CRESCENT NEWS

Novices Sculling Camp 2008 video

 
CBC Novice crews preparing for Philadelphia Youth Regatta - regatta to be held on Schuylkill River July 26, 2008.

Crescent Crew Heading to Canada
Our crew will be participating in Royal Henley Regatta in Canada during the first and second week of August. Our headquarters for the regatta will be at the Heart of Niagara Hotel - Quality Inn ~~~(click here for map)- coaches crew and some of our families will be staying there during the races. Laura Rice is the contact person and Heart of Niagara Hotels. Contact her if you need to make accomodations.

Laura Rice
Group Sales Coordinator
Heart of Niagara Hotels
327 Ontario St.
St. Catharines, ON
Tel: 905-704-5643
Fax: 905-704-5655
Email: lrice@heartofniagarahotels.com

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Crescent hosts crew from Argentina.

Leo, David, Esteban and Owen up from Buenos Aires, Argentina will row a men's lightweight quad under Crescent's colors in 4th of July Regatta.

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July 8 MEETING for all rowers and families that will be going to Canada for the Royal Henley Regatta. At the boathouse 6:30 PM

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July 1 - All athletes competing in regattas have to sign waivers. To do that go to Regatta Central and follow the instructions. Our roster code is PH-217777 for crescent.

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June 28- 126th Canadian Henley Regatta will be held August 4th to the 10th 2008

For everyone going to Canada you must have a valid US Passport. Click on this link to find out how to get one if you do not have one. It will take a few weeks to get a passport, so apply now or you won't be able to go.

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4th of July - The Cerrone's are organizing the club's 4th of July bash for next Friday - the 4th. All afternoon and evening, capped off with the best seats for the City's fireworks display. Be there.

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June 26 - Summer programs in full swing. Each morning at 6 o'clock a fleet of Crescent boats set out on the river. With more than 50 young rowers participating, CBC's quads, doubles and singles compete with the drivers on the Schuylkill Expressway in making an early morning traffic jam! At 8 AM our novices take to the ergs and the boats.

Click in the center to see a brief YouTube clip of activities.

 

 

JUNE - The summer program starts at 6AM on June 16th at Crescent Boathouse. All participants in the racing/competitve program should report to boathouse. First day will include erg testing, and a light rowing workout on the river.

Participants in novice program report at 8AM on June 23 for start of their activities.

Members - check out the new online coaching videos posted (click on 'coaching' videos link on the left side of this screen). Thanks to Tom Bryan and Mike Bryan for their on camera and behind the camera work.

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May 28, 2008 -There was a huge turnout for the organizational meeting of our summer programs tonight almost a hundred parents and rowers listened as Ray D'Amico and David Ragan spoke about our plans. There are still some slots open in the program for novice and racing divisions.

The novice participants will meet on June 23, 2008 at the boathouse at 8am for the start of the 4 day per week program (8 til noon, Mon thru Thurs until July 23)

The various racers will meet on June 16 at the boathouse at 6AM. First day will be devoted to erg testing. Workout and training schedules will be adjusted, but will be based on 6am - 8am daily crew rows.

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May 20, 2008 - Update on Summer Rowing Program - There will be at meeting of all interested rowers at the boathouse on May 28 Wednesday at 6PM. Coach Ray D'Amico will speak. Applications will be accepted at the meeting. Parents of rowers are welcome to attend.

Update on Coach Javier Murillo - Javier has been approved for a special visa by US Citizen and Immigration Agency, and also by the US State Department, but there is more red-tape with the Passport Control office. Tom Doyle, our lawyer Al Caprara, and Javier are all working on the issue, and we still have high hopes that Javier will be admitted to US to coach for us this summer. Ray D'Amico has accepted our request to coach and run the summer programs. When/if/and as soon as Javier gets here, Ray will integrate him into the coaching staff.

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April 25 - The club is now accepting applications for our summer Racing Program and Novice Program. Ray D'Amico will again head up the novice division, and Javier Murillo will coach the racers. Spaces in each division will be limited, so encourage any prospects to get their application submitted early.

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April 14, 2008 - Club officers met at boathouse today.
Officers elected to serve for 2008 - Bill Shea, Pres; Joe Ferry, VP; Ray D'Amico Treasurer; Keith Pellicone, Sec'y; Maryellen Smith, Schuylkill Navy Delegate; Dave Ragan Captain; Jack Lees and Tom Bryan, Lts. ; Javier Murillo, Head Coach.

NOTE: There will be a meeting of all members of the club on the first Friday evening of each month. Meetings will begin at 7:30. Meeting of Officers will be held after Club meetings. Make time for yourself to come after work, get in a row. We'll order a pizza and have the club meeting - its important that we get everyone together to plan, make decisions, take assignments. Next meeting will be May 2, 2008. Following meeting will be June 6 - first Friday night of each month.

Crescent has Sunny Rodriguez cleaning the Boathouse each Wednesday. She has had a great impact on the quality of life in our lockerrooms. Having this service isn't an excuse to get sloppy. Keep the house in good order.

DUES - $450 a year. Due now. A notice will be sent out via email next week to remind you to pay dues. Don't wait for it. Send your dues in as soon as possible. Make check out to Crescent Boat Club, and send check to Joe Ferry at #5 Kelly Drive, Phiila 19130, or to his house at 441 Hawarden Road, Springfield, PA 19064.

DUES - we will hold dues for Summer Competitive and Novice Camp members to $525. Members should get the word out to any young persons that wants to be part of the best summer program on the River.

Tom Bryan has reviewed all our boats and has estimated that it will cost us between $10k and 15k to put all our equipment into perfect condition. Much of the work that needs to be done is fiberglass repair of small nicks and dings that happened when getting boats off racks. Try to be more careful, these kinds of harm are easy to avoid - practice good boat handling technique, and help one another when moving the boats into and out of water.

At meeting the officers reaffirmed the benefit to full members in good standing to use the social rooms of the boathouse, free of charge, for family parties and functions. Contact Joe Ferry if you'd like to make reservation. Check the online calendar to be sure that your date doesn't conflict with any existing rentals.

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April 5, 2008 - Crescent Boat Club has just gotten word from the United States Immigration Office - the USCIS has granted Javier Murillo a special working visa to come to the United States and contribute his "unique' talents to coaching for Crescent Boat Club.

With this visa Javier will be able to work here in the states for the next three years, continuing to build the competitive racing program at Crescent, and to teach and train new rowers.

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