May 12, 2025 • 12 mins
Texas Rowing coach Dave O'Neill joined The Craig Way Show on Monday to recap Texas's championship at the SEC Tournament.
No. 2 Texas Rowing won the program's 10th-consecutive conference title and its first Southeastern Conference (SEC) Championship at Melton Lake Sunday morning. The victory clinches Texas' 14th overall conference crown as the Longhorns placed first out of four teams in the inaugural SEC Rowing Championship (No. 2 Texas, No. 4 Tennessee, No. 24 Oklahoma and Alabama).
Texas heads to the 2025 NCAA Championships on May-30-June 1 at Mercer Lake in West Windsor, N.J. The Longhorns are vying for their fourth NCAA Championship in the last five seasons. The NCAA Division I Women's Rowing Selection Show will air Tuesday, May 20 at 4 p.m. CT on NCAA.com.
No. 2 Texas Rowing won the program's 10th-consecutive conference title and its first Southeastern Conference (SEC) Championship at Melton Lake Sunday morning. The victory clinches Texas' 14th overall conference crown as the Longhorns placed first out of four teams in the inaugural SEC Rowing Championship (No. 2 Texas, No. 4 Tennessee, No. 24 Oklahoma and Alabama).
Texas heads to the 2025 NCAA Championships on May-30-June 1 at Mercer Lake in West Windsor, N.J. The Longhorns are vying for their fourth NCAA Championship in the last five seasons. The NCAA Division I Women's Rowing Selection Show will air Tuesday, May 20 at 4 p.m. CT on NCAA.com.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
There is a tower lighting ceremony tonight for Texas rowing,
and why not. They won the SEC championship in their
first year. You know, it's becoming a great theme for
ut athletics is the words and I put it in
quotations in their first year of competition in the Southeastern Conference.
(00:22):
Dot dot dot you know, whatever, Texas wins the conference championship. Well,
add rowing to that, Texas Rowing winning the twenty twenty
five NCAA championship. In all really it's their tenth straight
conference title, but of course their first ever SEC championship,
and at the helm of it always is head coach
Dave O'Neill who joins us. Now, you know, I know
(00:44):
it never gets old winning championships, but that moniker Dave
about it just means more than might it mean a
little bit more since it's the first go around in
the SEC.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
Yeah, I think you're absolutely right. Being the SEC championship
plan felt a little bit different, you know. And also
we were this was the hardest we had to go.
We were this was the toughest test yet Tennessee. They
won a few events and we had to come back
and had an epic race in the varsity eight finals.
So uh, yeah, being the first SEC championship and having
(01:18):
to uh really be challenged the most that we've had
in the last few years, it means a whole lot.
Speaker 1 (01:23):
Well, you brought up the first varsity eight boat. I've
got to get you to talk about it, because I
saw that and it was it was just kind of
breathtaking to watch that. Uh and you talk about having
to empty the tank with Tennessee jumping.
Speaker 3 (01:36):
Out to the league.
Speaker 1 (01:37):
What what were your observations when you were watching that
happen and watching your group bring you from behind to
win that one.
Speaker 2 (01:45):
Yeah, well you've seen You've probably seen more of it
than I have thus far.
Speaker 3 (01:49):
I could only see the first thousand meters.
Speaker 2 (01:51):
I was on the bike the bike path right alongside
and uh, you know, right up close, and then Tennessee.
Speaker 3 (01:56):
Got nearly at length.
Speaker 2 (01:58):
I'm like, oh, come on, guys, come on, and thankfully
we stopped their momentum. And we always talked about being
a strong second half, uh team, you know, and we
talk about going to full two thousand meters and as
long as but we had a very very young crew
and it's like, hey, just stay cool, stay calm, do
our thing.
Speaker 3 (02:18):
It's all about Texas. Don't worry about don't worry if
you're a little bit behind.
Speaker 2 (02:21):
But put it in football terms sort of, we were
sort of done a two touchdowns at the halfway, you know,
and uh but then when they started to move, I'm like,
all right, here we go.
