Want to spend your days on the water, enjoying the fine San Diego weather? If you live in San Diego, that's easy if you get to Mission Beach, and enjoy the San Diego Rowing Club.
We started this in June 2012, with Tina and Katie attending the camp on the first day. Katie had other camps, but would have liked to be rowing more with her sister.
The boys will be rowing this summer, we hope, too.
Find our more about rowing by visiting http://www.sdrcjrs.com/
www.sandiegorowingclub.org
The girls just came in 4th at the Nationals yesterday. Yes, they were in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. They missed third by .001 of a second. Look for some great stories about that.
Here's what coach Susan Francia had to say in her e-mail today!
"The girls had a great regatta this past weekend in Oak
Ridge. It was truly wonderful to see how much progress the quad and the
single had made since regionals. Unfortunately the quad ended up on the
wrong side of 1/100th of a second. Battling it out between second, third,
and fourth place, they were bowball to bowball with the other crews and ended
in fourth. I am incredibly proud of their performance and how hard they
raced. Chloe Belle ended up 5th in the B final of a very strong women's
1x field. And now 4 of them are off to US Jr. National Team selection
camp while Christine will be enjoying her graduation from high school
vacationing in Europe.
Youth Nationals was a great experience and incredibly
eye-opening. What shocked me most was the equipment that most of the
crews had. Almost all of the boats AND oars were absolutely brand new.
No dings, no spray paint, no patches. The oars were also brand new
Crokers for most of the crews. If we're going to be competitive on the
national level, we will need the best stuff and we will have to take better
care of it. Like most of the top crews, I think we should designate our
own equipment that is only used by juniors.
I also saw the world of collegiate recruiting like never
before. College recruiters literally lined the shore with rosters of
racers in hand, watching and taking note of the athletes. I had more than
10 coaches, some from Yale, Brown, Princeton, Oklahoma, Washington, and UVA,
ask me specifically about my athletes. We need more boats at Nationals so
the kids can get more exposure!
To the parent volunteers who have been working hard to
recruit kids to the program, keep up the good work. Your efforts to get
more kids involved will help get us more athletes and help get us more funds
for good boats.
I am in Princeton now playing my other role as athlete.
I had a great first day even though it poured rain (what's that?!?!).
I'm ready to give it my all to make the US quad. I hope to head to
Lucerne, Switzerland in the middle of July for the World Cup and Congju, Korea
at the end of August for the World Championships. My girls will be my
inspiration!
Thanks to all for a great first season with SDRC. "
Susan is a two time Gold Medalist in rowing for the USA.
