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Welcome to wiscorowing.org! This site is intended to be a resource for things of interest to University of Wisconsin Crew alumni. Your interest and continued financial support are critical to the success of the Wisconsin crew teams. For more information, please follow the "How to Donate" link on the left. The latest results for each team are best viewed at the official website of the UW Athletic Department, www.UWBadgers.com.

 

Recent News

Wisconsin Rowing Olympians from the Capital Times, August 6, 2008
Posted August 23, 2008

Wisconsin Rowing Olympians from the Wisconsin State Journal, August 9, 2008
Posted August 23, 2008

USA wins gold in Men's and Women's 8s at the Under 23 World Championships! See photos of the Wisconsin Badgers who represented the USA
Posted July 23, 2008

Friends of UW Men's Crew Newsletter for summer 2008
Posted July 2, 2008

National Champions!!
Posted June 8, 2008

Wisconsin Men's V8 Wins the Grand Final at the IRA!

Video of the IRA Grand Final from Captured Speed Productions

Articles about the race:

2008 Wisconsin V8 and 2V8 Eastern Sprints Champions: A Historic Day for Wisconsin Men's Rowing!
Posted May 26, 2008

"Why endow men's crew at UW?  The Wisconsin State Journal's Andy Baggot - in a column dated May 26, 2008 - summarizes very well what has happened, and what can happen again, as and when Badger football goes through what seems to be cyclical attendance phases." 
Posted May 26, 2008

Doing More With Less: UW's Swimming And Men's Rowing Programs Succeed Despite Challenges. Wisconsin State Journal Sports: May 11, 2008
Posted May 13, 2008

Friends of UW Men's Crew, Inc. newsletter for December, 2007
Posted December 19, 2007

Invitation to the 2008 Crew Banquet
Posted December 19, 2007

Friends of UW Men's Crew, Inc. newsletter from July, 2007
July 23, 2007

WSJ sports columnist Andy Baggot's 5.24.07 article on UW's crews leading up to the 2007 IRA's
May 28, 2007

"The Coaches Gallery"
May 1, 2007

Friends of UW Men's Crew, Inc. newsletter
April 14, 2007


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Coach Mike Murphy, after whom our main men's crew endowment fund is named.  The portait by Onelio Marrero was sponsored by Peter Eckhardt, son of UW rower from 1932-33, Paul O. Eckhardt, Jr., who rowed for Murphy.

 


Alumni Day Winners

On a beautiful fall day - temps in the mid-70's and no wind - the UW men's alumni fielded five eights over an 800-meter course for Alumni Race Day on Saturday, September 22. Entrants included rowers from Milwaukee, Madison, invited guests from the Lincoln Park Boat Club in Chicago and the Mendota Boat Club. The winning eight, after USRowing adjustments for differences in average boating ages among the five entries by Coach Clark, was a repeat victory from last year by the largely Milwaukee alumni "Donkey Punch" entry. That boating: Jim Ricksecker (bow), Tom Schuchardt, Larry Trotter, John Hallett, Lou Schueller, Eric Mueller, Fred Robertson, Al Erickson (stroke) and Hal Menendez (cox) in an unadjusted time of 2:00.8. "Team Carnage", absent Nelson "Trash Mouth" Williams, who excused himself for a wedding, finished fourth.  Fourth from the left, in the back row, is team coach Ken Nelson.

 


 

Coach Skip Walz, UW men's head crew coach from 1940-42 and 1945-46. This portrait was painted by Onelio Marrero from an image in the 1941 Badger Yearbook and was co-sponsored by gifts to Friends of UW Men's Crew, Inc. from Carlyle "Bud" Fay (UW '48) and the Carl Holtz Memorial Fund. This portrait, along with four others completed or in process, will hang in the men's erg room of the Porter Boathouse.
skip walz

 


Prints of the Men's 2001 Varsity 8 by Onelio Marrero may be available if enough interest is generated ...
March 11, 2007

2001 Men's Varsity 8 by Onelio Marrero
oilpainting

Former UW Men's Crew coach Randy "Jabo" Jablonic
dances his way into UW history 
February 3, 2007

Friends of UW Men's Crew Newsletter, December 2006
December 31, 2006

Coach Clark's new launch
September 10, 2006

Matt Smith '00 awarded the Bronze Star in Iraq
July, 2006

Friends of UW Men's Crew, Inc. Newsletter
June, 2006

Friends of UW Men's Crew, Inc. Newsletter
April 2006

Photos of the Men's Early Spring Practices on Lake Mendota
March 28, 2006

About the Friends of UW Men's Crew, Inc.
March 5, 2006

Paul O. Eckhardt, Jr., '33, 1909-2005
November 14, 2005

The Steve Salter '71 Boat Dedication and Memorial from October 1, 2005
October 16, 2005

Get your copy of Wisconsin Where They Row
March 9, 2005


 

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