Welcome to The 9th Seat
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 Rowing Team. My sister, Sarah, was kind enough to help me host it and my mom and dad came over from Sac to listen to me. It was the first time my parents heard me cox because I shared some of my tapes. Hadn’t really prepared them for what they were about to hear. I’ve never heard my mom or dad swear and somehow there were a couple of inappropriate words on my recordings….ooops! Sorry mom and dad, sometimes your little girl lets some four-letter words come out.
Rose City Rowing in Portland hosted the third clinic and even though it was the smallest clinic in numbers it was the most interactive. There were a lot of great questions from the crowd.
I am really proud of what I presented in the clinic, there is so much material to cover that I strategically chose the most important and relative topics for winter training. I’m looking forward to producing race specific clinics for spring. I’m also super proud of creating this website. I’m looking forward to presenting my take on coxing and why the 9th seat in the eight is the best seat in the boat! (Don’t tell that to any of your rowers though;)
Just read the Topher interview in the Rowing News. Good luck in this endeavor! Gonna go another 4? I just cannot believe the demure Mary would even know the “F” word.
It won’t let me submit any questions…. So I was wondering, when steering buoyed 2k courses, do you use really distant points or the buoys? It’s kinda hard to see that far…
If you’re a demure person, a few well-placed expletives can wake a crew up because it really gets their attention.
Hey Mary, I hope you actually check these replies, but I was wondering if you could put up a schedule of your planned coxswain clinics in the future so that, if possible, other coxswains could maybe ask the hosting team to attend. My school has a very small team so I think I would get a lot more out of it to be with a bigger team, even if just for a few hours or if I have to drive a State away. Thanks! -Yaz
Great idea Yassmin! I do have a coxswain clinic coming up in July up in Alaska. More details to follow. –mwhip+
Hi,
I would be greatly interested to have you contact me regarding a speaking appointment to the students here at Walla Walla University. If you would be so kind as to contact me to see if we could work on the details and arrangements, I would be thrilled.
Thank you,
Ken Rogers
VP for Student Life and Mission