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Recent News
Badger rower Mark Burnett, Class of '87, sending his best wishes to Wisconsin rowers at the Eastern Sprints and beyond |
Coach Clark is interviewed in April's Rowing News on
why and how he is working to organize college men's crew
coaches around the U.S. to support a legislative proposal to the NCAA to
accept oversight of men's crew.
Posted May 9, 2009
See Wisco's undefeated weekend at the Stanford Invitational at Redwood
Shores, CA April 17 to 19, 2009 at www.capsuredspeed.com. (Note the Flash
version that is available and may work better for you.)
Posted April 29, 2009
Friends of UW Men's Crew, Inc. newsletter for Spring,
2009
Posted April 2, 2009
Invitation to the Boat Dedication of the "Andy
Allen '46" on April 25, 2009
Posted February 23, 2009
Row2K
Interview with Chris Clark
Posted February 11, 2009
Friends of UW Men's Crew, Inc. newsletter for Winter
2008
Posted January 1, 2009
"Silver Bucky Badger rowing charm with red oar. Commissioned
at Goodman's (608.257.3644) at 220 State Street, Madison, WI. In
silver - $95 and in gold - $375" |
1959 Varsity 8 IRA Champions Left to right: C.B. Pope (bow), Bill Brauer (2), Randy Jablonic (3), Dick Ahner (4), Graham Hoffman (5), James Bowen, (6), Courtney Freeman (7), Herb Degner (stroke), and (kneeling) Palmer Taylor (coxswain).
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"Jabo Keeps His Oars in the Water" from Wisconsin Insights,
Fall 2008
Posted November 6, 2008
"Growing
emphasis on academics is helping athletes at UW-Madison" (from
the Wisconsin State Journal's front page of Oct. 12, 2008). Men's rowing
emphasizes academic results, as well as success on the water - see link
inside the story, "UW-Madison athletes' incoming scores"
Posted October 17, 2008
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:
- Article from the Wisconsin State Journal
- Andy Baggot of the WSJ: "We own college rowing"
- Poster tribute from uwbadgers.com
- Follow up blog from Andy Baggot of the WSJ
- Monday article from the Capital Times
- Article from row2k.com
- Article from the CourierPostOnline.com
- Article from the Philadelphia Inquirer
2008 Wisconsin V8 and 2V8 Eastern Sprints Champions: A Historic Day for
Wisconsin Men's Rowing!
Posted May 26, 2008
- Boston Globe article about the 2008 Eastern Sprints Champions
- View photos of the winning crews and Rowe cup celebration
- View video of the Wisconsin gold medal V8 race
- View video of the Wisconsin gold medal 2V8 race
"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
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
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. |
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Prints of the Men's 2001 Varsity 8 by Onelio Marrero may be available
if enough interest is generated ...
March 11, 2007
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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