Featured Alumni Rower | Mike DeNucci

Nickname: DeNucci
Year: Super Senior
Hometown: Cedar, MN
Major: Mass Communications/ Radio Broad Casting
Years on the team: 4 years on the team


Favorite Erg Piece:  
--Favorite single erg piece I've done would have to be at the Rochester Power Pull in 2011. I'd been training to reach a sub 7minute PR for my 2k.  My first event of the day was a Lwt Open Mens 2k and i was competing along side my teammates Matt McCann and Mike Steinman and coxswain me was Collin Winters. Having those guys with and next me helped calm my nerves and I pulled a personal 2k pr, sub 7 and got gold.   2k's are my least favorite erg piece and since that day I haven't tried to PR it, but the weekend was fantastic as a whole and getting the 2k off my shoulders was a great relief, and it happened with my best friends next to me.

30min piece are my favorite erg pieces in general.



Favorite Cox'n Calls:

"Sit Ready"

"We're Walking"

"Weigh-enough"

or anything from Don Craig

 Favorite Rowing Memory:

My novice year Topeka Regatta Mens Open 4+ 400 Dash, All the lanes were filled with crews who were mostly taller and stronger. After one bad start that caused all the boats to turn around, and earned our boat a verbal scolding from our coxswain Tatty (Jason Briant).  The second start was near flawless and for me it was the first near perfect race i was apart of, it was the closest to erging on the water I've been apart of. Tatty told us we were battling for first the whole way, we were neck and neck with one other boat two lanes over. When the race finished we didn't know if we had won, it wasn't till later we found out that we had won by .2 seconds.  As a novice it showed me how awesome rowing can be. 
Thanks, Collin, Dan Deeren, Tatty, and Aiden.



What is your favorite meal for breakfast? 

Chicken Fried Steak w/ sausage gravy and breakfast potatoes washed down with a tall cool clash of Milk