Speaker 3 (02:31):
They're they're coming back.
Speaker 2 (02:32):
And then the bike path takes a detour and so
I couldn't see the next eight hundred meters or so.
Speaker 3 (02:39):
Wow. And then I pull around and I'm like, oh,
they got to lead. They did it. Oh my goodness,
that's great.
Speaker 2 (02:43):
So I'm looking forward to watching the replay on the
SEC network later tonight.
Speaker 3 (02:46):
Yeah, that's when they when.
Speaker 2 (02:48):
They when they started moving, I'm like, okay, we're always
like the best thing, you know, get momentum on your side,
especially when it's hurting the most in that third five
hundred meters and.
Speaker 3 (02:56):
Uh, yeah, they did it. It was it went exactly
to plan.
Speaker 1 (03:00):
I wanted to give you a chance to brag on
your stern three on Sueholderness and Emmy Gray and Marge
Vanderwald and what they did, and because I saw a
quote from you where you talked about how composed they
had to remain, how calm they have when things weren't
going well at first.
Speaker 2 (03:16):
Yeah, yeah, because it's easy to panic, it's easy to
get outside, just off and try to do something crazy
and do something different you used to. But coming out,
you know, see him on the dock, and Marks like
Sue was like just said that was exactly like practice,
like awesome, and said the first ten strokes didn't go
according to plan, but we just stayed cool, stayed calm,
you know.
Speaker 3 (03:34):
And this is Emmy's first race.
Speaker 2 (03:36):
You know, Emmy's just a freshman in her first time
in the Stern pair, and the Stern pair they sort
of set the tone for the rest of the boat.
There's sort of like the point guards, the quarterbacks, you know.
So Emmy, you know, and she wrote like a total
pro and Mark is just so strong and so powerful.
So they said a really good rhythm for you know,
someone like mag to just really go after it. And yeah,
(03:57):
things came to things came together the way we hoped well.
Speaker 1 (04:00):
In addition to Sue and Amy and Mark your Cox
and Amy Warner also, I know you were you were
proud of for what she did in that situation.
Speaker 2 (04:08):
Yeah, because this is this is her first year coxing
the top boat. And she's just gotten better and better.
And you know, she is the smallest.
Speaker 3 (04:16):
Person on the team.
Speaker 2 (04:17):
You know, there's a there's some giants on our team,
but she's you know, tiny. Uh, But she has a big,
strong presence and uh. And she has a really positive
spirit about her, I think. And I could hear her
in that first half, you know.
Speaker 3 (04:30):
And uh.
Speaker 2 (04:30):
And we talked about the ability to take a punch,
you know, take a punch and then deliver a punch,
you know, and uh, and I heard her say something
about like, hey, we just took a punch. That's okay,
we can we can respond. We're going to respond. Well,
we're going to respond in the second half, so she
kept them together and then they went after it and
you know, got the job done.
Speaker 1 (04:48):
You got your first victory of the day. And it
looked pretty convincing with what you did in the win
over Tennessee and the second Varsity four on that how
important is it to get that first one in the books,
because I know, you know, your third varsity eight had
a runner up in the second race of the morning,
and they had that runner up in the third Varsity
(05:09):
four that was very close. Finally able to break through
and get the first win of the day. How important
was that for setting the tone for the rest of
the day.
Speaker 3 (05:16):
It was very, very important.
Speaker 2 (05:18):
And I think I jinxed I think I jinxed us
earlier in the week when I said that at the
previous nine championships that we'd had in the big twelve, uh,
you know, the six events, we hadn't lost the race.
We went fifty four and oh you know, so then
we lost those first two. Like, oh, why did I
bring that up? Like, because we don't really talk about
winning that much. We just thought about going fast. I'm like, oh,
(05:40):
why did I say that?
Speaker 3 (05:41):
You know?
Speaker 2 (05:41):
And and all of our boats were on the water
at that time, but they could see that, you know,
the boats that were still warming up getting ready, they
could see that second four getting the lead, and you know,
we could we could tell that the momentum got started
getting on our get on our side. So winning those
those two four events, uh took the beat on points and.
