May 9, 2000
Men's Crew
No. 1 Cal Crew Set To Defend Pac-10 Title
This Week: Sun. May 14, Pac-10 Championships, Rancho Cordova, CA, All Day
Next Race: Thur.-Sat. June 1-3, IRA Championships, Camden, NJ, All Day
Racing at Pac-10s: The No. 1-ranked Cal men's varsity eight will challenge for the Pac-10 Championship Sunday, May 14, at the Pac-10 Rowing Championships on Lake Natoma in Rancho Cordova, CA, located just outside Sacramento. Racing is slated to begin at 7:50 a.m. with the women's varsity four heats. The finals begin at 12:40 p.m.
Cal Varsity Eight: Coming off an undefeated Pac-10 and IRA National Championship season in 1999, the Y2K edition of the Cal varsity eight has a very different look. Only two oarsmen, Luke Walton and Graham Taylor, and coxswain Mike Lennig return from the 1999 varsity. The addition of Eric Tiret and Jeremiah Dees from Cal's '99 undefeated national champion JV crew, Scott Frandsen and Christopher Kennelly from Cal's '99 Pac-10 Champion freshman crew and newcomers, Mladen Stegic and Filip Filipic have the Bears back at No. 1 and on ready to defend their Pac-10 and IRA varsity titles. Cal undefeated on the year with victory in the Copley Cup at the San Diego Crew Classic, along with dual race wins over Washington and Stanford to their credit.
About the Competition: The Washington men's varsity eight is currently ranked No. 3 in the USRowing and UW is seeded No. 1 in all men's events at Pac-10s with the exception of the varsity eight where Cal is the top seed. The other Pac-10 men's varsity eight ranked in the Top 20 as of May 3 is No. 18 Oregon State.
Pac-10 Championship History: The Cal men's crew enters this year's Pac-10 Championships as defending champion in each of the men's eight events as well as the team point championship for the past two seasons. The 1998 Cal varsity was the first non-Husky crew to win the championship in the `90s and it was Cal's first varsity title since 1986. Over the years Cal has taken home the Pac-10/Pacific Coast title 20 times.
Cal's Schedule at Pac-10s:
RACE TIME EVENT LANE 1 LANE 2 LANE 3 LANE 4 LANE 5 LANE 6 LANE 7
1 7:50 WV4 Ht1 1 WASH 4 CAL 5 SDS 8 UCD 9 COLO
4 8:20 MV4 Ht2 2 CAL 3 OSU 6 LBS 7 SCU 10 UPS 11 UCLA
6 8:40 MFN8 Ht2 2 CAL 5 UCI 8 UCD 11 LBS 14 GONZ
10 9:20 WN8 Ht3 3 OSU 4 CAL 9 UCSB 10 USD 15 PLU
12 9:40 WJV8 Ht2 2 CAL 3 OSU 6 SDS 7 UCD 10 SSU
14 10:00 MJV8 Ht2 2 CAL 3 OSU 6 SSU 7 UCD
15 10:10 MV8 Ht1 1 CAL 6 UCSD 7 WWU 12 LBS 13 SDS
19 10:50 WV8 Ht2 2 CAL 5 WSU 8 UCD 11 COLO 14 UCSB 17 LBS 20 SMC
22 12:50 WV4 GF
24 1:10 MV4 GF
27 1:40 MFN8 GF
30 2:10 WN8 GF
32 2:30 WJV8 GF
34 2:50 MJV8 GF
39 3:40 WV8 GF
40 3:50 MV8 GF
USRowing/CRCA Coaches Poll : The Cal men's varsity eight garnered 16 of 17 first-place votes in latest USRowing Coaches poll release May 3. The new poll will be released on May 10 and will be available at www.row2k.com.
Rank Team (1st Place votes) Points Prev. Rank
1. California (16) 339 1
2. Brown (1) 324 2
3. Washington 301 3
4. Harvard 291 4
5. Princeton 269 5
6. Wisconsin 260 6
7. Penn 237 7
8. Dartmouth 202 8
9. Navy 195 9
10. Cornell 177 10
11. Northeastern 159 14
12. Columbia 152 12
13. Temple 142 16
14. Syracuse 132 11
15. Boston U. 103 13
16. Yale 83 15
17. Michigan 66 17
18. Oregon State 63 18
19. Dowling 29 NR
20. Rutgers 22 20
About Head Coach Steve Gladstone: Regarded as one of the premier coaches in the United States, Steve Gladstone enters his fourth year in his second stint as head coach of the Golden Bears. In 1999, Gladstone, who also coached at Cal from 1972-80, guided the Bears to their best season since a 1948 Olympic gold medal. Cal men's crews swept the Pac-10 championships before the varsity and JV eights completed undefeated seasons winning Intercollegiate Rowing Association (IRA) national championship titles with the freshman eight finishing second. Gladstone was recognized with Pac-10 Men's Rowing Coach of the Year honors for the second consecutive season in `99. During his previous tenure at Cal from 1972-80, Gladstone led the Bears to three undefeated dual race seasons, an IRA title and a Pac-10 championship. Gladstone served as the Director of Rowing Operations at Brown University from 1981-94. During his time at Brown, Gladstone's crews amassed four Eastern Sprints championships, five IRA championships and two National Collegiate Rowing championship titles.
