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Pacific’s newest athletic club, Pacific Rowing has made tremendous strokes since its creation last year. Just last month, the women’s club A team won the gold metal at the 34th annual San Diego Crew Classic. The women’s club B team won fourth. The men’s team is also seeing great improvements. 
The eight-boat that earned the gold was powered by Ashley Lee, Liza Boyle, Jessica Cicone, Stacy Costello, Jane Unruh, Katherine Lindsey, Lindsey Garehime, and Whitney Royse with Kristin Heller as coxswain. It may seem that with such success, the team would become part of Pacific athletics officially, but Head Coach Eric Weir said that for now, “We are very proud to represent student life as a Club Sport, so we are not currently looking to become an NCAA women's sport.” Coach Weir is new to the team this year, “I started coaching in 1987 after completing my collegiate rowing career at Sacramento State, which was also a fairly new p r o g r a m … Rowing had a profound impact on me and I knew that I wanted t o give back to the sport.” Ashley Lee, the President of the Pacific Rowing Club was the main component to bringing crew to Pacific. Now in its second year, she is very pleased with how things are going, “This experience is like nothing else I have experienced in my whole career as an athlete. I feel totally connected to the team and the University now that I'm involved with Crew. One of the reasons I wanted to bring crew to Pacific was the raw talent and personalities that come with it. Crew is so connected. It's what we do, we tap into each other and produce fast boat speed.” This weekend a tremendous effort will be made by the team as a fundraiser. The event is called “Pacific to Pacific.” The team will row 100 miles from the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco to the Calaveras foot bridge behind Baun Fitness Center. The 30 person team will rotate every hour with eight people in the boat at a time. The team will stay overnight in Pittsburg, about halfway to their final destination. 
There will be a reception at 5PM at Baun Fitness Center on Sunday April 22nd, just as the team is scheduled to arrive. Everyone is encouraged to come and greet the team as they finish. The team is still accepting new members, no experience necessary. Practice times are Tuesday, Thursday and Friday at the boathouse(10 minutes from campus at the end of March lane) from 6-7:30 am, Wednesday 6:30-7:30am at Baun Fitness Center, and Saturday at the boathouse 8:30-10:30am. Fall rowing will start again September 10, 2007. Interested future Pacific Crew members should come see Coach Eric Weir in his office, room 116 in the Main Gym, or e-mail at:
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