The Marin Rowing Association - Spring Competitive High School Team Information

Spring Competitive High School Team Information

2007-2008 Season Information

If you are an athlete playing a Fall sport and plan on coming to the team later in the season, you must contact your coach and we ask that you take this one-day workshop so that you are not as far behind when you join the team: Learn to Row Workshop for Juniors
Novice Try-out dates: September 10-22, 2007 Monday-Friday 4:00pm-6:30pm
Contact: Graham Willoughby graham@MarinRowing.org

Novice Try-out package:

'07-08 Cover Letter
2007-2008 Calendar
Jr. Waiver and Health Form
What to expect during try-outs
What to expect if you make the team
Financial Aid Application

Breaking the Myths about Rowing:

MYTH: I don’t go to Redwood, I can’t row.
TRUTH: Marin Rowing is not a Redwood-only sport. We recruit from all the high schools in the county.

MYTH: I can’t play another sport for my school.
TRUTH: Student-athletes are encouraged to play a Fall or Winter sport of their choice and come to try-outs immediately following the end of the season. Athletes may not play a spring sport for their school due to weekend competition conflicts. You must attend the first meeting.

MYTH: Practices are held too early in the morning.
TRUTH: Practices are held in the afternoons after school from 4:00-6:30 pm

MYTH: Costs are high.
TRUTH: Costs run similar to those of club soccer and volleyball. Scholarships are available.

MYTH:It's a cult.
TRUTH: Rowing is the ultimate team sport and athletes become close friends and competitors. It is also a sport that unless you try it, you’ll never know the pride that comes with the success of a great race.

Crew Policies and Rules
Code Of Conduct
Chaperone Guidelines

Yearly Practice Schedule

Novice Men	MTWTHF 4:00pm to 6:30pm, Sat 9:00-11:30am
Novice Women	MTWTHF 4:00pm-6:30pm, Sat 8:30-10:30am
Varsity Men	MTWTHF 3:30–6:00pm, No Sat practice yet
Varsity Women	WTHF 4:00–6:30pm, Sat, Sun 9:00–11:30am

Coaches

Names, bios, and contact Information for the coaching staff can be found on the "Contact Us" page.

2007-2008 Junior Racing Schedule

When	What	Where	Contact

Sept 8	Novice Junior Meeting	MRA Boathouse	All Novice Juniors
Sept 30	Varsity Parent PotLuck	MRA Boathouse	All Varsity Parents
Oct 7	Novice Parents Meeting	St Luke's Church SR.	All Novice Parents
Oct 9	Monthly Jr Boosters Meeting	MRA Boathouse	All Parents welcome, but not mandatory
Oct 14	Head of the Port	West Sacramento	All Varsity crews
Oct 20-21	Head of the Charles	Boston	Varsity 8 only
Oct 27	Head of the American	Lake Natoma, Sacramento	All Junior Crews
Nov 11	Head of the Lagoon	Foster City	Varsity Boys
Nov 18	BIAC Fall Regatta	San Mateo	Varsity Boys
Dec 2	Oakland Sprints	Oakland Estuary	VB, NB and NG only
Jan 13	Bow Rides Fundraiser	MRA Boathouse	All Juniors
Sat Feb 2nd	US Junior Men's ID Camp	CAL Boathouse	Registration
Sat & Sun, Feb 9-10	Junior Ergathon	Bon Air Center	Ergathon
Sun Feb 17th	US Junior Women's ID Camp	Marin Boathouse	Registration
Sat Feb 23	Home Regatta vs. Serra men, BHS women, Palo Alto and Delta	Corte Madera Creek	All Junior Crews
Sat March 1	Novice Regatta	Lake Merced, SF.	Novice Crews Only
Sun March 2	Nor Cal vs So Cal Regatta	Redwood Shores, Belmont	Varsity Crews Only
Sat March 8	Battle of the Bay	Oakland Estuary	All Teams
Sat March 15	Los Gatos, Pacific @ Oakland	Oakland Estuary	All Teams
Sun March 16	SWJRA Sculling Regatta	Lake Chabot, Oakland	Varsity Scullers
Sat-Sun March 29-30	Windermere Crew Classic	Redwood Shores, Belmont	Varsity Only
Thurs-Sun, Apr 3-Apr 6	San Diego Crew Classic	Mission Bay, SD.	Varsity and JV + Boys Light8
Sat April 12	SI, Stanford @ Capital	Lake Natoma	Novice only
April 19-20	Long Beach Junior Regatta	Long Beach, Ca	Novice crews, Varsity scullers
Sat April 26	SI@Pacific 1500m	Lake Merced	Novice only
Sun April 27	Oakland, NorCal @ Capital	Lake Natoma	Varsity only
Fri-Sun, May 9-11	Southwest Regional Championships	Lake Natoma, CA	All Teams
June 1	Junior Awards Banquet	Mill Valley Rec Center	All Juniors and Parents
Wed-Sun, June 11-15	Youth National Championships	Harsha Lake, Cincinatti, OH	Varsity only

