Washington-Lee High School Crew

The 2010 Mid-Atlantic Erg Springs will be held January 30th at TC Williams HS. You can register and find the schedule of events here. All of our athletes are encouraged to participate.

We would like to congratulate the winners of the 9th Annual W-L Crew Triathlon. Full results can be found here.

The triathlon consists of a 4K erg, 2 mile run and max bench pulls.

Boys Winners

1st - Andrew Heinzman, Washington-Lee
2nd - Daniel Thom, Yorktown
3rd - Colin Seamens, Washington-Lee

Girls Winners

1st - Macy Warren, West Springfield
2nd - Paige Monborne, Yorktown
3rd - Cynthia Carson, Washington-Lee

The W-L Crew Triathlon will be held this Saturday, Jan 16th. This year we will have athletes from W-L, Yorktown and Wakefield participate. Our triathlon consists of a 4k erg, 2 mile run and bench rows. The event is held in the Commons at W-L. Setup starts at 8am and the event will begin at 9am.

The 2010 Schedule has bee posted.

The W-L Crew program would like to announce and welcome Jeff Lucier '90 as the new Women's Head Coach. Jeff is entering his first season as the women’s head coach of Washington-Lee Crew and is starting his 11th season as a high school coach. Jeff coxed for W-L and Charlie Butt from '87-'90. As a three year member of the lightweight 8, he finished 2nd at Nationals twice and won Stotesbury. He coxed the varsity 8 for four years at George Mason where he won a DC Metro Championship and placed 2nd at the Dad Vail. Jeff is currently a Gifted Resource Teacher for Prince William County Schools. Prior to joining W-L Crew as a coach he has worked with programs across Fairfax County for such schools as Thomas Jefferson, Langley and Westfield. We are very excited to have Jeff join 6 other Alumni on the W-L Crew Coaching staff.

Congratulations to Senior Will Dickinson for being one of 52 selected to the USRowing 2009-10 Scholastic Honor Roll.

The USRowing Scholastic Honor Roll recognizes high school seniors who have excelled in both academics and rowing. Applicants must be USRowing members, have rowed or coxed at least one year, and successfully competed at or above the league or regional level.

Dates - Sept. 19th, October 3rd, 10th and 17th
Location - Potomac Boat Club
Time - 10am to Noon.

Please check here for addtitional information.

That's right she did it again. Former W-L coach and Potomac Boat Club member Margot Shumway is on her way to World Championships representing the US as the Women's Single. Margot held off a very strong field and swept the singles best of 3 finals at trials. Margot returns to the National Team after being a member of the 2008 Olympic Team as the stroke of the US Women's Quad.

2004 W-L Crew member Martin Eiermann will also be making the trip to Poland for the World Championships as a member of the German Lightweight Eight. Martin came to W-L as a german exchange student and was a vital member our 2004 Stotesbury Cup Championship Lightweight Eight. Martin is currently a Junior at Harvard University where he rows for Charley Butt(Charlie's son). We hope the best for the both of them.

2006 Alumni Nora Phillips returns to the headlines by being name 2009 All-ACC Academic Rowing Team.

The 60th Anniversary of the Washington-Lee HS Crew program will be celebrated on Saturday, September 26th at Potomac Boat Club. We are trying to spread the word and need your help. Postcard invites have gone out. If you didn't get one and should have please click the link above for Alumni and update your address for our mailing list. Additional information for the 60th can be found by clicking the link above for Anniversary.

A lot of athletes are still on the water this summer and more will join in this Fall rowing for area club programs. I hope to update everyone soon with all the details.

1992 Alumni Mike Callahan, who recently took over as Men's Head Coach at the University of Washington, capped a stellar season by sweeping the Men's Eight's at the IRA National Championships. The Huskies won the Men's Varisty, 2V and Freshman Eights. This is an impressive accomplishment in his 2nd year at the helm.

2006 W-L Crew Alumni Nora Phillips helps UVA to a strong finish at the NCAA Championships. Nora was recently moved to the V8 where she sat 2 seat. This season UVA finished 2nd 0.37 seconds behind Stanford in the V8 at the NCAA championship and 4th over all as a team(8th top four finish in the 13 year history of the championship).

The 2009 season has come to end. The season was marked by one of the strongest finishes for the team as a whole. 5-6 boats taken to the VSRC made finals with the Women's 3rd Eight placing the highest at 2nd. The Men's V8 placed 5th .3 seconds behind McLean HS.

• VSRC results
  • Women's 3rd Eight - 2nd
  • Men's V8 Eight - 5th
  • Women's V8 Eight - 5th in Petite
  • Men's 2V Eight - 5th
  • Women's 2V Eight - 4th
  • Men's 3V Eight - 4th

We took 6 eights to The Stotesbury Cup Regatta. The highlight was the Women's Jr. Eight which qualified for semi-finals. It was a heart breaker for a few of our boats which didn't qualify for semi-finals by fractions of seconds.

