Orange Oar December 2012

Editor: John Nicholson, DECEMBER 2012 ’68

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SU Rowing gets set to honor Coach Kris Sanford

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SARA Annual Meeting scheduled for January 19

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Curwen Reviews Rowing Book by former Orange oarsman

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Dedicating the Patricia Grace in Boston

Contributors: Lynne Della Pelle Pascale ‘81, Joe Kieffer ‘88, Austin Curwen ‘91, Isaac Budmen ‘12

December 2012 Volume XIII—No. 4

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SU Men: A Top Down Team Loaded with Youth

Men’s eights head up the river during late fall morning practice Members of the SU men’s team piled into four shells for practice one cloudy and chilly morning late this fall and rowed off in three directions. Assistant Coach Brad Hemmerly worked with the walk-ons, Frosh Coach Shawn Bagnall with some of the freshmen recruits and Head Coach Dave Reischman with the two top boats, which included a handful of frosh. And cox Liz Abraham and a couple of varsity veterans were missing due to class conflicts. What that adds up to is that Reischman has a lot of athletes to pick from this year. What he does not have is a ton of collegiate race-tested veterans.

“The makeup of our team is heavily weighted toward underclassmen,” Reischman told The Orange Oar. “We currently have four seniors, eight juniors, 14 sophomores, and 19 frosh on the squad.” Five oarsmen and the cox from last June’s 5th place IRA varsity eight have graduated. But now freshmen are eligible to compete at the varsity level and SU has a big group of them in house.

“For the first time ever we mixed the (See Men—Page 3)

“Hard Training, Easy Combat” Orange Women Moving Up Coach Justin Moore’s Syracuse Women looked this fall like a team with an excellent chance at next spring’s Big East title and the automatic bid to the NCAA’s – a return for the first time since 2005. Moore admits his charges did well. But, hold on just a second. “What this DOES NOT mean is that we are going to be successful in the spring,” Moore said in an email to The Orange Oar. “No counting chickens in December.”

The Orange competed in five regattas this fall, starting with a sweep at the Head of (See Women—Page 5) Inside this issue:

Letter from the President Strokes in the Bank: Mastracci Blogs

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Fabulous photos from Laura Adams

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Backsplash—News of Our Alumni

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SARA Executive Board

Letter from the President

Josepk Kieffer – ‘88 President Lynne Della Pelle Pascale – ‘81 First Vice President William Purdy - ‘79 Second Vice-Presdient Paris Daskalakis - ‘98 Treasurer Martha Mogish Rowe – ‘81 Assistant Treasurer Joseph Paduda – ‘80 Secretary

Directors Charles Roberts – ‘61 Paul Dudzick – ‘67 Donald Plath – ‘68 Joseph Peter – ‘69 Kenneth Hutton – ‘69 Gerald Henwood – ‘80 Arthur Sibley – ‘80 Thomas Darling – ‘81 Robert Donabella – ‘81 Sheila Roock – ‘85 Donald Smith – ‘90 Tracy Smith ‘90 Colin Goodale – ‘90 Jason Premo ‘98 Joseph Bufano – ‘99 Josh Stratton ‘01 Adlai Hurt ‘04 Erica Mahon Page ‘08 Sydney Axson ‘10

Advisory Council Paul Irvine – ‘45 William Hider – ‘62 Edward Kakas – ‘64 John Nicholson – ‘68 James Breuer – ‘72 Bryan Mahon ‘78 Ozzie Street – ‘80 Andrew Hobbs – ‘83 Gordon Hull – ‘83 Rick Holland – ‘83 Emme Entwistle Aronson – ‘85 Christopher Ludden – ‘91 Jeff Pesot – ‘90 Barry Weiss – ‘83 Jerome Jacobi – ‘81 Kristin Walker Bidwell – ‘90 Sylvester Rowe – ‘92 Skye Michiels ‘99 Aliza Seeber ‘04

In Memoriam Dr. Bruce Chamberlain ‘43

Fellow SU Crew Supporters: Another fall season is complete. The men and women of Syracuse are on the ergs and in the tanks at Archbold gym preparing for the 2013 spring season. Many coaches say the races in the spring are won in December through March with the training and mental toughness built during that time. We can all appreciate the grind, sweat and pain of winter training, all in an effort to proudly build the Orange rowing legacy.

