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| Textile River Regatta
Youth Teams Medal in Soggy 6k
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The Textile River Regatta in Lowell hosted CRI Varsity and Novice Competitive Youth teams in 6k head racing on the Merrimack River this past Sunday. Despite the wet weather, CRI Varsity and Novice Competitive Youth teams presented impressive results, collecting 10 medals among the 16 races in which they competed. In several races, many CRI "B" and "C" boats placed ahead of many of our stronger competitors' "A" boat entries, boding well for Spring sprint racing. And Novice Teams presented solidly for what was, for many, their first race, including an impressive time for the Men's Novice 4+, which competed up in the Collegiate (i.e. non-Jr) race.
A summary of CRI Youth Competitive results follows; details of these youth competitive races, as well as other races in which non-youth CRI teams competed, are available at Textile River Regatta results. Full boat line-ups are available at Regatta Central Community Rowing Inc Entries.
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Race
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Medals
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Placements
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Competitor Count
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Women's Jr 1x
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Gold (Cicely Madden)
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1
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9
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Men's Jr 4x
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Bronze
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3,5
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8
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Women's Jr 4x
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Silver, Bronze
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2,3,6
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8
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Men's Novice 4+
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5
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5
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Men's Jr Novice 8+
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6,12,18,23
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39
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Women's Jr Novice 8+
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5,9,10,13
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36
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Women's Jr 2x
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5
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16
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Men's Jr 4+
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6,8,11,14
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49
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Men's Jr Ltwt 1x
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Gold (Nathaniel Grimshaw)
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1
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5
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Women's Jr 4+
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10,24
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35
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Men's Jr 2x
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Silver
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2,7,12
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12
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Women's Jr Ltwt 1x
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Bronze (Holly O'Reilly)
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3
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4
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Women's Jr Ltwt 4+
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Silver
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2,6
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7
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Men's Jr 8+
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4, 14, 22,30,35,44
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65
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Women's Jr 8+
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Silver
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2,4,14,20
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44
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Women's Jr Ltwt 8+
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Gold
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1
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3
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Congratulations to all the CRI teams competing this weekend!
GO CRI!
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Coaching Education Lecture Series
FALL 2013 Symposium
Date: Tuesday, October 15th, 2013
Time: 6:30-8:30pm
Contact: coachbbode@gmail.com
STEP ON THIS!
Gaining Boat Speed From ... Your Feet?  |
Introduction:
Pressure applied to the footplate is a quasi Ground Reaction Force (GRF) that provides
the equal and opposite propulsion to the rower's blades. As in any high performance sport, such as weightlifting or running, foot positioning, footwear, and foot placement, proper loading mechanics (direction, rate, amplitude) are paramount to effective force production and maximal boat speed. In this presentation you will learn how your rower's feet may, or may not be, effectively pressing on the footplate. Using BAT Logic's Analytics you will learn how to improve lower body mechanics and gain boat speed!
OPEN TO ALL! Invite Colleagues & Assistants! Entrance: $5 entrance fee (CRI Staff are free) Refreshments: Hot pizza & Cold drink are served!
 
Presenter's Overview: Common injuries in rowing will be presented & analyzed with respect to the interface between rower and footplate mechanics. Deeper examination of lower body rowing mechanics will provide the basis for discussions regarding why heel connection and load is important, and when you should use this; the importance of looking at leg length symmetry and repercussions from leg length discrepancies; making the connection between biomechanics consulting and your coaching approach, and how to best utilize sport science.
Presenter Bio: Dr. Ed Wittich, BSc. Clinical Sciences, MHSc Osteopathy. Ed is the Performance Innovation Consultant, BAT Logic. He is an Osteopatch and movement specialist with a Master's in lower limb biomechanics. He consults with 13 Olympic Federations including the USA, AUS, CAN, GB and CHI, and has helped footwear designs at Nike through BAT and is currently consulting on a high level barefoot running analysis project in Australia.
