The Southeast Youth Rowing Association is pleased to announce the location of
the 2007
Southeast Youth Championship Regatta.

The event will be May 12-13, 2007

Heats and finals for regional races will be on Saturday.

Events qualifying for the USRA Youth National Championships will have heats and
reps will
be on Saturday and finals on Sunday morning.

This year the race moves north to be held on the buoyed 7-lane 2000m course of
East
Bank Beach on Lake Hartwell in Clemson, South Carolina. Hosted by the Clemson
College
Rowing Club. Clemson crew holds the Clemson Sprints each year and SEYRA feels
that they
will be able use this experience to hold a great event for our programs too.

Please note that Clemson is having graduation on Friday of our event. So hotel
space is at
a premium. Clemson Rowing has secured housing in the Clemson dorms on campus for
the athletes and chaperones. The cost will be under $20 per night per person. In
your trip
planning please make arrangements for a same gender chaperon for every 15
athlete of
each gender that you place in the dorm. Clemson crew will provide dorm security
however,
they are not babysitting our kids.

The Clemson dinning facility will be open to prepare hot and cold breakfast at
05:30 each
morning for $5.50 each meal. The dinning service will not be available during
the lunch
period as most crews feed their crews on site. Friday, the dinning hall will
provide a pasta
dinner for athletes for $5.50 per athlete. However, Saturday's evening meals
will up to
each individual programs. There are several eateries around the campus to choose
from.

The event packet will be available January 30, 2007.

Some highlights of this year are…
Streamlined event categories by reducing the number of events and clarifying
categories.
Last year there was a bit of confusion and the committee felt it better to clear
up and
consolidate some categories. This should prove for great racing. Here is a
preview of the
schedule.

1* Women's Youth 1x
2* Men's Youth 1x
3 Women's 2V 4+
4 Men's 2V 8+
5* Women's Ltwt Youth 2x
6* Men's Ltwt Youth 2x
7* Women's Youth 2x
8* Men's Youth 2x
9 Women's FN 8+
10 Men's FN 4+
11* Women's Ltwt Youth 8+
12* Men's Ltwt Youth 4+
13* Women's Youth 4x
14 Women's 2V 8+
15 Men's 2V 4+
16* Women's Ltwt Youth 4+
17* Men's Ltwt Youth 8+
18* Women's Youth 4+
19* Men's Youth 4+
20* Men's Youth 4x
21 Women's FN 4+
22 Men's FN 8+
23* Women's Youth 8+
24* Men's Youth 8+

The addition of the Ltwt 2x as a qualification event for the National Youth
Championship.
The Southeast has some great sculling programs that I believe will represent our
district
well.

Flat entry fees of $14 per seat with no cap. The new fee structure is different
than what
the regatta has used in the past. However, The committee was convinced that the
regatta
must break even and pay for services incurred by the event to continue in the
future. With
a majority of the SEYC using small boats (4+/x/2x/1x) this fee structure gives
all
categories a fare fee. This will reduce entry fees for several of the small boat
events ,
however the eights will see a slight increase in fees.

Well that is all I have at this time.

Allen Eubanks
Southeast Rep, USRA Youth Committee