Coxswain Clinic at Yale!!
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by Valeria Lizarraga
4y ago
Hey guys! Today I will be talking to you about a great experience and opportunity I had not too long ago. Laura Simon, the Yale coxswain coach, hosted a coxswain clinic at Yale for high school level coxswains. Keep reading to hear about of it went!! THE EXPERIENCE I believe the experience was more valuable than what I learned at the clinic. Yes, what I learned at the clinic will be helpful when we get back on the water but the experience I will carry with me forever. On our way to Yale, we wondered what to expect and let me tell you ..read more
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Winter training 2019-2020
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by Valeria Lizarraga
4y ago
  Hello friends! Long time no see. Today we are gonna discuss my season that I have the most mixed feelings about WINTER TRAINING! NOVICE VS. VARSITY WINTER Well, this is my second winter training since I first started coxing and let me tell you it was very different. My novice winter was a lot of pretending to know the sport which I also did not do very well. To be completely honest I still don’t understand the sport that well yet, that just comes with the years. My first winter on varsity was completely different. Not only does th ..read more
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HOCR 2019!
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by Valeria Lizarraga
4y ago
HOCR season is always exciting if you row on the Charles River. This year my team raced three boats, two eights, and a coxed quad. I did not get the opportunity to race this year but you can always learn so much from the sidelines and from watching them train. PRE RACE TRAINING: The three boats that my club sent have the most dedicated and outstanding girls in them. Most of them it is their last year rowing with us. Regardless, these boats would train like there was no tomorrow literally. The coxswains in these boats went above and ..read more
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My first season on varsity
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by Valeria Lizarraga
4y ago
My first season on the varsity crew team is over … Wow! Never would’ve thought I’d make it this far. Let me tell you, competing at the varsity level is a whole new world. As a novice coxswain, you don’t know much of the technical part of the sport. The transition from novice to varsity was not easy but I learned a lot.    Technical Side of Things As a varsity coxswain you are expected to understand so much more of the sport specially all the technical details. For me, it was also great to see how the rowers started to see the cox as ..read more
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Moving from Novice to Varsity
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by Valeria Lizarraga
4y ago
This fall my novice year was up, so I tried out for my club’s varsity team. In this post, I’m going to try to best explain the transition from being on a novice crew to a varsity crew. As a coxswain, you have so many more responsibilities and just have to be way more efficient with everything you do. Also as a varsity coxswain, everyone expects more from you and knows that you are a figure of authority.   Tryouts During tryouts you want to put your best self out there and make sure to show the coaches that you want to be there ..read more
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Preparing for Varsity Tryouts
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by Valeria Lizarraga
4y ago
At my club, you are only allowed one novice year no matter your age. I started my novice year in the fall of 2018  so my novice year is up and I had to tryout for varsity this fall. I’m not going to lie I was a nervous reck about it. But there is a couple things I needed to do to be prepared for varsity tryouts. If you did a rowing summer camp at the beginning of summer, odds are that you’ve been out of the water for more than a few weeks, and there is nothing wrong with that, you always need a break in order to not burn out. H ..read more
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Club Nationals 2019
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by Valeria Lizarraga
4y ago
 This year I had the privilege of racing two boats at the USRowing Club Nationals in Bethel, Ohio. Before we showed up and raced, my club trained for three weeks straight with double-practice (i.e. AM and PM) from Monday to Saturday. Those three weeks were the longest most draining weeks of my whole life, mentally and physically. Not only to me but to everyone else in the team. This opportunity has taught me discipline and broke me down so I could be better at what I love doing.   Preparing for Nationals Training started on Ju ..read more
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Spring racing
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by Valeria Lizarraga
4y ago
Hey guys, long time no see. In this post I will be recapping the high and low points of my experience at U17 nationals in Camden, New Jersey. I had the privilege of having an extended spring season because I was one of the three coxswains chosen to go to U17 Nationals to compete with my club. The whole experience of going was very valuable to me, I go to see many crews from other states compete, and observe their style of racing and how it was different from ours. This is how it all went down.   TRAILER LOADING Trailer loading ..read more
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The toils of being a crew parent
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by Valeria Lizarraga
4y ago
After a couple of weeks of silence in the height of regatta season, I have an interview post with my Dad. Today I am bringing him in to ask him about the toils of being a crew parent. For those of us who love the sport it’s a no brainer: Training six-days-a-week? Sure! Be at the regatta on Sunday at 6:30 AM? No problem! But this crazy regimen also imposes a few things on our parents. So, here is what my dad had to say. What is the hardest thing about being a crew parent? “Well, I think there are two things that make it hard. O ..read more
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What does it mean to be a coxswain?
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by Valeria Lizarraga
4y ago
I realized I have been blogging about coxswains and coxing for a while but what is a coxswain? To me a coxswain is someone who steps up and is willing to take leadership in any situation that they are put in. So in this post i’m going to try to explain what does it mean to me to be a coxswain. Steering As a coxswain one of your main responsibilities is that you need to know how to steer the shortest, most efficient course possible. If you aren’t very good at steering you can always learn how to steer, but what makes an excelle ..read more
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