Both the Men and Women had strong fall seasons competing in numerous regattas. This is best fall season in recent history by the women with strong showing at the Head of the Charles and Princeton Chase and victories in Rochester, Boston and Syracuse. The men had strong showings at Boston, Princeton and Syracuse.

Spring is just around the corner. The trailers are loaded for the winter trip over Christmas break down South. This will be just a brief oasis only to return to the frozen tundra of Syracuse with more ergs, stadium stairs, tanks and weights. The Spring Season is very competitive as usual. The women will be competing against rivals from the Ivy League, Big East and others leagues. The women will be traveling out to the West Coast (Oregon) with a meeting with Stanford, Oregon State, and Washington State. The Big East Championship is in New Jersey, with the quest of an elusive bid to the NCAA Championship regatta. With changes to the NCAA qualifying process this year, the Big East winner will be automatically going to the big dance. This is the last year for Syracuse in the Big East as they move to a very competitive ACC in the fall of 2013, where they will meet defending national champion, University of Virginia. The men have their traditional schedule of trips to Princeton, Goes Cup in Annapolis, Conlan Cup in New York City and final duel race of the year against Dartmouth on Onondaga Lake. IRAs this year will be in Sacramento, California on Lake Natoma – May 31 – June 2, 2013.

The SARA Annual Meeting will be in Syracuse on January 19, 2013 from 9am to 4pm. There was not the opportunity to schedule the annual meeting around a basketball game given no Saturday home games in late January or February. We have put together a great agenda to utilize the extra time. We are also planning a live webcast for those who cannot attend in person. Also in the winter, we are working closely with Coach Moore on planning a celebration of Coach Kris Sanford in early February, highlighted with a boat dedication at half time during the St. Johns vs. Syracuse basketball game (February 10, 2013).

We would also like to thank everyone for their continued financial support of Syracuse Rowing. Your support is solidifying the future of Syracuse rowing and providing it with the equipment and resources to go fast. The SARA Men’s Crew Endowment currently stands at over $125,000. Thank you! With the leadership of Paul Dudzick ’67, we are planning a special recognition for the stewards of our Syracuse rowing that have provided significant financial support over the years. Stay tuned.

SARA will continue to be your source of information, entertainment and team support. Thank you again for supporting Syracuse Rowing.

Pull Hard and Go Fast Joe Kieffer ‘88 SARA President

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Men—from Page One frosh into the varsity program and ran a truly top down team,” Reischman said. “People earned their spot in the various work groups by being ranked on their fitness levels. We also divided up our squad into groups for secondary workouts based on their physiological needs. I thought it allowed us to boat everyone more in line with their skill level and at various times throughout the fall we had three or four frosh working with our top two boats.”

Front view/rear view - Mason Leisure in the stroke seat / Liz Abraham coxing from the bow of SU 4+ Returnees from last spring’s V8 are senior Mason Leasure and juniors Jake Martens and Mac Zink. Junior Liz Abraham, who coxed the V4 last spring was the varsity front runner in the fall. If she hangs onto the seat she’d be the first woman to cox the SU V8 since Shawn Sanford in 1987.

Senior oarsmen Tyler Toporowski, Nick Pickard, Brendan Murphy and cox Matt Cosman are back from last spring’s 2V along with junior Jason Zajdel.

Fall racing Reischman has never put a lot of stock in fall racing results as a predictor the spring whether Orange crews are finishing near the top or the bottom, as the varsity did at the Head of the Charles, finishing 28 th of 29, partly because of a penalty for impeding Brown. “I thought we were trying to be a bit too clever on the race course and seemed to be spending a lot of time trying to make the boat feel good instead of just racing,” Reischman said in an email to SU supporters. “We came down the course at 31 to 31.5 strokes per minute and the rest of the field was at 34-35.”

