Lake Washington Rowing Club

The May Newsletter is now available.

In this issue:

• LWRC Gear Catalog
• Opening Day and San Diego Race Summaries
• Martha Beattie Profile
• Captains’ Corner, Manager Scoop and more

LWRC would like to purchase two (2) used Maas ‘Aero’ singles to add to our “Little Pig” fleet.  Yes,  for a  total of Three Little Pigs! If you would like to sell yours or know of someone who might, please contact LWRC co-captain, KC Dietz: dietzkc@hotmail.com.

A little bit of rain couldn’t keep LWRC members from coming out to cheer for the Mixed Eight 50+ and Women’s Eight 40+, and for Martha’s Moms in the Women’s Eight 50+ at Opening Day. And our crews did not disappoint. Congratulations go to the rowers who handily beat their competition! Great racing on the water, and a great turnout of shoreline supporters.

(Mixed Eight 50+. Photo by Erin Moeur)

April’s newsletter is now available online.

In this month’s issue:

• The Big Climb Report
• Inspirational Racing at Green Lake
• Opening Water Competition in San Francisco
• Rowing 101 at Lake Stevens

… and more (always more!)

16 rowers, 2 coxswains and one coach headed down to San Diego this past weekend to represent LWRC in three thrilling races.

LWRC results:

• Women’s Club, 2nd place (just .35 seconds behind the first place crew)
• Women’s Masters A, 2nd place
• Women’s Masters B, 2nd place (another photo finish)

See final results on the SDCC Web site.  Great job to all LWRC members who rowed, officiated and otherwise supported a fine tradition of fierce competition at Mission Bay.

We did it! Tenth for ten! All ten of us made it to the top of the Columbia Tower and we came in 10th overall in the team challenge. Tyler Peterson bolted up the stairs in 9:03:60, followed by his brother in law David Peabody and LWRC manager, Conor Bullis. Top fundraisers John Alberti and KC Dietz, finished respectably in their age category. Tina Cha, Amanda and Howard Lee also had a strong climb. Jody Wilhelm was our ground support crew.

Thanks to all who contributed thus far. We’ve raised $3825 to date, but you can still contribute to the cause until April 4th. Go to the team site where you can make an online donation using your credit card. 75% of the funds will go directly to research for curing Leukemia and Lymphoma.

Support LWRC rowers who will be participating in The Big Climb and the Firefighter Climb in March:

Jody Wilhelm will be climbing up the Columbia Tower in full fire gear and SCBA on March 2 as part of the annual Scott Firefighter Stairclimb. To learn more visit her fundraising page.

Other (non-firefighter) members of LWRC will be racing up the Columbia Tower (69 flights) on March 16 for The Big Climb. To learn more, and make a contribution to any member of the Lake Washington Rowing Club team, visit the team site (you can access any of the member pages using a drop down menu near the top of the page).

Both of these events support the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society’s mission to cure leukemia, lymphoma, Hodgkin’s disease and myeloma.
Rowers, compete with us! It’s not too late to register and join our team, “Lake Washington Rowing Club”. Registration ends March 10. (Requires you to create a login and ID).

See you on the 73rd floor …

At long last the LWRC Web site has a new look and new features.
With the new site, you will be able to:

• Submit comments and suggestions for the rest of the membership to read
• Search for previous news entries
• Subscribe to an RSS feed of the most recent blog/news entries. See the lower-left hand corner for the orange icon
• For Conor, the Board of Directors, and editors of the Web site, the new site offers an easy way to keep the site, thus the members, updated!

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“Iolanthe” - is a men’s C (club) Pocock fiberglass single, c. 1990, one previous owner. It will accommodate a rower weighing 220 pounds but can be rowed comfortably by someone in the 165-170 lb range. It was damaged, then repaired and repainted and is now in good shape. It has a wood seat and clogs. $900 Contact Captain KC Dietz for more information: dietzkc@hotmail.com

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Wendy and Mike Young took over 100 photos at Head of the Lake in November.

View them all on Photobucket.