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Upcoming events
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FrogTown Regatta
Saturday, 24 September
Racing starts at 8:15.
FREE to the public. Watch from International Park
25th Anniversary Celebration of St. John's Jesuit High School Crew
24 September
during the Frog Town Regatta at St. John's Jesuit Tent
Pig Roast
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Wish List
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Loan, Donate, or Sponsor a 1-ton pick-up truck to pull the shell trailers to out-of-town regattas.
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Security cameras for the boathouse
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26th annual FrogTown Regatta
Saturday, 24 September, Owens Corning will sponsor and Toledo Rowing Club will host the 26th annual FrogTown (nee: Toledo International Rowing) Regatta. It is a three-mile (4800 meter) head race starting just upstream of the Norfolk and Western Bridge and finishing between the stern of the SS Schoonmaker (nee: Willis B. Boyer) and the High Level Bridge. A head race is a race against the clock; one boat at a time crosses the starting line. Every 10 to 15 seconds a boat starts. The idea is to catch the boat in front of you and not get caught by the boat behind you.
If you would like to help sponsor this wonderful event, please go to the sponsorship form, print it out, fill it out, and send it in to Toledo Rowing Club, P.O. Box 8072, Toledo, OH 43605.
There will be over 1300 rowers ranging in age from 14 to 70. They will race in singles, doubles, quads, fours, and eights (See July 2011 issue at www.toledorowing.org => scroll down to TRC Newsletter for archived issues) for sketches of the different styles of racing shells.) There will be races for girls and women, boys and men. Many of the participants will row more than once. Racing will start shortly after 0800 (8 am). The restaurants will be open with Regatta fare and most of the participants, especially the high school clubs, will have their food tents set up along the river bank in International Park.
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This is what the River Bank looked like in 1880
This is what the East side of the River looked like over a century ago when there used to be rowing regattas on the Maumee River. Note that the two very palatial homes are identified as those of Stillman Brown and D.A. Brown on First Street in East Toledo. The Toledo Public Library has some wonderful photos of some of the late 19th and early 20th century architecture of Toledo. When it is too wet, cold, windy, and there's thunder in your ears, swing by the downtown library and explore.
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2011 Dragon Boat Champions
Once again Key Bank sponsored a boat for the Dragon Boat Races. Key Bank turned the acquisition of motive power over to youngsters from St. John's Jesuit High School and St. Ursula Academy. Key Bank employees' loss was a big gain for the students. The young paddlers emerged as the champions of the 2011 Dragon Boat Festival, making it the fifth time that students from those two schools have won the coveted championship paddle.
The paddlers are: Front Row:Kayla Hayes, Elyse Kortier, Jessica Genaro, and Hannah Bettinger.
Second row: Emma Miller, Emily Win. Eline Vermeulen, Hollis Dana, Luke Armbruster, Ryan Hunt, Becky Nowicki, and Mark Miller. In the back row: Sean Armbruster, EJ Schroeder, Danny Barchick, Emmanuel Dzotsi, Kevin Long, Mike Stoll, Mike Santry, and John Nowicki. On Danny Barchick's shoulders, holding the paddles high are Saurabh Mehta and Malek Atassi.
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6th place in the U-23 World Championships
Sarah Keller and her partner, Lizzie Bates, worked their way successfully through the heats and semi-finals to qualify for the finals in the Women's Lightweight double event at the U-23 World Championships in Amsterdam, Holland. The ladies finished 6th, a significant improvement over their 9th place finish the year before. Now Sarah heads off to Bucknell University while her brother, "Moose" Keller goes to Hobart College, both to serve as assistant rowing coaches.
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Fall 2011 Rowing Season
The Fall regatta season starts with The Head of the Cuyahoga in Cleveland, 2.5 miles on the challenging, multi-turn Cuyahoga River, Saturday, 17 September. The following Saturday is the FrogTown, a 3.0 mile head race on the Maumee. The finish line will be at the stern of the SS David Schoonmaker (nee: Willis B. Boyer). The following Saturday, is the Head of the Ohio, a 2.6 mile race with the finish line at the confluence of the Allegheny and Monongahela Rivers in Pittsburgh. On Saturday, 8 October, The Columbus Classic in Westerville will test the rowers over a 5000 meter (3.125 mile) course. A week later The Speakmon, another 5000 meter test on the Griggs Reservoir on the west side of Columbus.
The Head of the Charles Regatta (HOCR) is on the 22nd and 23rd of October in Boston. This will be the 47th running of this 3-mile head race. Crews not going to the HOCR will have the opportunity to attend the Hamilton Double Dam regatta in Hamilton, OH, sponsored by Great Miami Rowing Center on the Saturday of that same weekend.