Speaker 3 (06:01):
Then you know, and then a hard fought second eight.
Speaker 2 (06:04):
So but that it should but and then came down
to the first eight race, and that's the way it
should be. And uh, the winner of that first eight
determined the championship.
Speaker 1 (06:12):
Visiting with Dave O'Neil, Texas rowing coach as they win
their tenth consecutive conference championship. When we talked about it
being a little bit different obviously with the SEC let
me ask you this now, as you get ready and
you're looking for your fourth national championship in the past
five years. Does being pushed the way your group was
pushed in the SECS do you think that helps for
(06:34):
when you got to Mercer Lake in New Jersey.
Speaker 2 (06:37):
Yeah, great question, absolutely, absolutely, especially because now the schedule
was a little bit different this year.
Speaker 3 (06:42):
We have three weeks before the NCAA Championships.
Speaker 2 (06:44):
It's usually two weeks, so we can definitely recover and
we can have a little really good training block in
this next you know, this next ten days we'll train
really hard. But most importantly, you know, there's three freshmen
in our top boat and it's a very you know,
young crew all around, and the theme for this entire
spring has been how can we accelerate their athletic maturity?
Speaker 3 (07:05):
You know? Sometimes he was like, oh, the best thing
about freshmen is.
Speaker 2 (07:07):
They become sophomores and but they're they're doing great, you know,
so I think them being tested like that and then
coming through we said, like that was that was like
worth two years of experience right there. So yeah, we
feel pretty good heading heading into Dance Hit Championships.
Speaker 1 (07:24):
You used to like the tower lighting thing you're going
over there. We've got that thing right around the eight
thirty I had the photo gonna happen around eight fifty.
You still you still you know you still like doing
that tower lighting photo.
Speaker 3 (07:37):
Yeah, that's great.
Speaker 2 (07:38):
It's a it's a you know, wonderful tradition here at
University of Texas and that never.
Speaker 3 (07:41):
Gets old for sure.
Speaker 2 (07:43):
Yeah, and it's gonna be the first time for a
number one on the team, so it's always special.
Speaker 3 (07:48):
It's always it's always wonderful. All right.
Speaker 1 (07:50):
Now, I got to ask you about There's two things
I want to ask you about. One for folks who
don't know this, and we're used to watching uh election
Sunday for college basketball, and we're used to watching now
the college football playoff selection show on that last day.
Last night, softball had its selection show and solid we're
(08:11):
a number six national Sea Baseball. We'll have it all
Memorial Day at eleven o'clock in the morning.
Speaker 3 (08:16):
Folks may not know this.
Speaker 1 (08:17):
There is a NCAA Division one women's rowing selection show
and it comes up a week from tomorrow night at
NCAA dot Com. Well, the team guy around to watch that.
Speaker 3 (08:28):
Good question. No, we probably won't. Yeah, it's always.
Speaker 2 (08:31):
It always happens right during practice time and they're like, no,
we were good, and we know we're gonna get invited.
Speaker 3 (08:37):
We don't. We don't. We try not to get too
hyped up for that stuff. So we know what. We know.
Speaker 2 (08:41):
We're going to the NCAA Championships and we'll be curious,
like what are seeded? But no, it's sort of business
as usual.
Speaker 3 (08:48):
I guess. We say have those big celebrations for a
yeah when we win. Yeah, I hear you.
Speaker 1 (08:54):
All right, So now, but the last thing I want
to ask you is about Mercer Lake or Lake Mercer
whatever in US winsor New Jersey. How much do you
know about it? Have you been up there contested up
there before? You had me at the advance disadvantage there.
I'm not sure about how many times that place has
hosted before. How familiar are you with this, with this
venue for the NCAA.
Speaker 3 (09:14):
Great question. I'm very familiar with it.
Speaker 2 (09:17):
That's where the national team practices, and uh, the NCAA
Championships has been there at least three times, Okay, and
you know the last time, in fact, the first time
Texas that we came home, came home with the trophy
or you know, back in twenty seventeen. Yeah, that's the
last time they hosted and uh, that was a big
that was a big race for us.
