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Friday, October 21, 2011

Men's Team Races Head of the Charles for Bartosz


The Men's Team will be racing the Head of the Charles this weekend and as participating members of Pull for a Cure this year they have been raising money for Lymphoma Research in honor of Bartosz. If you'd like to donate click here and keep an eye out for the Men's Team to come down the course with "Shrimps" on their backs as they race for Bartosz.

Wednesday, October 19, 2011

The hardware



Here's Mike Gennaro on-site after his two trips to the top of the podium at the Pan Am Games...

Gennaro's golden - again


SU alum Mike Gennaro's done it again - this time his gold is of the Pan American variety for the men's eight. After winning the World Championship in the U23 eight, Mike was back in the stroke seat for the Pan Ams. The US led from the start in a wire-to-wire win. Clocking a 5:39.3, the American eight was 1.8 seconds in front of our neighbors to the north, with Argentina coming in third in 5:41.8.

Earlier Mike and pair partner Ty Otto of Seattle had won the men's pair, making this Mike's third international gold this year. In the pair, Gennaro and Otto led from the start after a blazing 1:37.6 in the first 500. Brazil was second, with Canada taking the bronze.

With London hosting next year's Olympics, Mike's parents and family will want to make sure their passports are up to date for another trip overseas.

Wednesday, October 12, 2011

Help Solve This Mystery


SARA Board Member Adlai Hurt received a vintage copy of the fabled first run of Mark of the Oarsmen as a gift. Inside was this cryptic inscription (click on the image to enlarge it).

Here are Adlai's thoughts:

My primary suspects for “Tom” include those historical committee members on Page 370: Thomas Dunham, Dr. Thomas Kerr, or Thomas Rouen. I’m not sure who “Gools” could be.

On a similar line of thinking, “Dick” might be Richard Horstmann from the historical committee.

Any ideas who this book belonged to?

Tuesday, October 11, 2011

Fall in Syracuse

Many thanks to the Syracuse Women's Rowing Facebook page for these beautiful images of fall rowing in Syracuse. Miss it yet? I sure do.



















Tuesday, October 4, 2011

Coach Moore again tapped to run USRowing U-23 Pre Elite Camp

(many thanks to Orange Oar Editor John Nicholson for this article)

Following an extremely successful 8 week camp over the summer of 2010 that culminated with Club National Championship wins in the Senior 2- and 4x, Syracuse head coach Justin Moore has again been asked to lead the camp in the summer of 2012.

“The pre-elite camp’s goal is to take some of the best collegiate athletes we have in the country and help them to understand how to train as national team athletes,” Moore says. “It’s a month living the life of a national team athlete.”

“I tried to make it a priority in the summer of going out and helping in being part of the process and doing what little I could to help bring athletes forward.. With the pre-elite camp, we really tried to respond to what Tom Terhaar and Annie Kakela were looking for, and the priority of the camp was to expose, and maximize the time we had exposing the women to small boats rowing,” said Moore.

Although 2011 marked Coach Moore’s and Syracuse’s’ first involvement with hosting the camp, the outstanding feedback from athletes from universities around the country, their coaches when they returned to campus this fall, and achieving the objectives set out by USRowing, will ensure that it won’t be the last.

Moore has coached some of these women before. Notre Dame’s Molly Bruggeman is one whom he coached in juniors. “He’s a great coach,” she says. “Syracuse is lucky to have him. I pretty much know how he coaches and it’s been helpful in my improvement.”

Monday, October 3, 2011

Andrew R. Tedesco - SU Class of 1953

It is with a heavy heart that we report the loss of SARA member Andrew R. Tedesco ('53). Andy was the stroke of his JV crew during his time at SU.


He will be missed.






Many thanks to Ed Shepherd for bringing this news to our attention.