Heats Set for IRA - SU Leads Off in V8s

Coach Dave Reischman’s Varsity Eight heads for the Cooper River with another date with a top seed looming, along with a third matchup with the Big Red of Cornell. Oh, and let’s not forget Brown, which finished just ahead of SU at the Sprints.

The Orange goes in as the seven seed and is slated to open the day’s racing Thursday morning at 8:00 against the number one Washington Huskies, #6 Brown, #12 Stanford, #13 Cornell and #18 Gonzaga. The Orange has beaten the Big Red twice this season, which, as usual, probably means nothing this time.

The seedings reflect the spots in the final coaches’ poll. See it here courtesy of row2k.com. Sprints winner Harvard is seeded third and tops in heat three. Princeton, which almost caught the Crimson in Worcester, will line up in the next lane, with the four seed.

Second-ranked California leads the seedings in heat two. The Golden Bears have lost only to Washington and hope to repeat what they pulled off a year ago, when they edged the Huskies for the IRA heavyweight title.
The top two in each heat advance to the semi-finals – the rest to the repechages, where the top two in each heat go to the upper tier of the semis on Friday.

JV’s Performance in Sprints Rates Five Seed.

SU’s JV eight impressed with its third place finish at the Eastern Sprints and faces off as the five seed against #2 Harvard, #8 Yale, #11 Dartmouth and #14 UCSD. That’s in the second JV heat scheduled at 9:00.

Top three in each heat go right to the semis. The rest to the repechages.

Frosh Go in as Number Eleven.

The freshman eight goes at 9:45 against #2 Harvard, #5 Navy, #8 Brown, #14 Dartmouth and #17 UCSD. Coach Shawn Bagnall’s group has shown steady improvement, and knocked off Dartmouth in its last race.

Top two go to the semis and the rest to the reps.

Varsity Four at the Top

There’s no coaches' poll for the fours, but the Orange goes in as a top seed, if not THE top seed, lining up in lane three for the first heat at 10:45. Joe DeLeo’s crew won at the Sprints, then demolished Dartmouth a week later in Syracuse. Other crews in the heat are BU, Penn. Harvard and Brown. With four heats in the V4s, the top two in each advance to the semis.

Complete schedule here courtesy of row2k.com

Dedicated Alum

Not only has Mr. Peter helped to provide us with a number of shells (four to be exact) but every race we have been to during our time with the program Mr. Peter has without fail been there on shore waiting to say "Great Job!". So when we received these photos of Mr. Peter, candidly shot by a friend of the team, we couldn't help but share a laugh and take a moment to appreciate how dedicated an alum he really is. It's great to know we have such a dedicated alumni group, with individuals like Mr. Peter, rooting for us every stroke of the way during our journey with the team.

2011 INTERCOLLEGIATE ROWING ASSOCIATION NATIONALS (IRA) CHAMPIONSHIPS WEBCASTS

The ECAC and Princeton University Men’s Rowing will be live video broadcasting the 2011 INTERCOLLEGIATE ROWING ASSOCIATION NATIONALS (IRA) CHAMPIONSHIPS. After a successful ‘BETA’ test with a two camera system at the EARC Sprints in Worcester on May 15th, a decision was made to move forward and expand coverage to an integrated four camera system for the IRA Championships. Two camera’s ‘on the water,’ a camera positioned atop the Camden County Boathouse, and a finish line camera, will provided wire to wire coverage of ALL racing June 2nd, 3rd, and 4th, from the Cooper River. This continues to be a work in progress; learning from the experience to broadcast “live” all three days of the 2011 IRA Championships we hope to extend the service to most if not all ECAC Affiliated Rowing Championships in 2012. Link to the webcast here: http://crew.princeton.edu/content/live_video

Listeners without web access may tune in to the IRA Championships via telephone connection at: (508) 534-7389

2011 IRA Broadcast Schedules:

Thursday, June 2, 2011
Heavyweight Men’s Heats: 8:00 AM-11:55 AM
Repechages: 2:00 PM-3:55 PM

Friday, June 3, 2011
Lightweight Women’s Heats: 8:30 AM -9:25 AM
Heavyweight Men’s Semifinals: 9:30 AM-12:40 PM
Lightweight Women’s Repechages: 12:45 PM-1:10 PM

Saturday, June 4, 2011
Alumni Race: 7:00 AM
Lightweight Men’s Heats: 7:20 AM-7:40 AM
All Finals: 7:45 AM-12:30 PM

Packard Cup Race Video

All four races stroke-by-stroke plus interviews with Coach Reischman, bow-man Dan Berry and six-man Chris Bickford available here courtesy of suathletics.com - Orange AllAccess.