SU’s “A eight” finish was considerably better at the Princeton Chase where the Orange it was eighth. “This week we tried to ‘ugly it up a little bit,’” Reischman said. “By that I mean quite worrying about trying to make it feel perfect and just race hard. The goal was to be more aggressive and we accomplished that. We came down the course between 34 and 35 and thus were able to stay closer to the field.” The eight place finish was ten seconds out of third, which the coach called “reasonable for this group.”

The SU “B” eight was 24th – fifth among “B” boats.

Reischman says a coach can tell more about the squad from the fours competition. SU was 10th, 18th, 23rd, and 25th at Princeton, with the top boat in striking range of the leaders. Cornell won the event and Reischman described the Big Red as “flat out flying.”

A week later SU’s top four beat Cornell at the Syracuse Invitational to close the fall season but Reischman said the Big Red had “some injury issues coming down the course.”

The Orange frosh competed as a group for the first time at the Syracuse Invitational and finished fourth. “This is a pretty talented group and they will be fine come the spring racing season,” Reischman said. What has not said yet is whether he will take part in “freshman competition.”

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Between now and then come final exams, a couple of months of indoor training and a couple of trips south before the season opens unofficially with the Princeton/Georgetown scrimmages March 30 and officially with the Goes Trophy April 20.

“I think we have a lot of work to do between now and April and we will see if the guys are up for the job,” Reischman said.

“The toughest thing with a young squad is to be patient and let them develop. It is easy to bury them under a ton of work but then they get behind academically and their bodies just don’t adapt to the work load. I think we have some very talented younger oarsmen…but it is going to take some time to get them up to IRA Grand Final speed.”

Men’s Schedule

Sat Mar 30

Princeton, Georgetown (scrimmage)

Princeton, NJ

Sat Apr 20

Goes Trophy - Navy, Cornell

Annapolis, MD

Sat Apr 27

Conlan Cup – BU, Columbia

Overpeck Creek, NJ

Sat May 11

Packard Cup - Dartmouth

Syracuse

Sun May 19

Eastern Sprints

Worcester, MA

May 31-June 2

IRA

Sacramento, CA

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Women—from Page one the Genesee that included a win by the V8 over Cornell. The SU 4+ was sixth at the Head of the Charles, beating HarvardRadcliffe and trailing only Yale, Virginia and Brown among collegiate crews.

At the Princeton Chase the V8 was fourth behind Virginia, Princeton and Yale.

SU took the top two spots in the 4+ competition at its own Syracuse Invitational, again topping Cornell in the process, then went back to Boston to the Foot of the Charles and won the V4+ over Harvard-Radcliffe.

Orange women veterans: senior coxswain Christina Herb, grad student rower Carmen Failla The eight that competed at Princeton was a mix of veterans and newcomers: senior Kristina Herb (coxswain), sophomore Anna Kaszycki (stroke), senior Natalie Mastracci (7), sophomore Emma Basher (6), grad student Carmen Failla (5), sophomore Rose Aschebrock (4), junior Maggie McCrudden (3), freshman Alex Zadravec (2) and sophomore Holly Johnston (bow).

The squad is deep enough that Moore’s team even had two boats racing in the double sculls event on Lake Carnegie.

“My assessment of the team is that we have had the best fall season in the past decade and that the women have come to accept the concept presented by Russian General Alexander Suvorov, ‘Hard training, easy combat,’" Moore said. “Early in the fall there were some comments about the competitive intensity of the training sessions. There were some women who were concerned that rowing was becoming ‘un-fun.’ I told them that we were going to make a trade. We were going to have ‘less fun’ on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, so that Saturdays and Sundays could be a LOT more fun.”

