Fox Chapel Crew
Summer Rowing
Camp
7th-10th Grade
Students
M-F
June 22-26, 5 to 7 PM
Saturday,
June 27 8-10 AM
Millvale
Boathouse of
Three
Rivers Rowing Association
90
Riverfront Drive, Millvale, PA
The Coaches of Fox Chapel Crew offer this
learn-to-row camp for students entering 7th – 10th grade
in fall 2009.
Learn rowing basics in six days, first on indoor rowing
machines and tanks, and then on
the Allegheny River in a shell with seven other rowers. A great way to see if you’d like to try
rowing as a high school sport!
Prerequisites/Fee:
1. Rowers must fill out the attached
registration form and return it before June 17.
2. Rowers must
complete a swim test at a location of their choice.
3. Rowers must
complete a US Rowing waiver.
(For both a swim
test form and a waiver, see link at www.FoxChapelCrew.org
under “Join us on the Water.”)
4. Fee: $100
5. Send all forms
and fees to:
Fox Chapel Crew Summer Camp
501 Guyasuta Road
Pittsburgh, PA 15215
Dress: Tight-fitting, short shorts;
T-shirt; running shoes (or, if you have them, soccer-type sandals are good for
getting in/out of the boats). Bring a water bottle.
REGISTRATION
FORM
Fox Chapel Crew
Summer Rowing
Camp
Name: _____________________
Grade: ______________ (Fall 2009)
Height: ______ Weight: ______
Address: ____________________
____________________
Phone: _____________________
Parents:
_____________________
E-mail
Address(es):
Student: ____________________
Parent: ____________________
Please make checks
payable to Fox Chapel Crew.
QUESTIONS?
Contact Mark Bellinger at: bellinger@peduro.com
The Fox Chapel Crew Club is the championship rowing team of Fox Chapel Area High School.
Created in 1995 with just eight girls and five boys, the team is now more than 60 rowers strong, and continues to be led by our Head Coach, Dr. Mark Bellinger.
Fox Chapel Crew is a highly competitive team, winning an
unprecedented Team Championship Trophy two years in a row at the Midwest
Scholastic Rowing Championships in 2005 and 2006. Held in Cincinnati, the Midwest race draws hundreds of
competitive boats from high schools in six states. At least one Fox Chapel boat typically qualifies for
national competition (and that includes
this year, with nine senior girls racing in the USRowing Youth National
Championships in June 2008).
5 Myths About Rowing:
I hear that you can’t do other sports if you row. Not true! Most FC rowers do stick to a rigorous schedule of rowing and working out with the team from late August through May. But our coaches know that many kids are talented in more than one sport, and will work with you to make it possible to be part of our team and another. About the only time this can’t be done is if you are involved in a different spring sport.
My arms aren’t that strong, so I guess crew wouldn’t be for me.
Not so fast. Rowing is not
an upper body sport. The drive
that moves the boat comes from the legs. Rowers develop all the body’s major
muscle groups. Talk to some
rowers; they’ll tell you they never imagined they would get in such good shape.
I hear that you practice at 5 a.m.
No we don’t! Well, maybe on
two or three Saturdays in the spring, when we’re pressing hard before our major
races. Normally, we practice every
day after school for about two hours.
I don’t drive so I can’t get to the boathouse.
Virtually everyone on our team is in a car pool, with parents or older
crew members sharing the driving.
Grades are really important to me, so I wonder if I’d have time for
such a demanding sport. Ask around. More than a third of our team is in National Honor Society
(and freshmen are too young to qualify for that honor). Most kids find that they organize their
time better when they’re involved in a sport, because they have to!
Fox
Chapel Crew
Why I Row….
Hear
it from FC rowers, in their own words:
“The bonds made are amazing. Rowing can and will cause
your best and worst moments. In
these moments a person can often be defined.”
“I row because it gives me a sense of pride. I know I’m involved in a demanding and
different sport that requires nine people to work together to make one object
move. I row for FC because I know
I’ll never find another group of kids and parents with this much compassion for
one team.”
“I row to row, to have the feeling of accomplishment,
to keep in shape, and most of all for the atmosphere related to rowing that Fox
Chapel Crew has made for all of us.”