John,

My program, Washington-Lee HS Crew, is connected to our school. As part of
W-L HS we are required to follow the standards for VHSL(Virginia High School
League). VHSL states all althletes must be passing 5 out of 7 classes as of
the 2nd Quarter to participate in a spring sport. This is pretty standard
for all VA Schools. You may want to look at your local area for similar
standards to go by. If you base them on current standards it will leave
little room to complain or dispute how you came up with them.

Derek Parsons
Head Coach


>From: "John A. Bartucz" <jbartucz@...>
>Reply-To: youthrowing@yahoogroups.com
>To: youthrowing@yahoogroups.com
>Subject: [youthrowing] academic standards
>Date: Thu, 05 Oct 2006 09:52:47 -0500
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>Hi All,
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> our club is considering adopting academic standards for our junior
>athletes. We have two main goals with these standards: the first is that
>we would like to avoid losing rowers due to poor academic performance.
>In the past, some parents have taken their children out of the sport to
>focus on their schoolwork. We would like to approach these rowers
>earlier in the process, so that we can help them manage their workload
>and continue rowing as well. The second goal is to improve the image of
>rowing among teachers and parents alike, in the sense that we encourage
>hard work, both on and off the water.
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>Unfortunately, as an independent club, we are not in a position to
>enforce or even to look at grades. Some parents would gladly get
>involved with the process, but I have a feeling that those would not be
>the ones with at-risk kids.
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>Does your club have academic standards? How do you encourage/enforce
>them? What are the carrots and sticks that you use?
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>thanks,
>John Bartucz
>Rochester Rowing Club of Minnesota
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