UW - Madison Concrete Canoe Team

Co-Chairs

Corey Olson

Corey is looking to put three years of experience to work and take a non-Civil Engineering perspective to making this years canoe make a great showing.

Evan Thomas

Evan spent nearly all of fall semester making sure everything was on schedule for placement day. He was found covered in dust after one of his week long lab stints.

The Team

Cam Barnes

We can't seem to scare this one away, Cam returned this year to lead mix design. Cam wrote his name on the dust mask so nobody else gets his cooties.

Eric Schneider

Everyone keeps reminding Eric not to swim out in front of the canoes, but does he listen. Eric is leading testing this year and making sure our mixes are strong enough to continue causing injury.

Tyler Hoehn

Tyler says "the palm tree was great to hold."

Nicole Brostowitz

Nicole, as one of the most experienced members on the team is making sure that the canoe and the paddling teams are ready to dominate.

Cody Wenzel

Kody is working on growing his hair out for Locks of Love. He's been a big help making mix run smoothly when his hair doesn't get caught in the drill.

Mike Stone

Mike is eyeing up the competition, and making sure this years boat stays in the front of the pack by any means necessary.

Julie Chapman
Julie joined the canoe team this year and hopes to make an impact in the paddling races.

Jackie Strait

Jackie is full of bounce just like Tigger. You never know when she'll be bouncing through the lab doors

Amanda Winters
Amanda is using her experience as a Viking to lift the paddling team to new levels. It's taken some adjustment, but the team is coming to accept her midieval ways.

Scott Woicek

Scott ran away from the zoo and has been staying in the canoe lab since.

Brent Ellifson

In Brent's third year of concrete canoe mayhem, he has promised not to break anything, in fact he might have a hand in fixing up the trailer. Brent is always willing to lend a helping hand to those in need, like when Tyler needed to cross a puddle...

Trevor Olson

Trevor doesn't even need a silly picture, he seems to make enough obnoxious poses in the lab to be covered.

Justin Hare

Justin once told me he wants to be a super hero. It appears that guitar hero is one of the early steps on the way to his dream.

George Sullivan

George decided to take a greater role in ASCE and hasn't been paddling as much this year, but he sure is excited to show off his new hat at Regionals!

Steve

Steve is going to be pulling the trailer, seen here when we brought him in for a tune up.

Michael Schnieder

Michael sure caught the eye of Mr. Potatoe head.

Jan Chitphakdithai

We found Jan in a cave. Once she adapted to our culture she was eagar to help around the canoe lab.

Angela Weier

Angela is a pirate, Garrrr...

Yevhen Brzhesskyy

Yevhen has brought us his worldly knowledge all the way from Russia!

Brian Boelter

Brian is rocking the sleeveless flannel shirt for our pool workouts.

Trevor Wetterau
Trevor is bringing a fly new style to the team this year. Look for our team shirts to be on the fashion runway this spring.

Jason Lyons and Bobby Barney

In an effort to expand mix testing, Jason and Bobby have created an innovative new plate testing method to simulate concrete on concrete collisions.

The Old Folks

Robbie Sivak

Robbie decided he would forget about getting a real job and is returning as a grad student advisor to the team. His help on analysis and generally having a good 'ol time will be great!

Alex Rexrode

Alex had a lot of fun in the Netherlands. The shoes seem to fit just right. You know what they say about guys with big shoes right? That's right, big feet!

Ivy Harmon
After two hours and 8 miles on the water, ivy was warmer then ever! We had to rush to get this picture because she started steaming and all the ice melted right off!

Jodi Zwickey

We thought that Jodi knew how to swim being last years co-chair. But recent photo evidence has surfaced to reopen investigations.

Dave Blodgett

Dave may have taken Canoe sustainability to far. In an attempt to reduce the teams carbon footprint he has gone off the grid. We hope to hear back that he's still ok sometime soon.

Kelly Greuel

What is a Nationals trip without cake? Kelly sure wasn't about to find out!

Clear Concrete Paddle

In our quest to create concrete with negative weight, we ran across this cool stuff: clear concrete. Look for the UW to design a "glass bottomed" canoe out of this stuff in 2009. To test our new found material, we made some clear concrete paddles, pictured above, which we plan on using in competition this year.

Box

The latest addition to our team, Box will be there holding our gear whenever we want to go paddling. Isn't Box pretty?

Trailer

Pictured above is our MVP, trailer. Trailer takes much abuse from the team. Going across the country multiple times at speeds in excess of plaid. It may have a few bald tires and its brakes may be a bit sticky, but we would get no-where without our beloved trailer.