Hi Byron,
Thanks for some good ideas....I have also recently
contacted a local surfboard company with the same name
as our crew. They are supporting a bicycle team with
clothing etc. I suggested we are also a water sport
etc. etc. and we have much in common. They also
started locally (Santa Cruz). They had no idea CREW
was such a old sport. They also encounter the barriers
of being taken seriously by some. They will be helping
us. We made up a recruiting video and are in the
process of a letter designed to recruit and also send
to corporations for the always needed $$$. I will use
some of your locational ideas. Thanks, Marsha A.
--- JWalth1590@... wrote:

> This is the norm for rowing in much of the US.? It
> is not an official interscholastic sport in our area
> either.? So the schools can legitimately forbid
> on-campus recruiting, and the?athletic directors?can
> glibly say "it is not a(n official) sport".
>
> Our rowers are from 10+ schools, private and
> public.? Some schools have "Crew Clubs" comprised of
> several of our?rowers who attend there.? So their
> pictures are in the school annuals and there may be
> a little funding, but that is all.
>
> I am interested in hearing about how?crews recruit
> new rowers other than by word of mouth.? The
> following approaches have helped us:
> 1?? Visibility at the sponsoring YMCA
> 2?? Visibility of those school crew clubs
> 3?? Recruiting from within my patient population (I
> am a family pratice physician)
> 4?? Asking our existing rowers to recruit specific
> types (coxswains, athletic boys, or whatever)
> 5?? Publicizing everything possible in our local
> newspapers (events, successes, etc)
> 6???Having an upbeat?web page with contact
> information.
>
> Byron Walthall, Head Coach
> Charlotte Youth Rowing
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Marsha Atkinson <matmarsha@...>
> To: youthrowing@yahoogroups.com
> Sent: Fri, 18 Jan 2008 2:23 pm
> Subject: [youthrowing] I just joined as well.
>
>
>
> Hi all,
> I am the parent of a high school VM who rows for
> NORCAL CREW in
> Redwood City Ca. I am the official-unofficial
> varsity boys mom. I also
> row with the Masters who share the boathouse. BIAC,
> Bair Island
> Aquatic Crew. I love this sport and the family has
> been rowing for
> three generations. NORCAL is growing as they are
> only 6 years old. Our
> girls won the National Championships in Cinn. in the
> lightweight 4.
> Oddly enough the third place winner was Stanford
> Junior Crew which
> rows on the same slough. (It's the water or the all
> year round
> rowing?) NORCAL is in the process of building a new
> boathouse with a
> "elite training center". More to come on that. I
> believe the sport is
> growing and the future may again bring sponsorship,
> easier recruiting
> at the high schools and recreational outlets. In the
> San Francisco
> area we are essentially banned from recruiting at
> high schools. The
> kids have to form campus club. It is difficult when
> they row 6 days a
> week to from a club and maintain it.I am a very
> annoying pushy mom and
> have been there questioning the payment and support
> of coaches and
> facilities for the "big 6" sports. Yet crew is not
> allowed to join in
> the recruitment program at the beginning of the
> year. Apparently we
> would be taking kids away from campus to
> participate. Yet, the
> football team is a parent sponsored club with school
> paid coaches and
> has facilities on campus..... I will not go on....on
> thing I will say.
> My son was told by one of the coaches that "CREW was
> not a sport".
> This coach was not talking about just on his
> campus.(former basketball
> coach) My goal is to help change that lack of
> knowledge and bring
> attention to one of the original Olympic sports and
> the first
> collegiate in this country and possibly on the west
> coast. When we
> talk about fitness, what better than
> rowing.....Thanks for reading my
> thoughts. Best in 2008, Marsha Atkinson
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