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Cougar Crew Days
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Want to know more?
If you want to know more about Cougar Crew, who we are , and what we do, we invite you to peruse the site and see what’s kept this team strong and lively for the past fifty years!
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Press Release #1
Cougar Crew to celebrate 50 years on the Snake
March 17-18, 2023
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Press Release #2
Cougar Crew Days to celebrate 50 years of rowing,
legacy of Olympians
March 17-18, 2023
ALL ABOUT COUGAR CREW
WSU crews train and race on Lower Granite Lake on the Snake River, created by Lower Granite Dam, completed in 1972, two years after the rowing club was formed. Few rowing teams anywhere enjoy such generous expanses of clean, low-traffic water and stunning scenery.
Credit: Walter Miese, October 2022
THE COXSWAIN IS THE SKIPPER
WSU was one of the first collegiate rowing teams whose rosters listed female coxswains commanding male crews. Here we see Ciara McCall (Biochemistry, 2022). McCall was a coxswain on the men's crew for four years (2019-2022). In her senior year, she became the first coxswain and the first woman elected Commodore (captain) of the men's team.
Credit: Jaime Tom
BOATS & TRAINING
The eight-oared shell is the standard racing vessel. Training in small boats helps rowers perfect their balance, timing and force application curves. Cougar rowers Mark Walker-Rittgers (bow) and Sean Swett (stroke), training on the Snake River, February 2021.
Credit: Ciara McCall
Racing past castle rock
Two Cougar eights testing their mettle. February, 2023.
Credit: Head Coach, Peter Brevick