What is The Princeton Hot Seat?

The Princeton Hot Seat is a new recurring photo blog to highlight the transient nature of the rowing community in the Princeton, New Jersey area.  It's open to anyone directly involved with the sport of rowing that comes to Princeton on rowing "business".  Could be rowers, coxswains, coaches, boatmen, officials, etc.

How does the Hot Seat Work?

Each subject gets four questions to answer, the first of which is simply, why are you here (in Princeton)?  Then the subject randomly draws the remaining three from a pool of pre-determined questions, of which half are rowing related, half are not...and can be pretty random.  They get one pass.

On the Hot Seat today is Kaitlyn Kynast of the USA JW4-.

Princeton Hot Seat - Why are you in Princeton?

Kaitlyn Kynast - I am in Princeton with the goal of winning a junior world championship this summer.

PHS - If you could only eat one type of food for the rest of your life, what would you choose?

KK - Chocolate covered strawberries.  One of my favorite pre-race foods is to eat chocolate chips and strawberries because my body runs on sugar and so then my blood sugar never goes down!

PHS - What song would you want to be playing during the last 500m of a 2k erg test?

KK - Definitely the Lil Jon remix version of Outta Your Mind.

PHS - What race have you been the most nervous for and why?

KK - Well, I'm a novice still so I haven't raced all that much, but probably my first pair race this spring at Mercer Sprints because it was my second sprint race ever and we were racing against the Slabberts.  All my teammates kept talking before the race that since it was the pair, you're not even going to make it down the course and probably flip.  It was terrifying but we made it finished and only lost by around seven seconds or so.

Coming to Princeton and want to give the hot seat a go?  Contact row2k here.