Thursday, March 1, 2007
Paddling SUCKS
So paddling finished last week and boy am I relived. See paddling this year was pretty rediculous in my opinion. I guess it all started when I went away for Christmas break. See, being a senior and having quite a good record for racing in the three years past, I figured I'd atleast be garunteed a spot on the Mixed crew. I went on my trip (awesome trip by the way but thats for another blog)to visit my colleges and do a little snowboarding. However, much to my surprise, when I came back I found that the crew had been set and I wasn't on it. Great just what I needed. So with my options now restricted to the varsity II crew, I was pretty frustrated and frankly, pissed off. I really didn't want to paddle for Varsity II during my senior year. I knew the crew was going to blow because of the people that were on the crew and how they handled themselves. I was so used to winning atleast second place in the races that having such a straight up shitty crew was going to suck for senior year. I tried to complain to the coaches but in all seriousness, I knew they weren't going to do anything to change what they had already set. I was really mad because the people they chose to be on the mixed crew were ALL new. They had never touched a paddle before and had horrible timing and all the other things that made a good paddler. I feel like I was cheated out of a right that I should have been given and in result, I had a miserable season paddling for the Varsity II. What made things even worse was that one of my friends that had also paddled with me for all three years prior also got cut from the mixed crew. He hadn't even gone away for the winter break either! The coaching was rediculous. She even put a guy that was completely useless to the team in the boat. Me and my friend could both pull more weight than him and were just as good as blending with the rest of the crew. Paddling is possibly the worse coached sport at my school and I don't know.. It makes me mad to talk about this again and I realize my organization has gotten bad in the latter part of this post but it's just because I really dislike this whole situation. Alright. Well atleast I get to lift weights again now that the season is done. SHOOTS!
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I did paddling last year, and I also wasn't able to go to practice for most of Christmas break. But I wasn't on a trip, I was in surgery. I was only out for a week, and then I came right back, but they still refused to even put me in any boat at all. I was the "red shirt" team, the team filled with total and utter beginners. It just didn't make sense to me, because I had gotten one of the first places in the timed trials and in swimming. I had also been paddling since like sixth grade. Ugh. I ended up just dropping out because, even though I wasn't in a boat, I still had to practice as much as the other girls, so I ended up getting home at around 7:45/8:00 (because I live far away).
Sorry that was sort of long but I just wanted to say that your not alone in thinking that the coaching kind of sucks for that sport.
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