Feeling butt-hurt about school sport

[the cow says moo]

As some of you may know, I row Crew for a sport in school. It's getting late in the spring season and next year's captains were picked today at the end-of-the-year banquet. Every year there are four captains that are voted for by the team members (the votes only affect the head coach's final decision of who gets picked, but he usually sticks pretty closely to the votes). I've been rowing since before high school (longer than anyone else on the team) and everyone on the team voted for two other guys and me and then the last vote was split up between the other juniors. Everybody told me I was going to get captain for sure.

So imagine my surprise when the head coach went up to the stand and said that we're going to start out with only two captains (the two other guys) and then wait to name the other two after fall season next year. Honestly, I was prepared for either outcome: if I got captain, I would of obviously been happy, and if I didn't get captain, I would of smiled at the banquet and then would respectively show up less and less later in the year. But no, coach pulled this bullshit and now I have to wait half a year. Tbh, I've always loathed crew (it sucks ass) but never expressed my hate too openly and knew that some day it would be worth it when I got captain. **** this. And to make matters worse, coach came up to me after the banquet and said that I'll get it for sure when he picks them after the fall season. Screw that asshole.

Anyways, I'm just pissed off and needed some way of venting steam.

 

[DEATHMASTER]

What exactly is crew.

 

[Acepilotf14]

Stop gettin' mad at sports.

 

[the cow says moo]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B2EJ5CVb7pk

 

[Uriel]

Stop gettin' mad at sports.

Yeah, get mad at video games instead.

 

[Bob_Marley]

What exactly is crew.

According to wiki its the four in the middle of the boat, typically the more powerful but less technically skilled members of the team, apparently.

Anyway, sucks to be you I guess. On the brightside, stick with it and you'll get captain, which will look good on your CV, you'll maintain your fitness and you can take your built up frustration out on the rest of the team when you're on top!

 

[ktimekiller]

Didn't know different positions would have different enjoyment levels

 

[the cow says moo]

Nah, most of the people on the team are good friends with eachother. Even with the underclassmen. And obviously I'll stay to get captain. One of my friends, though, who had a good chance of getting the last spot for captain wants to quit and I'm having a hard time talking him out of it, even though this will probably increase his chances of getting captain and he doesn't really have any friends outside of crew. I really just don't get what went through my coach's mind when he did this.

 

[63]

Why the **** are there 4 captains?? What sport is this??

 

[Acepilotf14]

Read the thread god damn.

 

[Robbo]

I ended up captain of my school kayaking team, it was nothing but hard work in my last year of school. I say you give it up and bring those two down from the inside.

 

[Naph]

Screw the arsehole coach? The threads title lead me to believe that your coach was screwing your arsehole.

 

[Qonfused]

My high school was so damn poor I cringed at you bitching about a rowing team.

 

[VirusType2]

I only care about rowing if USA is winning.

 

[dfc05]

My high school was so damn poor I cringed at you bitching about a rowing team.

I didn't even know there was such a thing as crew until I got to college. Possibly because there was no place to row around my high school, aside from the bayous.

Anyways, I have to wonder why you ever joined in the first place when you "loathe" the sport itself? Go do something fun.

 

[StarBob]

Crew is weak. In my high school it was like a cult - it was all they ever talked/complained about at any point. It was just all the people who couldn't be successful at any other sport joining something that involves little actual skill (imagine running track on water) and making a huge deal out of it. Luckily in college they were much more quiet albeit more cult like... some of them anyways. Those crew girls usually looked pretty good though.

 

[Dan]

As some of you may know, I row Crew for a sport in school. It's getting late in the spring season and next year's captains were picked today at the end-of-the-year banquet. Every year there are four captains that are voted for by the team members (the votes only affect the head coach's final decision of who gets picked, but he usually sticks pretty closely to the votes). I've been rowing since before high school (longer than anyone else on the team) and everyone on the team voted for two other guys and me and then the last vote was split up between the other juniors. Everybody told me I was going to get captain for sure.

