On May 6th, Wisconsin women’s head coach Vicky Optiz spoke with the media at Porter Boathouse to recap the team’s recent racing at Opening Day/ Windermere Cup and to preview the upcoming Big Ten Championships, hosted by UW on nearby Devil’s Lake in Baraboo, WI.
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Opitz said the trip to Seattle was “awesome” and she was particularly excited by the opportunity to travel and race with the Wisconsin men’s team. She explained, “We have so few regattas where we get to go with the men’s team…so to be there as one big badger family was tremendous.” Optiz pointed to the varsity four and and second varsity eight as having particularly strong performances at Opening Day and she is “looking to keep pushing that speed throughout the whole squad,” as they prepare for the upcoming Big Ten Championships, held on Sunday, May 19th.
“Looking ahead at Big Ten’s we have about two weeks before that final last little push of speed, and I think we’ve had a really good trajectory of the season, keep building off each performance, getting a little bit more quick, a little bit cleaner technically,” Optiz explained.
