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The Wave Volume XIII Issue 11 Fall 2005 Mcgill ROWER COMPETES at WORLD ROWING CHAMPIONSHIPS in AMSTERDAM Inside This Issue McGill University Rowing Club the Wave Volume XIII Issue 11 Fall 2005 McGILL ROWER COMPETES AT WORLD ROWING CHAMPIONSHIPS IN AMSTERDAM Inside this issue: McGill Rower, Derek 1-2 O’Farrell at World Rowing Championships Mara Jones Wins 3 Gold at World Rowing Championships Doug Vandor Wins 4 Bronze at World Rowing Championships Alumni Reunite at 4 Henley McGill Crew’s Where- 5 abouts and Summer Results Fall Regatta 6 Schedule Crew Jacket Order 6 Derek O’Farrell (top left) and his Under-23 Heavyweight Men’s Information Eight teammates after their bronze medal finish at the World Rowing Championships in Amsterdam. Derek O’Farrell March when most of us for temerity. Having UPCOMING (BSc'06) is preparing first got wind of just begun in a pair that for yet another season how athletically talented summer with little ex- • A word from our new of fall rowing at our friend and fellow perience, Derek says, FMR president Rod McGill. After a routine team mate really was. “There was no set, no Macdonald erg piece at the McGill After numerous erg power, and no send. We gym, he told me, “It tests, he received a letter later went to Montreal • MURC’s 30th was pretty stuffy in that from Terry Paul, a na- for some practice rows Anniversary and room… gotta get used tional-level coach, say- with the lightweight Alumni Reunion to it again.” For this ing that he had been guys, and got pounded, returning senior heavy- picked to participate in just doored. My pair weight rower, his com- the under-23 national partner and I were wor- • Alumni Gathering at ment was a humbling heavyweight training ried because it was right the Head of the Trent reminder of the hard camp. This news her- before Speed Orders in work and training that alded a summer of un- Victoria. When we got preceded an exceptional matched, intense mental there, the first race was spring/summer rowing and physical rigour, against two national experience. It was with absolutely no room team member medalists PAGE 2 THE WAVE Volume XIII Issue 11 Continued from page 1 and we decided right there not to finish in last place, was a lack of aggression, and that for the next race, and we didn’t; we came in second to last. But we it had to kill at each stroke; we couldn’t just do an ended up crashing with the [former] medalists. The extra 10-stroke piece. medalist smashed his oar down and yelled for- ever…I just wanted to row into the sunset and never come back. We didn’t dock for twenty minutes, we “So in the repechage, we got to the start, pushed just sat there.” really hard through the 500m mark and ended up at 4th again. So again, we Clearly, it wasn’t a worked on catches, fin- steady ride to the top. ishes and at the 1000m, More time trials and we knew this was our seat racing matrices piece to get ahead, and followed, and by the we just attacked. We just end, with the compli- flew, with the boat send- cated combinations ing like never before. We and exhaustion, it was did ten more, ploughed hard to figure out the through, and found our- ranking. “After the selves in the lead with trials,” says Derek, 500m to go. We lifted the “we were all huddled rate but the Ukrainians in a room with Terry Derek O’Farrell in 4-seat. edged us out and we Paul as he wrote down came in 2nd.” names – ‘Thompson beats Smith etc. I recalled only getting seat raced once so it all depended on whether wrote my name down, or not. And after the The under-23 men thought they had given every- sixth line, I saw it… ‘O’Farrell beats Burns, 0.4 sec- thing they had, only to land second in the repechage; onds’.” Derek had made the under-23 heavyweight but it wasn’t enough. Derek continues the story. men’s eight. “We decided that it could be better with a more ag- gressive approach. So many crews had already beaten us, so we weren’t sure we could reach our Then began the practices; three times a day, and just goal. Next came the semis, and we were in 4th as intense as seat racing. “Our days were regi- again. Clipping along, we got to the 1000m; time for mented, with no time for anything but to rest and eat our big move – and there was the commitment we after each practice. The workouts were intense, jam- had been talking about. Taking seats, jumping and packed with races