Speaker 3 (09:38):
So yeah, I'm I'm very familiar with it.
Speaker 2 (09:40):
I think a few people on the team they've they've
probably raced there before. And yeah, it's a it's a
good spot. It's it's just right outside Princeton. It's gonna,
it's gonna and they host a number of events. They'll
they'll do a good job.
Speaker 3 (09:54):
All right.
Speaker 1 (09:54):
So here here's an uneducated question, but I'll put it
to you anyway. You know, in the in the realm
of basketball, a lot of times teams will be asked
if an NC tournament venue is different for them, if
they're shooting in a dome because of depth perception instead
of a true basketball arena. So the uneducated question is
(10:15):
how different is this lake this course? Does it provide
different types of challenges?
Speaker 3 (10:22):
Say?
Speaker 1 (10:22):
Then, you know, even Ladybird Lake or Walter Long or
some of the other places where you've had the team compete.
Speaker 3 (10:30):
Yeah, yeah, great, great question.
Speaker 2 (10:32):
Yeah, every every course is different, you know, with the
elements and the wind direction and sometimes landmarks on the water,
the warm up, the traffic pattern for warm ups, and
the docking situation you know, where are team tents are
going to be. Every course is a little bit different.
And you know this at Mercer, it's all going to
be fine. You know, we'll get there and we'll within
(10:53):
within twenty four hours it's going to feel like home.
And that's one of the big things once once we
get there, like set up camp, you know, get used
to the course, you know, understand the landmarks, you know,
and we always say, like you know, the first three
times on the course, they'll get used to.
Speaker 3 (11:08):
The environment and they'll be they'll be full of prepared.
So yeah, this might not be the same as being
in a dome.
Speaker 2 (11:13):
But uh, but then but then we say, when we're
on the course, when we're racing, Jess, we're focused on
blade tip to blade tip, just focus on us. Yeah,
so every place is a little bit different, but they'll
get used to it and it's going to be fine.
Speaker 1 (11:24):
It'll be May thirty through June first and Mercer Lake,
West Windsor, New Jersey. The Loghorns looking for the fourth
NCAA championship in the past five years. They win the
SEC title and the tower lighting ceremony tonight over at
the ut Tower there at eight thirty. David, it's always
great to visit with you and continued success and we'll
visit again soon. All right, thanks very much, thanks for
(11:46):
having you book the hook them that is Dave O'Neil.
What a great job he's done, a fabulous job as
head coach of Texas. They've they've won three national titles
and they'll be going for a fourth and five years
fairs he mentioned not far from Princess kind of aw
Trenton and Princeton, New Jersey there West Windsor, New Jersey
at Mercer Lake. So best of luck to Texas Rowing
(12:08):
SEC champions
There is a tower lighting ceremony tonight for Texas rowing,
and why not. They won the SEC championship in their
first year. You know, it's becoming a great theme for
ut athletics is the words and I put it in
quotations in their first year of competition in the Southeastern Conference.
(00:22):
Dot dot dot you know, whatever, Texas wins the conference championship. Well,
add rowing to that, Texas Rowing winning the twenty twenty
five NCAA championship. In all really it's their tenth straight
conference title, but of course their first ever SEC championship,
and at the helm of it always is head coach
Dave O'Neill who joins us. Now, you know, I know
(00:44):
it never gets old winning championships, but that moniker Dave
about it just means more than might it mean a
little bit more since it's the first go around in
the SEC.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
Yeah, I think you're absolutely right. Being the SEC championship
plan felt a little bit different, you know. And also
we were this was the hardest we had to go.
We were this was the toughest test yet Tennessee. They
won a few events and we had to come back
and had an epic race in the varsity eight finals.
So uh, yeah, being the first SEC championship and having
(01:18):
to uh really be challenged the most that we've had
in the last few years, it means a whole lot.
Speaker 1 (01:23):
Well, you brought up the first varsity eight boat. I've
got to get you to talk about it, because I
saw that and it was it was just kind of
breathtaking to watch that. Uh and you talk about having
to empty the tank with Tennessee jumping.
