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"Socialism
is a philosophy of failure, the creed of
ignorance, and the gospel of envy. Its inherent
virtue is the equal sharing of misery."
Winston Churchill
St.
Ursula dedicates Vespoli 8 V1
Saturday
afternoon of The Head of the Charles Regatta was
the timing and the venue for the dedication of St.
Ursula's brand new Vespoli 8 V1. The photo is a
dead giveaway! After a prayer by assistant coach,
Anna Muller, Cindy Dana and Anna pulled the cloth
covering the bow to expose the name: "Neil Stewart
McElroy".
Front
Row: Taylor Dana ('08), Jessica Genaro,
Hannah Bettinger, Alexis Zervas, Anna Davies,
Hannah Dart, and Coach Anna
Muller.
Second
Row: Coach, Emily Win, Jessica Cetnar,
Hollis Dana, Allison Rudolph, Beth Ann Less, Emma
Miller, Allison Sheehan, Sydney Kanjuparamban,
Coach Neil McElroy, Eline Vermeulen ('11), and
Sofie Vermeulen. Missing: Leah
McCormick
Each
of the rowers who would race in the boat the
following day stood by her rigger to which was
affixed a very small bottle of champagne. The
coxswain stood next to her seat. Neil and his
wife, Kim, stood at the bow. Each of them opened
the bottle of champagne and poured the contents
over the bow, the appropriate rigger, and the
stern. The photo provides a good indication of how
Coach Neil was affected by the recognition. Coach
McElroy (the elder) was asked to speak. He said,
"I have had several requests, but I am going to
speak anyway." That resulted in much laughter such
that Neil suggested to his dad that he quit right
there, "while you are on top, Dad." It was an
emotional time for many. One SJJ novice Mom told
Mrs. Gail(Neil's mom). "I don't even know your son
and I was crying!" Your editor feels very strongly
about the brotherhood, the spirit, the camaraderie
that defines the rowing community. It was made
manifest that day.
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A
New Feature: You know you are a rower
when...
You
know your a rower when you believe all authority
figures carry a megaphone!
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Results
for the Head of the Charles Regatta - Cambridge,
MA, 22/23 October 2011
Cambridge
Boat Club founded the Head of the Charles Regatta
- first run on Columbus Day, 12 October
1965
The
47th running of the Head of the Charles
Regatta was great as ever. The weather on Saturday
was sunny, 60 degree temperatures, and smooth
water. Sunday, not so much! Overcast and ten
degrees cooler. Fortunately smooth water for
racing. Because of the three days of rain
preceding the regatta the Metropolitan District
Commission had to open the Charles River Dam to
let the river flow into Boston Harbor. With the
dam open there was a pretty stiff current against
which the rowers had to pull. Thus times were
slower than in years past.
Kate
Broderick, SUA '07, was part of the HOCR staff for
all of 2011. ".....time stamp on this photo is
10:10pm. Yes, Kate answered the (HOCR) office
telephone line at 10:10pm on Monday night, October
3, 2011."
The
goal for each of the Toledo teams that entered was
to finish in the top 50% of its event in order to
gain an automatic acceptance for the
48th iteration of the HOCR. This year,
it was not to be. Next fall each of the schools
will have to hope its number comes up in the
lottery which chooses the schools that will fill
out the slots still open after the top 50% from
the 47th edition are accounted for in
the draw.
Here
are the results:
Ernestine
Bayer Race (EBRoC):
Bill
Walker finished 14 out of 34 in a time of 27:16
and won a bronze medal in his age group. Cary
Cooper finished 32 out of 34 in a time of
33:24.
Toledo
Rowing Club: Women's Master 4 (average
age 50+ - the truth is out, ladies) finished
20th out of 24 entries in a time of
24:06. Winning time of 20:36 was posted by Orleans
Sweeps.
Bow
to stern: Elaine Sheehan, Cindy Dana, Ann
Broderick, Melissa Tolson, Coxswain (not visible)
Sophie Vermeulen.
Anthony
Wayne:
Women
Youth 8, 47 out of 74, winning time was 17:13; AW
in 19:14
Paige
Anderson, Kayla Betz, Kailey Fry, Megan Koeniger,
Paige Wesolowski, Meggie Behrman, Rachel
Langenderfer, Lexy McConnell, and coxswain Trevor
Hoyt.
St.
John's
Jesuit:
Youth
8, 48 out of 75, winning time was 15:07; SJJ's
time - 16:56.7
St.
