Alumni Profile: Elle Carolan '07

We're excited to start a new project here at FoHCMR in an effort to better connect our alums. The goal is that once a month, we will profile an alum, to catch up with them briefly and see how they are doing and how HC Rowing continues to impact their lives. Our first alum is Elle Carolan, a coxswain from the Class of 2007. Elle began coxing her sophomore spring and has stayed actively involved since graduation.

Home town: Wayne, PA

Current town: Philadelphia, PA

Major: history and art history

Year by year boatings: '05 Men's Novice 8+; '06 Men's Lwt 8+; '07 Men's Hwt 8+

If you are interested in learning more about PCR, the non-profit that Elle speaks about, you can go on their website. You can also email any questions to Elle here.

To read the full interview, click below.

Interview #3: Coach Monte '07, Bucknell Men's Head Coach

Coach Monte is a very busy man. We began this interview immediately following the end of the summer racing season, and we are happy to have finalized the entire thing. Click below to read the whole interview.

Quinsigamond Snake Results & Recap w/ Walker & Traub Interview

The Men's team got the 2011-2012 season off to a very solid start, with the 1V winning the Snake Regatta while setting a course record in the process. The 2V, 1F, and 3V also performed well, finishing 5th, 9th and 11th, respectively. The 1V won the race in a time of 12:55.356, more than 16 seconds over an entry from Merrimac River.

Race Results can be found here.

A recap from the goholycross website is available here.

After the race, we were able to exchange emails with Captain Mike Walker '13, bow seat of the 2V, and Jordan Traub '14, stroke of the 1V. Click below to read the interview.

HC Men's Rowing is Coming to Princeton, NJ: A message from Crusader Athletics

The Athletic Department has been kind enough to organize a reception following the Princeton Chase. Details are below:  

Please join Head Men’s Crew Coach, Todd Pearson ’98 and Crusader Rowing alumni for an informal post-race gathering following the Princeton Chase on Sunday, October 30th. The post-race gathering will be held at the Alchemist and Barrister (28 Witherspoon Street, Princeton, NJ 08542).

In order to guarantee numbers, please RSVP to Jennifer Whipple in the Holy Cross Athletic Department at crusaderathletics@holycross.edu or call 508-793-3583. Should you have any questions the day of the race, please do not hesitate to contact Drew Cutney ’97 at 203-393-5732.

Holy Cross will compete at the Princeton Chase beginning at 10:00 AM on Sunday at the Shea Rowing Center (70 Faculty Road, Princeton, NJ 08540).

Race times:

1V8 10:00 AM

1V4+ 12:00 PM

F8 1:00 PM

Go Cross Go!

Recognition from Crusader Athletic Fund

We just recently received a mailing from the Crusader Athletic Fund (CAF) with some notes about the successes of the 2010-2011 fiscal year (FY). We would like to take a moment to highlight the successes of fundraising for the Crew programs, especially as they relate to the rest of the sports teams.

• Crew was one of 5 sports (out of the 27 varsity programs) that set a record for the largest amount of dollars raised in the history of the CAF.
• Crew was one of 6 sports that set a record for the largest number of donors in the history of the CAF.
• Crew had 265 donors in the 2010-2011 FY, second as a sport behind only Football (Gridiron Club), and third as an allocation behind Football (373) and All-Sports Fund (558).
• Crew raised $56,869, third as a sport behind only Football ($155,396) and Lacrosse ($123,417), as well as the All-Sports Fund ($81,037).
• Breaking it down a little further, Crew had the 8th highest amount of dollars given per donor - with an average donation of $214.60. That is a great statistic, when you also consider that 33% of young alumni (Classes of 2001-2010) made donations!

All in all, we consider the 2010-2011 FY to be a great year of supporting the team, and we'd like to think that we can improve on these numbers even more this year, and in the years to come. Thank you to everyone for all that you have done to support the team!

Look for more posts in the near future regarding a get-together for the weekend of the Princeton Chase (Oct 29-30). We're also still working on our interviews with Coach Monte and some of the current athletes.

First 6k of the Fall: Check.

Congratulations to Pete Dwyer '12 for setting the new school record on the first 6k of his senior year! Great to hear that he started off the season so well.

Word is there were a number of PRs for the athletes as they started the fall season off on the right foot.

In related news, the men's team received entries into the Collegiate and Club 8s at the 2011 Head of the Charles (October 22-23). Lets look for HC to win the Collegiate event with (presumably) the 1V, and win the Club 8 with the 2V (potentially with some frosh mixed in as well). We'll have the fall racing schedule posted soon, as well as the rest of the summer rowing interviews.

