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MOUNTAIN LAKES Rowing Club
Travel Varsity Program
Information Meeting and Sign-up for Spring 2009
October 23, 2008 at 7:30pm
Dawsons,
15 Melrose RD, Mountain Lakes NJ 07046
Open to Morris County Boys & Girls Grades 9-11
No prior experience necessary.
If interested
in finding out more about the crew club please send an e-mail to
petrinadawson@aol.com
or
mindyemer@gmail.com
The club practices on Lake Hopatcong 4 days per week. Regattas are Saturday or Sunday, March to June. Off season program for athletes who do not play a winter sport. Cost will be $1500+ per athlete. Significant parent involvement required in both practice and Regattas.
Mission and Purpose
Mountain Lakes Rowing Club is
organized to charitably support, promote, and encourage the sport of rowing and
facilitate and enable participation in rowing athletic events benefiting the
youth rowers of Morris County. Mountain Lakes Rowing Club intends to operate as
a qualified amateur sports organization in the sport of rowing. Mountain Lakes
Rowing Club has identified a need for its charitable services in northwestern
New Jersey, where the sport of rowing is not well developed.
Mountain Lakes Rowing Club was
organized in 2008, as a successor to Mountain Lakes Crew Club, an organization
started by Jordan Ansell, then a junior in high school, upon his transfer to
Mountain Lakes. It’s purpose is to run a youth rowing program for young men and
women ages 14-18 or High School students who reside in Morris County, New
Jersey. For the 2008 Spring Season (March 1 to June 15), Mountain Lakes Rowing
Club has operated a rowing programs on Lake Hopatcong, New Jersey and has
attended 5 regattas under the auspices of the US Rowing association. In 2008 the
Club had 32 athletes (20 girls and 12 boys) who were part of the program. The
Club included athletes from Mountain Lakes, Boonton Township, Boonton, Randolph,
Morristown, Mendham and West Milford.
Mountain Lakes Rowing Club has
entered novice, JV and Varsity youth teams (as the terms are defined by US
Rowing) in regattas sanctioned by US Rowing. For the 2008 Spring Season Mountain
Lakes Rowing Club participated in the US Rowing Youth Regional Qualifying
tournament. In addition it competed in the Mercer Lake Sprints (Mercer, NJ),
William & Sarah Cooper Regatta (Camden NJ), Long Island Championships (Oyster
Bay, NY), and the Mayor’s Cup (Providence RI).
Mountain Lakes Rowing Club has
hired Liz Ponder and Laura McDaniel as coaches for the 2008 season. Both have
extensive rowing experience, rowing for Minnesota and USC, and coaching. At the
present time the Club runs only a spring season, concurrent with high school
spring sports.
Mountain Lakes Rowing Club
conducted a rowing educational program in march of 2008, an may run additional
programs in the fall of 2008through collaboration with the Mountain Lakes
Recreation Commission. These programs are presented by the athletes who are part
of the youth program. Mountain Lakes Rowing Club intends provide assistance to
any other non profit corporation wishing to establish amateur rowing programs in
Morris County, and has identified a collaboration opportunity with Unity Rowing,
a club to be established in Dover, NJ by a former athlete of the Club.
Mountain Lakes Rowing Club
supports its activities through program tuition fees, membership fees for other
interested individuals, and raises funds from the general public. Mountain Lakes
Rowing Club also accepts donations of rowing equipment. The club conducts a
general fund raiser in the Fall, and a Row-a-thon in the spring.
Mountain Lakes Rowing Club expects that, in several years, it will be in a position to organize and run US Rowing sanctioned regattas for youth and adult rowing competition. In the long term, Mountain Lakes Rowing Club may also develop facilities (for example a boat house) necessary to expand further the sport of rowing in northwestern NJ.