Talking With SU's Ineke DeSimone
2/22/2006 9:21:31 AM | Women's Rowing
Women's rowing head coach Kris Sanford recently sat down with team captain Ineke DeSimone to discuss the team's winter training. The Orange are preparing for the 2006 spring season that opens on March 18. In January, SU spent its winter break training in Austin, Texas.
DeSimone, a senior from Rowayton, Conn., is in her fourth year on the team. In the fall of 2003, she earned a spot as the bow on the varsity eight before an injury ended her spring season. Last season, she competed for the JV eight that posted victories against Dartmouth, Massachusetts, and Villanova. This year, DeSimone spent the first two races of the fall season in seat two on the varsity eight.
Kris Sanford: Overall, how do you feel winter training has gone?
Ineke DeSimone: Winter training is going very well. Everyone is working hard and pushing their limits, which will definitely make us faster come spring season.
KS: What have been the highlights and the low points?
ID: The workouts we do over the winter are very physically challenging and they have to be in order to prepare us for racing in the spring. The highlights of winter training so far have been all the personal records people on the team have gotten on workouts. Every time we do a testing workout the goal is to beat the time we got before and everyone has done a great job at improving their times as the winter goes on. As for low points, I do not really see any this winter. The team's attitude has stayed positive and people have not settled in to a routine, they continue to work hard and improve, which has made this winter training seem very short.
KS: What has been your favorite workout?
ID: My favorite workout was when we did short sprint pieces on the erg against one of our teammates, but we switched the wires so we saw our teammate's monitor instead of our own. It was fun being able to see what our opponent was pulling instead of our own numbers and it definitely made you pull hard because you had no idea if you winning or not.
KS: What was the most difficult workout?
ID: We do a lot of hard workouts during winter training, but I would have to say the hardest one would be 6 x 1,000 meters.
KS: Looking ahead to spring break training, what are some of the goals that the team has?
ID: For spring break training, the goal is to apply all the hard work we have done over the fall and the winter to racing on the water. This trip is the last time we have to fully focus on our rowing and training before we get in to our spring racing season and we intend on taking full advantage of it.
The Orange opens the spring season on March 18 in Melbourne, Fla. when it faces Columbia and Central Florida. Syracuse's first home competition is on April 1 when it hosts Cornell and Yale.
