Washington-Lee High School Crew

Former Coach to represent the USA and W-L Crew in the 2008 Olympics. Former Women's Novice Coach Margot Shumway will stroke the women's Quad this coming August. Here is an article on her.

Girls Freshmen Eight qualifies for Semi-Finals at SRAA Nationals, Oak Ridge TN. Results

So it's not at an end yet but its getting close. This past weekend was the 2008 Stotesbury Cup Regatta. We took 5 boats up and unfortunately none of them made it out of the time trails but we were close, very close. You can find results
here.

The next thing to come is our Women's Novice Girls travel to Oak Ridge TN for the 2008 SRAA Championships. We wish them luck and calm waters. SRAA info can be found here.

Images from States and Stotes have been added to the gallery.

Due to large amounts of debris on Saturday the VA States regatta was delayed 1 hour. The story after that was the Men's 3rd Eight that placed 3rd, only crew to medal. The Men's and Women's V8s battled hard but came up short of the finals. They both did make the Petite finals, the women's eight pushed through long time rivals Yorktown to take 2nd in the heat to advance. The Men's V8 finished the local regatta season by winning the Petite Final. The Men's and Women's 2nd Eights did not advance to the finals. Full results can be found here.

Image from today(Monday) at the Occoquan

Images have been added to the Gallery from the Charlie Butt Regatta.

The schedules for both VA States and Stotesbury 2008 have been released

• VA States can be found here html/printable
• Stotesbury 2008 can be found here

Stotesbury in a nutshell - Friday Time Trials

Boat	Time	Bow #
Boys Jr8	10:42am	374
Boys 2V	12:55pm	621
Girls 2V	1:09pm	646
Boys V8	2:43pm	867
Girls V8	3:00pm	917

At Saturday's Ted Phoenix Lower Boat Championship the W-L Girls Freshman Eight came away as Champions! They bested more then 10 crews from our region. They will now move on to the the SRAA National Championships in Oakridge TN the week after Stotesbury.

The Men's Novice Eight took the bronze after advancing easily into the final. The 3rd boat in attendance from W-L, the Men's Novice Four also made the final but came up one place short of the medals placing fourth. Great day for W-L Crew. Go Generals!

The regatta was supposed to see bad weather in the afternoon but that never showed. The regatta went off without any major incidents and paved the way for the Team's best showing as a whole yet this season. The notable finishes are. Results

• The Men's Novice and Women's Freshmen Eights won their races.
• Men's 3rd Eight had a convincing win in the Heat and Final.
• The Men's V8 and 2nd Eights were nipped at the finish in the heats and the Men's V8 then placed 3rd in the Petite Finals.
• The Women's Eight won the Petite Final

The Charlie Butt Regatta is this Saturday. The schedule can be found here html/printable. All athletes should be present at the boathouse no less then 2 hours prior to their race.

Images from St. Andrews and the Walter Mess Regattas have been added to the Gallery.

A great regatta all around. The team really stepped up and had a great showing. The weather and the size of the regatta made for a day of great racing. You can find results from the Darrell Winslow Regatta here.

The schedule for Saturday has been released. You can find it here html/printable. Tomorrow should be a great day for racing. Don't forget your sunscreen! Two Buses 7am for Girls/Boys 1st Eights, Boys 2nd Eight and Boys 4th Eight. The 2nd Bus will be at 10am for Girls 2nd Eight, Girls/Boys 3rd Eight and Girls Freshmen Eight. Don't be late.

The Gallery has been updated with images from the scrimmage with TC Williams.

So the weather doesn't look that great so please be prepared. Our race schedule has be published. You can find a here: html/printable. Directions to the race course/school can be found on the boosters site.

So Saturday seemed calm and nice enough however on the race course at the Occoquan was a different story. The races were delayed for 1 and a half hours after the 6th event. When the races resumed a decision had been made to only row the Championship Events on the course and simultaneously row the lower or novice boats on an unmarked 1200 meter course. This allowed everyone to race but made for a very challenging and long day. Most of our boats did very well for the 1st race of the season. We have reached the half way point of the season and everyone is working hard to gain speed for the racing yet to come. Results from this weekend can be found here.

The schedule for this weekend's regatta is available here. Info on bus schedules will be sent out asap. A printable color coded schedule can be found here

So when we showed up at 6:30am and the water and temperature weren't favorable so we rowed our 1500 on the ergs. By the end of our indoor race the waters and temp had calmed giving us time to get a 750m race in. We ended up barrowing equipment from TC and the kids fought hard but came up short in all our races. It was a shaky start but the season has just begun. We look for better conditions and results to follow.

Our scrimmage is set. You can find the schedule here. The buses are leaving the school from Quincy Street at 5:45am. The first race is at 7:30am

The team will be at the The Dee Campbell Rowing Center this weekend to race against TC Williams. We will be starting around 7am and hopefuly finished by 9am. Buses will leave the school Saturday at 5:45am from the Qunicy St. side. Only the Varsity Men and Women will be participating. The following weekend will be the first race for the novices.

New images from past events have been added to the gallery. Images from the 2008 Triathlon and Mulch Madness Fundraiser have been added. Gallery

We had a great start to the 2008 Season yesterday. Although we haven't hit the water we are well on our way. Please remember your requirements of dues, registration, emergency care and USRowing waiver forms. Most of you have your physicals on file but some of you still need to take care of this.

Let's remember to dress for the weather and work hard. I'm looking forward to a strong and fast season.

We are getting close to the start of the 2008 season and that means there are a lot of things that need to get done.

Swim Tests for all novices will be Wed & Thurs. next week. Right after school. Bring full sweats(top & bottom) and a plastic bad for the wet clothes

• The swim test consists of 3 laps(any stroke), treading water for 1 minute and at the end putting on a life jacket while in the water.

We are going to attempt to move the docks Saturday. We need all available hands to be at the boathouse at 3:30pm. Dress warmly, it's going to be chilly. The location of the boathouse for novices is 3530 Water Street, Washington DC 20007. You can see the location on mapquest here(the star should actually be on the up stream side of key bridge. if you click on the aerial map(upper right corner of the map) and zoom in you'll see the green and red object to the left of the start is the boathouse)

Images from the 2008 Mid-Atlantics have been added to the Gallery

The captains will be going around to the Freshman English Classes this Wed and Thursday. We will be following this up by a team/interest meeting on Feb 12th, right after school in the 2nd Floor Library. Any interested Members as well as returning rowers need to attend. Please let me know if you have any questions.

This meeting is for the kids, not the parents. The Parents Potluck Season Kick Off is Feb 21st in the W-L Commons 6:30pm to 8:30pm.

Images of some of our Alumni Rowing

Belly of the Carnegie 2007