Making a difference by showing up to practice: 60 in size and age

Coach Claire coached an 8+ yesterday. What made this newsworthy is the variety 1n the boat

  • 60 years between the youngest rower Lucy (16) and the oldest rower Ken (76).
  • 60 centimeters (=2 feet) between the shortest rower Tracy and the longest rower Mike M (body size, not length of stroke).

Common wisdom would predict a miserable row. However, even our most critical rower Ken came off the water stating that it was one of the best rows he had with CHaOS.

Thank you Coach Claire for getting the difference row together.

 

 

Parents and Kids

Our cox/coach Kylie coined the vision of a club where parents and kids can row at the same time.

She says that it does not make sense that parents have to shuttle their aspiring young athletes to their youth team practice in the afternoon and then try to find an "adult" time slot in the evenings or early mornings for their own workout.

We have made a first step in that direction with 2 mothers bringing their daughters along. Next step would be to get enough teenagers to form their own boat.

We also have proud fathers. The daughter of our Aussie just won the Bavarian W8+ title with the Wurzburg composite crew (2 seat, second from right).

You should see him beam. Now he tries to do the same at the upcoming Master Nationals. A little family internal competition.

2017 Bavarian W8+ Champions with the daughter of our Aussie in 2 seat

2017 Bavarian W8+ Champions with the daughter of our Aussie in 2 seat

Open to all ages

The mission of CHaOS is to offer rowing to everybody: all genders, all ages, all races, all religions, sweep and sculling, from all over the world (and any other category you can think of).

Until today, we fell short on the "all ages" goal - being heavily skewed towards the 40+ range - with a peak in the 56 to 60 age bracket.

It all will change tomorrow when our first teenage member will be eager to be boated!

Welcome!!!

We will try hard to live up to her expectations.

Truely International - July 2nd lineup

International 4+ of champions

  • Kylie cox for the UN of Rowing
  • Richard S for Britain
  • Andy L for Scotland
  • Claire Coffey for every state she rowed in
  • Dad Coffey for the US when it was great
  • Alternate: Sid for Sri Lanka

Women’s 2x (your choice of lineup)

  • Amelia for NC
  • Tracy for NY

International Men’s 4x training for Bled

  • Richard M (s) Australia
  • Felix Switzerland
  • Rob California
  • Tim (b) Buffalo

The South African is partying in Virginia, the Italian racing a motorcycle through Dragon gorge (be careful). Philly girl is drinking beer in Germany before rowing through Belgium.

Hope to see you on the water!



Spring rowing - big crowd and a great start for the 8+ season

The warm spring weather brought out a big crowd - some rowers whom we have not seen in a while. To some, we had to send directions to the lake ... just kidding.

Youngest rower was 12 and 1/2 (important at that age), oldest was 70+ (no longer important at that age). All sizes and skill levels in both genders.

CHaOS spring rowing just started: 60 years from youngest to oldest, almost 3 feet in difference from shortest to longest (body size, not stroke) - beginner to former national team member - rowers from the US, Australia, (almost) Germany, Britain, Scotland, Switzerland (Canada overslept) - and Jordan Lake showed its best side

The diversity was then put into an 8+. Thanks to coaching from Claire and Zach and coxing from Kylie the boat came together surprisingly well and had a few moments of glory. Still lots to work on between now and the Hooch.

Even the toughest journey starts with the first step!

For comparison, this was today - let's see where we will be in 3 months:

Thank you for coming out!

President Trump raves about CHaOS

In his first solo press conference, President Donald J. Trump said: “I turn on the TV, open the newspapers and I see stories of chaos — chaos.”

Today's CHaOS news: 9 rowers and 3 coaches - must be a record for the best coach to athlete ratio in a masters program.

We boated a 4+, a 2x and 4 singles.

Since the coaches run out of gas (the boat not the humans), William had to pull them home in his single. Pretty good for a man who can barely walk and will have his hip replaced on March 7th.

Rebekah, 7 months pregnant, did a 12K outing at 3/4 pressure. Her last row before baby #2 will be born on cinco de mayo. Safe to say it's name will not be Donald.

Thank you very much for a great morning on perfect water.

 

Now offering coaching and learn to row (finally)

CHaOS Rowing is excited that there finally is a professional rowing coach on Jordan Lake.

Claire Coffey is a US Rowing certified coach (levels 1 to 3) and now offers

·       “Learn to row” lessons (sweep and sculling)

·       “Improve your skill” lessons (sweep and scull)

·       A coached novice program

·       Race preparation

·       Training programs (includes college preparation)

Claire coaches all ages (juniors, college, masters), all skill levels, and genders and offers private lessons as well as group lessons.

Details about Claire's coaching and rowing experience can be found here.

The cool thing is that Claire has a flexible schedule: she can offer lessons when YOU have time to work on your skills or learn our great sport.

Those of you familiar with US and International rowing will know that the name Coffey stands for great rowing, fast boats, and peerless sculling training machines.

Please do not hesitate to contact her at clairemcoffey@gmail.com to learn more about her services and arrange your first outing.

We hope to meet you on Jordan Lake soon!