Featured Rower | Michael Wubbels

Nickname: Wubbs
Year: Junior
Hometown: Greenleafton MN
Major: Anthropology and Environmental Studies
Years on the team: 3
E-board position: Men's Captain (2 yrs)

Favorite Erg Piece:
--30 min relay

Favorite Cox'n Calls:
--Drop the bomb (Natalie)
--Grip it and rip it, anything said by Mike DeNucci, Mike Steinman and Michael Hansen....

Favorite Rowing Memory:
--My favorite rowing memory thus far would have to be Omaha my novice year.  DeNucci put me in the Pair with him for a 2k and we didn't get any chance to practice it.  Our warm up was my first time in the Pair period and DeNucci's first time in it that season.  We almost flipped right off the dock thanks to a devilish bolt snagging itself on the dock.  After that we straightened our selves out, got to the start, and raced.  We past boat after boat after having a slow and rocky start.  All in all we came in 3rd place after a strong finish.

What is your all-time favorite cereal?
--Reese Puffs!

Featured Alumni Rower | Adrienna Holden Korsman

Nickname: A-Ho (Adrienna Holden....not cause I was slutty)
Year: 2005-2008
Hometown: Fairbanks, AK
Majors: Special Education & Communication Disorders
Years on the team: 3.5
E-Board Position: Vice-President

Favorite Erg Piece:
--None! They're all terrible! I liked the relays on the ergs.

Favorite Coxswain Calls:
--Tatty's DRIVE! DRIVE! DRIVE! ...it haunts my dreams...

Favorite Rowing Memory:
--There are so many! I LOVED spring break and Don Craig, even when he called me "Lard ass" and told me to go weigh down the front of the catch! I also loved starting the Husky Sprints back up after a few years off, and the gorgeous weather we had the first year, then crazy snow storm the next year. My all-time favorite, though, was probably the entire year we had the entire floor of an apartment building filled with crew people...so many fun times!

Favorite Cereal:
--I'm not a huge cereal eater, but I do love me some fruity pebbles

Feeatured Rower | Haley Bagley

Nickname: I've been called Stretch...and Captain Hook after the clock incident.
Year:...little kid.
Hometown: Born in Kansas City Missouri, but I've been in St. Cloud for 12 years.
Major:...well I'm a little kid...so I think I'm going into Kinesiology next fall.
Years on the Team: Novice!

Favorite Erg Piece:
--During the Million I did a lot of 10ks and I broke it up into 1500, 3500, 3500, 1500 and it wasn't too shabby. I also like circuits!

Favorite cox'n calls:
--The women's eight at Quad and Rock, Mike Steinman was coxing and he said "you ladies say you pull like men, show me that power now!"

Favorite Rowing memory:
--Over spring break I was thrown in the double with Hansen one day and Kailey the next day. Hansen was a wonderful teacher and really helped me start to understand the technique. Then, the next day when I was rowing with Kailey we got some great strokes in and I felt the boat lift out of the water and glide, all the time with Don Craig yelling "early 90's, early 90's!". It was fantastic.

If I could row anywhere in the world and why?
--I would probably be rowing on the lake my cabin is on, 10 Mile. It's always glass in the morning and it's big enough that you could get a good work out in. If we're gonna get exotic I'd love to row off the coast of Fiji or in the Venice canals.

Featured Alumni Rower | Kelly Johnson

Nickname: Kel Bel (Thanks Treebs) Jiggity Johnson (Thanks Dylan) Year: Alum Hometown: Dayton, MN Major: Biomedical Science E-board Position: Women's Captain Fall 2008-Spring 2010 Years on the team: Fall 2007- Spring 2012

Favorite Erg Piece:

--One of the best workouts ever is the 5k erg/stair partner relay that Colton created and some of my fondest ergging memories come from 30min pieces with DeNucci while we were doing the Million Favorite Cox'n Calls:
--Droppin' Bombs!- Natalie.
--In 5 strokes you're gonna surge to the finish!- best part of any race

Favorite Rowing Memory:
--First time I understood a ratio shift (mixed 4 with myself, K Byrd, Hansen, and Collin with the Natalian Stallion Coxing). First time in a racing single on Lake Shawnee. I have many warm fuzzies when I think of rowing the Mixed Double with Schmatt McCann and all the hours I spent ergging with DeNucci chasing the Million. But ultimately my fondest memories aren't necessarily rowing related, they just happen to involve my friends and family that I met through this wonderfully dysfunctional team. All the inside jokes and embarrassing stories we share, all the crazy theme parties and stumbling home from the Press, Winter Banquets, Wine and Cheeses, Hot seats and naked van rides, Gin Buckets and Game Days, Floor Hockey, Rowing vs Pacific Wok Football, 6am Ultimate Frisbee, and many a night sitting in a friend's apartments just shooting the shit. It's no secret that the vast majority of my friends from college were met through the Rowing Team. Thank you everyone for fond memories! If you could row in any place in the world, where would it be? and why?
--Rowing in Oklahoma City at the Night Sprints would be pretty surreal. Lake Shawnee will also always hold a special place in my heart. I love the "Best Rowing Water in America." Topeka, America.

Featured Rower | Nic Greer

 

 

Nickname: Sally Pants Nic

Year: Junior
Hometown: Pequot Lakes, MN
Major: Radiologic Technology

E-board  position: Treasurer
Years on the team: Two

Favorite Erg Piece: 

--8 minutes on, one minute off, 8 times. and then 2:30 on, 30 second off, 10 times

 

Favorite Cox'n Calls: 

--Cut the Cake, A.K.A.  "HOLD MY D***"

 

Favorite Rowing Memory:

--Being out on the water everyday. Also, more specifically riding with Natalie in the car and getting hooked on dub-step.

