Last weekend the UCI crew team took a trip down to San Diego for the Crew Classic. This is always a fun event and we have fun every year we go. I still remember when I was a freshmen, there was so much rain that one of the boats sank as it crossed the finish line. Anyways, on to the results. In our first race on Saturday, we raced against Washington, Oregon St, San Diego St and UC Davis. There was a lot of really rough water and we did pretty bad. We ended up fourth in the race. Which actually was the place we were 'supposed' to finish, but the time was pretty bad. The time from the race officials was 7:18, which seemed to us to be REALLY REALLY bad. But as I just noticed from the Jamco website, they clocked us at a much more respectable 6:53. Of course 6:53 is still not good, but given the racing conditions, it's not horrible.

As for the second race on Sunday, we raced against UCLA, UC San Diego, Santa Clara and San Diego St. We stayed up for almost an hour and a half the night before going over the race in detail with our coxswain just to make sure he knew what to do. We were so pumped up on Sunday because not only did we want to win, but we wanted to beat UCLA to make up for our close loss to them a few weeks ago. We ended up in lane 1, which was supposed to help us quite a bit if the wind/current got bad. The race got underway, and just like we expected, it was neck and neck the whole way down. Up to about the 1200m mark, all crews were within 2 seats of each other. At the 1500m mark, we made our move to put us in the lead for good. After an awesome sprint towards the finish line, we edged out SDSU for the victory. It was awesome. What made it more awesome was the face that on top of the face that my parents drove down and fed the entire team, Heather and her mom drove all the way down from Irvine just to watch this one race, and they were treated to a great race. RegattaShots.com should have some pictures up of the race soon, and I will have some pictures up soon that my Dad took as well.