Video also includes trophy presentations, SARA plaque presentations to seniors and dedication of the Joseph E. Peter #4 shell, which the varsity eight rowed to the win over Dartmouth.

Orange Sweeps Over Big Green

Dartmouth brought the hardware back to Syracuse this morning and the Orange crews made sure it will stay here for at least the next year, sweeping the Big Green on a beautiful Sunday morning.



Coach Dave Reischman’s Varsity eight jumped out to a deck lead off the start and steadily built to a length by the halfway point of the 2,000 meter race. While Dartmouth made a push with about 750 meters to go, SU held them off to win by about a length and bring the Packard Cup home after a loss at Hanover last year.

Rowing with a slight tailwind in flat conditions, SU covered the course in 5:37.7 with Dartmouth finishing in 5:40.5

JV Comes from Behind to Beat Big Green

The JV fell behind an over-stroking Dartmouth crew in the early going, but kept calm and rowed through by the midway point, the just kept going to win by a length of open water.

SU 5:47.04 Dartmouth 5:53.98

Frosh Eight Starts Fast and Finishes Strong

Coach Shawn Bagnall’s frosh continued to show improvement, jetting out to a lead at the start and holding off any challenge the Big Green freshmen could offer.

The Orange won it by open water in 5:58.0 to Dartmouth’s 6:02.2

Four Plus Walks Away to Win


The Varsity four with cox had the easiest win of the day to complete the sweep. Senior Tim Daigle had moved up to stroke, swapping with Kyle Rogers dropping back to the two seat. Syracuse had at least a length off the start and wound up winning – as they say at Henley – easily.

SU 6:29.94. Dartmouth 6:51.19.

Seniors Honored



After the trophy presentations there were plaques for the graduating seniors on the team. SARA board members Jason Premo and Sheila Roock did the honors.

Joe Peter #4 Christened

The morning wrapped up with a dedication of the fourth shell named for Joe Peter ’69. Daughter Julie did the champagne pouring honors with Joe’s bride Jan and son John also on hand for the ceremony.

Packard Cup Broadcast Information

Men’s Rowing – Packard Cup –Onondaga Lake, Liverpool, NY
Syracuse University vs. Dartmouth College
Sunday, May 22, 2011

Syracuse Alumni Rowing Association (SARA) is excited to provide live audio broadcasting of this home race. Our announcers will be following the races in the chase launches, providing a stroke by stroke account of the races – from the start until the finish. Below are the details and today’s regatta schedule.

In addition to the audio broadcast, SU Athletics will be doing a live-to-tape for Orange All-Access. This will involve a camera in the referee launch, another at the finish line and a “lipstick cam” on the coxswain’s hat - probably Varsity only. John Nicholson will be interviewing our coaches and athletes after the racing and the entire day will be edited, packaged, and posted within a couple of hours. We will continue to provide updates as they become available.

Via Phone / Conference Line :
(712) 432-1496 4861# - you can bypass announcing your name by pressing #
Via Internet: No internet connection

Race Schedule:
8 a.m. - Varsity Eight
8:20 a.m. - Second Varsity Eight
8:40 a.m. - Freshman Eight
9 a.m. - Third Varsity four
9:20 a.m. - Trophy Presentation
9:30 a.m. - Senior Presentation
9:40 a.m. - Joseph E. Peter Boat Dedication

Here is a printable flyer for the event. Please click on the image for a full-size version.

Second Lieutenant Daniel P. Berry

On Saturday, May 14th, Orange oarsman, Dan Berry, graduated with his fellow seniors at a graduation ceremony held at the team's pre-Sprints dinner in Worcester. On Sunday, the Orange varsity bowman race in his final Eastern Sprints and helped the squad to a fifth place finish in the varsity race and 5th place finish in the team point standings. But on Monday, May 16th, he carried through on his biggest committment of the weekend--he was commissioned in the US Army as a Second Lieutenant. For the last four years Dan has balanced his time between academics, rowing, and being one of the top officer candidates in the Syracuse Army ROTC program. After the IRA, Dan will report to duty with the 326th Engineering Battalion in Fort Campbell, Kentucky.

Women's Sprints Photos

Wow! Lots of photos from Women's Sprints! Check them out here.