Ursula:
Youth
4, 48 out of 75, winning time was 18:51; SUA's
time - 20:46
Youth
8, 51 out of 74, winning time was 17:13; SUA's
time - 19:26
Notre
Dame:
Youth
8, 71 out of 74, winning time was 17:13, NDA's
time - 20:54
-which
included a one minute penalty for interference.
That usually means that one boat clashed oars with
another boat and was assigned blame for
it
Alumni
participants:
Your
editor is aware of three SJJ alumni who rowed in
the regatta. Don Wyper '01 rowed in the Alumni 8's
event for Ever Green BC under the Dartmouth banner
and came in 3rd out of 17. Winning time
was 15:28; Ever Green BC @ 15:45. Chris Ulrich '08
and Josh Konieczny '09, rowing for Georgetown and
Dartmouth respectively, competed in the
Lightweight 8 event. Winning time posted by the
U.S. National team was 14:28. Georgetown posted
15:03 to come in 4th out of 17 and
Dartmouth posted 15:11 to come in 8th.
Alex Thornton, SUA '07, coxed the DeWolfe RC in
the Women's Senior Masters 8 (average age = 50+)
event, believed to be a BU Alumni 8 boat. It came
in 18th out of 29 in a time of 19:56.
Sarah Keller, NDA '07 rowed in the Women's Alumni
8 event in the Bantam Boat Club (Trinity College,
CT alumnae) boat coming in 18th out of
30 in a time of 19:21.8.
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Results
for the Blake Haxton Memorial - Griggs Reservoir,
Columbus, 29 October
This
regatta is dedicated to Blake Haxton, a graduate
of Upper Arlington (UA) H.S. who contracted
necrotizing fasciitis which nearly cost him his
life and did cost him both of his legs. He is now
assisting at UA while attending TOSU (The Ohio
State University) The course was 5000 meters in
length. The weather cooperated in terms of
providing fairly smooth water for the rowers. The
regatta committee limited the attendees to highly
competitive crews from Ohio, Michigan, Missouri,
Illinois, and Pennsylvania. St. John's Jesuit
competed in 9 events; St. Ursula, in 7. The Blake
Haxton Local Organizing Committee was grateful for
the loan of bow numbers from Toledo's FrogTown
Regatta committee.
"St. Ursula launching
at the Blake Haxton Memorial Regatta"
The
events and finishes for SJJ were: V8, 12 out of
13; 2nd V8, 10 out of 12; Novice 4, 8 out of 13;
2nd Novice 4, 6 out of 13; V4, 12 out of 13; 2nd
V4, 9 out of 12; 3rd V4, 11 out of 11; Novice 8,
8/13; and 2nd Novice 8, 7 out of 14. The winners
on the boy's side of this regatta were Cincinnati
Junior Rowing Center (CJRC) - a juniors program
which draws rowers from Greater Cincinnati and
Northern Kentucky with 5 first place finishes, New
Trier H.S. with 2 firsts, St. Louis RC with 1
first, and Dublin with 1 first.
The events
and finishes for St. Ursula were: V4, 12 out of
12; 2nd V4, 7 out of 12; Novice 8, 7 out of 12;
V8, 8 out of 12; 2nd V8, 7 out of 11; Novice 4, 10
out of 12; and 2nd Novice 4, 5 out of 10. The
winners on the ladies side were New Trier - 4
firsts and CJRC - 3 firsts
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USRowing
runs live feeds of Regattas
Quoting
Willie Black, USRowing Coaching Education Manager:
"Our goal was to get racing live on the web and
figure out a way that we could do it cheap so that
other programs could do the same thing. We are
getting to the point were we think we have a solid
enough system that we can start to show programs
about broadcasting their own events.
Our
National Team events (trials and selection events)
are broadcast on the United States Olympic
Committee web site- http://rowing.teamusa.org/live.
Our
USRowing events (regional and nationals
championships) are broadcast on our Ustream site-
http://www.ustream.tv/usrowing.
he
USRowing web site has a listing of events that are
broadcast, they can be found at- http://www.usrowing.org/Multimedia/VideoSchedule2011.aspx.
Currently last year's schedule is posted, but we
should be posting 2012 very soon.
What is
also very exciting is that we are being hired by
collegiate and HS conferences to broadcast their
championships. We hope to have more rowing on the
web and in the near future have programs using our
system to broadcast their own races." (In other
words, TRC could conceivably webcast The
FrogTown!)