The final regatta of the season is the Blake Haxton, another 5000 meter head race, also on the Griggs Reservoir on Saturday, 29 October. It is named for an Upper Arlington H.S. rower who contracted Necrotizing Fasciitis that nearly killed him and did cost him both of his legs. His coach, Chris Swartz, was quoted as saying that "Blake was the kind of rower and young man that every coach would like to have a bunch of" or words to that effect. |
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Fall Rowing Rosters
The rosters for the fall are as follows:
Anthony Wayne - 25
Central Catholic - unknown at press time
Notre Dame Academy - unknown at press time
St. Francis de Sales - 5
St. John's Jesuit - 38
St. Ursula Academy - 30
Toledo Metropolitan Rowing Club - unknown at press time
The population is down. The spirit certainly is not. Tell your friends and neighbors about a great lifetime sport that exercises all the major muscle groups in the body without injuring or wearing out knees and ankles. Tell them it is a great way to get in shape for the winter sports: basketball, swimming, and wrestling or even the spring sports, if they are bound and determined to play baseball, lacrosse, rugby, and/or run track. |
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New Coaches at the Boathouse
There are some new faces in the coaching ranks at the boathouse this fall.
Phil Levering, a graduate of St. Francis de Sales High School ('06) has been hired by the St. John's Jesuit rowing club as head coach. Subsequent to that he was hired by the school and will be teaching Theology to the 7th and 8th grades and acting as the assistant campus minister. He will also be the faculty advisor for the SJJ TV studio. A graduate of UT with a degree in communication he won a college television award from the academy of arts and sciences foundation, the same organization which presents the Emmy, for the best overall news production.
Nick Heppner, will be taking over at Toledo Metropolitan Rowing Club. He is an engineering student at the University of Toledo and comes to us from the Westerville Rowing Club where he rowed for four years under the watchful eye of Head Coach Matt Chase. Nick spent the entire summer teaching in the Westerville Learn-To-Row program.
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Adaptive Rowing Program looking for Volunteers
The Adaptive Rowing program got a real shot in the arm at National Learn To Row Day the first Saturday of June. A half dozen folks got to try their hand at rowing in boats specially rigged to accommodate those whose legs cannot provide any power to the stroke. Jerry German and his son Jack are providing the coaching. Where they need volunteers to help will be in getting the rowing shells from the boathouse to the launch/recovery dock, assisting the rowers in and out of the rowing shells at the dock, and getting the shells back to the boathouse. This is a great opportunity for high school youngsters who need service hours and for adults who want to help others enjoy the sport of rowing. Contact Jerry German at jcgerman@toast.net or Jack German at jackgerman@hotmail.com. They are the two very capable coaches dedicated to making rowing available and accessible to the adaptive community.
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The Leviathan gets a "Roof"
The Leviathan is moored in the Veterans Skyway Marina from National Learn To Row Day until late August. In that span of time lots of rain falls. The Leviathan used to collect that rain water until Tom Broderick worked out a design with a friend of his to make a cover. With the "help" of some PVC pipe, bungee cords, Velcro fastener tape, and some waterproof fabric, Toledo Rowing Club now has a cover to protect the seats, tracks, and foot stretchers from the rain and the geese.
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Cadre of Experienced Coaches
(or those willing to apprentice)
Toledo Rowing Club needs to create a list of potential coaches. Anyone who has coached rowing or would like to apprentice to learn how to serve effectively as an assistant coach, that's what the club seeks. You won't get rich - at least in terms of money. However, as corny as it may sound, you will get rich with friendships and with knowing - a little bit - about the impact you can have on young men and women teaching them not only how to row, but life skills such as commitment, determination, integrity, teamwork. It all sounds like apple pie and motherhood, but your editor can vouch for its veracity. If you have some interest in getting involved in any way, contact learntorow@toledorowing.org. Toledo Rowing Club will support your coaching education to achieve Level I, Level II, and Level III coaching certification. And that is most often accomplished at the United States Rowing Association's annual conference - a great place to learn from those who have been "in the business" for years and to "network" (rub elbows?) with some of the greats in the rowing community. Don't be bashful. Step up!!
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What would you like to see or read about in the newsletter?
Suggestions for articles, outlines of article, or complete articles are welcome. Here again, if you don't brag about your program, your rowers, your accomplishments, who will? Submit ideas, requests, comments to newsletter@toledorowing.org
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Please consider a donation to the Toledo Rowing Foundation.;
Your contribution provides college scholarships as well as support for youth and adult rowers. The foundation is a 501 (c) 3 organization, so all gifts are tax deductible.
Please forward donations to:
Toledo Rowing Foundation
Attn: Virginia Keller
PO Box 8072
Toledo, OH 43605-8072.
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