Hi Patti - It would be great if you would bring brownies again this year! Thanks for the offer - look forward to seeing you there!

Regarding this weekend UNC Mens Crew event at Lake Lure.
Friday night the Crew has their diner set up.
Saturday after the event Kay Tucker will be providing lunch for the Crew.
Saturday Morning Coach Laurance has informed me “The crew will start racing about 8:30am so our usual hot breakfast will probably not be digested before the student’s race.”
He has requested that the parents association provide juice, bagels, cream cheese, granola bars, breaks bread, peanut butter, Gatorade and water for Saturday morning.
Our “Food Fund” is running low but we will try and provide what is requested.
Any help serving the food to the crew is always welcomed.

Thank you for all your support and efforts.
Bill Faison

Bill,
Post a time and place to meet Sat morning and I will be there to help with set up. Thanks for your efforts

Bill, I will mail a check into helfp food fund to feed the rowers today - Janet Correll

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I will be happy to contribute to the food fund as well and will be there Saturday morning to help. Please post the time we're needed. Will we set up on the beach?

Bill, All,
      Assuming we're using the model of sending some of this stuff up with the guys and the trailer as in the past, I'll be glad to get the following from your list and take to the trailer: bagels, cream cheese, granola bars, peanut butter and water.
      Let me know if there is some other/alternate plan in place. Sorry we won't be there in person.
      Row Heels!!!!

Hi Bill,
Where should parents send their donations to the Food Fund?
Thanks
Debbie Eldridge

Looking further back I found the answer to my own question.

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

I know that all contributions are welcome and necessary to feed the team this season.

Coach Laurance stated on Saturday Morning “We will probably arrive by 6:30am on Saturday (staying only a few minutes away.) The first race starts at 8:30 so the athletes need to start thinking about getting reading by 7:30am.”
Those who will be helping “Under the Tent” should arrive between 6:00 & 6:15 AM. There is not much setup and minimal prep (no cooking just slicing bagels) for this event.
Hope to see every one on Saturday.
Bill Faison

Hi my daughter is a coxswain for the novice team. We live in Chicago so haven't made any regattas yet, but we are hoping to come down to the Tennessee regatta. I know we are late for hotel reservations, but is there a particular hotel that most parents might be stayin at so I can try there first?

If we can get all our arrangements made I would love to help out if we make it there and will let you know.

Thank you.

And thank you Peter for your email.

Several parents have asked about hotels at upcoming regattas so I will pass along our recommendations(and disclaim all responsibility if you prefer 5 star accomodations).In Oak Ridge both the Staybridge Suites and Doubletree are fine and about 15 minutes to the racecourse.
In Philadelphia (Dad Vails), the Marriott Courtyard Downtown is in a great location for restaurants and is about 15 minutes from the course. Several families will be staying there.
The Head of the Hooch in Chattanooga is scheduled for Nov. 7 - 8 and hotels are already booked. I was able to get a room in the Hilton Garden Inn which is a short walk to the river. For those of you who are new to the team this is a great venue in a terrific location.
Hope to see you all in Oak Ridge!

Thanks to all of you for the great help last weekend at Lake Lure. Another rainy day at the race course but the students rowed well against a good Ohio State team. We had parents from as far away as Tampa, Florida and Georgia plus having done the drive from Chapel Hill that is a long way also.

Parents have been great during my two years at UNC. You make life alot easier for the coaches (not having to run to the grocery store constantly) by providing the food for our team.

A note on hotels for the Southern Intercollegiate Championships. The team will be staying in Oak Ridge at the Super 8. I made the reservations last fall as Oak Rige si a relatively small town and the regatta draws crew from the entire south and even several from Philadelphia.

Knoxville is only about 30 minutes south of the rowing venue and has a great number of hotels at all prices. The best location for easy access to the rowing site, (Melton Lake) is on the west side of Knoxville along I-40. Google the Oak Ridge Rowing Association for directions, etc. to the venue. We will have information up on the web site soon.

In Philadelphia, the regatta draws 120 colleges from around the country. There is also racing, across the river, in Cherry Hill (ECAC Championships.) The team will be staying near the Philly airport at a Day's Inn. The regatta web site is "dadvail.org" for directions, info on parking at the regatta, etc.

Thanks again,

Richard

I was wondering if you could tell us what days the races will actually take place in Oak Ridge...Friday and Saturday OR Saturday and Sunday?

Thank you,
Lauri

https://www.regattacentral.com/index.jsp?tab=regattas

Lauri - the more experienced families taught me to check Regatta Central for this type of info - you can also see what events UNC has boats entered by clicking on "view entries" then clicking on the different race types will bring up a listing of the boats entered by University.

https://www.regattacentral.com/index.jsp?tab=regattas
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SIRA’s racing will take place on Saturday April 18, 2009 and Sunday April 19, 2009.
All boats will race twice on Saturday with the first races start about 9:00 AM and the last race will take place around 6:00 PM. A full Day of rowing.
The boats will race one more time on Sunday. Sunday races start at about 7:30 AM and run till 1:00 PM.

Chris, I can't find your direct email address - so hope this gets to you - we see on the website you had an Ergathon! Please post on the website how & where contributions can be sent!!! Note if this is tax deductible or not (we are all in the "tax" frame of mind in that it's only days till April 15th when we all have to pay yet more to the Fed!). AND please email this article to the broadcast crew parents broadcast list like we were sent the info on the awards banquet to get broader parent support of what you all are doing.

Best of luck - Janet Correll

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