Army Crew Team

Name : Abdullah Alelew

Case : The Army Crew Team

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Section I

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What is the setting of the case i.e. the type of industry, the firms, operations, and nature of the environment/market[s]?

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What appears to be the issue(s), concern(s), problem(s), challenge (s) and/or opportunities and their significance for the organization?

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The Case takes a place in the United States Military Academy at West Point, and it pertains to the rowing sport. As a sport, rowing was the first intercollegiate one in the United States when the first race was held between Yale and Harvard back in 1852. Rowing is a year- round sport with various competitions and events stretching from the beginning of the academic year in August and ending with its end in May. The fall season has smaller events and races that are generally used for tryouts, training beginners, and enhancing the teams’ rowing technique. After the end of the fall season, crew members trained indoor in preparation for the spring season which is considered the most important and had the biggest events.

Crew members must have and maintain the great shape a professional athlete would have. Rowing is extremely physically demanding; the case mentions that physiologists stated that rowing a typical 2000-meter race is the equivalent of playing two basketball games in a row. In addition to skill, crew members must have enough of the necessary individual strength and endurance if they wanted to have any chance of competing or performing adequately. In order to get an accurate and objective measure of the crew members’ individual strength and endurance, coaches used the Ergometer. By using a device that mimics the motions required to race in water, coaches were able to measure...