With the Fall rowing season around the corner, Nashville Rowing Club’s Lizabeth Theiss takes a look back at the 2010 World Master’s Regatta:
“The World Master’s Regatta was an amazing event. Knowing that Nashville had representation at an international event was even more amazing. The event was held in St. Catharines, Canada on the same course they hold the Royal Canadian Henley. It was impressive to see officials move 250 participants with boats, oars and rowers on and off the dock every 30 minutes. Nashville Rowing Club was popular with participants as it seems the city of Nashville is known all over the world. No one could understand what the other was saying with so many languages, but Nashville was a recognized name. Mexico would often yell ‘Nashville’ every time we walked past their trailer.
With so many boats on and off the water, it was intimidating to maneuver the warm up area. Then as you worked your way closer to the starting lanes, you would be greeted by so many foreign languages as everyone was so friendly and would say ‘hello’ right before the race. For those that know me and my wildlife mishaps, I would like to note that I barely missed the swans in the warm up area. Wow, those birds are huge!
The regatta was such a fun event. New friends were made and many races discussed. I look forward to the next World’s event and highly recommend anyone considering, to just go.”
The results were as follows:
Womens A 1x
Lizabeth got 3rd in her flight with a time of 4:28.6
Amanda got 3rd in her flight with a time of 4:20.2
Womens A 2x
Lizabeth and Amanda got 4th (4:04.43)
Womens B 1x
Lizabeth got 4th (4:21.24)
Mixed A 2x
Amanda and Kristian got 4th (3:47ish) – pictured above
Mixed C 2x
Lizabeth and Bob Franks (from Oak Ridge/All American Rowing Camp) got 7th (4:06.8)
Mixed C 4x
Lizabeth raced with a group from the All American Rowing Camp and got 6th (3:56.58) – They managed to cross three lanes with a broken rudder. This gave the official’s a good laugh.