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![]() Background: BAT Logic Rowing -
BAT products and consulting services are based on a thorough understanding of biomechanics, anatomy, engineering, injury and performance. They helped to yield 4 Gold and 3 Silver medals across nine nations at the 2012 Olympic Games. 25% of medals won at the 2013 WRC Korea were won with BAT equipment. BAT is the first sports-specific division of BAT Logic, and Australian sports company enjoying global reach through its work with leading sports team and organizations in Olympic and professional arenas. BAT Rowing exists to bring a focused set of products and services to the rowing community. The BAT itself is an acronym inspired by the Latin for "superior understanding of the body." Our values are based on excellence in people, a focus on performance and being excited about possibility and performance. From an idea planted 5 years ago, in 2012 the Shoe Plate Pro was used by crews that won 4 gold and 3 silver medals at the London Olympic Games.
The Institute for Rowing Leadership (IRL) at Community Rowing, Inc., seeks to inspire, instruct and equip current and future coaches to achieve excellence in the sport of rowing and in life. For more information, click here: IRL@CRI
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A Reception to Honor and Welcome
The US National Rowing Team
Click HERE to purchase a ticket.
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The 2013 Head of the Charles Regatta promises to be as star-studded as ever, with US National Team and International crews coming to race from all over the globe. The National Rowing Foundation and the HOCR are hosting a fundraiser on Friday, October 18th in the Directors' Tent (5:30-8:00pm)
at CBC to help support our US athletes as they train and compete in preparation for the Olympics in Rioin 2016.
So come and meet many of the members of the very successful Lucerne World Cup III and the World Championship team and their coaches.
Tickets to the NRF Reception are $100/person - and thanks to the support of the HOCR Regatta sponsors - all of the ticket proceeds will go directly to supporting our National Team athletes.Your $100 ticket purchase is tax deductible as permitted.
Click HERE to purchase a ticket.
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| Winter Training
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How is your winter shaping up? How are you shaping up this winter? We hope you will be joining us for the best winter training in town...
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| Volunteers Needed for Corporate Row
Last chance to get your volunteer hours in before winter starts!!
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We have yet another big corporate row for almost 200 participants from Reebok (all over USA) coming to CRI! This might be one of the last and biggest corporate rows for this year so let us team up and make this one a grand success :)
When: Tuesday, October 22 from 10:30am-3pm
Client: Reebok
Need 10 Coxswains, 8 Rowers and 4 Dock Attendants
When: Wednesday, October 23 from 9am-1pm
Client: AbbVie Men's Health Group
Need 4 Coxswains, 5 Rowers and 3 Dock Attendants.
Thanks,
Sharanya
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| CRAB: Anderson Bridge Traffic Pattern Alert
HOCR Regatta Week
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From CRAB:
The State has informed us that all three spans of the Anderson Bridge will open for Regatta week, by the end of work on Friday. Which means, all three spans should be open for rowing on Saturday morning.
As soon as all three spans are open, the ROWING traffic pattern will revert to the standard traffic pattern as written below: Anderson:
In each direction, crews and scullers shall use the right-hand arch. The center arch is for upstream crews and scullers only to avoid boats launching from Weld Boathouse. Power boats will continue, as always, to use the center arch bi-directionally. Please be sure that the Boston arch is, in fact, open before reverting to the standard traffic pattern and please continue to use caution in this area. Also, if you see rowers continuing to use the Center Arch as a downstream arch, please take the initiative to kindly correct them immediately.
Work will continue on Anderson bridge immediately following the regatta, so expect an arch closure on Monday morning. We believe that the Cambridge Arch will close, but be on your toes in case things go differently. And as an aside, the third Head of the Kevin will take place bright and early Saturday morning (off the line at 7AM). Race organizers will check out the course prior to the event but... the right hand arch is the safest. Keep informed of river traffic pattern updates by visiting the CRAB website:
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| IMPORTANT TRAFFIC PATTERN ALERT
Anderson Bridge - CRAB Alert
Please be aware of traffic pattern changes at Anderson Bridge and use extreme caution on the river...
