Throwback To Ergs

(There were some problems posting this on Thursday so here's a Throwback Sunday!)

I decided to bring it back to to J-term, which is a three week period during our six week winter break where Mercyhurst students can come back to campus and take a class. It's one class a day, three hours a day, for three weeks and really helps to get a class out of the way. 

The rowers all come back for J-term so we can then take one less class during the hectic spring semester and to officially kick off winter training. 

We practiced twice a day, cross-training/lift in the morning and erging in the afternoon, and questioned our sanity approximately twice a week. J-term may have been hard at times but it brought the team closer together and got us one step closer to Alabama!

For the women's team we made a banner that we all signed that read "We Row For Cali" to remind us the every painful erg piece was all working towards a greater goal: NCAAs in Sacramento. We also figured out that Sacramento is about 4 million meters from Erie and decided that we were literally going to "row to Cali" and row 4 million meters as a team over winter training. 

Here's a photo of our assistant coach Jamie Francis showing off the meters rowed in January, such a proud coach!