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Good evening teammates,

We went over a lot of information tonight, so please READ this email!

*Fundraising*

- *MyEdu*: For each confirmed email address, *$1* will be donated for the team. This is easy money, so register your email account(s) today. Share it with your Facebook and/or Twitter friends/followers. All you have to do is follow the link below and enter your name, school affiliation, & email address: www.myedu.com/free/cofccrew

*Novice*

- *Unisuit* *measurements*: If you haven’t been measured by your respective captain, please contact them ASAP. We are ordering unisuits this week so if we don’t receive your information soon, you likely won’t get one. – *Practices*: *Coaches* *Drew* and *Brandon* need to know what days you can make it to practice. They understand that work & internship schedules might conflict, but you need to tell them your schedule *AT* *LEAST* a week ahead of time. Our first race is less than 3 weeks away so please put in the time for your team. – *Regattas*: Speaking of races, your captains need to know what regattas you can attend this season. Please contact them if you can NOT make it to any of our regattas. You may find a regatta schedule at the end of this email. – *Club Dues*: The *1st *of *4* payments were due tonight. If you’d like to pay in full, please do so by the March 13th meeting. Please contact * Erin* at enmarker@g.cofc.edu if you have any questions. – $*300*/rower, $*200*/coxswain – Checks may be made out to *CHARLESTON CREW*

*Varsity Dues*: The *2nd* of *4 *payments were due tonight, since last week’s meeting was cancelled.

- Please make sure you *pay in full* by the *March 13th* meeting. – Checks can be made out to *COLLEGE OF CHARLESTON* – Contact *Erin* with any questions or concerns

*Clothing*: *Dan* *the* *Man* has extra Varsity *jackets*, *JL’s*, * sweatshirts*, *unisuits* & *t*-*shirts*. Please contact him if you are interested in purchasing any of these items: dscandea@g.cofc.edu

*End-of-the-Year BANQUET*: *Friday, April 13th, 2012 at 6:30pm*

- This a fun event that everybody looks forward towards the end of the spring season. Please don’t schedule anything else for this evening. – *Dinner*, *dessert* & *entertainment* will be provided. – *Semiformal* attire required – *Banquet* *Committee*: Congratulations to the following… – *Feast* *Fairies*: Deerdra, Kelsey Love, Izzy & Erin – *Maroon* *Book* *Authors*: Stephanie Haney, Izzy, Aldie & Dani – I’m also putting together a slideshow via iMovie or PowerPoint. Please let me know if you’d like to help out with that. – The *Maroon* *Book* is a compilation of *stories*, *quotes*, and *other * *memories* from this past season. I encourage you to contribute anything you have to: maroonbook2011@gmail.com – Any *pictures* from regattas or crew-related events can be emailed to the address above as well.

*SC Championship Cup* at Clemson: *March* *10*-*11th*

- If you can *NOT* go, please inform your respective captain immediately. – We plan to drive up that *Saturday* *morning*, race a bunch of boats, cook a *mean* *Frogmore* *stew*, & *stay* *the* *night* at Lake Hartwell. We’ll drive back Sunday morning. – Do you have *camping* *equipment* lying around your house or dorm room? Please let *Emily* know! elgoodin@g.cofc.edu

*Social*

- *Thursday*: Men’s *Basketball* *Home* *Finale* vs. Georgia Southern * 8pm* – Free “Nice Kitty” t-shirts to the first 100 students in the student section – *Sunday* *Funday*: *Frisbee* in *Marion* *Square* THIS Sunday at *4pm*. Be there.

*8k for H2O Race*: If you haven’t given Erin her money, do so ASAP or else.

- THIS Saturday 9am – Contact Erin if you need a ride: enmarker@g.cofc.edu – You can register on Saturday at 8am if you wish.

*Updated Regatta Schedule*

- *3/10* SC Championship Cup (Lake Hartwell, Clemson, SC) – *3/17 *Augusta Invitational (Langley Pond, Aiken, SC) – *3/24* John Hunter Regatta (Lake Lanier, Gainesville, GA) – *3/31 *Clemson Sprints (Lake Hartwell, Clemson, SC) – *4/21 *SIRA (Melton Hill Lake, Oak Ridge, TN) *(Sometime between SIRA & Vails) Scrimmage with GA Tech & Clemson (Lake Hartwell, Clemson, SC)* – *5/11 *Dad Vail Regatta (Schuylkill River, Philadelphia, PA) – *5/26* ACRA (Lake Lanier, Gainesville, GA)

The *Get* *Streight* is fixed! AND it’s *Kelsey* *Love’s* *birthday* on Thursday! God has blessed us this week. Keep up the good work. Apologies for the lengthy email. I will see you all Sunday.

**

-Hammer-

Feb 21, 2012 | Categories: News | Leave A Comment »

Meeting Absentees!

Heya Heya,

If you were not at the meeting tonight or your survey did not make it into my hands, please email me with your responses to the questions below as soon as humanly possible. I’m compiling a team profile in order to describe our team to the school and community (potential supporters and donors) so please answer each question with sincerity.