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What
is the status of the
National
Great Lakes Museum?
The
latest report from Paul LaMarre, Executive
Director of the SS Colonel James M. Schoonmaker
(nee: SS Willis B. Boyer) is:
"We
plan on breaking ground at the maritime center
location early in the new year and will be
finishing the painting of the after main deck and
cabins of the Schoonmaker in early Spring.
Presently it is anticipated that the ship will
move in the late fall or early spring of
2013."
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Docks
Out date and team
Time sure flies when you
are having fun. So, Saturday, 5 November, the
docks had to be removed from the lagoon and the
river. Parental units from Anthony Wayne, Central
Catholic, Notre Dame, and Toledo Metropolitan
provided the line handlers, the clevis pin
releasers, and the nut-and-bolt "undoers" while
Jeff Sherman and his team did the heavy lifting
with the crane and the transporting with the flat
bed.
Some damage had occurred
to the River dock over the past season when some
logs - actually an entire tree - got jammed under
the dock. The team inspected the flotation and the
deck boards to make recommendations for repairs.
Turned out that there was no damage to the
flotation. The first section of the Lagoon dock -
the one that attaches to the ramps - will get new
deck boards before the dock is put back in the
water in the spring (by the same team that did the
honors on Saturday). The club will replace the
deck boards on one section of Lagoon Dock each
year to keep the dock in tip-top shape. The
progression will be to replace the boards on the
most worn section - as determined by an inspection
at the end of each rowing season.
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How
do the fall and spring seasons differ?
In the fall crews race in
Head Races which are anywhere from 2.5 to 3.2
miles long. The crews leave the starting gate one
at a time, ideally 10 to 15 seconds apart, and
race against the clock. The idea is to catch the
boat(s) in front of you and not get caught by any
boat(s) that started behind you. In the spring
high school crews race 1500 meters (100 meters
short of a mile) usually in lanes 6 across,
sometimes 7, very similar to sprints in track
meets.
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How
about another anecdote from the annals?
A
classic TRC story is of the day an elderly
gentleman, six feet tall, gray hair, and chiseled
features showed up. He was an occasional visitor
to the waterfront. A young lady, a coxswain from
St. Ursula Academy, approached him and asked if he
would like to learn something about rowing and
have a tour of the boathouse. She had no idea who
this senior citizen was. The gentleman turned on
the LeBoutillier charm and said: "I'd be delighted
to learn a little bit about rowing and see your
boathouse."
With
the enthusiasm and exuberance of youth she gave
him the full presentation. As he turned to walk
away, another more experienced, and unfortunately
jaded, rower felt called upon to tell the coxswain
'You have just given a tour to the guy who founded
TRC." The young coxswain was mortified. It took a
bit of skill and a lot of hugs to assure her that
she could not have done more for Phil and his love
of the sport than she had done by sharing her
enthusiasm unabashedly with him.
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Winter
Social
The
annual Winter Social is scheduled for Friday, 24
February 2012. It will be held at Carranor Hunt
and Polo Club, 2nd Street, corner of East
Boundary, Perrysburg. Look for announcement of
winners of the prestigious Busted Butt Award,
Water-Logged Award, and the "Full Speed Ahead"
award, and offer congratulations to those who went
the extra mile in working to make TRC a better
place from which to row, he or she who rowed the
extra mile (or more) in a single shell, and the
individual who went the extra several miles to
continue the traditions of the man responsible for
the existence of Toledo Rowing Club.
There
will be some tall tales for sure, a review of the
2011 rowing year, plans for 2012 rowing year, and
information about the coming of the Great Lakes
Marine Museum to the Marina District. And some of
Carranor's great food and adult beverages.
Graduating seniors from all the high school clubs
will be recognized for their steadfastness and
spirit as representatives of Toledo, their
schools, and their clubs.
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Who
should get credit and kudos in your organization?
It
is easy to tell which clubs are submitting
articles, photos, outlines for articles, or just
ideas for articles by noting which clubs "get some
ink" in the newsletter. Don't get left
out! Why not let the editor know how many of
your rowers are National Honor Society members;
who among your rowers has already been accepted
for college and for which college(s) or where each
of them is applying; which rowers were letter
winners for their efforts during the fall season?
Submit ideas, requests, photos, and/or comments to
newsletter@toledorowing.org
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