Update from Head Rowing Coach Steve Kish -- May 2024

Greetings from the Susquehanna River,

The team is tapering and preparing for the Patriot League Championships on Friday, May 17 in Cherry Hill, N.J.. Please keep an eye on our webpage for the schedule if you plan to attend or perhaps watch the livestream. As for the past couple of months, the team has been grinding, but it also feels like time has been flying by.

These last few weeks have been the most exciting, with one first and two second-place finishes (out of 10) at the George Mason Invite, and then solid wins over UConn here at home for Senior Day and then a sweep of Lehigh this past weekend, also here at home. Other highlights include:

Juliette Gaggini '24 winning the Alvin F. Jackson Jr. Memorial Scholar-Athlete Award at the department’s senior recognition dinner
Patriot League Boat of the Week honors for varsity eight, the second varsity eight, and the varsity four in three successive weeks
Haley Beardsley '24 being profiled in Tales from the Herd

Most importantly, the team continues to push for improvement in each of these last days of the regular season. As you know from previous installments of this newsletter, the team culture continues to be a primary focus, as well as the successful blending of recruited high school rowers with high school athletes who were introduced to the sport of rowing here at Bucknell. Both efforts are going well, thanks to the buy-in from the entire team.

Thanks once again to everyone who participated in the One Herd One Day initiative at the end of March. We are closer to reaching our fundraising goal for the year, but still a step away from being able to go to Clemson, S.C., for our training trip in January. If possible, I hope you will consider a gift to the program before the end of this fiscal year.

Warmest regards,

Steve Kish '92
Head Rowing Coach
Bucknell University
kish@bucknell.edu

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