ODBC 2010

Head of the Charles 2010 - Girls 8 video on youTube

Head of the Charles Results - Oct. 24, 2010

Old Dominion Boat Club earned automatic entries into the Men's and Women's Junior Eight events with their 12th (Women's) and 16th (Men's) place finishes in 2009.  Both squads traveled to Boston on Friday morning for a practice row on the river, before spending most of Saturday walking up and down the race course, enjoying the atmosphere around the largest head race in the world.  Sunday was all business for both boats, as they launched with 70-75 other boats in each of their events. 
 
Almost all DC-area boats had a rough day in the Men's event, and ODBC was not exempt from those results, as they finished in 63rd place out of 76 competitors.  Only two boats from DC finished in the top half of the regatta, thereby earning an automatic entry into the 2011 edition of the HOCR, with Gonzaga College High School finishing in 21st place, and TBC finishing in 37th place. 
 In the Women's race, ODBC had a solid race, finishing in 23rd place out of 70 crews, and earning an automatic entry into the 2011 event.  They were one of only three crews from the DC area to earn an automatic entry into next year's event, with TBC (7th place) and Annapolis Juniors (30th place) being the other top boats from the region. 

Old Dominion Boat Club races at the Head of the Charles - Oct. 21, 2010

Both the boys and girls teams are taking one 8+ up to Boston this weekend, for the 46th Head of the Charles Regatta.  Both boats race on Sunday, between 12:30 and 1pm, with the boys starting 16th in the Youth Men's Eight race, and the girls starting 12th in the Youth Women's Eight race.

Occoquan Challenge - Oct. 3, 2010

The Occoquan Challenge is the first of three races hosted on the Occoquan each fall, and this year it was the second race on the calendar for Old Dominion Boat Club.  The girls team kicked off the racing for ODBC, with the two 8's finishing in second and ninth place, out of the dozen boats that entered the race.  In the Men's Junior Eight event, ODBC finished third out of eleven boats, earning another medal for the club.  The Challenge was the last warm-up race before ODBC would travel to Boston for the Head of the Charles.

Old Dominion Boat Club races at the Head of the Potomac - Sept. 26, 2010

The Old Dominion Boat Club kicked off the fall racing schedule with its annual trip upstream to the Head of the Potomac.  With almost every local team represented, along with teams from as far away as New York, the HOTPot is always a good barometer for how the rest of the fall season will play out.  On the girls side, ODBC had two 8's in the Junior Eight category, with the "A" boat managing a top 5 finish yet again.  The "B" boat was less fortunate as they finished in the bottom 5 of the race, with the regatta being only the second time that they had rowed together in this lineup.rowed together in this lineup.

Both boats will next race at the Occoquan Challenge this upcoming weekend, before training for two weeks in the lead-up to the Head of the Charles regatta.   The ODBC boys had one 8, the Junior Eight, and one 4, the Junior Four, entered in Sunday's racing and set a solid and fast tone for the rest of the racing season. With a 7th place finish in the Junior 8 and a 4th place finish in the Junior 4, the squad is ready to keep pushing hard on the water and get faster as the fall racing season gets underway.  The Junior 8 will be racing this weekend at the Occoquan Challenge on their way to Boston for the Head of the Charles a couple of weeks later.