{"id":1472,"date":"2018-05-14T12:24:45","date_gmt":"2018-05-14T17:24:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/students.bowdoin.edu\/crew\/?p=1472"},"modified":"2018-05-14T12:24:45","modified_gmt":"2018-05-14T17:24:45","slug":"impressive-finish-coach-birney","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/students.bowdoin.edu\/crew\/events\/impressive-finish-coach-birney\/","title":{"rendered":"Four Medals at Dad Vail"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\tAt the 80th Dad Vail Regatta in Philadelphia PA Bowdoin entered 7 crews in 5 events and earned medals in 4 of them, including the gold in the Women\u2019s JV Four, ahead of Drexel and Florida Institute of Technology. The Women\u2019s Varsity Four took silver 3 seconds behind Florida Tech and 3 seconds ahead of Drexel. The Men\u2019s Varsity Four won the bronze by a bow ball over Milwaukee School of Engineering and behind winner Lafayette, with Stetson University in second. And the Men\u2019s JV Four flew to a silver behind Drexel and just ahead of Colgate.<\/p>\n<p>Coaches\u00a0<span id=\"0.158082227748656\" class=\"highlight\">Birney<\/span>\u00a0and Welling were ecstatic.<br \/>\n\u201cWe are just\u00a0 so proud of this team,\u201d\u00a0<span id=\"0.9064062833883169\" class=\"highlight\">Birney<\/span>\u00a0said.<br \/>\n\u201cTo advance to the Grand Finals at Dad Vail is a significant accomplishment; to earn medals is huge.\u00a0 To win gold is off the charts. But to have four crews in that mix is out of this world!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The B entry in the Women\u2019s JV Four won the Petite Final, while the B entry in the Men\u2019s JV Four came fifth. Men\u2019s Novice Four won the Third Final.<\/p>\n<p>After 22 years, this was\u00a0<span id=\"0.2753381161034747\" class=\"highlight\">Birney<\/span>\u2019s last Regatta as Head Coach for the Rowing Team. \u201cI could not have asked for a better ending to the story,\u201d he said. \u201cAll our crews had really scrappy, close finishes with really talented competition. To do so well on this national level of racing is a tribute to our athletes and a great gift to this retiring coach. I am profoundly grateful to them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/students.bowdoin.edu\/crew\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2018\/05\/IMG_1198.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1473\" src=\"https:\/\/students.bowdoin.edu\/crew\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2018\/05\/IMG_1198.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"4032\" height=\"3024\" \/><\/a>\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the 80th Dad Vail Regatta in Philadelphia PA Bowdoin entered 7 crews in 5 events and earned medals in 4 of them, including the gold in the Women\u2019s JV Four, ahead of Drexel and Florida Institute of Technology. The Women\u2019s Varsity Four took silver 3 seconds behind Florida Tech and 3 seconds ahead of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1472","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-events","7":"entry"},"featured_image_src":null,"featured_image_src_square":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"Erin Jeter '18","author_link":"https:\/\/students.bowdoin.edu\/crew\/author\/ejeter\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/students.bowdoin.edu\/crew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1472","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/students.bowdoin.edu\/crew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/students.bowdoin.edu\/crew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/students.bowdoin.edu\/crew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/students.bowdoin.edu\/crew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1472"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/students.bowdoin.edu\/crew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1472\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/students.bowdoin.edu\/crew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/students.bowdoin.edu\/crew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/students.bowdoin.edu\/crew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}