I thought I would give a quick recap, as attendance was light due to holiday conflicts and an ice/snow storm.

 

As you will note from Dave Schenck's email, a slate of officers was approved.

 

Coaches - The participation in winter training is record-breaking!  64 varsity and 22 novices.  The coaches are very pleased with how it is progressing. 

New coach - those of us who braved the weather were fortunate enough to meet Molly, our new novice girl's coach.  Molly has already begun working with potential novices at winter training.

Note on winter training cost- AFTER the Chargers, head coach and school administration finalized the cost and the checks were collected, Crewster President Bob O'Leary took it upon himself (with permission from Rob Hughes) to try to get all or most of the facility usage fee waived.  He wrote a memo and contacted three school board members, and then when he received a call from Superintendant Corliss Kaiser, he talked to her for nearly an hour making his impassioned plea that the sport is costly and the kids are using school facilities in a manner comparable to other student groups that do not have to pay.  His persistence may have paid off.  We hear a reduction is in the works, and there may be a refund of some kind coming.  Stay tuned! 

Equipment purchases - Varsity Girls Coach Aaron Lachant requested that the Crewsters purchase a training tool that is used instead of one rigger to "set" the boat and allows better coaching of rowing technique.  If it seems to work well, possibly a second one would get purchased.  The cost is in the neighborhood of $300.  A vote was taken and approved to purchase one of these devices.

Oars - Coach Schnall presented to All-Sports Boosters a request to partially fund the purchase of two sets of oars to equip two 8 boats.  He will not know until January whether they will contribute anywhere from 25-50% of the cost ($3800).   A vote was taken and the Crewsters agreed that they would fund 50% of the cost with the understanding that they would be used for the FM scholastic program only and in the spring only.

Silent Auction - Kris King created a very nice solicitation form for use. (Thanks, Kris). 

 

Those are the highlights,

Ellen