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Kikura, Thanks for the history lesson. Athletic Support ending in 91 would explain why most of the (8's) boats I rowed in (02-05) seemed like they were late 80's, early 90's boats (Thomas Whalen, Karen Hitchcock, I know I am missing one or two more) even the 4's were around that vintage Dirigio (name of the company not sure it every got a boat name) not sure how old the Kasper was (the all wooden boat). Thanks for the clarification. Hope to catch there first race this fall.

Did Brown even want the job?

I hope funds are already allocated and they break ground this summer on the bubble.

Glad that the March madness fund raising drive was a success. I have one thought for the future, instead of individual team goals why doesn't the athletic department set a large goal and fund raise for it? One such goal would be the large indoor bubble for track and football. How much would they need to raise for a down payment? Would having a large goal produce a larger result? Just asking.

Looking at it on my desktop it is listed. Oh technology 🤪

Hope it works out for both. I can only go off what was being communicated in the emails. It seemed positive to me because of the equipment that the AD were buying for the team. As a club member we were using weights made of paint cans and metal pipes, our rowing machines were ancient concept 2 model b's and my freshman year boat that I learned on was made of wood. Think the type you see at a TGI Friday's hanging on the walls. The rowing team in the club Era had many many ups and downs. So not surprised some UA alumni would be hesitant to help with the start of the D1 Era. Sorry if this sounds like a Taylor Swift tour. For those unaware the D3 Era ended appox 1994. Here is what the team looked like back then. https://www.row2k.com/video/-quot-Albany-39-s-Rowing-Revival-quot--original-airdate-July-1988-on-WMHT-Channel-17-Albany-NY/29306/ Then the club Era was after we got dropped from the AD. We got our funding from the Student Association and dues that the rowers would pay. During this time the team was student run with a coach being hired but all the choices were made by the eboard which was made up of members of the rowing team. Recruiting was only on campus and we often had large Novic or beginning rower teams. The major problem was students would lose interest when after the first year with a 430pm practice time they would have to switch to the Varsity team which had 530am practices. This made it hard to grow the team, coaches often wouldn't stay for more than a year, and we didn't have the money to upgrade equipment. There was also a time when SA dropped the club and they were competing under the Friends of Albany Crew. Not sure what happened during this time period (appox late 2010's to Covid) or what ultimately sank the Friends of Albany Crew, but that is the very short history of the Rowing Team at UA. I am sure I am leaving a lot of historical details out. If anyone knows anything more please feel free to add. I know I said this before, glad to see UA back on the water. Hope we are back to stay. Rowing and Pep Band were the two activities that made a large University seem smaller and made it feel like home for 4 years.

Yes it is listed if you go to the website and put the cursor over the sports label, look on right side below lacrosse. Coach has sent out two emails to past rowing alumni (d3 and club eras). Not sure how much the coach wants to be made public in those emails so my comments will be vague. But things are going in a positivedirection. From what I can tell they are building this program the correct way.

I was impressed that the Alumni Association or Athletic department created a list of previous alumni who rowed (D3 or club eras). Coach Chase did reach out to us and gave us updates. He also encouraged us to help with the fund raiser, glad to see they raised almost 4k which I think doubles to 8k. One interesting note that he shared was that the rowing team was given the old Women’s Basketball locker room(s) (I assume this both home and away locker rooms) for training space, locker rooms, and showers.

Speaking for the Millenials here you could reference a pop singer with a song about being a geine in a bottle.

Worked like a charm today, great day.

That was my plan when I bought the tickets. I realized bracketology had her in the Albany bracket. I bought tomorrow and Saturday to be sure. Trying to sell tomorrows tickets doubt my boys would want to make two trips from Dutchess County. Ticket prices for tomorrow have really bottomed out.

Thank you Eli for your help.

Hi everyone taking my oldest son to the Women's Sweet Sixteen this Saturday at MVP. Any suggestions on where to park?

Yeah I agree this is getting too crazy.

I know for atleast half of these guys this won't matter but with the transfer portal, what is the graduation rate for mens basketball players? Some of these guys are skipping degrees to pick up pennys in NIL hope it is worth it.