Congrats to the Pearson family

We'd like to briefly congratulate Coach Pearson & Mrs. Pearson on the birth of their new son, Reid Christopher. Reid was born on Thursday, 08/25/11. We are happy to hear that he is healthy and home with his parents and older sister, Tessa.

Congrats Coach & Mrs. Coach!

Interview #2: Coach Zinter '05

The second interview in our HC Summer Rowers series is with Coach Nicholas Zinter, '05. Nick spent his summer as a member of the coaching staff at Penn AC, overseeing the U23/Intermediate Men's Program. In previous summers, he coached in his hometown of Buffalo at West Side Rowing Club (WSRC). Click below to read the full interview!

Interview Piece #1: Zaleski, Prominski, Raiola, & Dwyer

Over the summer, you may have noticed us tweeting about the HC rowers who made the wise decision to row over the summer at various club programs. At their respective programs, they were able to row with and learn from a wide variety of athletes and coaches, and all of them seemed to have a great time doing so! We took a couple minutes to catch up with HC's summer rowers and ask some questions about their summer experiences. The interview, with TJ Zaleski '12, Peter Prominski '13, Steve Raiola '12 and Pete Dwyer '12, is below.


In the coming weeks, as we get excited for the athletes' return to Mount St. James to embark upon a successful 2011-2012 season, Friends of HC Men's Rowing hopes to have the following interviews published: Jordan Traub '14 on his Henley trip, Mike Walker '13 on his captainship, and Al Monte '07 on his promotion to head coach for Bucknell Men's Crew. Keep checking back for those interviews!

Letter from the Coach

We recently sent out an email that contained a letter from Coach Pearson.

We felt it was best to share exclusively with our alumni rather than posting on the blog - if you did not get it, please update your contact information so that we can make sure to get it to you!

Video and Audio Coverage of EARC Sprints!

We have some exciting news to share with everyone that will not be able to make it to Worcester for the weekend. Princeton University will be providing audio and video footage of the racing going on. The Sprints will be a test run, in hopes of being able to provide the same kind of footage for the IRA.

Information can be found on the link below!

Go 'Saders!

05/15/11 - Eastern Sprints

So it all comes down to one day. One race, really, as all 17 teams (MIT did not field a 1V this spring) will be going all out in the morning heats to try and secure a spot in the grand final, or even the petite final, where they will have a chance to claim one of the 9 automatic bids to the IRA.

The heats are as follows for Sunday morning:

Harvard // Syracuse // Cornell // Georgetown // Pennsylvania
Wisconsin // Brown // Navy // Columbia // Northeastern // Rutgers
Princeton // Boston // Yale // Dartmouth // Holy Cross // George Washington

My thoughts on the racing are below, click the link to read more.

Northeastern Results

Sorry these are late in getting posted.

Recap came from the Northeastern website as well as reports from Rick Freniere. Click below to read on.

HC Men v. Northeastern

Although it is not currently on the school website, the team IS racing this weekend, against Northeastern University in Boston at 8a. They will do a 2k race and then some pieces afterward.

Northeastern is currently ranked 20th in the country in the most recent US Rowing Poll.

Northeastern is perennially a top 10 team in the country, but this year seems to be struggling a bit with a smaller roster than past years. They had a disappointing showing at the San Diego Crew Classic, winning the Petite Final. They have also lost to Boston, Brown, Georgetown, UPenn, and Harvard. However, they have excellent coaching and a phenomenal freshman class, so it is safe to assume they will be climbing the polls very fast next season.

According to cMax, the Huskies will win by 4.9 seconds.

Best of luck to the Crusaders this weekend! If anyone can catch video or photos, feel free to send them this way!

What we want to one day be like

While this is certainly not the end all, be all, here is a great article about the history of University of Washington Rowing. It outlines the 108 year history of the program, as well as how the team has grown and changed, in large part, due to the strength of the alumni.

Read about it here.

More Media added

Pictures from the boat dedication ceremony are now available on the Media page.

We're looking for more pictures, particularly from the small boats.

If you have any, please email them to us.

We broke 1,000 page views!

In all honesty, that doesn't mean much, considering that I have accounted for probably close to 100 of those, just to check to make sure everything looks good and see how many visits we've gotten.

But still, that means that a few (hopefully a lot) of you have collectively visited the site 900+ times.

We are excited to see what this site can continue to develop into, and we hope that it will help to benefit all of the Friends of the team.

Go Cross!

05/01/11 - Women race NERC

A couple quick shoutouts to the women's team.

Congrats to Odet Douglass '11 & Kate Broderick '12 for making the All-Patriot League team! Kate made the 1st team and Odet made the 2nd team.

