posted Aug 17, 2009 3:47 AM by Bob Herdlein
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posted Oct 16, 2008 9:00 AM by Bob Herdlein
Coach Ed has confirmed that there will be a bus available, on a first
come first served basis, to take our Crew Athletes that are not rowing
on Sunday, and room permitting their parents/family too, to and from
the Head of the Charles Regatta in Boston. The bus will board at the
"L" at Central High School at 7:00 am, Sunday, October 19th. The
tentative return will have those riders re-board in Boston at 2:00 pm,
although the exact time will be confirmed with the bus driver before
leaving the bus on Sunday morning. We need to have a few parents
volunteer to ride the bus as chaperones, who will agree to simply keep
a list of athletes riding the bus, to make sure they all return at
departure time (if they haven't already confirmed with the chaperones
a pre-arranged ride home with their own families). Please email ( bgoudas@aol.com) or call me (home # 669-1657) if you are a parent willing to serve as a chaperone. Thank you and have fun! Brian Goudas. |
posted Oct 5, 2008 5:37 PM by Bob Herdlein
Hello everyone,
I wanted to extend an invitation weds evening (Oct 15th, 6pm, Central Library) to any of you
wanting more information on the steps I took with Bethany on the college search...I continually
have people asking me where/how we started, etc...so I thought it would be a good idea to gather
whoever was interested together and share our experience...and hopefully help answer any questions.
With a lot of hard work, meeting with a few key people who answered so many questions and supported
us the entire way through the process...it was actually a fun and successful journey!
Jay Hauser was one of those key people from NHHEAF.org. He was a Div.I athlete, a Div.I recruitor, and
now an advisor for college bound athletes. He is young, has endless energy and ideas, very upbeat and
fun to listen to and work with...my girls love him! He is passionate, energizing and will definatly light a spark
in any student to become more involved and excited about the college application process!!
( from essay, resume, visits, fin aid aps, scholarships, lots of ideas and places to start searching!...)
I have asked him to join me to meet and talk with families interested in this amazing process, he said he'd love to!
So if you'd like, join us for an informal roundtable info meeting to answer any questions you may have,
regardless of what year your child is in, senoir year comes very (too!!) quickly, and there is wonderful info
he'll share that can help the process along whenever you need it (and their service is completely free for
NH residents!!)
Hope to see you then, bring the kids too!
Have a wonderful weekend!!
Linda Charron
And a note re above from Karen McCarthy;
Recently I forwarded to the team an email that was an offer from Linda Charron, one of our Crew Mom's,
to share with us her experience in trying to navigate through looking at Colleges that have Varsity
Rowing programs that would offer her daughter Bethany (Central Grad 2008 and former rower) Scholarship
money for college in exchange for Bethany's great rowing skills. Bethany is the first Rower from Central
Crew Club to receive a "full boat" scholarship. (yes, pun intended) Bethany is attending Holy Cross in
Worcester MA where she is a Pre-Med student and she is attending this College on their dime.
There are many outstanding opportunities out there for our Rowers, especially the Women! Colleges are
looking for good Women Rowers to fill their seats in their boats and are willing to give great scholarship
opportunities to those that are serious about their Grades and Rowing.
This is a perfect opportunity for any interested parent/athlete to get more info on the process from
Linda who just went through this process with her daughter. She also is going to have a representative
from the NHHEAF Network which is an organization whose mission it is to helping New Hampshire students
pay for college, who's name is Jay Hauser. Between the info that Linda and Jay can give us, It will be
a great resource and start to thinking about our athletes future College experience.
It is never to early to start obtaining info for College planning, especially if you and/or your
athlete wants to Row in College. The process for starting to contact potential College Rowing Coaches
is in the beginning of the junior year of High School!! If you are interested in attending, it will be
held on Wednesday October 15th in the Library @ Central High School @ 6 PM
If you plan on attending, please just send me an RSVP email, so that I can give Linda and Jay a rough
headcount. I hope that many of you will take advantage of the opportunity to learn about all the exciting
opportunities that exist out there for our great Rowers/Students.