Speaker 3 (01:36):
Out to the league.
Speaker 1 (01:37):
What what were your observations when you were watching that
happen and watching your group bring you from behind to
win that one.
Speaker 2 (01:45):
Yeah, well you've seen You've probably seen more of it
than I have thus far.
Speaker 3 (01:49):
I could only see the first thousand meters.
Speaker 2 (01:51):
I was on the bike the bike path right alongside
and uh, you know, right up close, and then Tennessee.
Speaker 3 (01:56):
Got nearly at length.
Speaker 2 (01:58):
I'm like, oh, come on, guys, come on, and thankfully
we stopped their momentum. And we always talked about being
a strong second half, uh team, you know, and we
talk about going to full two thousand meters and as
long as but we had a very very young crew
and it's like, hey, just stay cool, stay calm, do
our thing.
Speaker 3 (02:18):
It's all about Texas. Don't worry about don't worry if
you're a little bit behind.
Speaker 2 (02:21):
But put it in football terms sort of, we were
sort of done a two touchdowns at the halfway, you know,
and uh but then when they started to move, I'm like,
all right, here we go.
Speaker 3 (02:31):
They're they're coming back.
Speaker 2 (02:32):
And then the bike path takes a detour and so
I couldn't see the next eight hundred meters or so.
Speaker 3 (02:39):
Wow. And then I pull around and I'm like, oh,
they got to lead. They did it. Oh my goodness,
that's great.
Speaker 2 (02:43):
So I'm looking forward to watching the replay on the
SEC network later tonight.
Speaker 3 (02:46):
Yeah, that's when they when.
Speaker 2 (02:48):
They when they started moving, I'm like, okay, we're always
like the best thing, you know, get momentum on your side,
especially when it's hurting the most in that third five
hundred meters and.
Speaker 3 (02:56):
Uh, yeah, they did it. It was it went exactly
to plan.
Speaker 1 (03:00):
I wanted to give you a chance to brag on
your stern three on Sueholderness and Emmy Gray and Marge
Vanderwald and what they did, and because I saw a
quote from you where you talked about how composed they
had to remain, how calm they have when things weren't
going well at first.
Speaker 2 (03:16):
Yeah, yeah, because it's easy to panic, it's easy to
get outside, just off and try to do something crazy
and do something different you used to. But coming out,
you know, see him on the dock, and Marks like
Sue was like just said that was exactly like practice,
like awesome, and said the first ten strokes didn't go
according to plan, but we just stayed cool, stayed calm,
you know.
Speaker 3 (03:34):
And this is Emmy's first race.
Speaker 2 (03:36):
You know, Emmy's just a freshman in her first time
in the Stern pair, and the Stern pair they sort
of set the tone for the rest of the boat.
There's sort of like the point guards, the quarterbacks, you know.
So Emmy, you know, and she wrote like a total
pro and Mark is just so strong and so powerful.
So they said a really good rhythm for you know,
someone like mag to just really go after it. And yeah,
(03:57):
things came to things came together the way we hoped well.
Speaker 1 (04:00):
In addition to Sue and Amy and Mark your Cox
and Amy Warner also, I know you were you were
proud of for what she did in that situation.
Speaker 2 (04:08):
Yeah, because this is this is her first year coxing
the top boat. And she's just gotten better and better.
And you know, she is the smallest.
Speaker 3 (04:16):
Person on the team.
Speaker 2 (04:17):
You know, there's a there's some giants on our team,
but she's you know, tiny. Uh, But she has a big,
strong presence and uh. And she has a really positive
spirit about her, I think. And I could hear her
in that first half, you know.
Speaker 3 (04:30):
And uh.
Speaker 2 (04:30):
And we talked about the ability to take a punch,
you know, take a punch and then deliver a punch,
you know, and uh, and I heard her say something
about like, hey, we just took a punch. That's okay,
we can we can respond. We're going to respond. Well,
we're going to respond in the second half, so she
kept them together and then they went after it and
you know, got the job done.