Team members plainly have bought into Moore’s approach. “What we have here at SU is an excited bunch of women with an incredible sense of team spirit and an endless amount of energy to put toward our goals, “Mastracci said in her blog on suathletics.com.

“Through the three years of Justin being head coach we have made step after step (being top 30, top 20 and now top 5), Failla added. “I am proud to still be a member of this team, in my 5th year, that has completely committed to making the change and are determined to get faster every single day!” “… for the first time it feels like we all believe in what we can accomplish this year – and that is a seat next to the best teams in the country at the NCAAs,” senior Emily Moomey chipped in.

After cracking the Top 20 last spring, the team does seem ready to get up among the elite. Fall racing did not find SU with the elites such as Virginia, Yale and Princeton yet. But the Orange women did catch some crews they hadn’t caught for some time, including Cornell and Harvard-Radcliffe. Again, Moore stresses the part about chicken-counting.

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“Last year, our fall results would have indicated that we were on our way to defeating B.U. and Northeastern in the spring,” he said. “This did not happen. We are fitter than we have ever been, and the women are very excited to continue to build the momentum.”

The hope indeed is to get back the Big East championship on New Jersey’s Mercer Lake in SU’s last year in the league and ride that to the NCAA’s on Lake Lanier in Georgia. First the Orange Women face another tough schedule that starts at Clemson, includes a trip west and has a single home race.

There’s plenty to think about on those “less fun” Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays.

Orange Women celebrate after win at the Head of the Genesee

Women’s Spring Schedule Sat Mar 16

Clemson, Indiana, Boston U, Marist

Clemson, SC

Sat Mar 30

Kittell Cup vs. Boston U

Boston

Sat Apr 6

Orange Challenge Cup vs. Penn, NE

Philadelphia

Sat Apr 20

O’Leary Cup vs. Radcliffe, Dartmouth

Syracuse

Sat Apr 27

Oregon State, Stanford, Washington St.

Beaver Lake, Oregon

Sat May 4

Cornell, Louisville

Ithaca

Sun May 19

Big East Championships

Lake Mercer, NJ

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MASTRACCI’S MUSINGS: OKAY, THAT’S NOT WHAT SHE CALLS IT

Anybody who follows SU rowing is familiar with Natalie Mastracci’s success with the Canadian National Team since she left Syracuse after her junior year and wound up with a silver medal in the Olympic Eight. Now that she’s back and eligible for her senior year she brings leadership and experience to Justin Moore’s already much-improved squad. But she’s also brought her writing skills back with her as she finishes her degree in English and it turns out that those skills also are pretty impressive. Mastracci has been writing a blog for suthletics.com. It’s called Strokes in the Bank: Natalie’s Blog and it offers fascinating and powerful insights into the team and its motivation.

Here’s an excerpt on seat racing: Selection—or seat-racing, as we call it—started last week for our team. I will now attempt the impossible and explain the selection process in a way that isn't confusing. Two boats race a set distance and the amount of time it takes for each boat to complete the race is recorded. Then one individual is taken from each boat and switched into the other. The boats race the same distance again with their new combination of people and their times are recorded. The difference in time between the boats from the two races determines the speed of the individuals that were swapped. For example: Let's say, Boat1 beats Boat2 by 2 seconds in the first race and then after the rowers trade seats Boat2 beats Boat1 by 2 seconds. The girl in the winning boat in both races just proved that she makes the boat go faster by a total of 4 seconds over the rower she was switched with— congratulations to her!

However, a problem remains for the coach: if one rower is faster than the other on this one day of seat-racing, does it mean she will automatically be faster than her every day and by the same margin? No! Of course not! If it did then selecting a boat would be easy, no coach would ever feel that he or she was making the wrong decision and we would all eat ice cream rainbows and have puppy unicorns. This is why most coaches will argue— and I agree— that "every day is a seat race"; if you truly are faster then you should have no problem bringing your speed to practice every day.