• Stotesbury Cup results
  • Men's V8 19th missing qualifying for semi-finals by 0.28 secs
  • Women's V8 20th missing qualifying for semi-finals by 0.72 secs
  • Men's 2V 14th missing qualifying for semi-finals by 3.2 secs
  • Women's Jr. Eight qualified 12th needing top 18
  • Men's Jr. Eight 19th missing qualifying for semi-finals by 0.09secs
  • Women's Freshman Eight 20th missing qualifying for semi-finals by 0.96 secs

The final race of the season was SRAA Nationals where we took up a Men's and Women's Jr. Eight, Women's Jr. Four and our Women's Freshman Eight which qualified by placing 3rd at the Ted Phoenix Regatta on May 2nd, where our Men's 4th Eight also did well finishing 2nd to Thomas Jefferson. No boats advanced out of the heats.

• SRAA Nationals
  Friday / Saturday
  • Men's Jr. Eight finished 4th in the heat -10th out of 27 by time in the heats
  • Women's Jr. Eight finished 4th in the heat - 15th out of 24 by time in the heats
  • Women's Jr. Four - 5th in the heat - 23rd out of 31 by time in heats
  • Women's Freshman Eight 7th in the heat - 18th out of 25 by time in the heats

2005 W-L Crew Alumni Cepand Alizadeh and current member of the University of Virginia Crew has been invited to the USRowing 2009 U23 Lightweight National Team Camps. As a member of W-L Crew Cepand helped the W-L Lightweight Eight win Stotesbury in 2004 and SRAA Nationals in 2005.

The schedule for Saturday's VASRA Championships has been posted.
During the break in racing from Heats to Finals currently scheduled from 10:54am
to 11:50 VASRA and the Northern Virginia Regional Park Authority will be naming
the newly installed race course at the Occoquan after our team founder Charlie
Butt. This is a fitting tribute on the year celebrating the 60th Anniversary
of Washington-Lee Crew. The ceremony will include highlights of Charlie's
career and history of building not only W-L Crew but rowing throughout the
east coach on the scholastic, club and university levels.

The schedule for the Novice Championship - Ted Phoenix Regatta has been posted.

Images from the boat christenings are now posted in the gallery. Check them out.

The schedule for the Charlie Butt Regatta has been released.

Boat naming ceremony is tentatively scheduled for 1:15pm at PBC. All are welcome to attend.

April 16th marked the 60th anniversary for W-L Crew's first regatta against George Washington HS of Alexandria.

The schedule for the tri-meet with BCC and Westfield is now posted.

The schedule for Saturday's regatta has been posted.

Keith Grest and the 2009 Captains

The current members and coaches of the W-L Crew were honored to have a very special guest on Monday. Keith Grest the team manager from 1949-1951 stopped by practice. Unfortunately the weather kept us off the water so the visit wasn't complete but the kids and coaches were still very happy to get a chance to meet and talk with a very important member of the W-L Crew family.

The Walter Mess Regatta schedule has been posted.

We would like to congradulate Todd Gerarden '05 for being selected as a Truman Scholar 2009. Todd attends the University of Virginia.

The mission of the Truman Scholarship Foundation is to find and recognize college juniors with exceptional leadership potential who are committed to careers in government, the nonprofit or advocacy sectors, education or elsewhere in the public service.

The Schedule for Saturday's races with TC Williams is now posted.

You can find the schedule for Saturday's regatta under Schedule/Results

The team starts racing this Saturday against Whitman and Wilson High Schools.

New Boats to be named during ceremonies at Potomac Boats Club on April 25th at the conclusion of the Charlie Butt Regatta. All are welcome to help us honor these deserving members of the W-L Crew Family.

The men's new eight will be named in honor of John Jenkins, class of 1962 who passed away in 1996

The women's new eight will be named in honor of Andy Barr, Washington-Lee Alumni '46 and major supporter of our program.

The 60th season for Washington-Lee Crew is underway. The kids are excited, the coaches are ready and the boosters are in full swing. Everyone is looking for another great season for W-L Crew. Racing starts soon. Our schedule is under the schedule/results tab.

Since the starting temperature on Saturday(Jan. 17th) was near 8 degrees our usual 2 mile run after the 4k erg was changed to 5 laps within the school which included a trip up the stairs to the 4th floor and back down each lap. We had athletes from W-L, Yorktown and West Springfield this year attending. Even with the modification in routine it was a great even and all the athletes battled hard.

The 2009 winners are:

Boys

Girls

Images from the Princeton Chase:

Nora Phillips - UVA - seven seat
Cepand Alizadeh - UVA - seven seat
Nick Birasa - Dartmouth - Stroke(eight)
Nick Birasa - Dartmouth - Stroke(four)
Scott Herring - Temple - six seat
Neal Stanga - Princeton - five seat
Martin Eiermann - Harvard Lights - four seat
David Kahan - Yale Lights- five seat(second from the bottom)

The 2009 Schedule has been posted under the Schedule/Result tab. The results from 2004-2008 have also been added to this tab.