A New Concrete Canoe Favorite?
8 Apr
Should we expect another concrete canoeing upset this year?
Last year, the University of Nevada won the American Society of Civil Engineers’ 21st Annual National Concrete Canoe Competition, upsetting five-time defending champion University of Wisconsin.
Last weekend, at the Great Lakes Regional, a qualifying competition for this year’s Nationals, upstarts from Indiana’s University of Evansville topped Wisconsin and 15 other schools for this year’s regional title.
Evansville and its 330 pound canoe will now advance to Nationals, hosted by the University of Alabama in June, as one of the favored teams. Defending regional champs Wisconsin had won the Great Lakes title 14 times.
Concrete canoe teams are judged on design papers, oral presentations, their final products, men’s and women’s slalom/endurance race performances, and men’s and women’s sprint race performances.
The defending national champions Nevada will take to the water next week in the Mid-Pacific Regional which they will host in Reno.
There’s a story and video about Evansville’s victory, HERE, thanks to WFIE Channel 14.