 

 If you could get an unlimited supply of one thing, what would it be? Why?

-- Money!!!!!!!!!!  I would be able to do the things I love to do without the stress of being broke.  College is getting more expensive every year as tuition is increased, and taking out loans knowing you have to eventually pay it all off is stress on stress.  It would also be nice if I could help out people in similar situations and who are not fortunate enough to get a jump start on life.

Featured Alumni Rower | Kyle Boje

Nickname: Boje
Year: 2004-2008
Hometown:Chanhassen
Major: Land Survey & Civil Engineering

Favorite Erg Piece:

--500's short and sweet

Favorite Cox'n Calls: 

--Jason Briant "Well at least you guys didn't get last!" 
 

Favorite Rowing Memory:

--Driving the trailer van getting 4.5 MPG across the country and getting up at 4:30 for fun.

If you could get an unlimited supply of one thing, what would it be? Why?

-- Food, I like to eat. Not the food from Coyote Canyon unless the ice cream machine is working.  

Featured Alumni Rower of the Week | Dylan Melin

Nickname: Dilly
Year: 2007
Hometown: Clinton, WI
Major: Pro-flight aviation
Years on the team: 2004-2007

Favorite Erg Piece:
--I liked when we would divide up into teams and do erg relay pieces.

Favorite Cox'n Calls:
--Anything Tattoo would say! Is that weird that I still think of Tattoo and "DRIVE" during sex? It probably is.
Favorite Rowing Memory:
--Wow, sooooo many good memories. If I had to pick just one, I would pick the naked van. We drove Kimmy's van to a regatta and the AC didn't work. As the trip wore on, clothes wore off until everyone in the van was in their underwear, it was ungodly hot. Truckers loved the rowing team...

If you could travel to any country, which one would it be? and Why?
--Mmmmm....maybe Cambodia. Southeast Asia is awesome! Cambodia is someplace that people always recommend that is kick ass! It is cheap, beautiful, great food, and not very touristy. My kind of place. :)

Parting thought:
--Rowing 'made' my college experience. It is one of the best things I have ever done.

Featured Rower of the Week | Susan Holker

 

 


Nickname: Suze or Susie
Year: 3^rd year
Hometown: Monticello, MN
Major: Ecology and Field Biology (I want to major in Zoology but State doesn’t have it)
Years on the team: first year

Favorite Erg Piece:

--Interval piece with 1000 meters at 5k split plus ten seconds, 500 meters at 5k split, and then the last 500 meters at 2k split. I also really like rotation pieces, like the Don Craig.

Favorite Cox'n Calls:

--Feel that run under the boat! We’re flyin! Drive with those legs, Push!

Favorite Rowing Memory:

--Scrimmaging at KU during spring break. I did a women’s novice four with Haley, Kailey, and Megan with CJ coxing. Our set felt so great and everything was together. Definitely felt the run under the boat! I also got to cox my first race there in a bow coxed men's four, it was so much fun.

If you could travel to any country, which one would it be? and Why?

--Germany because there is a lot to explore and it is where I trace back my family roots, from both sides. It would be cool to learn some family history there. I also have a really good friend that lives there, so of course I have to visit him.

Featured Alumni Rower | Alex Voigt

Nickname: Mostly just Voigt, though Nick Erickson once called me "Stallion" after an erg workout. That was pretty cool.
Year: 2004-2008
Hometown: Sartell, MN
Major: Mass Communication with a Print Journalism emphasis
Years on the team: 2004-2008, men's captain sophomore and junior years.




Favorite Erg Piece:
--Pyramids where we'd do 500m, 1,000m, 1,5000m, 2,000m, 1,500m, 1,000m and 500m. That always beat me up pretty well. I also remember Erg Baseball being "fun."

Favorite Cox'n Calls:
--Anytime Tattoo (Jason Briant) yelled "Drive!" during a race.

Favorite Rowing Memory:
--Hard to narrow it down to just one, but a few come to mind....
**Mixed open 4 at 2006 Quad Cities with Alissa, Maggie, Simpson and myself rowing and Kimmay coxing. Amazing row from everyone involved and I recall we took first by like 30 seconds or so. Plus any race that involves throwing Kim in the water afterward is a good race indeed.
**Setting a 2K PR and finishing second at the 2006 Twin Cities Indoor Rowing Championship two days after spraining my ankle.
**Flipping a racing single at spring break freshman year and getting the fire department called on me.
**Any crew social gathering that involved the words "hot seat" or "OLSCM."
**Any practice that didn't involve virtual rowing

What would be in the greatest ice cream sundae? (What would it consist of?):
--Bacon. The rest of the ingredients are less important.

Featured Rower | Luke Harren

Nickname: "Big Daddy", but more commonly is "Piece of Shit", first given to me by Matt McCann...novice year
Year: 3rd year at SCSU
Hometown: Circle Pines, MN
Major: Undecided......and yep, still nothing
Years on the team: 3 years

Favorite Erg Piece:
--30 minute relay, or pyramids, or 50K Wednesday
Favorite Cox'n Calls:
--Denucci, my first race novice year, "rage and serenity"/ or Kelly and Jennina and Maren, a friday practice of fall Novice year, it was a novice Men's 8 and the Jokes between the ladies about the smell of Mayonnaise was so ridiculous that we hardly rowed because nobody could keep it together.
 
Favorite Rowing Memory:
--Novice year at De Pere, where Kalie and Kim came up with the nickname "Big daddy"  for me.

What would be in the greatest ice cream sundae? 
--It would consist of a Johnson, a dinghy, riggers, parts of random boats, pieces of shit, and covered in Camouflage.