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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