California at Washington Dual

April 28, 2007

Montlake Cut, Seattle, Washington, USA

Links

Results

School Web sites:

Washington Huskies Crew

Cal Men's Crew

Cal Women's Crew

Weather

Over a Century of Rowing Tradition

The University of California Bears and University of Washington Huskies crew programs have been competing in a rivalry that dates back to 1903, when the Huskies hosted the Bears. This year marks their 97th meeting in their “annual” dual competition.

Results

Number 1 Washington Men's Varsity defeated number 2 Cal, while the California Women's Varisty defeated Washington.

Click on the race numbers, below, to see the split and final times.

Times are Pacific Daylight Savings Time (PDT)

Time	Event	Lane 1	Lane 2	Race #
9:00	Women's Varsity Four	UW	Cal	01
9:10	Women's Novice Eight	Cal	UW	02
9:17	Men's Freshman Eight	UW	Cal	03
9:24	Women's 2nd Varsity Eight	UW	Cal	04
9:31	Men's 2nd Varsity Eight	UW	Cal	05
9:38	Women's Varsity Eight	UW	Cal	06
9:45	Men's Varsity Eight	Cal	UW	07

Top-Two Ranked Crews in the Nation

The Men's Varsity event features as #1 Washington versus #2 California. The winner takes home the Schoch Cup, named after Delos Schoch of Washington's class of 1936. Schoch lettered three years (1934-36) as a Husky oarsman.

The Women's Varsity event has #11 Washington facing #12 Cal. The winner takes home the Simpson Cup, donated by Hunter and Dottie Simpson in 2003. The Simpsons are Huskies crew supporters whose daughter, Anne, rowed at Cal. The Simpson Cup replaced the Big Oar trophy in 2002.

More Information

Official information from the schools.

The Course

The Montlake Cut is narrow channel connecting Lake Washington and Lake Union (Portage Bay). The race course is spectator-friendly and thus is one of the most exciting venues in rowing.

The racecourse begins about a mile out into Lake Washington, due East of the UW Huskie's football stadium. For the first 1500 meters, the course is open on the starboard side to Union Bay, a large portion of Lake Washington directly in front of the UW Shellhouse. The port side of the course hugs the shoreline of Lake Washington after the first 500 meters.

Crews are aligned in their lanes somewhat beyond the start, and brought forward to the start line together on commands from the starter in a launch. The actual start is a floating start, i.e. no fixed stake boats. The referee in the launch makes the final determination of satisfactory alignment, and starts the crews.

With slightly more than 500 meters to go, and with the Husky Stadium even with the crews on the starboard side, the crews enter the famous Montlake Cut, a straight passageway in a deep gorge cut between towering banks on both sides. Once in this cut, the crews pass directly under the Montlake Bridge overhead, which is usually closed during racing and packed with spectators. The end of this cut is the finish line of the 2000 meter course, just as it opens up into Portage Bay.

About JAMCO Race Bulletins

Unofficial Times — JAMCO takes its own finishing times and those are the first finishing times to appear on JAMCO's real time race result pages. Those pages are marked "unofficial" because the Regatta Committee is also taking finishing times, and its times are the "official" times. The Regatta Committee provides JAMCO with its "official" times after the races are over, and JAMCO then enters the "official" times on its reports. Therefore, there may be a considerable delay in replacing the "unofficial" times with "official" times, but the order of finish should not change."

Color Coding — Real time movements by crews during each 500 meter interval are highlighted by different colors. Gold (yellow) crews are closing on the leader in the current 500. Silver (light blue) crews are closing on the second place crew, but falling further behind the leader. Bronze (orange) crews are closing on the third place crew, but falling further behind the leader and the second place crews. White crews are falling further behind all three leading crews. Quite often, when a crew turns gold, it takes the lead in the next 500.

Printing Tips — When printing JAMCO race bulletins, you may get better results if you set your browser to print background colors and images. If you are using MS Internet Explorer, go to Tools -> Internet Options -> Advanced and scroll down to where you see "Printing - Print background colors and images."

Automatic Refresh — During the race, JAMCO updates race results every 500m. JAMCO web pages showing real-time results are designed to automatically reload or refresh every 30 seconds. If you are viewing a race in progress and the page does not automatically reload, please press the "Refresh" or "Reload" button on your browser.

Team JAMCO

JAMCO is completely run by volunteers, for the benefit of the rowing community.

Today's split time were brought to you by these volunteer spotters on the course: Aiden, Chris, Matt, Matt (yes, two people named Matt), and Nick. Special thanks to Mike Callahan, Washington Men's Assistant Coach for organizing the timing effort in Seattle.