Peter Steenstra & Bates College Rowing

Peter Steenstra & Bates College Rowing

Nate Rooks
December 24, 2012

You have to want to go to Bates College if you want to go row for Bates College. Seems obvious, but Head Coach of the Women's and Men's varsity rowing teams Peter Steenstra doesn't think so. "We don't want to have a kid who...

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Steve Gladstone & Yale Men's Rowing

Steve Gladstone & Yale Men's Rowing

Nate Rooks
November 24, 2012

It is hard to find an American collegiate rowing program as storied as the Yale Heavyweight Men. By some marks, it would be impossible, considering it is the very oldest. The first ever college boat club was founded there in 1843 (Harvard followed a...

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Khaled Sanad & Colgate Men's Rowing

Khaled Sanad & Colgate Men's Rowing

Nate Rooks
October 24, 2012

In 2012, Colgate University Men's Rowing had one of the best ratios of medals per athlete of any program competing at the Dad Vail Regatta. They walked away with two silver medals, in the Varsity Pair and Frosh Four; not too bad for the 12 man...

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Steve Pritzker & Iowa Women's Rowing

Steve Pritzker & Iowa Women's Rowing

Nate Rooks
October 24, 2012

With a new state-of-the-art boathouse as of 2009, and a new head coach as of fall 2012, the Hawkeye rowing is looking at some major changes. Head Coach Steve Pritzker says it's going to be a "drastic change in style and...

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