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9th Seat is the brainchild of Mary Whipple, Olympic gold medalist coxswain of the US women’s eight. Here you’ll find informative blog posts, tips and tricks, and opportunities to learn from the best!

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St. Louis Clinic coming up

This weekend instead of going to Boston for HOCR, I'm headed to St. Louis to put on a 2-day coxswain clinic for the St. Louis Rowing Club.  Look for a re-cap next week. Good luck to all the coxies steering the Charles.  Drive it like you stole it! St. Louis coxies, watch out!  I'm coming to make you coxwain machines. -mwhip+ ...

Alaska Clinic - 10/14/09

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On July 18 and 19 The 9th Seat got to go up to Alaska to run a clinic for the three club teams that row up there.  The Kenai Crewsers, Anchorage Rowing Association and Alaska Midnight Sun Rowing Club came together for a two day coxswain clinic that was partly sponsored by the Northwest Rowing Council. The first day started with a lecture about steering and spatial awareness and coach to cox interaction.  We then went straight to the lake to work on the topics the ...

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Where has The 9th Seat been? - 08/19/09

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[caption id="attachment_162" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="Bouncing around Anchorage, AK!"][/caption] Since my last post I, The 9th Seat, have been busy.  I started grad school at the University of Washington and am on my way in completing a masters degree in Intercollegiate Athletic Leadership.  Which is basically a mouth-full for sports administration for college sports.  This is the main reason for taking the summer off from the National Team since the IAL ...

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Is a butt print like a finger print? - 03/11/09

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Ok, so I promise to try to come up with better titles but I'm still stoked that this little project is working out.   Anyways...I was going through my pictures and came across this one I took of my seat from The Hunter in Beijing.  I've been very fortunate to be the first bum print on many Empachers.  There is nothing like putting together a brand new boat and getting to test drive it on the race course.  We usually get to meet our new boat the first time we travel ...

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Welcome to The 9th Seat - 03/10/09

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Hello Everyone. Thanks for checking out my website and my very first blog. I wanted to tell you all about my first series of Mwhip+ Coxswain Clinics that happened in February on the West Coast. The first was held in Seattle at the University of Washington. It was super fun to organize my first very own coxswain clinic. I'm also surprised on how fast four hours goes by. The second Mwhip+ Coxswain Clinic was in Berkeley and hosted by the University of California's Women's ...

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