Washington-Lee High School Crew

1992 Alumni Mike Callahan, who recently took over as Men's Head Coach at the University of Washington, capped a stellar season by sweeping the Men's Eight's at the IRA National Championships. The Huskies won the Men's Varisty, 2V and Freshman Eights. This is an impressive accomplishment in his 2nd year at the helm.

2006 W-L Crew Alumni Nora Phillips helps UVA to a strong finish at the NCAA Championships. Nora was recently moved to the V8 where she sat 2 seat. This season UVA finished 2nd 0.37 seconds behind Stanford in the V8 at the NCAA championship and 4th over all as a team(8th top four finish in the 13 year history of the championship).

The 2009 season has come to end. The season was marked by one of the strongest finishes for the team as a whole. 5-6 boats taken to the VSRC made finals with the Women's 3rd Eight placing the highest at 2nd. The Men's V8 placed 5th .3 seconds behind McLean HS.

• VSRC results
  • Women's 3rd Eight - 2nd
  • Men's V8 Eight - 5th
  • Women's V8 Eight - 5th in Petite
  • Men's 2V Eight - 5th
  • Women's 2V Eight - 4th
  • Men's 3V Eight - 4th

We took 6 eights to The Stotesbury Cup Regatta. The highlight was the Women's Jr. Eight which qualified for semi-finals. It was a heart breaker for a few of our boats which didn't qualify for semi-finals by fractions of seconds.

• Stotesbury Cup results
  • Men's V8 19th missing qualifying for semi-finals by 0.28 secs
  • Women's V8 20th missing qualifying for semi-finals by 0.72 secs
  • Men's 2V 14th missing qualifying for semi-finals by 3.2 secs
  • Women's Jr. Eight qualified 12th needing top 18
  • Men's Jr. Eight 19th missing qualifying for semi-finals by 0.09secs
  • Women's Freshman Eight 20th missing qualifying for semi-finals by 0.96 secs

The final race of the season was SRAA Nationals where we took up a Men's and Women's Jr. Eight, Women's Jr. Four and our Women's Freshman Eight which qualified by placing 3rd at the Ted Phoenix Regatta on May 2nd, where our Men's 4th Eight also did well finishing 2nd to Thomas Jefferson. No boats advanced out of the heats.

• SRAA Nationals
  Friday / Saturday
  • Men's Jr. Eight finished 4th in the heat -10th out of 27 by time in the heats
  • Women's Jr. Eight finished 4th in the heat - 15th out of 24 by time in the heats
  • Women's Jr. Four - 5th in the heat - 23rd out of 31 by time in heats
  • Women's Freshman Eight 7th in the heat - 18th out of 25 by time in the heats

2005 W-L Crew Alumni Cepand Alizadeh and current member of the University of Virginia Crew has been invited to the USRowing 2009 U23 Lightweight National Team Camps. As a member of W-L Crew Cepand helped the W-L Lightweight Eight win Stotesbury in 2004 and SRAA Nationals in 2005.

The schedule for Saturday's VASRA Championships has been posted.
During the break in racing from Heats to Finals currently scheduled from 10:54am
to 11:50 VASRA and the Northern Virginia Regional Park Authority will be naming
the newly installed race course at the Occoquan after our team founder Charlie
Butt. This is a fitting tribute on the year celebrating the 60th Anniversary
of Washington-Lee Crew. The ceremony will include highlights of Charlie's
career and history of building not only W-L Crew but rowing throughout the
east coach on the scholastic, club and university levels.

The schedule for the Novice Championship - Ted Phoenix Regatta has been posted.

Images from the boat christenings are now posted in the gallery. Check them out.

The schedule for the Charlie Butt Regatta has been released.

Boat naming ceremony is tentatively scheduled for 1:15pm at PBC. All are welcome to attend.

April 16th marked the 60th anniversary for W-L Crew's first regatta against George Washington HS of Alexandria.

The schedule for the tri-meet with BCC and Westfield is now posted.

The schedule for Saturday's regatta has been posted.

Keith Grest and the 2009 Captains

The current members and coaches of the W-L Crew were honored to have a very special guest on Monday. Keith Grest the team manager from 1949-1951 stopped by practice. Unfortunately the weather kept us off the water so the visit wasn't complete but the kids and coaches were still very happy to get a chance to meet and talk with a very important member of the W-L Crew family.

The Walter Mess Regatta schedule has been posted.

We would like to congradulate Todd Gerarden '05 for being selected as a Truman Scholar 2009. Todd attends the University of Virginia.

The mission of the Truman Scholarship Foundation is to find and recognize college juniors with exceptional leadership potential who are committed to careers in government, the nonprofit or advocacy sectors, education or elsewhere in the public service.

