Logan Falvo '21 Recruiting Profile

Before I found the sport of rowing in the 8th grade, I had tried a host of different sports like Soccer, Baseball, Basketball, and Track. After completing the two week learn to row session in 8th grade, I found a new passion. I immediately signed up for the fall season and began imagining what I could become. I loved that even though rowing pushes you physically in every part of your body, it also pushes your mental discipline. Rowing is the ultimate team sport. All rowers on a boat are necessarily dependent on the others.  Even if you push yourself to the maximum, if all rowers on the boat are not together, then the boat does not reach its full potential.  

In addition to the competition and physical challenges that come with rowing, rowing also allowed me to meet new people and form relationships that I  never would have before. After my first year in the novice eight, I met new friends who have become my closest friends. Nothing matches the feeling of winning your first race.  Once I experienced that, I was hooked. After figuring out that I wanted to pursue this sport, I wanted to find ways to improve my erg scores and my overall fitness.  While rowing requires daily commitment, the thing that made the biggest difference in my performance was the summer camps. I attended the Naval Academy once and the University of Virginia camp twice. The Naval Academy honed my sweep rowing, and the UVa camp developed my sculling skills. Attending these college rowing camps not only improved my techniques, but it reinforced what I knew; that I want rowing to be part of my college life.  I row in some form every day.  Even during the Pandemic, I have stayed committed to rowing. I have an erg in our house, and I work every day to improve my erg scores. 

Academically, I intend to take the ACT and retake the SAT to score higher. My senior year course load will be challenging with four AP classes, one dual enrollment class, and one honors class.