Parents and students. We will meet at the Rex Avenue entrance to Wissahickon park at: Wissahickon Park Philadelphia, PA 19118 tomorrow. 10am.

Reminders

Monday (1/31) practice will be held from 1:00 - 3:00pm at the erg room. Please eat something when class gets out at noon so that your body has enough fuel to get through the workout.

A recruitment/information session is scheduled for Thursday February 4th at 2:35pm (HS Room 111). Do your best to spread the word this week and generate some excitement about rowing (aka. don't just complain about how hard it is all the time). Novices this is especially important for you; the more people you can recruit the better shot you have at competing and doing well at races this spring. Take ownership of your team!

Lastly your hundredth reminder to focus on staying/getting healthy:
1. Sleep. a lot.
2. Drink water. a lot of it.
3. Wash your hands often.
4. Bring a change of clothes to practice to minimize your time in sweaty gross spandex.
5. Don't be a hero; let one of your coaches know if you're feeling sick.

SO MUCH INFORMATION

I hope this finds everyone happy and safe on a nice snowy morning. The following is the schedule for the remainder of the year. There will be some ad hoc changes as the season progresses.

Race Schedule:

• Feb 13th: Haddon Hammer (Haddon Township)
• March 20th, Manny Flick #1 (We will return/unload and rig following the regatta on Sunday)
• March 27th, Manny Flick #2 (We will return/unload and rig following the regatta on Sunday)
• April 3rd: Manny Flick #3: (We will return/unload and rig following the regatta on Sunday)
• April 10th: Manny Flick #4: (We will rig/unload on Monday, April 11th at normal practice time)
• April 15, 16,17: Mercer Springs/Manny Flick #5 (We will rig/unload on Monday, April 11th at normal practice time)
• April 30, May 1st: Garden States/Cooper Cup
• May 8th: City Champs(We will rig/unload on Monday, May 9th at normal practice time)
• May 20th-21: Stotes (We will rig/unload on Sunday, May 22nd at 10am)
• May 27-28: Scholastic Nats, Cooper River.

*All loading/unloading session are mandatory practice times.

Special Events:

• Pho Team late lunch: Friday, 3:30
  
• Feb. 18th: Wissahickon Trail Run
• Feb. 26th Team Climbing Trip (tentative; Location TBD)
• April 21-Possible team training day or overnight trip?

1/2 days, Off days:

• This week practice will be at 12:30 for the remainder of the week. Team Pho day is Friday at 3pm, parents, athletes, alumni are welcome to attend.
• February 18th: Off School; Practice at 10:30am at the WISSAHICKON
  
• March 11th: Off School: Practice at 10:30 am at the boathouse
  
• May 13th: Half day: practice at 12:45 at the boathouse

I expect to schedule the Monday following a Sunday regatta off unless there is a "rigging day" specified.

Spring Break Schedule will likely be 9am-2:30pm daily. I would very much like to take a short training trip on one or two of these days which will need to be reviewed by the board/president, etc before it can be confirmed.

As of now I expect to run only one practice per day! Yeah! Depending on the novice recruiting effort we may amend that as we go, but we are doing our best to make that happen for everyone's sanity.

Practice

Tomorrow's practice will be held at the school at 12:30. Next Monday's practice will occur from 10-12.

Spring 2011

I hope all have had a happy and healthy Holiday season. As you all know spring crew will start back up on Monday, January 10th. We will have our normal goal setting session and then a workout so come prepared to do it to it. As of now we will only have one session from 3:15-5:15 for all students.

Happy Thanksgiving!

Certainly this year the Haddon Township Crew Club has a lot to be thankful for. We have had one of the most exciting and productive Fall seasons yet, we have had two of our seniors go on official recruiting visits to colleges, and Senior, Emily Gartland received a partial scholarship because of her participation in our club! This is a goal that I feel the club should be particularly proud of. Because of everyone's hard work, we are literally creating opportunity for our athletes that are tangibly, positively effecting their lives.

We continue to push forward this spring and hope for the most successful season yet. As many of you know, we are working hard to bring in new equipment and more seats for our kids, and we are energized to host and participate in this year's Haddon Hammer.

As the club moves forward we are continually dependent upon the energy of not only our athletes but our parents, coaches, alumni, and of course, our board. The parents have had a wealth of exciting ideas and I'm looking forward to seeing these innovations become reality.

Hopefully, this is just the tip of the iceberg. I firmly believe, with continued energy and willful persistence that we can continue to push forward and achieve even bigger and better things in 2011 and beyond.

Happy Thanksgiving once again to everyone! I am truly thankful to be a part of this program and to have the opportunity to coach such an amazing group of young individuals.

This Weekend

There will be a lot going on this weekend. The following is the schedule and the lineups. Since our last race on Sunday is at 3:30ish we will not make it back to the boathouse with enough time to unload and rig. Everyone should plan on being at the boathouse on Monday at 3pm to get the boats prepared for winter.

Saturday:
Women's Double: 10:17am (Audacity)
Salena
Cassidy
Men's Double: 10:31 (Sykes 2x)
Erik Duffy
John
High School Girls Quad: 11:48
Lane 2 (Aggression)
Julie
Catie
Emily
Tori
Event 11b
Lane 2 (Intensity): 11:55
Sara
Emily Donovan
Juliette
Mandy
Lane 3 (Honk: Located at Bachelors Boat Club) 11:55
Kassidy
Kayla
Amber
Nicole

High School Boys Quad: 12:09 Lane 4 (Haddonfield)
Ryan Clark
Erik Monzo
Nick Herceg
Nelson
12:09 Lane 1 (Determination)
Brandon
Alec
Jim
Evan
12:16 (Pocock)
Marvin
Jake
Mike
Kevin

SUNDAY
2:05pm (Lane 4) Aggression
Same as yesterday
2:10 (Lane 5) Intensity
Sara
Cassidy
Juliette
Salena
2:15 (Lane 2) Honk (Located at Bachelors)
Kassidy
Kayla
Amber
Nicole
2:25 (Lane 1) (HaddonField)
Ryan
Erik
Matt
Nelson
2:30 (Lane 3) Determination
Same as yesterday
2:30 (Lane 5) Pocock
Same as yesterday
3pm (Lane 3) Audacity
Emily Donovan
Mandy
3:25pm (Lane 5) Sykes
John
Erik