Like I said before, seat-racing causes a lot of anxiety for rowers because of the fact that it is just one day's performance. There is a ton of pressure to sum up your entire worth into just a few minutes of racing. All the work you did over the summer and the training you've put into this year needs to show up on one glorious day. Now you may be thinking: "these rowers are brutal! Why should you be expected to perform to your potential at a moment's notice?" Well, there is one very good reason. In the starting gates of a race there are no do-overs, or sorrys, or I'm-not-ready-yets. Once the starter has aligned the boats to attention and called them to attention, there is only GO. Mastracci also brings teammates’ voices into the mix along with pictures and a plug for the excellent photos taken

by Laura Adams. (Examples on the next page). Want to see more? Click here: http://www.suathletics.com/news/2012/9/24/WROW_0924120931.aspx In case you’re not inspired for this team already, you will be once you start reading.

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ROWING IN THE MIST, A COACHING SESSION AND AN ONONDAGA RAINBOW We’d seen some of Laura Adams’ photos on the SARA blog and on Natalie Mastracci’s blog and were just about knocked out. Adams is a senior from San Marino, CA and her work is one more example of the multiple talents of SU athletes who are multi-talented. We asked her for three of her favorites and she sent these taken from the coach’s launch.

Do you want to become involved in Syracuse Alumni Rowing Association?

We are looking for a few dedicated alumni to join the SARA Board of Directors to help organize events and lead various projects. If you are willing to volunteer and become actively involved please contact Joe Kieffer ’88, SARA President, at jkieffer@email.com or 267-228-1341.

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SUPPORT SYRACUSE ROWING—ARE YOU UP TO DATE?

THANKS TO SARA LIFETIME MEMBERS Robert Angelucci ‘57 Stephen Anthony ‘80 James Bader ‘07 David Beckett ‘80 Jeffrey Braun ‘80 Jim Breuer ‘72 Thomas Brown ‘77 Paul Buff ‘70 Ken Buhrmaster ‘37 Louis Buhrmaster ‘61 James Butler ‘48 John Calkins ‘49 John Campbell ‘67 Grafton Chase ‘83 Roy Clark ‘72 Alexander Cmil ‘92 Austin Curwen ‘91 Tom Darling ‘81 Rachel DeMaine ‘99 Tom Denver ‘66 Paul Dierkes ‘79 Hamilton Dixon ‘55 Bob Donabella ‘81 Paul Dudzick ‘68 Bill Duffield ‘86 Carl Fabend ‘59 Mike Fegley ‘97 Gary Gardner ‘62 Charles “Chip” Gibson ‘04 John Gilbert ‘85 Robert Giromini ‘75 Fred Gliesing ‘78 Colin Goodale ‘90 Barton Green ‘56

Kristin Hammill ‘02 Daniel Hanavan ‘80 Scott Hansen ‘88 Jeffrey Harriman ‘70 Andrew Harrison ‘68 Lawrence Hawkins ‘59 Rob Heinstein ‘89 John Hession ‘72 Matthew Heumann Andrew Hobbs ‘83 Gordon Hull ‘83 Ken Hutton ‘69 Linn Hyde ‘64 Paul Irvine ‘54 Scott Kempton ‘86 Ned Kerr ‘67 Joe Kieffer ‘88 Owen Lewis ‘66 Murray Lukoff ‘77 Gary MacLachlan ‘67 William McCusker ‘67 Michael Minor ‘73 Robert Miron ‘59 Andrew Mogish ‘78 Edward Montesi ‘60 Charles Murphy ‘52 Dineda Nyepan Lance Osadchey ‘59 Joe Paduda ‘80 Andrew Papp ‘78 Jonathan Parella ‘91 Lynne Della Pelle Pascale ‘81 Jeff Pesot ‘90 Joe Peter ‘69

