Team,
BIG NEWS! Coaches Tyler Pabst and Rachel Freedman are BACK, baby! It’s been more than six years since we last coached together but the stars have aligned and we can’t wait to get back on the water with YOU and the DC Strokes Evening Sweep program.
Together, we bring more than 40 years of rowing, coaching, and coxing experience to Evening Sweep. With Tyler’s vantage point as a 6’5” former collegiate rower and masters coach, and Rachel’s perspective as a 5’2” masters rower, coach, and coxswain, we’ve got a wide range of knowledge and skills to help you become a strong, fast, and efficient rower.
The past two years wreaked havoc on rowing programs across the country – including Strokes. The team will be smaller than it was before. We’ll be setting new goals and new standards. Together, we get to make this program challenging and gratifying, motivational and inclusive, and most important: fun!
If you’re reading this, it’s because we want YOU to get on the water and row with us this Spring. Plans are coming together but here’s what we have in mind:
Practice schedule: Monday-Thursday, 6:15-8:00pm beginning April 4
Model Mondays: skills and drills focus on body prep, position, and awareness
Timing Tuesday: skills and drills focus on timing throughout the stroke cycle
Werk it Wednesday: Intervals, steady state, and pressure/rating builds
Thirsty Thursdays: Uptempo and intensity work + Earn the title Rower of the Week to earn a PBR from Coach Pabst
If you have old notions of what rowing is, what it used to be for you, what you want it to be… we hope you’ll say yes to rowing in the evening, even if you consider yourself a morning rower. You’ll get to see sunsets instead of sunrises, and drink beers at The Brig after Thursday practices instead of eating muffins on Friday mornings before work.
Come back to rowing and be a part of rebuilding and representing DC Strokes. Register today!
Got questions? Email us!
See you at the boathouse,
Head Coach Tyler Pabst (tyler.pabst@gmail.com)
Asst. Coach Rachel Freedman (in2strokes@gmail.com)
