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Dear Kim,
Rowing clubs will be clamoring for your daughter! I’m
involved as an adult organizer for our island’s junior crew program, and
when our coaches recruit coxswains, they typically look for “small people
with big personalities”. Your daughter sounds like the perfect mix
of athlete and personality that she will be much welcomed in your community
rowing organization. We are up in the Northwest, and I don’t have
any contacts in the Los Angeles area, other than one. You might try
contacting Xeno Muller at the Iron Oarsman (xeno@...). He is an
Olympic Gold medal sculler from Austria who has a indoor rowing program in LA
somewhere. I’m sure he could give you advise on where to find a
program for your daughter.
Good Luck!
Joanne Kicinski
Vashon Island Junior Crew
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Sent: Wednesday, October 08, 2008 8:47 AM
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Hi,
My
name is Kim. My 13 year-old daughter, Molly, has become interested in
rowing, particularly in becoming a coxswain. Molly is pretty athletic,
and recently trained with the US Olympic Luge Team in Lake Placid, NY.
She was offered another spot in next year’s screening camp, but the coach
was frank with us and said that because she is not going to be even average
height, she’ll never make the Olympic Development Team. They
reserve spots on the Olympic Development Team for promising athletes that are
at least average, if not tall for their age.
Molly
was initially quite disappointed, but has moved on and is setting her sights on
other things. In the past, she toured with the National Tour of Annie
and was on Broadway in How the Grinch Stole Christmas. We’ve
now had to relocate to the Los Angeles area. After closely watching the
Olympics this summer, she became fascinated in rowing after noticing that she
was much like the coxswains, short and loud (which is probably what has brought
her much success in professional musical theatre!), and she knows how to steer
well, too, she believes, as evidenced by her success steering in luge down Mt.
Van Hoevenburg in Lake Placid!
If
anyone can give us advice on where to start with a girl that wants to be a
coxswain, it would be greatly appreciated!
Thanks,
Kim
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