I hope everyone had a great day today at the Textile Regatta in Lowell, We really have every reason to be
very proud of our Central Crew Club athletes!!!! They did an amazing job today. Congrats to all our athlete
and thank you for all your hard work, you all really make it look so easy and amazing to watch!!!!
Have a great night,
Karen McCarthy
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posted Oct 4, 2008 3:18 PM by Bob Herdlein
Hello Crew Families,
MEN's TEAM:
I was asked by Coach Ed to send out a reminder to the Men's team as to arrival times for tomorrow morning:
- NON-MARCHING BAND HEAVYWEIGHTS 7:00am @ the trailer, down passed the beach
- COX'NS MEETING @ 7:00AM at the Boathouse
- LIGHTWEIGHTS 8:00AM @ the trailer, down passed the beach
- MARCHING BAND HEAVYWEIGHTS ASAP as quickly as you can get there when you finish with Band!!! @ trailer
WOMEN'S TEAM PER ALAINA:
Arrival times:
- Women's 4's and Cox'ns 7am at the latest (cox'ns straight to the boathouse for the meeting)
- Women's 8's 9am at the trailer.
Directions:
- Route 3 south/Everett Turnpike into MA.
- Exit 35, Route 113 (a right at the end of the exit ramp).
- Cross over the bridge and a right onto route 113/Pawtucket Blvd following the river.
- Across from the boathouse is a Dunkin Donuts and a paid parkinglot (field) next to the DD.
- Continue on this road and our trailer will be just downstream of the public bathhouse.
- If you reach the dam, you have gone too far
The weather is suppose to be sunny, which is always a welcome thing for a regatta,
I am looking forward to seeing everyone on the water, for fine dining, great company
and of course our athletes, showing us the best rowing on the river. GO CENTRAL!!
Until then,
Karen McCarthy
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posted Sep 17, 2008 10:14 AM by Bob Herdlein
Reminder that the deadline to turn in all material for the Crew Calendar Fundraiser is Friday, September 26th (only nine days from today!). As a reminder, ticket stubs and money can be handed over directly to me (I will be in Meredith this Saturday at the regatta), or the athletes can also give their items to fellow athletes Kat Bourque or Brian Fontaine (or additionally my son Shane Goudas who can bring them to me). If anyone needs additional calendars to sell, just mention it to any of us named above (don't forget the $300-$200-$100?prizes to the top three sellers!). My phone # is 669-1657, and email is hmg625@aol.com. Thank you, Heidi Goudas. |
posted Sep 12, 2008 5:02 PM by Bob Herdlein
Saratoga, NY hotel reservation information we talked about at the Crew
meeting this past Wednesday.
The Central Crew Club's final regatta of the fall season will be the Head of the
Fish, in Saratoga, NY, on Saturday, October 25. For those that have never
experienced this race, it is a big regatta, with many?Crew teams from all over
the northeast attending.
Local hotels seem to get busy and fill rather early on. The Central Crew Club has
set aside 25 rooms for Friday, October 24, 2008, at the Best Western Park Inn,
3291 South Broadway (Route 9)?Saratoga Springs, NY 12866.
These rooms must be reserved by interested families/individuals
contacting the hotel directly, and will be set aside by the hotel on a
"first come-first served" basis. Any rooms not taken will be released for
general sale on October 3, 2008.
For those interested, please call the Best Western Park Inn and reserve your
own room under "Central High School Crew" group name, with Block Code "CGCENT."
This gets the group rate of $159.95 plus tax.
The hotel's phone number is (800)813-9559 or (518)584-2350.
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posted Sep 5, 2008 4:46 PM by Bob Herdlein
Dear Crew Athletes and Families,
Welcome to the 2008 fall rowing season at the Amoskeag
boathouse. The club is very pleased to be able to provide facilities for the
Manchester Central, Concord, and Derryfield teams and is equally pleased to
have watched the rapid growth of local high school rowing. The success of and
support for your teams is amazing. If you are new to this great sport, you will
soon discover that the athletes, parents, coaches and other supporters involved
are top notch. I hope that you find the upcoming season challenging, rewarding
and fun.
