Special thanks to everyone that attended the Parent's Weekend activities this past Saturday. I trust everyone had a great time and received some real "hands-on" experience powering some of our boats with your students.

I hope everyone also had the chance to sign-up for the Parent Association's email distribution and volunteering opportunities at forthcoming regatta's. Remember, we ARE the Fan Club for this team....so we want to keep everyone informed!! This Message Board is the primary means of communication, but selective emails will be used where appropriate to help expedite the process when needed.

Special thanks also to all those who helped coordinate this last weekend's activities, food prep, and all the logistics that went into making the event an overwhelming success!

ROW HEELS!!

Denis Kingberg (and the Parent Association Steering Group)

Checks can be made payable to UNC CREW CLUB. In the memo line of the check you can specify the following if you want your donation used for a specific purpose:

Endowment: Code 5591
Equipment Fund: Code 5684
Food Fund: Food
Coaching staff position: Coach

The Crew Club mailing address is:
101 Student Recreation Center
CB #8610
UNC – Chapel Hill
Chapel Hill, NC 27599

Who should the checks for Food Fund be made payable? UNC Men's Crew Club?
Thanks

Edited by author 09-23-2008 09:46 PM
To All
This Saturday (9/27/08) Race with Duke at Lake Michie has been canceled by Duke. The UNC Crew Coaching scrambled and tried to work out an event with NC State on Lake Wheeler but due to the last minute notice from Duke this was not possible.
I hope to see everyone at Parents Weekend. The Crew has a great schedule planed for the all of us. More information on Parents Weekend will be post in the next few days.
Thank you
Bill Faison

See below the response I just received from Coach Laurance

Quoting Janet Correll <jcorrell@carolina.rr.com>:
As soon as I have some I will send and it will be on the web site.
Duke cancelled the race (late Sunday notice). We are trying to get something going with NC State on Saturday. I am awaiting a reply back from them.

Richard
> This is an enquiry e-mail via http://studentorgs.unc.edu/crew from:
> Janet Correll <jcorrell@carolina.rr.com>
>
> Coach,
>
> We want to try to come this Sat. Sept. 27th but need to know
> timing...can you email back some info?
>
> thanks, Janet Correll
>
>



Richard Laurance
University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill
Men's Crew Club
Coach

610-216-2761 (cell)
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Do we know anything about this coming weekend's races?

Time, food needs, etc...

Gary Ellis

Edited by author 09-16-2008 11:48 PM
Dear UNC Crew Parents,

Welcome back to another exciting season of competitive racing regattas! We hope everyone had a great summer, and are fully-charged-up to give some outstanding support to our team!

We have now officially launched the UNC Men’’s Crew Parents Association with the coaches and the UNC Crew Student Board, to proactively plan for this season’s needs. As was mentioned at the banquet last spring, it’s mission is to provide the UNC Men's Crew coaches and team members with support “on land” during regatta events, allowing the coaches and the crew members to concentrate on race activity “on the water”. Additionally, it will provide opportunity for tax deductible contributions by parents for funding Regatta meals as well as team equipment and capital needs as identified by UNC Crew coaching staff.

As such, we have assembled an eMail distribution list supplemental to the Parent posting section on the UNC Crew website, to broaden communication capabilities and assure everyone is notified of key events and needs of the team. We will be actively communicating with parents of all rowers throughout the academic year..

In the few past years, a core group of parents have supported and attended the various regatta events. One thing we have learned is that rowers need a lot of food to keep them focused on the river, and not on their hunger. Many of the families graciously provided food or donated money for this purpose. With the donation of a tent and a grill, we currently provide hot meals and healthy snacks at the regattas. The support and attendance by parents and friends has been GREATLY appreciated by all involved.

In an effort to streamline the food purchase and acquisition process for those organizing meals for the regatta venues, the Parents Association requests that all rower families donate $200 to the tax deductible Food Fund per academic year ($100 per semester). This amounts to approximately $5.00/meal.

Please send in your semester payment to the following address with the accompanying routing information to assure correct channeling of funds. Additional donations are also greatly appreciated to help sponsor additional rowers! The Treasurer on the Student Board will track incoming funds from all rower families, and assure routing and use of those funds exclusively for this purpose.

UNC Men's Crew Club
101 Student Recreation Center, CB #8610
Chapel Hill, NC 27599-8610
 
The designation code is 6255.
 
The process will be the following:
1) Checks donated require designation to be set aside for the food fund
2) Student Board will keep track of those donations in their budget
3) Gifts (your checks) will be processed through the Carolina Fund to have receipts given to all donor families for tax deductible contributions.

Many thanks for all of your continued support…..and ROW HEELS!!

Denis Kingberg (and the entire UNC Mens Crew Parent Assoc. Steering Committee)

Denis,

Thanks for the information! Looking forward to another season and ways that we can assist the team!

Greg

Edited by author 09-09-2008 04:07 PM
Hi Greg --

Good to hear from you! Yes, we will be forming Parent Committees. The steering group has actually been meeting with the student Board and the coaches on a regular basis and via telecon. We will also be compiling a list of all email addresses of parents to better broadcast news of interest, and foster greater use of this posting board as well.

Stay tuned!

Denis

Denis,

Hope you had a good summer! Will we be forming the Parents Committee(s) as we discussed at the annual banquet at the end of last year?

Thanks,

Greg Ulirsch

if it might help anyone, the Marriott Courtyard in Cambridge (which is right on the Charles River within the regatta racing section) will be releasing any extra rooms from team blocks on the night of Sept. 17th or the morning of Sept. 18th. Possibly a near in room could be booked then, have no idea what the pricing might be - a quick call to sales might answer that though.
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For those of you electing to attend either the Head of the Charles/Hooch regattas, please be advised that nearby hotels are filling quickly at these two venues. We're ending up staying approximately 8-9 miles from the race area for both of these locations....still not a bad drive, but I would imagine these hotels will fill as well, once we get closer to the calendar dates for these events.

Thanks,
Denis Kingberg

I would like some help fining a canopy done 10x10 with UNC Tarheel on it for tailgating . Please email me . thank you mr saunders

Thanks to all of you for your great support, this year. I enjoyed speaking with each of you at the races and the food and support you provided was a big reason for the continued success of the UNC Crew Program. I know that it takes all of us to make the experience an enjoyable and productive one. With great parents support, alumni support, hard working, bright student/athletese and a fine group of coaches, the future is very bright.

Thanks

Chris --

I think both the parents and the team owe YOU a big thank you also for keeping the website up to date and handling of all the multi-media activity that captures our collective efforts. It's great to have content from various sources....it takes some special creativity to filter and assemble all of it in a very appealing and consumable manner!

THANKS from all of us!
Denis

Thanks again to all of the parents and their tramendous support this season. I especially would like to thank the Faisons, Revelles, and Kowalskis for all that they did for us in MA for ECACs, along with all of the families that helped out down in Philly with the Dad Vail regatta.

I also wanted to let everyone know that the photo gallery is being updated as I type. I have included over 150 pictures from the spring season in the gallery. I have also uploaded the team pictures that were taken last week. Most of these pictures came from parents, so again I would like to thank you all for making this possible. There sure would not be much of a photo gallery if it weren't for all of our family photographers out there.

If you have any pictures that you would like to see published in this gallery, please send them to me at crchrist@email.unc.edu

Thanks again.

Chris