NCAA ROWING: Devil's Lake prepping for Big Ten Championships

The UW-Madison women's second varsity eight rowing team jolts ahead of Kansas down the final stretch of a race at Devil's Lake State Park in 2016.A UW-Madison rowing team heads toward the finish line at Devil's Lake in 2016.Wisconsin’s largest and most-visited state park, Devil’s Lake offers a unique site for regattas. The 2,000-meter, eight-lane course will finish at the lake’s South Shore, while the course is surrounded by 500-foot bluffs on the east and west.

“Thinking about changing venues was challenging them and it’s like, ‘Well, Wisconsin is the frozen tundra right?’ Not all the time,” Bryans said of some of the concerns she has heard in the leadup to the championships. “If we can…