Community Rowing's Boathouse for All Campaign continues to make great strides in raising the $15 million needed to build its new boathouse.  As of December 2007, CRI has secured $12,960,000 in pledges and donations for its 30,000 square foot boathouse which will be located on the Charles River in Brighton.

Construction is coming along nicely as the foundations are poured and the steel framing is up on both the main facility and the Ruth W. Somerville Scullers Pavilion.  In addition, CRI's four new docks are in the water.

G-ROW is excited to have a new place to call home although the major benefit to moving is that G-ROW will have a classroom that will provide the girls with their own space for academic support.  G-ROW would like to thank Nancy H. Cahners, the Sidney and Esther Rabb Charitable Foundations and an Anonymous Foundation for contributing donations to making the G-ROW classroom possible.

For more information on CRI's Boathouse for All Campaign please visit CRI's website at www.communityrowing.org

Spring 2007 - G-ROW medals at Northeast / Mid-Atlantic Junior Regional Championships and at Mass Public!

G-ROW had a successful spring season with the second varsity 4+ placing third at the US Rowing Regional Championship beating programs from all over the northeast. The varsity team also raced to victory at the Massachusetts Public School Championship with both the 1^st and 2^nd varsity fours taking home silver medals in their events.

Winter 2007 - G-ROW travels to Atlanta for Spring Break

This February vacation G-ROW headed down to Atlanta, Georgia to get a head start on the spring season. While on the trip the team rowed twice a day, hiked the beginning of the Appalachian Trail, toured Georgia Tech University and visited downtown Atlanta.

The Atlanta Rowing Club hosted the team, providing boats, oars, coaching launches, gas, and even cooking the team a delicious pasta dinner. Thanks to ARC’s generosity, G-ROW had everything we needed to make it a successful and productive week of rowing.

The team’s rowing improved tremendously over the course of the week. The eight days of intensive training gave the varsity an opportunity to focus on individual technical changes, while the novice learned to row together by all eight and even began doing racing starts by the end of the week. For many of the girls this was a trip filled with firsts; first time traveling away from home, first time on a plane, first time going hiking, and even the first time in a boat. These new and challenging experiences taught the girls valuable lessons about themselves and their teammates.

Spring 2006 - G-ROW Wins State Championships!!

G-ROW hires Academic Coordinator

On January 21, G-ROW teamed up with Healthworks for our 2006 erg-a-thon to raise money for the February vacation training trip to Arizona.  The team held the erg-a-thon in the lobby of the Healthworks Fitness Center in Porter Square and was supported generously by the Healthworks staff and membership.  In addition to the erg-a-thon GROW and Community Rowing raffled off several prizes including a new Concept2 Model D erg and Learn to Row classes at CRI.

The team rowed a total of 139,732 meters in 4 hours, and have raised a total of $11,736 for the spring trip to Arizona!

Top varsity rowers:
Mary Holland 6751 meters (in 30 minutes)
Alyssa Klint 6175 meters in 30 mins., plus another 2000 to help the team goal, for a total of 8175 meters!

Top Novice rower:
Sasha Coleman: 5714 meters in 30 mins
Roshni Toussaint: 5664 meters in 30 mins., plus another 336 for a total of 6,000 meters!

Great job to our top fundraisers who exceeded their goal:
Mary Holland
Jessica So
Sienna DeSantis
Jacqulien Ramieriz
Onnicha Sathapornchaisit
Maria Gomez
Margaret Salas
Cheyenne Gales

Raffle winners were:
1st Prize: Nancy Hendrickson (Rowing machine)
2nd Prize: Barbara Hermann (Learn to Row Class at CRI)
2nd Prize: Julius Levin (Learn to Row Class at CRI)
3rd Prize: Lanier Smythe (Head of the Charles 2005 Banner)

THANK YOU TO ALL WHO PARTICIPATED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

G-ROW’s 2005 Susan Bulkeley Butler Scholarship Winner

Congratulations to Maureen Tong, recipient of this year’s Susan Bulkeley Butler Scholarship. The Butler Scholarship is a partial, four-year scholarship awarded to a graduating senior who has demonstrated excellence in every aspect of her participation in G-ROW.

Maureen joined the team as a sophomore at the John D. O’Bryant School of Mathematics and Sciences. This year she rowed in the junior four in the Head of the Charles and was in the varsity eight for the entire spring. Maureen proved to be one of the most dedicated members of the team, rarely missing practice, and impressed her teammates and coaches with her tireless effort and aggressiveness in the boat. Maureen is also an excellent student and will be attending the University of Massachusetts in Boston this fall. We are very proud of Maureen and her quiet but invaluable contribution to the team will be greatly missed next year.

Our hope is to grow the Butler Scholarship Fund to make it available to more G-ROW graduates next year. If you would like to contribute to the Butler Scholarship fund, please contact Program Director Ellen Minzner at 617-782-9083 or ellen@growboston.org.

G-ROW Boston Spring Training Trip

G-ROW BOSTON has been invited by Tempe Junior Crew to spend a week in February training in Tempe, Arizona. Nineteen girls and three coaches will be flying to Tempe for a week of sun, rowing, and team bonding. Dan Duxbury, coach of the Tempe Juniors, has generously offered to loan equipment to the team and arrange housing with host families for the week. At the end of the week, the girls will participate in their first ever preseason regatta, competing against junior crews from all over the southwest.

We will be holding several fundraisers to help pay for the trip, including an erg-a-thon on January 22. Healthworks Fitness Centers is hosting the event at their Porter Square facility in Cambridge. For more information on how you can help support us in this effort, please email info@growboston.org or call the G-ROW office at 617.782.9083.

Resolute 8 is Donated to G-ROW!

G-ROW BOSTON and Community Rowing, Inc. (CRI) have received an unexpected gift from Bill O’Donnell of Darien, Connecticut. O’Donnell, a member of the Greenwich Rowing Club, bought the winning ticket for the National Rowing Foundation’s (NRF) raffle to benefit the US Olympic Crews. His prize? A brand-new Resolute racing shell. Rather than keep the shell for himself, O’Donnell is donating the ticket back to the NRF for the benefit of G-ROW and CRI.

O’Donnell chose G-ROW because it brings rowing to those who normally would not have the opportunity to enjoy the sport. “I hope the shell brings great joy to those who row it,” says O’Donnell.