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There have been some collisions and many more close calls in all parts of the river, so the hot spots below should be of extra concern for all of us.
The state has informed us that due to un-foreseen complications, the Boston Arch is going to remain closed until all three arches are open for the regatta. This is not an ideal situation given the number of out of town crews that come to practice the course, and all boaters should use extreme caution when coming downstream through the center arch. Could all rowing clubs and programs do the following:
- Ensure that their memberships understand that the center arch is a downstream arch. period. no practicing the course until all three arches are open.
- Fully brief all visitors using your facility to this situation, and use all leverage possible to get them to use the Cambridge arch for upstream travel.
- Ask everyone to use extreme caution when traveling downstream through the center arch. There will be rowers who come in from out-of-town and wet launch from Magazine Beach who may be wholly unaware of this traffic pattern change. Presumably, those that launch from the canoe/kayak will be aware since they rowed through it downstream, but that doesn't mean that they won't take the center arch heading upstream as well.
Following up on the Riverside plea to not buzz their docks when rounding the corner above Magazine Beach, MIT has also reached out and asked folks using the 2k race course to please be sure to keep a good margin of water between you and the MIT lane. There have been some nasty close calls that could have resulted in serious injury and/or boat damage if not for some last minute action. The Union Lane is also a perpetual issue. Please be sure that you are at least 2-eights-and-a-launch-width from shore when heading down stream between the finish line and the bottom of the islands at Longfellow. Bottom line, if you don't know how to row the basin, then please don't row there.
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| Para-Rowing Classification Workshop
October 17 & 18 at CRI
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USRowing is sponsoring a Para-Rowing Classification Workshop, hosted by Community Rowing, Inc. on October 17 and 18, 2013 at the Harry Parker Boathouse. Judy Morrison, FISA Head Classifier and
USA Classification Coordinator, will lead this workshop, intended for coaches, former rowers, and medical professionals to become certified as classifiers for para-rowing events, and for para-rowers who have an interest in competing, but have not yet been officially classified.
Expanding the knowledge base of our coaches in the growing para rowing field is key for our success at every level. For your information, Medical Classifiers can be Medical Doctors (MD), Physical Therapists (PT), or Doctors of Osteopathic Medicine (DO). They must have extensive knowledge and experience with goniometric measurements and manual muscle testing skills. Technical Classifiers can be rowers, former rowers, coaches, and those with practical knowledge of the sport of rowing. They should have experience with Para-Rowing.
If you are interested in becoming a Para-Rowing Medical or Technical classifier, please register at the following link:
https://www.communityrowing.org/signup/
Location: Harry Parker Boathouse, 20 Nonantum Rd., Brighton, MA 02135
Date: Oct. 17-18, 8:30-4:30 (note: you must attend both days in order to become a classifier)
Instructor: Judy Morrison
Parking: Free on-site
Lunch: Provided
Cost: $0
Contact: Ellen Minzner, Director of Outreach, 617-779-8277 or email ellen@communityrowing.org
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| Columbus Day Hours
Monday, October 14th
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In observance of Columbus Day, the boathouse hours will be:
5am-10am
There will be no regular programming/practice.
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Upcoming Meetings & Private Events
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Saturday, October 12, 2013
Wedding Rehearsal on Dock # 2, 10:00 AM - 11:00 AMKatie Pricola Wedding Reception, 3:00 PM -11:00 PM,
2nd Floor closed to the public at 12:00 PM FIRM.
Sunday, October 13, 2013
Regatta Brunch, West Outdoor space, 9:00 AM - 1:00 PM.Rachel Barry Wedding & Reception, 1:00 PM - 11:00 PM, Wedding Ceremony on Dock #2, 2:00 PM - 6:00 PM.
2nd Floor closed to the public at 11:00 AM.
Friday, October 18, 2013 -
Annual Boston College/ HOCR Fundraising Dinner, 5:00 PM - 11:00 PM.
2nd Floor closed to the public at 4:30 PM.
If you have any questions please email sharanya@communityrowing.org
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