Nils Peterson’70 Tom Petnuch ‘98 Bob Price ‘88 Bill Purdy ‘79 Tracy Reed ‘95 Henry Ridgely ‘70 Jay Rhodes ‘89 Ashton Richards ‘82 Charlie Roberts ‘61 Thomas Rouen ‘60 Sylvester Rowe ‘92 Kevin Rung ‘80 Bill Sanford ‘63 Kathryn F. Sullivan, ‘97 Howard Sashin ‘81 Paul Schmidt ‘88 George Scott ‘72 John Shamlian ‘79 Ed Shephard ‘53 John Sekas ‘84 * Art Sibley ‘80 Richard Skomra ‘83 Mark Sprague ‘68 Dirk Stribrny ‘90 Elliot Sussin ‘77 David Swenton Mark Toomey ‘92 Robert Totten ‘92 Rick Tremblay ‘78 Christopher Ward ‘93 Peter Washburn ‘72 Rogers Waugh ‘41 Barry Weiss ‘83

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BUDMEN’S GALLERY FROM THE SYRACUSE INVITATIONAL

(From top left—Men’s A 4+, Maggie McCrudden, Women’s A 4+ coxed

by Gillian Carlucci ‘14, alums Chris Bickford ‘12 and James “Scooch” Olson ‘12 from 2012 IRA 5th place Varsity 8.

Photos by Isaac Budmen ‘12, who Coxed that varsity 8.

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Dedication of the Patricia Grace

By Lynne Della Pelle Pascale ‘81

After an impressive showing at the Foot of the Charles on a crisp, sunny Saturday morning in Boston, the SU Women’s team celebrated, along with parents, friends, coaches and alums, the dedication of a new addition to the fleet: the Patricia Grace, a white Vespoli four donated by SU rowing alumna and former SARA President, Tracy Rude Smith, of Waban, MA. Tracy named the Patricia Grace after her mother, Patricia Grace Rude. Also in attendance were Tracy’s twin sister, Laura, and her family.

The dedication came as a complete surprise to Patricia, and there were many hugs all around.

Coach Moore helped open the champagne that Patricia poured over the bow of her namesake while everyone clapped and cheered their approval.

The night before, several alums as well as Tracy attended the team dinner. Tracy, a silver medalist in the 1992 Olympics in Barcelona, Spain, is the Director of Development for Community Rowing, Inc. in Boston. Tracy also brought her daughter Grace. SARA VP Lynne Della Pelle Pascale ’81 of Syracuse and Tiffany Macon ’12 of Boston also attended the dinner and the races the following day. If you receive Rowing magazine, you will notice that Tiffany was recently featured on the cover of the November 2012 issue.

(See Backsplash—Page 17) Saturday’s racing was very successful with the SU varsity V4 earning the top spot over HarvardRadcliffe with the Syracuse B boat placing fourth. The third varsity eight came in third behind Rhode Island and Radcliffe. The boat dedication was the culmination of a very successful fall racing season for the team and coaches Moore, Kochis and Buch, and hopefully the beginning of many more such dedications to come. Many thanks to Tracy for her very important investment in Syracuse University Rowing.

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Book Review: Chariots and Horses (life lessons from an Olympic rower) by Jason Dorland (Heritage House, 2011)

By Austin Curwen ‘91 The first time I had ever heard of Ridley College was in my junior year of high school when my team had traveled to Philadelphia for the Stotesbury Cup Regatta. It became very clear as the regatta went on that all of us were racing for second place. These fellows clad in black systematically motored through the field, and with unmatched length, fitness and poise, took their gold medals and headed North.

Fast forward a year and a half later, as a freshman at SU, I was rubbing elbows with three of the members of that boat who as freshmen the previous year had an every successful season in orange. Also as part of this, we were all made aware of the culture of Ridley rowing and their coach, Neil Campbell. At that time, there was a steady stream of incredibly talented rowers trickling down to SU from Ontario, most from Ridley, and among them was a very serious and focused young man named Jason Dorland.

With the Canadian National Team beckoning, Jason left SU after his sophomore year. After this, we would hear bits and pieces about how he made the eight for the 1988 Olympics in Seoul.