Cal Varsity Eight:
MV8 C Michael Lennig 5-11 125 Senior San Francisco, CA Saint Ignatius
MV8 8 Luke Walton 6-3 185 Junior Poway, CA Poway
MV8 7 Scott Frandsen 6-2 180 Sophomore Kelowna, CAN Brentwood
MV8 6 Eric Tiret 6-3 195 Junior San Francisco, CA Saint Ignatius
MV8 5 Mladen Stegic 6-4 180 Freshman Belgrade, YUG Sveti Sava
MV8 4 Filip Filipic 6-3 186 Freshman Belgrade, YUG Ship Engineering Tech
MV8 3 Jeremiah Dees 6-5 200 Senior San Ramon, CA California
MV8 2 Christopher Kennelly 6-3 188 Sophomore Piedmont, CA Piedmont
MV8 1 Graham Taylor 6-5 195 Senior Portland, OR Sunset
Cal JV Eight:
MJV8 C Franco Arieta 5-10 124 Junior Daly City, CA Saint Ignatius
MJV8 8 Andreja Stevanovic 6-4 205 Senior Belgrade, YUG Third Belgrade Grammar
MJV8 7 Edward Hamilton 6-1 195 Senior Peterborough, ENG Redondo Union
MJV8 6 Mike Maloney 6-4 205 Sophomore Phippsburg, ME Phillips Exeter Academy
MJV8 5 Zachery Salwasser 6-7 225 Sophomore Arlington, MA Rutgers Univ.
MJV8 4 Jack Nunn 6-3 205 Junior Rancho Palos Verdes, CA Mary Star
MJV8 3 Jason Boyle 6-4 205 Senior San Jose, CA Independence
MJV8 2 Rudy Baxter-Warman 6-1 190 Freshman London, ENG St. Paul's
MJV8 1 Rick Britton 6-2 180 Sophomore San Diego, CA La Jolla
Cal Frosh Eight:
MF8 C Jonathan Yee 5-4 118 Freshman San Mateo, CA Saint Ignatius
MF8 8 Matt Marucheck 6-6 200 Freshman San Francisco, CA Lowell
MF8 7 Michael Wallin 6-5 205 Freshman Philadelphia, PA St. Joe's Prep
MF8 6 Neil Armour 6-2 195 Freshman West Vancouver, CAN St. George's
MF8 5 John Whooley 6-4 194 Freshman Skibbereen, IRE St. Fachtna's De La Salle
MF8 4 Magnus Fleming 6-6 205 Freshman Eugene, OR So. Eugene
MF8 3 Robert Deppisch 6-4 200 Freshman Chicago, IL Salisbury
MF8 2 Paul O'Sullivan 6-3 198 Freshman Skibbereen, IRE St. Fachtna's De La Salle
MF8 1 Jeffrey Nalty 6-4 190 Freshman Sydney, AUS Leichhardt
Cal Varsity Four:
MV4 C Joseph Ghory 5-9 119 Sophomore Lexington, MA BB&N
MV4 4 Patrik Englund 6-6 215 Junior Sala, SWE Orange Coast
MV4 3 David Caro-Greene 6-2 208 Sophomore Berkeley, CA Berkeley
MV4 2 Stephen Rose 6-2 185 Senior San Francisco, CA Lowell
MV4 1 Gunter Mihaescu 6-4 190 Junior Castro Valley, CA Castro Valley
Other Bears:
Var Michael Vallarelli 5-9 125 Sophomore Boston, MA Belmont Hill
Var Lincoln Wood 6-2 195 Sophomore New Haven, CT Pomfret
Frosh Christopher Bailey 6-5 190 Freshman San Francisco, CA Sacred Heart
Frosh Carl Bertram 6-5 202 Freshman Marin County, CA Marin Catholic
Frosh William Freschi 6-2 180 Freshman Marin County, CA Redwood
Frosh Aaron Heller 6-1 185 Freshman San Francisco, CA Lowell
Frosh Patrick Hogan 6-3 185 Freshman Pacifica, CA Saint Ignatius
Frosh David Janiak 6-6 220 Freshman Marysville, CA Marysville
Frosh Tom Kazarian 6-4 190 Freshman San Francisco, CA Saint Ignatius
Frosh Joseph Manion 5-6 129 Freshman Upper Darby, PA Monsignor Bonner
Frosh Michael Romano 6-1 185 Freshman Orinda, CA Miramonte
Frosh Anita Sarrett 5-1 105 Freshman San Jose, CA Notre Dame
Frosh Eric Walton 6-0 178 Freshman Poway, CA Poway
Frosh Dianne Wang 5-4 112 Freshman San Francisco, CA Lowell
