CRI's Vespoli Education Series 

REMINDER--Tonight at 7:00pm at CRI's Harry Parker Boathouse

The Vespoli Coaching Education Lecture Series 

The Vespoli Coaching Education Series at Community Rowing presents a panel discussion with:

Bill Manning and Sally Morris
 
"The Early Weeks on the Water"  
When:   Tuesday, February 10, 2009 
Where:  Harry Parker Boathouse, 2nd Floor
Time:    7:00pm 
Cost:       $5.00  
 
     Snacks and refreshments to follow the presentation.
Bill ManningBill Manning, the Harvard heavyweight freshman coach is a 1987 Holy Cross graduate who is serving his 11th year on the Crimson staff in 2008-09.

Manning has directed the freshmen to five EARC Sprints titles (1999, 2001, 2002, 2004 and 2008).  His freshman have raced at the Henley Royal Regatta five times winning the Temple Challenge Cup in 2001 and 2002.

Manning served as an assistant coach with the U.S. Junior National Team at five World Championships and as an assistant coach for the U.S. Senior National Team in 2003 and 2004.  At the 2004 Olympics he assisted fellow Harvard coach Charley Butt with the U.S. pair, heavyweight double, and lightweight double (each of these boats included one Harvard oarsman.) 
 
Most recently Manning has been responsible for the United States U23 Men's Sculling. 
Sally Sally Morris is in her fourth year of coaching at Phillips Exeter Academy, after twenty years at Brooks School. In the last three seasons, her girls first boat has had tremendous success with a gold each year, while the squad made a clean sweep at the New England Championships in G1,2,3 last spring, with a third place finish in the women's eight at the Youth Nationals.

A native of Northboro, Massachusetts, where she was a tri-sport land athlete, Sally became a four year varsity letter-winner with the crew program at Trinity College in Connecticut. After graduation, she took a job teaching classical languages and coaching field hockey, basketball, and rowing at Brooks School, where she was mentored by Liz O'Leary before Liz moved to Radcliffe. Sally achieved exceptional success at Brooks, capturing four NEIRA Regatta Championships in 2000, 2001, 2004, and 2005 as well as two USRowing Youth National Championships in 2004 and 2005.

Along the way, Sally has seen numerous rowers move on to successful college programs as well as to compete at the world class and Olympic level, including the Beijing gold medal 8. A teacher of Classical Languages, Sally earned a Masters in Classics from Tufts University in 1990. Sally now serves on the faculty at Exeter as an instructor in Classical Languages and is active in numerous Classics organizations in the States and abroad. Sally's eldest child rows for Radcliffe, while her second is a dancer, and the third rows with the boys crew at Phillips Exeter Academy. Sally's personal claim to rowing fame does not lie so much on the water, but rather in a Hammer from the CRASH-B's in 1993, which she has on display in her study to help keep the 36 boys in her dorm at bay.

UPDATES

ANNUAL APPEAL-CRI is very pleased to announce that the annual appeal has received 17 more donations this month, bringing our new total to $47,103 raised toward our $72,000 goal. We wish to extend a big thank you to all of our donors especially to the 80 donors who made first time gifts to CRI.  
Remember all funds received for the annual appeal will go to purchase 6 new wakeless launches. If you have note yet contributed we hope you will consider making a gift.
 
PROGRAMS--CRI is also pleased to announce that all of our spring programs are filling up, especially Youth Learn to Row and Sculling for Term I. So if you have yet to register for a spring session visit our website for registration details.
 
YOUTH COMPETITVE PROGRAMS--CRI's Competitive Junior Women's and Junior Men's Team leave this Friday for their Annual Winter Training Program in Florida. We wish them a safe trip.