Upcoming Events

Head of the Charles Regatta

Saturday, 22, & Sunday, 23 October

Boston

Hamilton Double Dam Regatta

Saturday, 22 October

Hamilton, OH

Blake Haxton Regatta

Saturday, 29 October

Griggs Reservoir, Columbus

Wish List

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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Classifieds

"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act, but a habit."   Aristotle

Results from the Head of the Ohio Regatta - 4100 meters - raced upstream

Four Toledo Rowing Clubs traveled to downtown Pittsburgh on Saturday for an unbelievably rainy and cold Head of the Ohio (HOTO) Regatta. HOTO is one of the larger fall regattas and, on its 25th anniversary, proved once again to bring in some of the region's top competition. This year the new 4100 meter (just over 2.5 miles) course was upstream, starting close to Heinz Field and finishing close to Three Rivers Rowing Association Boathouse at Washington's Landing. All the high school age races combined youth or junior (more than one high school represented in the boat) and scholastic crews.

St. John's Jesuit captured two silver medals: H.S. Novice 4+, and H.S. 2nd V-8 and one bronze medal: H.S. Novice 8. The V-8 captured the third fastest high school V-8 for a bronze as the V-4 captured silver as the 2nd fastest high school V-4.

St. Ursula Academy rowers in the Novice 8 captured a silver medal. The following SUA boats won bronze medals: H.S./Youth 8+ but was the fastest high school 8; H.S. 2nd 8+, and H.S. 4+. The father daughter team of Pat and Laura Sheehan rowing under the banner of TRC won a bronze medal.

Central Catholic took third place (5th overall) among high school boats in Youth/H.S. 4+.

Notre Dame Academy took a third place (5th overall) in the Youth/H.S. Novice 8+ and second place (4th overall) in the Youth/H.S. V8+.

Anthony Wayne High School attended the Charlie Doyle Regatta on the Great Miami River in Dayton and returned well bronzed. Men's Jr 2x, Mixed Jr Novice 8, Women's Jr 8, and Men's Jr Quad each won bronze medals over the 2000 meter course that has been resurrected after I-75 construction closed the course for three years.

Reporting of regatta results: Always available at www.regattacentral.com 

From this point onward to make it quick and easy to find results for the Fall head racing season, your editor will list the clubs, the event(s) in which they medaled, their finish against other high schools in the event, and their finish against all the entries in the event. For example: School: SJJ; Event: Men Lwt 8; Finish against all high school crews in the event: silver; Finish against all crews in the event: 4th. The crews other than high school crews are "Juniors". That means the rowers are of high school age, are from more than one high school, and row for clubs such as Cincinnati Junior Rowing Club which draws athletes from high schools throughout greater Cincinnati and northern Kentucky.

Results from Columbus Fall Classic - 4200 meters with a 180 degree turn at the halfway mark

Results from Speakmon Regatta - 5000 meters

Two weekends of Regattas remaining in the

Fall season 

22-23 Oct.   Head of the Charles in Boston

22 Oct.   Hamilton Double Dam in Hamilton, OH

29 Oct.   Blake Haxton Memorial, Griggs Reservoir, Columbus, OH

Docks Out date and team

Docks Out is scheduled for Saturday, 5 November. The clubs assigned to the extrication team for this Fall and the insert team for next Spring are: Anthony Wayne, Central Catholic, Notre Dame, and St. Francis.  

Since St. Francis is now part of TMRC, TMRC should send representatives. Please be sure to have at least three adults from each club. Not every one will be "hands-on" all the time. However, it is really important to have a cadre of people who know the drill so that as time and a half goes by, TRC will have several folks who know how to put the docks in and how to take them out! Part of the Fall take out includes power washing the dock sections.

All current and potential (apprentice?) coaches

The USRowing annual convention is in Hartford, CT this year. This year's theme is "How to build a successful college or high school rowing program". The convention starts Thursday, 1 December and runs through Sunday the 4th. It will include the 2011 Advanced Coaching Conference. This is the inaugural edition and will take place all day Saturday, and half a day Sunday, replacing the old advanced coaching seminars of previous conventions. Some of the topics presented by well known, experienced coaches are: building a program (TMRC?), technique training (all TRC clubs), race preparation (all TRC clubs), and much more.

Who should get credit and kudos in your organization?

Suggestions for articles, outlines of articles, or complete articles are welcome. Here again, if you don't brag about your program, your rowers, your accomplishments, who will? Submit ideas, requests, and/or comments to newsletter@toledorowing.org

Dates are set for NLTRD, SumPro, and Youth Rowing Camp in 2012   

Head of the Charles to end recreational  

shells events

The HOCR organizing committee has decided that it will no longer run the Ernestine Bayer recreational boat event. Quoting the article: "This will be the final year for the Ernestine Bayer Race on the Charles which began in 1974 and is the only race open to what rowers call recreational shells.  

Go Here to read the article which appeared in the Patriot Ledger.  

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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