News
Crew Fall 2009 Preview
Date Posted: Wednesday, September 30, 2009
Posting Categories: Athletics News;Crew
Caitlin Britton '11, Kelli Flanagan '12, Molly Bohannon '13.
September 30, 2009
Simmons Crew will open the fall 2009 season on Sunday, October 4 when the team travels to Lowell, Mass. for the Textile River Regatta. The Sharks closed out a successful spring season in May when the Varsity Eight, Second Varsity Eight, and Novice Eight competed at the ECAC National Invitational Regatta. The Varsity Eight ended the season with an 11th place national ranking among NCAA Division III crews, the highest ranking Simmons has achieved in the 31-year history of the crew program.
Simmons Crew is looking forward to fall racing, and already thinking ahead to successful rowing in the spring. Head Coach Nik Kurmakov, in his sixteenth season at the helm of the team, will guide the varsity roster with the help of captains Nicole Gallant and Julia Burns. The varsity will look to mentor the new novice rowers, led by Novice Coach Naomi Rudov, in her third season with the Sharks.
Simmons Crew will defend their 2007 and 2008 Women’s Club Eight trophy on Sunday at the Textile, launching two varsity eights in addition to two fours and a Novice Eight. Six days later, Simmons will travel to Pembroke, New Hampshire with a full squad for their second regatta of the fall at New Hampshire Championships on Saturday, October 10.
The team will race a Women’s Collegiate Four and Women’s Collegiate Eight on their home course at Head of the Charles on October 17-18. In the past three regattas, the Sharks placed third (2006), second (2007) and second (2008) in the Women’s Collegiate Four, and will look to have another strong run in the 45th running of the world’s largest two-day regatta.
Simmons will close out the fall season when the team competes in the Seven Sisters Regatta on Saturday, October 24, in Boston on the Charles River course once more. Wellesley College will host the 2009 regatta, and teams will include Wellesley, Simmons, Smith College, Bryn Mawr College and Mount Holyoke College.