How are rowing events divided?
Yorktown Crew is fundamentally a co-ed team, but at high school regattas, events are held for men and women. On the water, Yorktown Crew generally divides the crew into eight-oared shells (nine people including the coxswain). The varsity consists of first, second, and sometimes third or fourth-string eights – the 1V, 2V (JV), 3V and so on. The novice coach will often select the best 9th graders for a specific category, the freshman eight, which has the opportunity to compete against other freshman eights at certain championship regattas. Otherwise, novice rowers will compete in novice eights and occasionally in the 3V or 4V with a mixture of novices and varsity.