The Schedule for Saturday's races with TC Williams is now posted.

You can find the schedule for Saturday's regatta under Schedule/Results

The team starts racing this Saturday against Whitman and Wilson High Schools.

New Boats to be named during ceremonies at Potomac Boats Club on April 25th at the conclusion of the Charlie Butt Regatta. All are welcome to help us honor these deserving members of the W-L Crew Family.

The men's new eight will be named in honor of John Jenkins, class of 1962 who passed away in 1996

The women's new eight will be named in honor of Andy Barr, Washington-Lee Alumni '46 and major supporter of our program.

The 60th season for Washington-Lee Crew is underway. The kids are excited, the coaches are ready and the boosters are in full swing. Everyone is looking for another great season for W-L Crew. Racing starts soon. Our schedule is under the schedule/results tab.

Since the starting temperature on Saturday(Jan. 17th) was near 8 degrees our usual 2 mile run after the 4k erg was changed to 5 laps within the school which included a trip up the stairs to the 4th floor and back down each lap. We had athletes from W-L, Yorktown and West Springfield this year attending. Even with the modification in routine it was a great even and all the athletes battled hard.

The 2009 winners are:

Boys

Girls

Images from the Princeton Chase:

Nora Phillips - UVA - seven seat
Cepand Alizadeh - UVA - seven seat
Nick Birasa - Dartmouth - Stroke(eight)
Nick Birasa - Dartmouth - Stroke(four)
Scott Herring - Temple - six seat
Neal Stanga - Princeton - five seat
Martin Eiermann - Harvard Lights - four seat
David Kahan - Yale Lights- five seat(second from the bottom)

The 2009 Schedule has been posted under the Schedule/Result tab. The results from 2004-2008 have also been added to this tab.

So you've come by the site to check it out. If you find something is incorrect or have anything you can add please let me know. We need to collect this stuff before everyone forgets. Contact me at crewcoach@hotmail.com

This is a reminder about a mandatory boosters/returning rower meeting tomorrow at W-L @ 7:30pm.

The schedule: Tuesdays, Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays starting September 30th and continuing for 3 weeks. Weekday time schedule is 3:30-6, Saturday is from 10am to noon. Daily practices will be held at Thompson's Boat Center

Saturday Sept. 27th: Learn to Row orientation @ Potomac Boat Club, 3530 Water Street, DC 20007, from 10am to Noon. Parents are welcome.

Monday, Sept. 29th: Mandatory Swim Test, 3:20pm W-L Pool. Bring sweats(top and bottom), plastic bag for wet cloths and something to workout in. After the swim test we will be doing an erg (rowing machine) orientation at school.

Transportation: will be Metro Bus down and School Bus back. We will meet each practice day by 3:20pm Quincy Street(Old School). Saturday practices transportation will be up to the individual families. No school transportation is provided on Saturdays.

Cost: Free but requires the swim test and USRowing Waiver signed.

Everyone is encouraged to participate as often as possible but attendance 100% of the time is not required. However communication of your availability is needed to accommodate schedule.

Give it a try. If you haven't tried it you just don't know what you are missing.

Give it a try. If you haven't tried it you just don't know what you are missing.

The new issue of the Rowing Reporter is available. In it you will find a recap of the 2008 season and what's been going on since then. Rowing Reporter

We will be holding a learn to row program this fall. It will start with a Parent/Student informational meeting tomorrow starting at 7:30pm in the W-L Library.

Everyone is welcome. You don't have to row in the spring. Just come on down and find out what rowing is all about and more about our program.

Former Coach to represent the USA and W-L Crew in the 2008 Olympics. Former Women's Novice Coach Margot Shumway will stroke the women's Quad this coming August. Here is an article on her.

Girls Freshmen Eight qualifies for Semi-Finals at SRAA Nationals, Oak Ridge TN. Results

So it's not at an end yet but its getting close. This past weekend was the 2008 Stotesbury Cup Regatta. We took 5 boats up and unfortunately none of them made it out of the time trails but we were close, very close. You can find results
here.

The next thing to come is our Women's Novice Girls travel to Oak Ridge TN for the 2008 SRAA Championships. We wish them luck and calm waters. SRAA info can be found here.

Images from States and Stotes have been added to the gallery.

Due to large amounts of debris on Saturday the VA States regatta was delayed 1 hour. The story after that was the Men's 3rd Eight that placed 3rd, only crew to medal. The Men's and Women's V8s battled hard but came up short of the finals. They both did make the Petite finals, the women's eight pushed through long time rivals Yorktown to take 2nd in the heat to advance. The Men's V8 finished the local regatta season by winning the Petite Final. The Men's and Women's 2nd Eights did not advance to the finals. Full results can be found here.

Image from today(Monday) at the Occoquan