So imagine my surprise when the head coach went up to the stand and said that we're going to start out with only two captains (the two other guys) and then wait to name the other two after fall season next year. Honestly, I was prepared for either outcome: if I got captain, I would of obviously been happy, and if I didn't get captain, I would of smiled at the banquet and then would respectively show up less and less later in the year. But no, coach pulled this bullshit and now I have to wait half a year. Tbh, I've always loathed crew (it sucks ass) but never expressed my hate too openly and knew that some day it would be worth it when I got captain. **** this. And to make matters worse, coach came up to me after the banquet and said that I'll get it for sure when he picks them after the fall season. Screw that asshole.

Anyways, I'm just pissed off and needed some way of venting steam.

Coach's way of saying he doesn't want you on the crew. In competitive sports above a certain level, it is the coach's job to be an asshat. He tells you that you suck and should quit. If you quit, he gets confirmation that he is right, and he's better off without you. If you harden the **** up and train to become better, then he gets confirmation that he told you exactly what you needed to hear to become better.

Basically, don't cry about it. If you want to compete, do it on your own terms. If you show motivation and dedication and put in the hours every day, you will win races. If your crew sucks, find the guys who are willing to work hard and make whatever boat combination you can with them. If they all suck, race a single. If you just want to hang out with jocks and get drunk, play football.

Sounds like you don't really want to compete. And joining a competitive sport with no motivation to compete is kind of a dumb idea.

 

[No Limit]

You guys had rowing in your high schools? wow.

 

[Dan]

I raced for 4 years in high school (public school) and 2 years in uni before blowing out some discs in my lower back. We had a good crew and a lot of them went on to the national team. One guy already made the Olympics. I think rowing taught me a lot about what I am physically capable of, and what true determination and pain means. I don't think I would go back now if I could, because there are too many other things that I want to do, and I know that I could not give it everything I have, but I am glad that I did it when I did.

Even if I am softer now, I know what it's like to wake up at quarter to five, push my body to failure in the freezing cold and dark, spend lunch dripping sweat on the erg (rowing machine) in some dark hallway, and then go back in the afternoon to lift weights and get on the water again. I can't think of anything that hurts more, or that I would rather do less than 2 minute interval pieces. But I know that I can make my body do it, even when it is screaming at me to stop.

I can still go over every little detail of the stroke in my head, visualize what each muscle in my body is doing. I can put my mind into a race and feel my fingers tingle with adrenaline and my heart start pumping. I can pull on advice and inspiration from my coaches and team mates. I still smile inside when I remember what it feels like to win and stand on a podium.

 

[kupocake]

I'd like to row on the crew, Mama!
That's the thing I'd like to do, Mama!
To be known throughout Yale, as I walk about it...
Get a boil on my tail, and then talk about it!

 

[Maestro]

Getting to lead a large team of people is a lot more exciting than being just another member. I'm Senior Patrol Leader of my troop, in essence the head of the entire authority structure, and it's a lot more challenging and involving than just doing scout stuff. I can understand the sentiment of either 'win now, or quit.' That's what I said to myself when I ran for SPL: either win now, or quit.

 

[the cow says moo]

Even though I hate it, I'm not going to quit, since some of my closest friends are on crew and we're actually pretty good. We're going to Nationals this weekend and have a pretty decent shot.

I also feel that I owe a debt to rowing since it changed me from a small, fat, wimpy kid to the tall, lean, athlete that I am. At the start of high school, I would be one of the last people to finish a team run. Now I'm about the second fastest person on the team.

Not to mention that my older sister was captain, my mom was crew Treasurer for a few years, and my dad was just elected President, so I don't think I even have the option to quit anymore.

 

[Raziaar]

The other two guys sucked his dick.

You'll have your chance soon enough.



Seriously though, that sucks dude. Hopefully you'll end up getting it. If he screws you again... I say you row him out into the middle of the ocean.