Roughly a year ago, I was trolling some random website and saw the tag-line Chariots and Horses, life lessons from an Olympic rower. The blurb mentioned the Canadian 1988 team, and after I saw the author, I knew I had to read this. The book starts with the 1988 Olympics where Canada was heavily favored to repeat its 1984 gold medal performance on Lake Casitas (which we were all reminded of from time to time). In the finals, Canada finished out of the medals, and to say that Jason was disappointed was a massive understatement.

Jason (left) then chronicles his post-Olympic journey from bitter disappointment to a thorough re-examination to everything he believed about competing and winning. Through the pages, Jason is brutally honest about himself and the process he went through gaining perspective both about his Olympic experience and himself. In this journey, Jason discovers a different path to coaching and competing (and picks up the love of a good woman to boot in the process!), and comes out the other end with a much more balanced perspective of what it means to sit in a long skinny boat and pull on an oar.

This is a must read for anyone who has ever competed, or dreamed of competing at a high level. While this is a rowing book, it is also a book about training and competing, and should be on every coach’s bookcase. For those of us who overlapped with the Ridley years at SU, this is a window into the world of Neil Campbell, and an interesting post-script to the question, “What ever happened to Jason?” It’s all here.

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BACKSPLASH—NEWS OF OUR ALUMNI Bill Hawkey ’53 - “My wife Penny and I finished up a successful racing year, in a variety of boats, at the Nationals and FISA in Duisburg. I rowed in the Head of the Charles, member of a much younger eight, and in the Head of the Schuylkill. Waved to a lot of orange shirts across the water. Penny and I are looking forward to next year's FISA at Lake Varese.

Here’s a photo of Penny and me from Nationals.

The "Fred's Auto" shirts are not from a new rowing club.

We live in Ossining New York and farm when we're not rowing.

Joe Peter ‘69 - continues to pile up the medals coxing in Masters boats around the world and almost never misses a home men’s or women’s race for SU. Here he’s keeping a careful eye on the SU boats at the Syracuse Invitational this fall.

Joe Paduda ’80 - “Padudas are well; son Cal is a freshman at Syracuse and chose to play lacrosse instead of rowing. Parents have mixed feelings, but Coach Dave is likely relieved to have one less undersized overachieving athlete.”

Austin Curwen ‘91 - “ Still living the good life in the UK and looking forward to catching up with Colin Goodale, and whoever else is here for Henley next summer.” (See Austen’s review of Chariots and Horses on page 15)

John Tytus ’96 - came up big for SU at the Head Of The Charles.

His family owns Pocock Racing Shells and helped the Orange find a prime parking spot right on the river next to the Pocock tent.

Coach Dave hailed him as alum of the week.

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BACKSPLASH—NEWS OF OUR ALUMNI

Elyse Blazey ’98 - married Michael Gentile in Sarasota, Florida on November 10, 2012. The couple resides in NYC.

James and Vallerie Bettini ’99 – “Vallerie and I celebrated our 10th wedding anniversary this summer and traveled to Italy and Greece to mark the occasion. We live in Boston.”

Bettinis at Santorini in this photo.

Tiffany Macon ‘12 - is the Middle School Coordinator at Community Rowing, Inc. in Brighton, Massachusetts. “I am currently training with the high performance group at Riverside Boat Club.” Tiffany recently was on the cover on Rowing News.

Here’s a link to the article: http://rowingnews.epubxp.com/t/26954

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STAY IN TOUCH WITH THE ORANGE For regular updates on SARA activities and events and the Women’s and Men’s teams check the SARA blog: http://syracusealumnirowing.blogspot.com/ SARA is on Twitter: http://twitter.com/syracuserowing To send a message to the email lists contact the coaches: Men: Dave Reischman - dreischm@syr.edu Women: Justin Moore: jmoore06@syr.edu Orange Oar Editor: John Nicholson: jsnich@gmail.com