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What's crew all about? Watch the video Read the latest edition
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Coach Matt Holland's cross-country cycling adventure. Matt and Jeff Soule are seeing the USA up close, biking 4300 miles from from Washington state to Maine, and raising money for cancer research. Read all about it on their blog, 2 Blokes on Spokes, which has links to the route they'll be following and ways you can make a donation to the Leukemia & Lymphoma or Brain Tumor Societies. (Matt assures us that despite the photo on the blog, they're not riding tandem). Selecting the cox for the US Olympic team. Rowing articles are rare in any newspaper, so the article on the front page of the Saturday 6/28 Wall Street Journal is special. It's about the competition for cox for the US men's team - between Bonner and St. Joe's Prep alums. Read it online here (you may need a subscription) There's also a video. THE 2008 SEASON Canadian medals return to Alexandria. The TC Crew girls' senior 8 and girls' lightweight 8 won silver medals in the Canadian Secondary Schools Rowing Association regatta, the Canadian national scholastic championship.
The lightweights finished second to Havergal college of Toronto in one of the most exciting races of the day, with less than 6 seconds separating the top five boats. The senior 8 won a hard-fought battle for silver, edging Ann Arbor Pioneer by 1 second. A boys' 72-kg 4, put together for this race from the first and second 8s, also made the finals, coming in fifth in a race dominated by Canadian crews. TC placed 19th out of 130 schools in the point totals. There's a summary of the regatta, with links to all the results, here. Photos are up. And the media is taking notice. Check out AlexandriaNews.org and the Alexandria Times. SRAA Nationals. TC Crew took four boats to the SRAA Nationals in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. The girls' lightweight won fifth, the girls' senior 8 was third in the petite final, and the girls' second 8 made it as far as the semis. The only boys boat was the freshman 8, which was fourth in its qualifying heat. Stotesbury. On a weekend that went from rainy and cold to sunny and windy, TC Crew put three boats in the finals - more than any other school in the region. The girl's senior 8 finished fourth, and the girls' lightweight and second 8's were fifth. Even the Washington Post took notice. The boys' second 8 made it as far as the semis, after clocking the fifth best time in the qualifying round. The TC girls' first 8 is the state champion. So is the girls' lightweight 8. And the boys' second 8. And the girls' third 8. It was a strong team performance at the Virginia Scholastic Rowing Championship on May 10. In addition to the golds, the boys' third 8 won silver and the girls' second 8 took bronze, and the boys' first 8 finished fifth in the petite final. The TC girls crew won the team trophy for the third year in a row. Read all the season results here. Commercial photos from championships are on line. For Stotesbury and SRAA Nationals, go to the Sport Graphics Web site, pick your race, enter school and event and see up-close photos from every race. You can order copies in various formats. And if you're feeling nostalgic, they have regatta photos from the last 20 years. Photos from all three days of the CSSRA Canadian Nationals are available from Digital Sports Photography. Photos from the CSSRA medal dock are on line at goldmedalphotos.com. Meanwhile, check our own photo pages, and follow the links to the offsite Web galleries of our photo correspondents. Hundreds of great shots! Videos! If you've never seen the start of a race, check out this view of the boys second 8 from the stakeboat dock. Plus the boys senior 8 at Stotes, the girls lightweights at Nationals, and more videos and links to TC Crew on YouTube. Congratulations to the 2008 team award winners.
Washington Post All-Met:
The history of rowing in Alexandria. Here's a hidden gem - an extended inteview with Dee Campbell, from the Alexandria Oral History Project. NCASRA becomes VASRA on July 1. The new Virginia Scholastic Rowing Association, which is being reorganized after some Maryland and DC schools left the regional organization, will include private as well as public schools.
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Summer
Crew is under way. Alexandria Crew Boosters
sponsors youth rowing programs for beginners, intermediate sweep
rowing and advanced sculling, plus adult novice sweep rowing.
The early morning sessions at the Dee Campbell Rowing Center run
June 23 through July 26. Get all the information 
