Wheaton College Alumni Magazine Winter 2013 | Page 15
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4:20 a.m. Crew team captain Jerrod
Schrock ’13 wakes up for practice on
the Fox River in St. Charles at this time
twice a week in the spring and fall.
By 5:30 a.m., Jerrod and his four
teammates are skimming over the
water. The 39-member team of men
and women practice five to six days
a week, with a maximum of two early
mornings on the river.
The first weekend in November,
the team headed to Chattanooga,
Tennessee, for the Head of the Hooch,
where the men’s varsity boat took first
place in the four-man championship
race last year. One of the women’s
boats took sixth place last year in the
Head of the Charles, the world’s largest
2-day rowing event. Racing against
universities and clubs with much larger
student populations, Coach Gary Bohlin
notes it’s remarkable that Wheaton’s
boats can compete nationally.
Says Jerrod, “Crew is an individual
and team sport at the same time.
We have to focus on what we’re doing
individually, while also being perfectly
synced with three other guys—we
become really close as a team.”
Crew is one of ten club sports at
Wheaton that draw a total of about
180 students each year.
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