The women will be racing this weekend on Quinsig at the New England Rowing Championships. Last year, the team placed tied for second overall in the points trophy, highlighted by a silver medal from the 2V. The results of the racing will affect seeding for the ECAC Regatta, their end-of-year championship race.

Last weekend the women placed 4th in the Patriot League Championship Regatta, behind Bucknell, Navy, and Colgate. The team beat out MIT & Lehigh.

If you aren't able to make it NJ to catch the guys in action but are in the Boston/Worcester area, head over to Quinsig on Sunday!

Twitter sidebar temporarily down

Not sure why the coding isn't working. We're looking into it and should have it up and running as soon as possible.

If you can't live without the twitter updates, follow us and the teams at:
@friendsofHCRowing
@HCMRowing
@HCWRowing

Good luck to both teams this weekend!

04/30/11: HC Men v Rutgers in New Brunswick, NJ

The men will be traveling this weekend for their final duel of the regular season.

More info is available below.

New Page Added: Media

We are happy to announce the creation of a new page on the site. Friends and family will now have the ability to watch races or look at pictures as they become available to us. For tonight, we have added some pictures from the GW Invite & Youtube videos of the race from this weekend against Bucknell.

If anyone has old photos or old videos that you would like to see on the site, feel free to send them this way and we will be more than happy to share them!

The "Media" page will constantly be updated, but we will usually make a blog post to let people know something has been added.

HC v Bucknell Results

We'll keep this brief, and hopefully update it soon with some race recaps from the team, as well as photos from the boat dedication ceremony.

Results courtesy of row2k HERE.

In the 1V race, the men rowed a great race and won by less than a second (0.8) over Bucknell.

In the 2V race, HC won convincingly, winning by 20 seconds.

In the 3V4 race, HC came in 1st & 3rd, with Bucknell in between.

In the 1F race, Bucknell topped HC by 4 seconds. This race was of great importance to the coaching staff (although, what race isn't?) because it pitted former teammates from HC against each other. In 2005, the HC 1V finished in 10th place at the EARC Sprints, which is the best place the school has ever recorded in the Varsity Eight event. The boat was stroked that year by Al Monte, '07, and current Bucknell freshman coach, and was coxed by Nick Zinter, '05, and current HC freshman coach. Last year, in their first meeting, Zinter's freshmen topped Monte's frosh, but this year the results were turned with Monte's boat getting the win.

As much as we love to see alum doing great things, here's to Zinter dominating Monte from here on out.

HC Rowing Golf Outing - May 13, 2011 (update: 04/22)

Update (04/22/11): The document that is referenced below has been uploaded and can be found HERE. If you have trouble getting access, please email us for the document.

Last year the school helped to organize a golf outing for HC Rowing alumni, friends and families. In its first year, we managed to draw 48 golfers to the tournament, this year we hope to have an even bigger turnout. Last year, Adam, Andrew, and Rick all participated, and Andrew was on the winning team. It was a great excuse for some of us younger guys to take a day off from work, and for someone like myself, who has never played a round of golf in my life, it was well worth the cost of participating.

The tournament is the Friday of EARC Sprints weekend. All pertinent information is after the break; it is from the HCRA.

Boat Dedication Ceremony - April 23, 2011

I realize it is relatively soon, but we hope to have a good turnout for this event. To see more details, click the link below.

GW Invite Recap

First, we must give a huge thank you to Mr. and Mrs. Prominski, P '13, for hosting both the team and the alumni during the weekend of the GW Invite. They were kind enough to have entire team over for dinner on Friday night, and then hosted a reception for alumni in the area (including some that had traveled from as far as Syracuse, NY and Boston, MA). Not only did they host all these people, but they were also at the race course both days, manning the table with food for the team. We are incredibly fortunate to have them as part of the HC Men's Rowing family.

Our Mission

Four graduates - Adam Furlong '09, Albert Monte '07, Rick Freniere '02, and Andrew Cutney, M.D. '97, have come together to try and build a better network of former oarsmen (and oarswomen), parents, families, and friends of HC Men's Rowing. We have done this exclusively through word of mouth, tracking down older alumni, and asking them to help us in this venture. We are excited to say that we have now collected the names and contact information for over twenty years of oarsmen, and we are looking forward to continuing to build that list.

Update your contact info

The success of this website and all related projects is tied to the strength of our contacts. We have worked hard to track down information for as many people as possible, but it is conceivable that emails are old or non existent, jobs have improved, or cities have changed. Please take a moment to update your contact information so that we can best support each other and the team.

Hi.

This is mostly a test run.

Look for more posts in the very near future from Friends of HC Men's Rowing.

Thanks for stopping by!