History:

The Marin Rowing Association is a non-profit organization founded in 1968 by Coach RC "Bob" Cumming. For the first eight years the club focused on a high school team made up of boys from Redwood High school. In 1977 Cal rower Jana Barto began a high school program for women from Redwood High. Today both teams row under the name of the Marin Rowing Association.

The MRA takes students from all of the high schools throughout Marin County and San Francisco. The tradition of the junior program at Redwood, and now Marin, runs strong. Numerous Marin Juniors have raced on Junior National Teams throughout the years, and many have gone onto National and Olympic Teams. The traditions started by Coach Cumming and Jana Barto set the stage for the programs' successes to this day.

Our Competitive Program is a 9-month season Sept-May, but we encourage athletes to play Fall and Winter sports for their individual schools. Athletes who make the team may not play a spring sport for their school due to weekend competition conflicts. The MRA is a highly competitive, pre-elite level rowing program and is considered one of the top in the country. We are looking for highly motivated athletes to join our teams to race at the State, Regional and National level. Try-outs run for two-weeks in September and are open to athletes with or without prior experience. No experience is required to try-out for the team. Juniors who are interested in learning the sport of rowing in a non-competitive environment have several options open to them:

Private Sculling Lessons. Sculling is rowing in a single shell with two oars, compared with sweep, which is rowing in a bigger shell (8 or 4-man) with one oar. Sculling lessons are offered at all times throughout the year by our sculling coaches at a cost of $60 for a one-hour lesson. To schedule a sculling lesson please call Amanda Harvey at 415-472-7262.

Summer Learn-to-Row Workshops. These one-day weekend workshops teach the beginner the basic skills needed to go out for 1 one-hour sweep row. Learn to Row Flyer...

Summer Youth Learn to Row Camps. We offer summer rowing programs for ages 12-18. These are non-competitive camps that give the athletes the basic skills need to try-out for the Competitive Team in the Fall.

Youth Summer Camps

Junior Booster Club
The parent-run Booster Club is the main support group for the junior athletes and coaches. The committee handles numerous functions such as coordinating transportation to regattas, sponsoring pre-race dinners, fundraising, social functions, uniforms, and publishing a newsletter to keep parents informed.

Ergathon
The biggest fundraising event for the juniors is the Ergathon. An "Erg" (short for Ergometer) is a machine that imitates the rowing motion and is the principal land training device for rowers. The Ergathon is a 24-hour event in which every Junior rower takes a turn rowing on the Erg for a certain portion of the 24 hours. Held every February, the Ergathon is a fun and profitable event. But the success on the Ergathon relies on donations. Junior rowers are asked to raise money from friends and relatives which will be used to purchase new equipment

eScrip
eScrip is a potentially huge fundraiser for the club. Every time you shop and use your registered Safeway Club Card and/or your registered credit or debit card at many local merchants, you earn money for us.

Last Updated Thursday, January 10 2008 @ 10:29 AM PST