(many thanks to Orange Oar Editor John Nicholson for this article)Following an extremely successful 8 week camp over the summer of 2010 that culminated with Club National Championship wins in the Senior 2- and 4x, Syracuse head coach Justin Moore has again been asked to lead the camp in the summer of 2012.
“The pre-elite camp’s goal is to take some of the best collegiate athletes we have in the country and help them to understand how to train as national team athletes,” Moore says. “It’s a month living the life of a national team athlete.”
“I tried to make it a priority in the summer of going out and helping in being part of the process and doing what little I could to help bring athletes forward.. With the pre-elite camp, we really tried to respond to what Tom Terhaar and Annie Kakela were looking for, and the priority of the camp was to expose, and maximize the time we had exposing the women to small boats rowing,” said Moore.
Although 2011 marked Coach Moore’s and Syracuse’s’ first involvement with hosting the camp, the outstanding feedback from athletes from universities around the country, their coaches when they returned to campus this fall, and achieving the objectives set out by USRowing, will ensure that it won’t be the last.
Moore has coached some of these women before. Notre Dame’s Molly Bruggeman is one whom he coached in juniors. “He’s a great coach,” she says. “Syracuse is lucky to have him. I pretty much know how he coaches and it’s been helpful in my improvement.”
