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By Michelle Burchette
Sporta Editor
What is 16 feet long, white,
black and garnet ; weighs 150
pounds and floats? A concrete
canoe. And what do
you do with a concrete
canoe? Race it against other
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That's just what the USC
chapter of the American
Society of Civil Engineers
did this past Saturday at the
National ASCE Concrete
Canoe competition in Norfolk,
Va.
The USC squad entered
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top three in each of six races
while also winning first prize
overall for design out of a
field of 14 schools.
THE CAROLINA
engineers took first and
second in the women's undergraduate
race, the
student and faculty race,
and the relay and sprint.
They also placed second in
the men's undergraduate
race and the faculty sprint,
and took second and third in
the undergraduate endurance
race.
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President Jono Kabley said.
The USC group of about 15
people started work on their
canoe in October and then
spent two months practicing
in it once it was finished.
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The first concrete canoe
races were in 1976 and since
then each group has passed
their research and information
on to the next
year's group.
The 1981 USC group
designed a canoe that
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finished first in the canoe
competition and as a result
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