The increasing success and popularity of your teams has
however, strained the limits of our facility’s capacity and there are several
rules that we ask all rowers and their families to follow so that we can
continue to function with approximately 200 student athletes using the site
every afternoon.
First, it is very important that everyone understand that
ARC is allowed to locate and operate its facility on town owned land through
the generosity of the Town of Hooksett and that the boat launch and parking
areas are public areas and access to them by other users must be assured. We
are a very large group and need to be respectful users of the area.
Here is what our group needs to do:
- Traffic
- Please
drive carefully and courteously in the vicinity of the courthouse and
boathouse. The speed limit on the access road is 10 mph.
- Car
pool as much as possible to reduce traffic. It saves gas too!
- If
you are dropping off or picking up athletes, please do so in the
courthouse parking lot. We ask that if you don’t have a real need for
your car to be in the launch parking area, you don’t drive further than
the courthouse parking lot.
- Please
don’t drive on the grass along the access road, as the town would like it
to continue to be grass and not turn to dirt and mud!
- Parking
- Parking
for athletes and coaches is extremely limited. Please car pool as much as
possible to limit the number of cars parked on site during practices.
Coaches will inform their athletes as to where they should park.
- The
northwest end of the launch parking area (the area nearest the launch
ramp) needs to be kept open for emergency vehicle access and non-rowing
users of the boat launch. There is a tree next to the river marked with
an orange flag and an orange mark painted on the pavement across from the
tree. Please do not park or stand (standing on your own two feet without
your car is allowed) beyond the “imaginary line” formed by these two marks.
- Parking
is not allowed in the Courthouse parking lot prior to 4:15 PM on
weekdays. Use of the lot is allowed on weekends and weekday evenings
EXCEPT when the Thrift Shop is open (the third Saturday of each month
from 9:00 AM to 3:00 PM, all other Saturdays from 9:00 AM to 12:00 PM,
and on Wednesdays 6:30 to 9:00 PM.)
- Parking
is only allowed along the east-side (away from the river) of the access
road and only to the extent that a car is parked completely on the gravel
shoulder but not on the grass or pavement. No parking is allowed on the
west-side (towards the river) of the access road. The access road must be
kept open for wide trucks, trailers and emergency vehicles at all times.
- Parking
on the grass around the courthouse or along the access road is not
allowed.
- If
the other parking areas are full, overflow parking is allowed in the
unpaved turn-around loop, just south of the courthouse parking lot.
- Garbage
- All
trash must be bagged. Please do not put trash into the cans without
making sure it is going into the liner. If the bag is full, pull it out,
tie it up and place it by the flag pole inside the boathouse gate. Help
yourself to the supply of bags next to the ARC desk and line the can with
a new bag.
- Keep
the lids on the garbage cans so that they don’t fill with rain.
- The
facility (boathouse, boatyards, ramp, ice rink and parking lot) needs to
be cleaned up after every practice or race. All water bottles, clothing,
food wrappers, etc. need to be picked up every day. Parents – you know
the trail of stuff your kids can leave behind at home. Multiply that by
the 200 teens we have using our boathouse and it isn’t a pretty picture.
Everyone needs to clean up after themselves, please!
- Most
of our trash consists of disposable water bottles, many of them still
full. In an effort to reduce the huge amount of trash we are generating and
the waste of natural resources, the club strongly discourages the use of
disposable water bottles at the boathouse. Please buy a reusable bottle,
mark it with your name and team name and bring it with you to the
boathouse. Don’t forget to take it home with you too.
- All
recyclable materials brought to the boathouse should be taken home and
recycled. Our volume of garbage could be greatly reduced if we didn’t
throw out containers that can be recycled. Recycling bins at the boathouse
have been tried but the volume was huge and impossible to keep up with.
It is easier, cleaner and more environmentally friendly to not use
disposable water bottles in the first place.
Many thanks to everyone for your cooperation on these
points. For the most part, it works pretty well given the large number of
rowers we have on site, but in the interest of initiating the newcomers and
reinforcing the rules with those returning, I thought it was worth repeating.
