Northwood Crew Competes on Parents' Weekend Crew Coach Howard Runyon comments on the match...
On October 3, Saturday of Parents' weekend, crews from the Mohawk Home School Rowing Association and Augustine Classical Academy came to Mirror Lake for their annual fall matchup with Northwood. This year's races used a new "stake race" format, in which the crews started at the south end of the lake, raced the length of Northwood's 1120-meter buoyed course against the usual racing direction, and then did a 180-degree turn and raced back to the start. Apart from the stake turn, the event ran as a normal fall "head race," with boats going off at intervals and racing against the clock. A total of 21 crews and single scullers raced, in six different classes: boys' varsity single sculls, boys' novice recreational (Alden) single sculls, boys' novice double sculls, girls' novice quadruple sculls, girls' varsity double sculls vs. girls' varsity fours, and boys' novice quadruple sculls vs. boys' novice fours. Most of the day's winners came from the Mohawk squad, many of whose athletes started sculling as middle-school students. Northwood's crews, made up of first-season novices except in the boys' V single and the girls' V four (in which three of the five crew members were novices), put in solid efforts of which they should be proud, according to coaches Ben and Howard Runyon. A good-sized crowd of Northwood, Mohawk, and ACA fans turned out on the Lake Placid village dock (at the start-finish line) to cheer on their teams. For detailed results, go to the following link at row2k.com:
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