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Your Erg Fleet, the Perpetual Motion Machine, how to harness your Erg Fleet to keep it up-to-date and better serve your team and athletes
This is Joe McMullin’s experience keeping his high school erg fleets up-to-date while better serving the team and the athletes. TLDR: He breaks down costs of keeping the fleet fresh, average costs to fix ergs, renting ergs and rates, and how to handle donated machines. Your erg fleet is one of your best assets and…
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Regatta Race Day Timelines – A Guide
This is Joe McMullin’s take on race day timelines for high school crews. I’m currently mentoring a former rower turned HS novice coach who asked what does a race day timeline look like. I became curious and asked some AI chatbots what they thought race day timelines look like for a home race. I’ll add…
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Why Are You Getting Paid Less Than The Boats You Coach?
A high school rowing coach friend of mine was recently offered $75,000 a year to go coach at a rival program. On face value this seems like an absurd amount of money to coach high school athletes, but is completely in line with where our sport should be. Coaching high school athletes is a full…
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My Experience with Empachers at a High School Team
This is Joe McMullin’s experience with Empacher Racing Shells at the High School level from 2019 to 2022 that lead to two SRAA National Championships and a Stotesbury Cup Championship in the the Boys Varsity 8+ 1) The kids know that Empaher is generally the preferred shell of fast crews, hence the “Yellow Magic.” There’s…
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Your Rowers Are Doing the Million Meters Over Summer
This is Joe McMullin’s take on how coaches should encourage their athletes to do the million meters on the rowing machine over the summer I am encouraging the rowers all year to do the million over the summer, even when the fall season starts, I’m pointing out the benefits of doing the million meters. Before…
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It’s High School Rowing Hiring Season, What Are the Questions You Can Ask Prospective Programs?
This is Joe McMullin’s take on the types of questions that should be asked of any program that you’re interviewing for as a high school rowing coach to help ensure your goals and vision align with the prospective program. What is the vision for the board? How is the team financed? What is the relationship…
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So You Want To Go To The Henley Royal Regatta
This is Joe McMullin’s unpublished interview with John Flynn of row2k.com on going. He talks about the steps he took leading up the spring season, after the crew had some great success, and other plans and challenges he encountered in planning for the trip. JF: How early do you have to decide to go/start planning?…
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How to freshen your 8+s crew up going into a championship week/preventing it from going stale
This is Joe McMullin’s take on how to keep your crew fresh and focused going into a championship weekend. This can also be called peaking a crew at the right time or preventing it from going stale. Many teams that row that 8+ are happy to find the right rowers through seat racing, erg testing,…
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Do’s and Don’ts at Stotesbury as a Coach
This is Joe McMullin’s take on what coaches should and shouldn’t do at Stotesbury I’ve personally raced at Stotesbury 4 times and coached crews for nearly a decade. Here are my do’s and don’ts at Stotesbuy. Do: Create a schedule ahead of time for your crew(s) so they know when and where to be for…
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Your Crew Qualified for the Grand Final Later in the Day. What do you do to prepare?
This Joe McMullin’s take on what to do between a heat or semi and a final on the same day in high school rowing. So your crew had a pretty good heat or semi and made it to the grand final that’s later in the day, what should you do to keep your crew fresh?…
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