{"id":528,"date":"2014-04-10T04:20:59","date_gmt":"2014-04-10T04:20:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/whatwedo\/?p=528"},"modified":"2014-04-10T04:20:59","modified_gmt":"2014-04-10T04:20:59","slug":"fun-fact-ups-has-produced-more-ocean-rowers-than-any-other-university","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/whatwedo\/2014\/04\/10\/fun-fact-ups-has-produced-more-ocean-rowers-than-any-other-university\/","title":{"rendered":"Fun fact: UPS has produced more ocean rowers than any other university."},"content":{"rendered":"

Okay, I haven\u2019t verified this particular fun fact, but I heard it from the mouth of the most famous of UPS\u2019s ocean rowers, so I figure he\u2019s a decent source.\u00a0 Jordan Hanssen, class of 2005, came to campus last week to give a talk about how, this one time, he and some friends thought it\u2019d be pretty cool to row across the Atlantic Ocean.\u00a0 Long story short, not only did they think about it, they actually successfully did it, which landed them in the Guinness Book of World Records, created a nonprofit group called OAR Northwest<\/a>, and inspired a book called Rowing into the Son<\/i><\/a>\u00a0in the process.\u00a0 Now they\u2019re doing research and environmental education expeditions<\/a>.\u00a0 No big deal.<\/p>\n

Let\u2019s just get this out there: how crazy impressive is it that this group of Puget Sound grads (all of whom, let the record show, were a part of the crew team as students here, thank you very much) rowed across an ocean?\u00a0 The physical and mental endurance to do something like that is a bit inconceivable to me, just sitting here at a table in the SUB typing away at my laptop.\u00a0 The general Puget Sound population already thinks us rowers are crazy enough, with our 4:30 a.m. alarms for chilly morning practices on our good ol\u2019 American Lake, and we aren\u2019t the ones crossing 3,000 miles of open ocean in a 29-foot boat.<\/p>\n

This coming Saturday morning, April 12, alumni of Puget Sound Crew will gather at American Lake for the team\u2019s 51st<\/sup> annual dual (or duel, depending on how you think of it) with Pacific Lutheran University, known as the Meyer\/Lamberth Cup.\u00a0 Years of tradition will comingle at the grassy and slightly muddy hill of Harry Todd Park, represented by present rowers and past, along with any non-crew-related students who feel like sitting around watching boats row by.\u00a0 A four-foot-tall papier-m\u00e2ch\u00e9 sculpture of a person’s head may make an appearance.\u00a0 You never know what these alums might come up with.<\/p>\n

And, because you all were wondering, the number of ocean rowers who are also Loggers is five.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Okay, I haven\u2019t verified this particular fun fact, but I heard it from the mouth of the most famous of UPS\u2019s ocean rowers, so I figure he\u2019s a decent source.\u00a0 Jordan Hanssen, class of 2005, came to campus last week … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":386,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-528","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-leah-shamlian-14"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/whatwedo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/528","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/whatwedo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/whatwedo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/whatwedo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/386"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/whatwedo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=528"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/whatwedo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/528\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":529,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/whatwedo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/528\/revisions\/529"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/whatwedo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/whatwedo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/whatwedo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}