Note from the President
Board Business
Next Board Meeting - August 5 at 7PM at the Princeton Boathouse
Board meetings are open to all Lakers who wish to attend and listen. It's a good opportunity to learn more about how the club is run, and how we plan future initiatives. Member comments are always welcome.
Captain's Report
As a reminder, all our rowing members are expected to cox practices on occasion. For those who recently did Learn to Row, now is a good opportunity to try coxing with good weather and light conditions in the morning.
To ensure everyone shares the responsibility of coxing, Coach Saasha uses a "cox number" system. This number, which you'll see on the lineup email the night before, reflects your coxing history. Here's how it works: you gain +1 point each time you row, and you get -6 points whenever you cox. Essentially, the higher your cox number, the more likely you are to be assigned as a coxswain for an upcoming practice.
Cox Training Recap
Rain canceled the first training session. During the 2nd session 7 participants got into the coxswain seat and had experience drilling, spinning the boat twice, docking and working against challenging winds. Big thanks to our volunteers Elisabeth and Genevieve for stroking the boat and doing some supportive coaching. Also thanks to Ken Sharp who coached from the launch with Kevin Corcoran doing the driving. It was a good training session.
Racing
The club is well into practices for the Diamond States (06/22) and Rockland (06/28) regattas, with more than 10 boats rowing in each! We also have more than 50 members signed up for our home regatta, the Carnegie Lake Regatta on July 12. Registration deadline is tonight, Wednesday, June 11, and lineups will come out soon after!
The deadline for our last sprint regatta (Quaker City) is Wednesday, July 2nd @ midnight. Sign up HERE.
Finally, if you know of any race coxswains willing to help us out this summer, or throughout the year, please reach out to Genevieve.
Go Lakers!!
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2nd Annual Capital City Rowing League
Saturday, June 21st at 11AM
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Come support the 2nd Annual Capital City Rowing League. The event is supported by PNRA, Stem to Stern and BOYD Youth Development.
Elementary and middle schoolers from several local schools put in the work for the 2024 event (row2k article). Last year a few Lakers attended and supported Joshua Rafferty who was a guest speaker for the competing athletes. It was a fun and inspiring event. Check out a sneak peek of the schools here in this video.
If anyone would like to come to speak with the athletes about rowing, your experience and how it impacts your lives and health. Please let Leslie know.
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LTR
Our 2025 Learn to Row class opens for registration June 30th! Spread the word to any of your friends who might be interested in trying it out. Here's a little graphic to include in social posts leading up to June 30th and the general 2025 info flyer.
For reference, here are the important dates below.
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Social Events
Volunteering Opportunities
38th Annual CLRA Regatta - July 12th
You may have already seen an email from Tom Heebink to sign up for "2025 Carnegie Lake Regatta." Sign up here
Our regatta has become one of the most popular summer club regattas on the east coast. It wouldn't be possible without all our amazing Laker and extended volunteers. We hope you sign up for one or more slots. Those of you who are racing will not know your race schedule until closer to the date. You can still sign up now and update it later if necessary.
New Members
Welcome our new members and guests!
Humberto Garcia - About 13 years rowing. First with Great River Rowing in Shelton, CT and for the past three years with New Haven Rowing Club in Oxford, CT.
Priit Grabbi - Learned to row at GMU 2014-2018. Tallinna Sõudeklubi 2018-2020. PBC Sweep 2020-present. ACRA MV4+ 1st 2018, Dad Vail MV2X 1st 2018.
Lilian Jochmann - Competitive all four years in high school, through sophomore year in college at Notre Dame.
Will Leonard - 4 years sculling and sweeping at Blair Academy. Rowing at Colby College this fall.