1. Name 2. Year 3. Hometown 4. Major(s)/Minor(s) 5. GPA (if you don’t mind sharing) 6. Rowing Background (When did you start, did you row in high school, your greatest achievement, ect.) 7. Board Positions Held (if none, do you have any desire to be on board in the future and why?) 8. What other organizations are you involved in? Do you hold a leardership position? 9. How did you hear about crew, why did you join, and then why did you decide to stick with it? 10. What has crew (including the sport, the team, and experiences) taught you that can be applied off the water? 11. What are your long term life/professional goals and what is one specific thing you aspire to do?

Warm n Fuzzies from your PR Chair, Deeds

Feb 07, 2012 | Categories: News | Comments Off

Varsity Men

Varsity Men,

My phone broke. Mike Richards, I don’t have your number as well as many other people.

Be at the Ergs at 730 for some fun and pain.

Joseph

Feb 02, 2012 | Categories: News | Comments Off

Potluck Tonight

Hey team,

As I mentioned there will be a potluck dinner at my house tonight for the new novice as well as the rest of the team.

I live at 132 Smith Street. It’s a big yellow building at the corner of Smith and Vanderhorst. My apartment is the one on the bottom right, Apartment three.

It’ll be at the normal time. I look forward to seeing you all here. Text me if you get lost.

Joseph Berger 407-520-9648

Jan 27, 2012 | Categories: News | Comments Off

Study Break! =)

Dearest Crammers, Paper Writers, and Project Doers,

Remember to take deep breathes during this last crazy week of class and take breaks to retain your sanity. Especially to watch this amazing little spectacle! Stellarrrrrrrr rowing cinematography:

Loveeeeee, Deidra

ps- Correction to last email…cheering for cougs bball alleviates stress, not elevates. Obvi still haven’t learned to read over emails before hitting send hehe.

Nov 29, 2011 | Categories: News | Comments Off

Ladiesssss- Practice and Recipes

Hey Girls,

1.) No boats going out tomorrow morning but we will resume upon returning from Thanksgiving break.

2.) I’ll post the next week on the same google doc so please add yourself accordingly. Erging schedule at the bottom!

3.) Several people wanted to trade recipes Sunday. Sooo…everyone send your recipe to me by Friday and a Crew Thanksgiving Cookbook of sorts will be compiled and redistributed.

Safe travels and best of luck on your black Friday endeavors!

Love, Deidraaaa

Nov 22, 2011 | Categories: News | Comments Off

Thanks to Coaches, Ladies Rowing, PDF Newsletter

Sweet Loves,

1.) I had a splendid time with you all at our crew family Thanksgiving!!! Many thanks to Travis and Summer for hosting us! And to everyone who contributed to a great day =) *Coaches*- we signed cards in attempt to thank you but failed to gift them before everyone dispersed. Words cannot describe our appreciation for everything you do for us! Your coaching on the water, motivation, guidance, life lessons, and purely just putting up with us from day to day have a tremendous impact on the person each of us grows to become through crew. Thank you a million times over!!!!

2.) Girls rowing at 5:45am tomorrow are as follows. If you cannot be there (even though you volunteered) or need a ride PLEASE let me know immediately.

Jess- cox
Erin (port)- 8
Brandi (starboard)- 7
Kelsey (port)- 6
Deidra (either…ish)- 5
Izzy (either)- 4
Caroline M. (starboard)- 3
Aldie (either)- 2
Cara (starboard)- 1

3.) PDF version of the newsletter is attached!

Have a wondrous Thanksgiving break, Deeds

pdf iconFall 2011 Crew Newsletter.pdf

Nov 21, 2011 | Categories: News | Comments Off

2011 Head of the South

Charleston Crew rebounded from Head of the Hooch to find real success at the Head of the South in Augusta, Georgia.  Just the fact that this team has survived the tribulations of this fall season is worth something in and of itself.

The Men’s Varsity bore the grunt of the glory this week leading the way and taking home a nice pile of precious medals.  Starting off the day Hank Hays took second in Championship 1X in a time of 19:17.  Then he jumped in with the Club 4+ (Rodriquez, Hays, Farkas, Richards, & Hill) despite Rodriquez having twice injured his ankle while attempting to walk forward.  They placed 6th out of 12 with a time of 19:04.  The lightning weight 4+ (Berger, Tipling, Candea, Perrin, & Witkowski) carried through on their word and won the regatta in a time of 18:11, just :05 ahead of Clemson.  Before learning of the outcome of the light 4+, Berger (me), launched out in the Club 1X.  Having started last and passed the rest of the field in the first fifteen hundred meters, Berger cruised all the home to victory, walking a novice four containing his little sister on the way.  Later that day the Varsity Men (Berger, Tipling, Candea, Hays, Farkas, Richards, Zoellner, Perrin, & Witkowski) competed in the Championship 8+ for the first time, and won.  Berger stroked the 8+ at a 34 all the way down the course until the last five hundred meters where he brought it up to a 39.  The men topped second-placed Virginia Tech by two seconds with a time of 17:21.

