{"id":125044,"date":"2019-05-31T07:07:41","date_gmt":"2019-05-31T11:07:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/?p=125044"},"modified":"2019-05-31T15:20:55","modified_gmt":"2019-05-31T19:20:55","slug":"video-womens-rowing-with-its-welcome-aboard-spirit-heads-to-ncaa-championships","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/2019\/05\/31\/video-womens-rowing-with-its-welcome-aboard-spirit-heads-to-ncaa-championships\/","title":{"rendered":"Video: Women&#8217;s rowing, with its welcome-aboard spirit, heads to NCAA Championships"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The women&#8217;s rowing team is seeking its third straight national title at this weekend&#8217;s NCAA Championships in Indianapolis, and it&#8217;s a veteran squad:\u00a0 The only first-year in either varsity boat is Lily Kinder \u201922 of\u00a0Pike, N.H.<\/p>\n<p>Not only is she new to Bates, she&#8217;s new to the sport.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Welcome aboard: Novice rowers thrive at national powerhouse Bates College\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5jjzEz_0mC4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;When I came to tour Bates, I talked to one of the assistant coaches just out of fun to see if they allowed walk-ons,&#8221; Kinder said. &#8220;And they were like \u2018Yeah, come on in, you\u2019re welcome!\u2019&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In fact, a key to Bates&#8217; rowing success is how the program embraces novices.<\/p>\n<section class=\"highlight-box \"><\/p>\n<h6>Watch the NCAA Rowing Championships Grand Finals live!<\/h6>\n<p>Following Friday&#8217;s heats, the Bobcats look to clinch their third straight national championship in Saturday&#8217;s grand finals. The second varsity eight grand final is set for 11:12 a.m. EDT and the first varsity eight follows at 11:36 a.m. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncaa.com\/event\/rowing\/d3\/2019\/06\/01\/diii-rowing--day-two\">Both races will be livestreamed.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n<\/section>\n<p>&#8220;We look for people who just come to us on their own and they\u2019re interested in excelling at something, and trying something new,&#8221; NESCAC Coach of the Year Peter Steenstra said. &#8220;Once you realize that this sport is similar to stacking wood, it\u2019s just a matter of repetition.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Kinder embraced her opportunity, and her teammates love having her on the team.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_125155\" style=\"width: 360px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2019\/05\/190215_Womens_Rowing_bb-0119-crop.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-125155\" class=\"wp-image-125155\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2019\/05\/190215_Womens_Rowing_bb-0119-crop-250x300.jpg\" alt=\"Lily Kinder \u201922 of\u00a0Pike, N.H., is the sole first-year competing for Bates at this weekend's NCAA Rowing Championships. (Brewster Burns for Bates College)\" width=\"350\" height=\"421\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2019\/05\/190215_Womens_Rowing_bb-0119-crop-250x300.jpg 250w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2019\/05\/190215_Womens_Rowing_bb-0119-crop-749x900.jpg 749w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2019\/05\/190215_Womens_Rowing_bb-0119-crop-166x200.jpg 166w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2019\/05\/190215_Womens_Rowing_bb-0119-crop.jpg 1597w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-125155\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lily Kinder \u201922 of\u00a0Pike, N.H., is the sole first-year competing for Bates at this weekend&#8217;s NCAA Rowing Championships. (Brewster Burns for Bates College)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&#8220;A lot of practices, right when we finish, she\u2019ll turn around and smile at me, or I\u2019ll tap her back or give her a high five, and it just makes me smile, and makes me really happy,&#8221; said co-captain Claudia Glickman &#8217;19 of Bellaire, Texas.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;And she\u2019s always smiling, always in a good mood, so excited to be here.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Glickman and another Bates co-captain, Sophie Claus &#8217;19 of\u00a0Beverly, Mass., were both rowing novices when they first stepped on campus in 2015.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Rowing is amazing in that you can try it for the first time as a freshman in college, so I decided to give it a shot and found the team to be absolutely incredible and the most welcoming toward novices, which you don\u2019t always find,&#8221; said Claus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Meet rowing newbie Lily Kinder &#8217;22, the only Bates first-year competing at the this weekend&#8217;s NCAA Championships.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":758,"featured_media":125140,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_hide_ai_chatbot":false,"_ai_chatbot_style":"","associated_faculty":[],"_Page_Specific_Css":"","_bates_restrict_mod":false,"_table_of_contents_display":false,"_table_of_contents_location":"","_table_of_contents_disableSticky":false,"_is_featured":false,"footnotes":"","_bates_seo_meta_description":"Lily Kinder is a novice enjoying a lot of success on the Bates College women's rowing team. 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