What the **** do you need a rowing team for at USC, anyway? It’s a friggin’ desert!!! ;)
University research for viable NEW Green Deal transportation from the West coast to Hawaii.
My high school in Long Beach had a rowing team. There’s plenty of water in SoCal, but a lot of it is salty.
The "Women of Troy" train at the USC Boathouse which is located at the Port of Los Angeles, near San Pedro, just a short, 20-minute drive from USC. The USC Boathouse is located just steps from the water and contains 10 racing eights, five fours, six pairs and several singles.Maybe you are confusing Phoenix and Los Angeles. Happens all the time.
It may not be the most picturesque place to row, but it IS water.
USC is not in the desert by any measure.
I read a book about the 1980 US Olympic heavy eight. To fill out the story, the author goes into rowing history.
To wit, President Woodrow Wilson, of Princeton at the time, invited Andrew Carnegie for some honor, the motive being to hit him up for an endowment for a law school.
Carnegie, when the subject was broached, responded that the study of law wasn't best use of young men's time or energy, and that rowing was a better endeavor.
Carnegie "bought" Princeton a lake for rowing, basically had a dam built to form a lake, iirc.
Princeton still doesn't have a law school.