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This page contains details for FCC members, their families and club boosters.
Details for the Saturday, April 26th scrimmage with Liverpool HS at the Syracuse Chargers' boathouse, per Coach Frost and the Food Committee, are:
Plan to arrive at the Chargers' boathouse by 10 AM sharp. Directions to the boathouse are available on our Maps & Directions page
(see Spring Locations -
Baldwinsville & Syracuse University boathouses, also
Syracuse Chargers Invitational Regatta). Plan on a 90 minute drive
(leave Fairport by 8:30 a.m.).
Upon arrival we will unload our boats and rig. We will have access to Liverpool's motor launch and FCC coaches will have approximately 90 minutes of time to work with our rowers.
For this event, there will be no breakfast served or food and snacks for “grazing” as we have had with other events. So please make sure your rower has a substantial breakfast and, if needed, a snack for midmorning.
At noon, the Liverpool rowers will arrive. We will have about an hour of scrimmage time with the team. Details of the exact format will be arranged, but this is quite informal. We have the option of doing racing starts or building pressure to start line. Liverpool has a complete team such as ours so all classes will be included.
There will be water and Gatorade available all day for the rowers.
At the conclusion of the scrimmage around 1 p.m., our rowers have been invited join with the Liverpool team in a picnic featuring hamburgers, hot dogs, veggie burgers, green salad, pasta salad, fruit, chips, assorted desserts. Parents are, of course, welcome and encouraged to enjoy lunch for a $5 donation to help cover the cost of the meal.
We should be on our way back to Fairport by about 2 pm, where we will proceed to our boathouse for unloading of the trailer. Rigging could be left for regular practice or done on Saturday.
We will be on the larger Onodaga Lake, which will considerably cooler than the channel or our canal.
Rowers, please bring your water bottle and dress appropriately.
A suggested list of gear would include, a hat, non-cotton top and bottom, windbreaker, pogies,
rain gear (including water-proof shoes), sunglasses, sunscreen, lip balm.
Parents should also be prepared. Binoculars would be a really good thing to bring, as well as a folding chair.
The 2008 New York State Scholastic Rowing Championships (aka States) will be held May 10 and 11 in the Saratoga Springs area. This event is hosted by Saratoga Rowing Association. An event schedule is available.
The travel committee sent a
States 2008 information & registration packet to the
listserv on April 13. Cost, transportation, housing,
directions, travel agenda, parking details and a
registration form are in this packet. There will be hard
copies of this packet available at the April 24th
mandatory parent meeting.
April 24th at 6:30pm -- mandatory parent meeting.
Location TBA at either the boathouse or the fitness
center.
-- Please bring with you to the meeting:
* a list of questions if any,
* the last 2 pages of the registration packet
completed,
* a check a check made out to FCC
(see the
States 2008 information & registration packet)
-- Bring your own chair, if you'd like to sit down at
this meeting
All rowers are expected to attend States.
We leave the FCC boathouse on buses at 3:30pm on May 9 and return to the boathouse on May 11 at 6:00pm.
Reservations in Saratoga and the surrounding area are very limited as hundreds of teams show up for this event.
FCC has a block of rooms on hold at the Holiday Inn Express in Albany on May 9th and 10th. This hotel is about 30 minutes from the race site.
See the April 3rd listserv email titled "[FCCrowers] hotel reservations for states" for information on
our group rate and how to get it. The hotel information is:
Holiday Inn Express
1442 Western Ave.
Albany, NY 12203
Phone: 518-438-0001
Questions? See Ginny Hanchett,
Lynette Mctigue, Jackie Dorsey or Jill Nichols.
Registration for our Spring 2008 rowing season began April 8. See our Membership page for registration and payment information.
All rowers: please tell you coaches if you are not
returning for spring rowing.
Novice Boys: Spring break work-out info was sent
by Coach Lisa to the FCCrowers listserv on April 9.
Novice Girls: Monday April 21 practice starts
at 4:30 p.m. at the FCC boathouse. Practice for the rest
of that week will be decided that Monday. When NGs start
water practice, rowers will need to be there by 4:00
p.m. and practice will be done by 6:30 p.m. .... Spring
break week: NGs will have practice all that week at the
fitness
center including Saturday.
Effective March 24th, Coach Mike provided an
updated squads practice schedule to be used with the Winter 08 Color Groups file (these are pdf files; see our Links page to download a free Adobe Acrobat
pdf
file reader).
To access the Winter 08 Color Groups file, log-in to our listserv group's home page at http://sports.groups.yahoo.com/group/FCCrowers/. Your email address must be a member of our listserv - and your
log in ID must have your member email address as the primary address - in order to see this file.
Cancellations due to weather will be announced through our FCCrowers listserv. In general,
PIRC practice will
be cancelled whenever Pittsford schools close or cancel evening activities. And training at the Winter
Conditioning Center will be cancelled whenever Fairport schools close or cancel evening activities.
Remember, there are no iPods or MP3 players allowed this season. Dress appropriately, bring non-disposable water bottle, sneakers (no flip flops)
hats and gloves to practice. All rowers must wear shirts.
Our annual Row for Community fundraiser was March 29th at the BonTon Court at Eastview Mall, Victor.
Donations can still be made via our
Row for
Community 2008 donations page.
See our Pix page for a newspaper article about the
ergathon.If you have questions or pledge money,
contact one of the project leaders: Laurie DeLong
(388-9204),
Lisa Robbins (421-0563) or Lynne Van Zandt (425-7083).
A lot of stuff was left at the pool after the swim
tests: t shirts, towels, jackets, shorts, uniform top,
etc. We picked them up and they are at the fitness
center near the entrance. Pick them up by Tues or ....
Thanks to the parents and one rower who came to the
fitness center on Saturday to clean. The place looks
great and all of the rowers will benefit from your hard
work.
Thank you to all the helpers who came to the boathouse
Sunday afternoon to help put in the dock. The job seemed
easy with so many helpers. Special thanks to Mr. Drew Bayley for getting us all set with the dock and to Mr.
DeLong for his inspiration.
To keep the boathouse clean, there is a
"Lost 'n' Found Clear Out" every 15th and 30th
of every month. All items left in the cubbies, Lost and
Found, or found on the boathouse floor will be donated
to the Salvation Army or Volunteers of America. This
will be posted on the cubbies as a reminder.
Our volunteer coordinator,
Jill Nichols,
is happy to match volunteers with jobs. We need our parents' help
to keep our rowing program going!
Our Volunteering page has information about some of our
needs.
At our February 7th parent/rower meeting, we met our
new Novice Girls Coach, D Seaver.
Coaches for the winter conditioning 2008 season can be found on our
Coaches page.
Our coaches disseminate information
about practices, equipment, training, expectations, boat
line-ups etc. via our list-serv email group and through discussions and handouts at practices and regattas.
You or your rower must be a registered member in good
standing in order to join our list-serv. See our List-serv
page for details.
We ask that our members' parents subscribe to the list-serv, support and assist at our fundraisers, take a
turn or two on our Path Patrol during each season so coaches can focus on teaching, assist with
feeding the members at regattas and to volunteer as new opportunities are identified.
We ask that each parent do at least one thing for the
club each season, in addition to providing food for
regattas.
We need your help to keep the club moving forward.
Traditionally, money collected from cans and bottles receipts has been used to help cover the cost of fuel
for the launches used by the coaches
during on-the-water practices. The club has designated
the EZ Bottle and Can (http://www.ezreturn.org/) location at 1259 Fairport Road
(between Jefferson Rd. and the railroad overpass, opposite Dryclean Express) as our new drop-off point.
See our Fundraising page for details.
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