Speaker 1 (04:48):
You got your first victory of the day. And it
looked pretty convincing with what you did in the win
over Tennessee and the second Varsity four on that how
important is it to get that first one in the books,
because I know, you know, your third varsity eight had
a runner up in the second race of the morning,
and they had that runner up in the third Varsity
(05:09):
four that was very close. Finally able to break through
and get the first win of the day. How important
was that for setting the tone for the rest of
the day.
Speaker 3 (05:16):
It was very, very important.
Speaker 2 (05:18):
And I think I jinxed I think I jinxed us
earlier in the week when I said that at the
previous nine championships that we'd had in the big twelve, uh,
you know, the six events, we hadn't lost the race.
We went fifty four and oh you know, so then
we lost those first two. Like, oh, why did I
bring that up? Like, because we don't really talk about
winning that much. We just thought about going fast. I'm like, oh,
(05:40):
why did I say that?
Speaker 3 (05:41):
You know?
Speaker 2 (05:41):
And and all of our boats were on the water
at that time, but they could see that, you know,
the boats that were still warming up getting ready, they
could see that second four getting the lead, and you know,
we could we could tell that the momentum got started
getting on our get on our side. So winning those
those two four events, uh took the beat on points and.
Speaker 3 (06:01):
Then you know, and then a hard fought second eight.
Speaker 2 (06:04):
So but that it should but and then came down
to the first eight race, and that's the way it
should be. And uh, the winner of that first eight
determined the championship.
Speaker 1 (06:12):
Visiting with Dave O'Neil, Texas rowing coach as they win
their tenth consecutive conference championship. When we talked about it
being a little bit different obviously with the SEC let
me ask you this now, as you get ready and
you're looking for your fourth national championship in the past
five years. Does being pushed the way your group was
pushed in the SECS do you think that helps for
(06:34):
when you got to Mercer Lake in New Jersey.
Speaker 2 (06:37):
Yeah, great question, absolutely, absolutely, especially because now the schedule
was a little bit different this year.
Speaker 3 (06:42):
We have three weeks before the NCAA Championships.
Speaker 2 (06:44):
It's usually two weeks, so we can definitely recover and
we can have a little really good training block in
this next you know, this next ten days we'll train
really hard. But most importantly, you know, there's three freshmen
in our top boat and it's a very you know,
young crew all around, and the theme for this entire
spring has been how can we accelerate their athletic maturity?
Speaker 3 (07:05):
You know? Sometimes he was like, oh, the best thing
about freshmen is.
Speaker 2 (07:07):
They become sophomores and but they're they're doing great, you know,
so I think them being tested like that and then
coming through we said, like that was that was like
worth two years of experience right there. So yeah, we
feel pretty good heading heading into Dance Hit Championships.
Speaker 1 (07:24):
You used to like the tower lighting thing you're going
over there. We've got that thing right around the eight
thirty I had the photo gonna happen around eight fifty.
You still you still you know you still like doing
that tower lighting photo.
Speaker 3 (07:37):
Yeah, that's great.
Speaker 2 (07:38):
It's a it's a you know, wonderful tradition here at
University of Texas and that never.
Speaker 3 (07:41):
Gets old for sure.
Speaker 2 (07:43):
Yeah, and it's gonna be the first time for a
number one on the team, so it's always special.
Speaker 3 (07:48):
It's always it's always wonderful. All right.
Speaker 1 (07:50):
Now, I got to ask you about There's two things
I want to ask you about. One for folks who
don't know this, and we're used to watching uh election
Sunday for college basketball, and we're used to watching now
the college football playoff selection show on that last day.
Last night, softball had its selection show and solid we're
(08:11):
a number six national Sea Baseball. We'll have it all
Memorial Day at eleven o'clock in the morning.
Speaker 3 (08:16):
Folks may not know this.
Speaker 1 (08:17):
There is a NCAA Division one women's rowing selection show
and it comes up a week from tomorrow night at
NCAA dot Com. Well, the team guy around to watch that.