The Varsity Women displayed some quick catches on their way to 5th place in the Club 8+.  The Women also put out a Club 4+ (Weber, Haney, Kilgore, Criddle, & ?) that placed 7th and a Light 4+ (Markert, John, Bieger, Kratchman, & Witkowski).

The Novice Men rowed a Novice 4+ (Alec, Luke, Josiah, Adam, & ?) and a Novice 8+ (with the guys from the four and Daniel, Conner, Tony, Dylan, & Maylin in some order).  The Four placed tenth in a tight field and the Eight placed twelfth.  Being a group of tall, athletic, motivated guys, these men only require more time in the boat in order to become a truly exceptional novice crew.

The Novice Women rowed an 8+  and two 4+’s.  The 4+’s placed 5th and 16th. The 8+ placed 8th.  The Women’s novice are an interesting group as always and have shown a lot of motivation and respect for the team and the sport.  Keep it up.  Also a shout out to Coxswains Stephanie Witkowski, Bekah Dunlap, Jess Coleman, & Maylin Hill.  These girls have been great assets to the team and have been fundamental to the Varsity by coming out in mornings.  We really appreciate what you girls are doing (i.e. for the love of God, DO NOT QUIT)

This was really a great way to end a bad season.  It was validating to see our perseverance rewarded.  We kept this team afloat with nothing but our determination, wonderful coaches (Landrith, Landrith, Stanko, Lawlor, Hill & Zoellner), awesome alumni, and Warren Williams.  Next season we look forward to a clean slate, some major improvements, increased stability, and Victory.

This very well may be my last post as I have been elevated to the Men’s Captain position.  It’s been a pleasure letting you know what’s going on with Charleston Crew this last year.

-F. Joseph Berger IV

“Never, never, never give up” – Churchill

“I saw a woman wearing a sweatshirt with Guess on it. I said, Thyroid problem?” - Schwarzenegger

Nov 13, 2011 | Categories: Feature Stories, News | Comments Off

2011 Head of the Hooch

College of Charleston traveled to Chattanooga, Tennessee for this years rendition of Head of the Hooch.  Let’s preface the following results with this: we’ve had a rough season.  We got kicked out of the parking lot, we Built a dock for our boats (it’s like something right out of Waterworld), our men’s Captain quit, everything breakable broke, and there are soooo many cockroaches in my new apartment.

The Men’s Varsity put out a Light 4+, a Club 4+, a Champ 8+, and a Champ 1X (Hays).  The lights (Berger, Tipling, Candea, Perrin, & Dunlap) had a rough race and just never got going.  The cox box gave out on the way up, bow seat’s seat had one of it’s wheels break, and the boat just never got it together.  The lights have vowed to redeem themselves at next weeks’ Head of the South.  The Club 4+ (Rodriquez, Hays, Farkas, Richards,  & Hill) had a good row and were able to pass a few boats.  They placed 23rd out of 38. The Champ 8+ (Berger, Tipling, Rodriquez, Hays, Farkas, Richards, Candea, Perrin, & Witkowski) finished in a time of 17:41… Hank Hays bested his previous time at the regatta by about forty seconds.

The Women’s Varsity finished 13th out of 22 in the Club 8+ and 27th out of 32 in the Club 4+ (Weber, Haney, Kilgore, Criddle, & Hill).  They’re looking forwards to a better race this weekend and will be featuring a Women’s Light 4+.

Charleston Community made it’s debut at the regatta.  They rowed a Masters Women’s Four (Landrith, Stank0, ?, McDonald, & Hill). Good job ladies!

The novice got their oars wet for the first time at the regatta.  The Men’s Four (Jost, Rein, Irby, Bailey) placed 16th out of 28 with a line-up that had only rowed two or three times before. The Women’s Four and Women’s Eight, again having only rowed together a few times, became acquainted with the sport of rowing. Enough said.

As usual, Warren Williams descended from the mountains with only edelweiss, anger, and his yellow shell.  Mr. Williams photographed every race of the weekend, including his own.  In his race, he placed third.  The only reason he didn’t win is because halfway through the race, he stopped for a picnic.  A twenty minute picnic. 

Despite some unsatisfactory results, the Crew looks to redeem themselves this coming weekend at the Head of the South in Augusta.  

On a more somber note, former coxswain Allyson Plowden, class of 2000, passed away last Thursday.  In memorial, the Men’s Varsity 8+ will be competing in red this weekend to commemorate what she gave to this team.  If you knew her, it would be nice if you commented below with memories, farewells, or so on. Pictures would be great too.  

Nov 08, 2011 | Categories: Feature Stories, News | Comments Off

Hooch Absence Memos

Sorry for the overflow of emails lately! This is the last one today…I hope.

Email me if you need an absence memo for missing class November 4th for Head of the Hooch. Professors are not required to accept it but most are very understanding. We need a count of how many to print off for next meeting so if you don’t email me, you won’t get one.

Also, if you said you will be attending Hooch and/or South and your plans have changed, email Erin at enmarker@g.cofc.edu righttttt meow! We are making travel plans and need a close to accurate list of attendees.

Thanks Mucho Loves, Deeds

Oct 19, 2011 | Categories: News | Comments Off