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Crew battles through bad weather

While rainy and windy weather would keep most of us indoors for the weekend, Pitt’s crew… While rainy and windy weather would keep most of us indoors for the weekend, Pitt’s crew team was again out on the river.

This time, the team was competing in the Occoquan sprints in Occoquan, Va.

“The weather was terrible, there were very high winds which made the river pretty dangerous, but they held the race anyways,” said freshman rower William Powers.

Despite the difficulties, the men’s varsity eight made the finals, and the men’s novice eight placed first.

This weekend is an off weekend for the team, but will feature the usual tough practices on the Allegheny River to work on improving their technique.

“These practices are especially crucial to the developments of the novice boats,” explained Powers.

Next weekend, however, new coach Dan Granacea will lead the team to the Knecht Cup in Philadelphia and look to keep up the success that the team has been having.

“Since our new coach, Dan Granacea, has joined the team, we’ve done nothing but improve every week,” said Powers. “We’re expecting big things next weekend.”

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