Speaker 3 (08:28):
Good question. No, we probably won't. Yeah, it's always.
Speaker 2 (08:31):
It always happens right during practice time and they're like, no,
we were good, and we know we're gonna get invited.
Speaker 3 (08:37):
We don't. We don't. We try not to get too
hyped up for that stuff. So we know what. We know.
Speaker 2 (08:41):
We're going to the NCAA Championships and we'll be curious,
like what are seeded? But no, it's sort of business
as usual.
Speaker 3 (08:48):
I guess. We say have those big celebrations for a
yeah when we win. Yeah, I hear you.
Speaker 1 (08:54):
All right, So now, but the last thing I want
to ask you is about Mercer Lake or Lake Mercer
whatever in US winsor New Jersey. How much do you
know about it? Have you been up there contested up
there before? You had me at the advance disadvantage there.
I'm not sure about how many times that place has
hosted before. How familiar are you with this, with this
venue for the NCAA.
Speaker 3 (09:14):
Great question. I'm very familiar with it.
Speaker 2 (09:17):
That's where the national team practices, and uh, the NCAA
Championships has been there at least three times, Okay, and
you know the last time, in fact, the first time
Texas that we came home, came home with the trophy
or you know, back in twenty seventeen. Yeah, that's the
last time they hosted and uh, that was a big
that was a big race for us.
Speaker 3 (09:38):
So yeah, I'm I'm very familiar with it.
Speaker 2 (09:40):
I think a few people on the team they've they've
probably raced there before. And yeah, it's a it's a
good spot. It's it's just right outside Princeton. It's gonna,
it's gonna and they host a number of events. They'll
they'll do a good job.
Speaker 3 (09:54):
All right.
Speaker 1 (09:54):
So here here's an uneducated question, but I'll put it
to you anyway. You know, in the in the realm
of basketball, a lot of times teams will be asked
if an NC tournament venue is different for them, if
they're shooting in a dome because of depth perception instead
of a true basketball arena. So the uneducated question is
(10:15):
how different is this lake this course? Does it provide
different types of challenges?
Speaker 3 (10:22):
Say?
Speaker 1 (10:22):
Then, you know, even Ladybird Lake or Walter Long or
some of the other places where you've had the team compete.
Speaker 3 (10:30):
Yeah, yeah, great, great question.
Speaker 2 (10:32):
Yeah, every every course is different, you know, with the
elements and the wind direction and sometimes landmarks on the water,
the warm up, the traffic pattern for warm ups, and
the docking situation you know, where are team tents are
going to be. Every course is a little bit different.
And you know this at Mercer, it's all going to
be fine. You know, we'll get there and we'll within
(10:53):
within twenty four hours it's going to feel like home.
And that's one of the big things once once we
get there, like set up camp, you know, get used
to the course, you know, understand the landmarks, you know,
and we always say, like you know, the first three
times on the course, they'll get used to.
Speaker 3 (11:08):
The environment and they'll be they'll be full of prepared.
So yeah, this might not be the same as being
in a dome.
Speaker 2 (11:13):
But uh, but then but then we say, when we're
on the course, when we're racing, Jess, we're focused on
blade tip to blade tip, just focus on us. Yeah,
so every place is a little bit different, but they'll
get used to it and it's going to be fine.
Speaker 1 (11:24):
It'll be May thirty through June first and Mercer Lake,
West Windsor, New Jersey. The Loghorns looking for the fourth
NCAA championship in the past five years. They win the
SEC title and the tower lighting ceremony tonight over at
the ut Tower there at eight thirty. David, it's always
great to visit with you and continued success and we'll
visit again soon. All right, thanks very much, thanks for
(11:46):
having you book the hook them that is Dave O'Neil.
What a great job he's done, a fabulous job as
head coach of Texas. They've they've won three national titles
and they'll be going for a fourth and five years
fairs he mentioned not far from Princess kind of aw
Trenton and Princeton, New Jersey there West Windsor, New Jersey
at Mercer Lake. So best of luck to Texas Rowing
(12:08):
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