Rowing To Compete in Head of The Charles – Ohio State Buckeyes
10/19/2001 12:00:00 AM | Rowing
Oct. 19, 2001
About The Head Of The Charles
The Head of the Charles is a three-mile course on the Charles River located in Boston, Mass. The Buckeyes will be competing against 53 other varsity eight boats. Ohio State competed in the 2000 edition of the Head of The Charles and finished ninth out of 57 entries. The squad this year will look to improve on that and continue on its winning ways in the 37th Head of the Charles race.
“It is a huge event,” Andy Teitelbaum, Ohio State head coach, said. “It is the biggest single-day rowing event in the world. We go so the kids can be part of that. There are 250,000 people along the river with thousands of competitors. It is a good opportunity to go to one of the rowing centers in the country–Boston–and be part of the giant rowing community that congregate at this regatta.
“We are only taking one varsity eight out there,” Teitelbaum said. “We are rowing in the championship event. There will be a lot of varsity college teams, the U.S. and Canadian national teams and other international clubs. It will be a high-caliber competition. It will be a good test to see where we are. We are a long way from the races that are going to matter for us. But this event is a good way to assess our talent and see how our training has progressed.”
OSU Entries
The Buckeyes will have one boat competing in the final race of the day, the championship eight division. Ohio State will be the eighth seed when the race begins Sunday.
OSU Boat Lineup
A Boat
Stroke Maxi Meissner 7 Conny Kirsch 6 Sasha Kildelund 5 Natalie Legge 4 Kaja Fiserova 3 Tatiana Grigorieva 2 Katie Buttine Bow Susi Wesenberg Coxwain Victoria Agate
Last Year at The Head of The Charles
Ohio State finished ninth out of 57 boats. Finishing with a time of 17:06, the team of Conny Kirsch, Katie Buttine, Maxi Meissner, Alex Leslie, Mindy Stauffer, Jill Davis, Susi Wesenburg and Sasha Kildelund represented the Buckeyes with the strong showing.
Up Next
The Buckeyes will play host to the Speakmon Ohio Race Oct. 27. They will then travel to Charlottesville, Va., to compete in the Rivana Romp Nov. 11.
About Coach Teitelbaum
Now in his seventh year at the head of the Ohio State rowing program, Teitelbaum has guided the Buckeyes to national prominence. With a record of 38-15, including a seventh-place finish at the NCAA Championships, in 2000 Teitelbaum’s career record at OSU now stands at 85-61-5.
Buckeyes Open Season With Title
Ohio State’s first varsity eight won its opening race of the season Oct. 6 in Pittsburgh, Pa., by defeating 19 other teams at the Head of The Ohio on the Allegheny River. The Buckeyes finished with a winning time of 14 minutes, 20.9 seconds over second-place Michigan State, 14:21.6. Ohio State’s second entry finished sixth with a time of 14:48.1.
Andy Teitelbaum, Ohio State head coach, said it was good to start the fall season on the right foot.
“We rowed well,” Teitelbaum said. “I was happy to have our second boat beat all the other second boats. That really shows the depth of our program. It is always good to start with a win against the caliber of teams we competed against.”
It is the second-consecutive victory for the Buckeyes at the Head of The Ohio race. Ohio State beat 25 other crews in 2000.
2001 Head of The Ohio Top 10 1. Ohio State A 14:20.9 2. Michigan State 14:21.6 3. Boston University 14:33.1 4. Texas 14:36.9 5. Michigan (1) 14:37.9 6. Ohio State B 14:48.1 7. Michigan (2) 14:54.5 8. Michigan (3) 15:15.9 9. Navy 15:17.3 10. Dayton 15:21.2
