next day (a development that typically means many more crashes among boats). The good news was that Teresa had arranged housing for the team in her old undergraduate abode, saving considerably on travel costs. Saturday morning dawned clear if brisk, and the organizers kept the race at its full length. As the morning wore on, winds picked up, turning the warmup area before the start into a mass of whitecaps. Brad Whitehead, a sculler from Cleveland who raced before us Saturday, was kind enough to offer details regarding where in the race course the worst gusts would hit. If anything, he underestimated just how brutal the wind would be. The race started at 11:43am. Case's launch order was near the back of the pack, and things got dicey quickly when the shell behind them tried to pass in the start chute, an illegal move. The Case group maintained its composure even as the opposing team caused a near-collision under the very first bridge (the Shaker boat this morning was not so lucky in a similar situation - it was hit in the stern by a boat making an illegal move and driven off the course. The crew was penalized 1:30, but shaker nevertheless lost many seconds because of the stunt). After that worrisome beginning, Case quickly encountered a wall of wind, and in the words of Miranda, "85 percent of the race felt like just doing leg presses." Case nevertheless passed three boats, and looked strong when they passed Nina Ma (who came along to cheer) and I about 3/4 through the race. In bow, it was Teresa's job to holler at crews to yield (i.e. get out of the way) when they were about to be passed; she seemed to enjoy the assignment an awful lot, until late in the row when she could be heard gasping, "NYU, look out." (They beat NYU by about 36 seconds). Katie really found her voice in this race. We could hear her on shore and she got quite a kick (and the rowers a bit of a scare) from the way her exhortations echoed under the Charles' low concrete bridge arches. Race results can be found HERE (html). 2006 Head of the Charles Photo Gallery Coach Marcovy's Son Featured in November Issue of Men's Journal
Women's 8+ Takes Silver on the Allegheny
2006 Head of the Ohio Photo Gallery Case Women Find Motivation at 2006 Head of the CuyahogaSeptember 16, 2006: The biggest news from Case Crew's first regatta of 2006-2007 came in the Women's Open 8+, where a shell badly depleted by the graduation of several seniors nevertheless managed to defend last year's gold medal.
Case's women also took bronze in the open 4+ (six seconds out of second and nine from first), and rowed to fourth place in the Mixed 8+. The men's 4+ struggled in this race, but has made substantial progress in practices since and has high hopes for a stronger row at the team's next regatta, the Head of the Ohio, Oct. 7 in Pittsburgh. Race results can be found HERE (html). 2006 Head of the Cuyahoga Photo Gallery |
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