Grit

Our new Fillipi is rigged and ready for action! As I mentioned today, I have never seen rowing equipment treated as poorly as it is at Vesper. Notre Dame will not be complicit in this behavior. It is each of your responsibility to ensure that our oars, speed coaches, and boats are treated as the highly specialized and expensive tools that they are. If something does happen to the equipment, please let me know immediately so that further damage can be prevented.

A few notes on grittiness:

"Grit is a positive trait based on an individual’s passion for a particular long-term goal coupled with a powerful motivation to achieve their respective objective. This perseverance of effort promotes the overcoming of obstacles or challenges that lie within a gritty individual’s path to accomplishment and serves as a driving force in achievement realization."

Our goal is not and never has been perfection. Instead it is the indomitable pursuit of improvement. With every stroke, every drill, every piece we must strive to chase that extra inch, even if it means stumbling along the way. Grittiness demands that we accept failure as an inevitable and necessary occurrence and confront it with courage and fortitude as we strive towards our goals.

As we move into the championship racing season, I challenge you each to find every ounce of grit you can and to push your teammates and your coaches to do the same.

 Good work this weekend, and get ready for a great week of training!