Once again, welcome and best of luck to all of you during
the fall season,
June Larkins
President, Amoskeag Rowing Club
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posted Aug 26, 2008 5:46 PM by Bob Herdlein
Meredith Bay Regatta - Saturday September 20th
Textile River Regatta - Sunday October 5th
NH Championship Regatta - Saturday October 11th
Possibly the Head of the Charles - Sunday October 19th
Head of the Fish - Saturday October 25th |
posted Aug 20, 2008 2:20 PM by Bob Herdlein
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updated Aug 20, 2008 2:22 PM
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Registration fees cover only a small percentage of the actual cost for each athlete to row each season. To help offset this expense, the Central Crew Club must have all of its participants engage in fundraising for the team to reach its goals.
Each athlete is expected to sell a MINIMUM (you are encouraged to sell as many as you can!) of 10 calendars, for a donation of $10 per chance/ticket to win the prize money, which is shown on the calendars. To help keep track of how many calendars you have sold, please write your name on the back of each ticket, so that when you return the ticket portion with the money (either cash or checks payable to "Central Crew Club") we will be able to confirm the number of calendars you have sold. This is important, because the three top selling athletes will be awarded a significant prize themselves, $300 to the athlete who sells the most, $200 to the second place athlete, and $100 for third!
Please refer all questions and turn in your ticket stubs and money to either: Kat Bourque, Brian Fontaine, or to Heidi Goudas (parent: phone # 669-1657; email hmg625@aol.com ). The deadline to turn in all material is Friday, September 26th.
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posted Aug 13, 2008 4:03 PM by Bob Herdlein
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updated Aug 13, 2008 4:44 PM
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Hello Men's Team,
Following is your practice schedule along with other info intended for the whole team.
If you have any questions regarding this email contact Coach Ed!!!!
edwardmccormick@comcast.net (Coach Ed's Email Address)
369-1601 (Coach Ed Cell #)
Greetings all,
Great news, we have purchased all three boats from Jacksonville University to upgrade our fleet. I would like to thank the board and the fundraising committee for working so hard over the summer. (Pictures below)
The coxswain seat on the new eight has sold, but we are still selling off all eight rowers seats. The women's new four bow and part of the two seat have been sold off. The men's new fours seats are almost all sold, there is 3/4 of the bow seat left to sell off. $3,750 has been raised so far. Thank you to all the families and
friends that have stepped forward to making this happen.
Men's practices will start after sign-ups next Tuesday at the YMCA. Remember your packet must be complete, including medical clearance. ( Link to Fall Central Crew registration including link to download packet ). Be ready for practices to start on Wednesday the 20th at the boathouse 7-9 AM and 5-7 PM DOUBLE SESSIONS. We are going from 5-7 to accommodate the band students, those who have evening work schedules contact me and we can add in a 3-5 PM practice if needed.
We will go Wednesday 20th and Thursday 21st (AM and PM)
Friday 22nd (AM only), Saturday 23rd, 8-10 am, The following week double sessions(7-9 AM & 5-7 PM) Monday 25th, Tuesday 26th, Wednesday 27th.
You will be off Thursday August 28th through Tuesday September 2nd. This practice schedule is one week shorter then in the past. We will combine Fresh/Novice and Varsity in the AM and focus on more small boats in the afternoon.
Remember, grades come first. Rowing comes second, but can we as a group help each other with improving our grades.
Seniors contact me about recruiting issues.
I am so excited about the potential of this year, so many talented rowers and coxswains. I am hoping to boat out a very competitive Varsity Hvy, Varsity Light, and Jr. Varsity eight this fall. I am also hoping to see a solid freshman class and the continued development of our youngest rowers. Let me know if you are planning on rowing this fall or if you will return in the spring so I can work on the numbers.
Hope you had a great summer.
Coach McCormick
P.S. Max, I tore my Scaphoid-Lunate legament off the scaphoid bone and had to have wrist surgery this summer. So I guess you were right. I will have a cast at practice.
Pics of Men's four, Women's four and the new Eight below:
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