Lehigh University Athletics
Rowers set to conclude trip and begin season
3/12/2010 12:00:00 AM | Men's Rowing, Women's Rowing
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BETHLEHEM, Pa. – With temperatures warming up the Lehigh rowing team picked a great time to begin its outdoor training as the Mountain Hawks headed to South Carolina earlier this week to begin spring practice. The rowers departed campus on Friday, March 5 and headed to Lake Marion for a week of on-and-off the water workouts. Lehigh has been hard at work conducting three practices a day as the rowers work their way towards the season opener, which will take place on March 13.
Lake Marion, where the Mountain Hawks are training, was created in the 1940s and covers about 110,000 acres of land in five South Carolina counties: Berkeley, Calhoun, Clarendon, Orangeburg, and Sumter. After a tough day on the water the Mountain Hawks retire to Camp Bob Cooper in Summerton where rowing teams from across the country come every year to train. The student-athletes are treated to warm weather and a wonderful setting with a wide range of amenities.
While on their training trip the Mountain Hawks have been put through strenuous water and land workouts, including timed pieces of various length, as well as difficult trail runs.
Lehigh will depart Camp Bob Cooper on Friday, March 12 and head north to Raleigh, North Carolina where the Mountain Hawks will take part in the Tar Heel Classic against a strong field of competitors. Following Saturday’s race the team will begin its trip back to campus where the student-athletes will prepare for class, which gets back underway on Monday.
Lehigh’s next race will take place on March 20 when the Mountain Hawks travel to Philadelphia to take on Drexel and Villanova.