against lightweights and the sen- prying to find the next gear we flew against Ukraine! ior men’s eight, as if every practice was a race.” I heard our coxswain say ‘we’ve got 7 seat, 6 seat, 5 seat, you’re qualifying and you’ve got 200m to go!’ and we were just dying across the finish line. We As the summer progressed, the World Champion- didn’t even know what happened because it was so ships in Amsterdam loomed closer. “We flew to Til- close and the board was processing, taking so long burg,” says Derek “and seeing the Aussie team and then the results are up: Romania, Canada, there made it a reality. The training camp was in- Ukraine, and France.” Concentrating on edging out tense, with short but hard pieces, that allowed us to Ukraine, the Canadian crew had walked right gauge ourselves against the other teams.” It is at this through the French without even realizing it. point, when you’re up against athletes of the same calibre who are enduring the same experience, that it comes down to ‘mind over matter’. The first heat Once again, the crew raced well but it still wasn’t left the Canadians in 4th place. “We had been row- going to guarantee a medal in the finals. “At the ing cleanly; we didn’t know what to do. To come all meeting, we analyzed the other crews’ performances the way out here, and get this result was a gut- and saw that our strong point was the second 1000m. check. Collectively, we came to the decision that it We added a five-stroke piece at the 500m to help us PAGE 3 THE WAVE Volume XIII Issue 11 hold on to the Germans before our big move at the Then I saw it on the billboard - "bronze-CAN" and 1000m mark. I screamed pretty loud.” “At last we were at the final! We made our move Hearing Derek’s animated descriptions of the final, at 500m to stay with the Germans, but they semis, and heat dropped us like we were nothing, and at that point race-breakdowns I found I was tired way earlier than usual. We were made me realize in 5th place at the 1000m and I was done. I was how truly crucial sure we couldn’t come back because we were well each step was in over a boat length down. But at our big move, we his journey. Al- found a new gear and charged, but still there was though it is no result. Then our next big move came, but again unlikely that this no one would let us back in the race. At the 1500m experience will be in 5th, I heard our coxswain say, ‘Germany has six the ultimate high- seats, they are separating you from a medal they light in Derek’s are dying...now GO!’ We surged through the wa- rowing career, it ter, lactic acid burned but I wanted a medal. I then was certainly the hear, ‘5 seats, 4 seats…3 seats go boys, 250 left!’ highlight of his and we just went for it like never before! summer. “Seeing the flag being “I don’t remember much except the sweetest sound raised almost I have ever heard in my life – the sound of a horn made me cry; it telling me I could finally stop. I couldn’t see and was the greatest most definitely couldn’t hear. I didn’t want to moment of my life. I didn’t want to leave the po- throw up; I just wanted to die and feel nothing. I dium. Three months of killing my body and mind, got a slap on the back and it jarred me back to life- to a point where I was begging for the end was my team mate said we did it but nothing sunk in. worth all the effort and exhaustion - Alumnus Mara Jones Wins Gold at the 2005 World Rowing Championships in Japan Mara Jones, BSc’97, place and Great never fails to make Britain in third waves in McGill place. The crew Alumni news. Last had a marginal lead summer she competed from the beginning, in the Olympics. This and held on year she can boast one through the end, of her greatest having battled with achievements yet – the Danes for a winning Gold at the solid finish. Can- World Rowing Cham- ada’s winning pionships held in Ja- lightweight pan. The women’s women’s quad also lightweight quad includes Tracy swept up the gold Cameron, Elizabeth medal, having won in Mara Jones, second from left posing with Urbach and six minutes and 19.87 her teammates after a Gold finish at the Melanie Kok. seconds, followed by World Rowing Championships in Japan. Denmark in second PAGE 4 THE WAVE Volume XIII Issue 11 Alumnus Doug Vandor Wins Bronze at World Rowing Championship in Japan McGill alumnus the silver and Italy Doug Vandor, won gold.
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