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2017 - New England Championships Boys: Team Trophy 4th, B1 7th, B2 6th, B3 Silver

2017 - New England Championships Girls: Team Trophy 3rd, G1 Bronze, G2 4th, G3 Silver

2016 - New England Championships Boys: Team Trophy 7th, B1 7th, B2 4th, B3 8th

2016 - New England Championships Girls: Team Trophy 4th, G1 5th., G2 4th, G3 4th

2015 - New England Championships Boys: Team Trophy 2nd, B1 Silver, B2 Bronze, B3 Silver

2015 - New England Championships Girls: Team Trophy 4th, G1 Gold., G2 Silver, G3 7th

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To provide information and news for the Parents, Friends, and Alumni of Andover Crew.

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Andover Crew Community

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Some of us still use ink and paper while others use Blackberries and iPhones to communicate. You can participate with Andover crew via this web page and the links at the top of this page to our Guest book, our Facebook group (700+ members), our Twitter feed (270+ members) and our LinkedIn group (210+ members). You can also sign-up for our newsletter (2000+ alumni and parents) by contacting us at andovercrew@andovercrew.net. We welcome participation, comments, suggestions and especially stories and pictures of Andover rowers young and old. We are happy to help people reconnect with old boatmates.
Our LinkedIn group is our latest addition. We hope our LinkedIn group will provide the opportunity for the Andover Crew family to provide support for our younger rowers as they move into the world. Our young men and women who have maintained good grades while spending 25 to 30 hours a week on competitive rowing at the countries top colleges have already proved that would be valuable additions to any organization that wants to be successful. Membership is only open to rowers, alumni and parents.
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News March 18th 2019

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We have updated the links to include a link to college teams. Links.

We have updated the captains for 2019. They are Elaine Irvine and Ina Li as co-captains for the girls and Nick Demetroulakos and Jacob Hudgins as co-captains for the boys.

Time to clear your calendar for spring 2019. Saturday is race day!

We have posted the preliminary schedule for Spring 2019 in the Schedule Table.

The Merrimack has melted and is clear of ice. Almost time to dip the Andover blades into the water again.

In preparation for the Merrimack, a group of Andover athletes are suffering the alligators and extreme heat (see weather forecast above) of Melbourne Florida to prepare for Spring racing. They have left behind the comfort of 16 New England layers and have to survive with only shorts and T shirts every day. There is no limit to the endurance of these brave souls and the discomforts they are prepared to endure in the search for the perfect rhythm of a race winning shell. A special thanks to the coaches who have volunteered to lead this brave group.

A huge "Thank You" to the Eldracher family who have made a donation to cover the lease buy out of the Kathryn Green racing shell and so ensuring that we can keep it for our girls to race this spring. We depend on donations from Parents and Alumni for all of our racing equipment.

In memoriam John Dent

It is with great sadness that today we learned that our friend, John Dent, passed away, peacefully, after his battle with cancer. John has been a long time member and friend of the Andover family from his days coaching on the Merrimack to his more recent assistance with Henley visits. He enriched the lives of many of us. He will be missed tremendously. Our condolences go to his family.


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2019 Season

It has started! The Andover boats are on the water, not in the freezing North East but the sunny South East.

The ice has melted on the Merrimack and our athletes are in Florida warming up their muscles for the coming racing season. Parents should be clearing their calendars and emptying their car trunk to make room for spring race days.
The primary job of the parent is to listen and nod empathically to the stories of effort and pain preferably without offering any advice. The primary active responsibility of the parent is to turn up on race day to cheer the races and help with the food table.


Food tent

This year Jennifer Irvin and Yoriko Ono have volunteered to organize the food table at the races replacing Rosy who retired last year after 15 years. This is a tough year to take over as the schedule has us starting with two away races, Salisbury and Kent, that are almost 4 hours drive from Andover and it is critically important that we feed the rowers at the races.
We hope and expect that everyone will rally around Jennifer and Yoriko and make the food table a wonderful success. Please watch this space and your email for explanations of how you can help.
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Pre-Season 2019

We will post pictures as they are fed from Florida. Watch this space.

Congratulations to all of our rowers who competed in the Crash-Bs. but especially to Mia Levy who won the JW14 with 7.08.4. Wow! Also competing were Kevin Guo, Adin McAuliffe, Nick Demetroulakos, Newal Rahman, Lucia Kisova, Eliza Scheer, Kylie Lough, and Sam Boshar.

Also Congratulations to Alum Adam Rosenthal '76' who competed in the M60 race.
Click on Crash-B results

2018 Season

We have added a section about the girls going to Henley Women's Regatta below. See below for a link to the livestream feed starting with the J4+ at 8.45 am on Saturday or 3.45 am East Coast time for any eager USA supporters.

An amazing end to a wonderful season. Our B1 - 8th, B2 - 7th and B3 4th. In the team points, we were eighth. Our B1 and B2 scored better than expected by the seedings. Our girls did very well with G1 Silver, G2 silver, and G3 bronze. The girls were second in the team prize with 32 points to Exeter's 35 points.
Thanks to everyone, especially our coaches, who helped to make this this exciting day possible.
Go Blue!

We have posted pictures of the Reunion Rowing below. A brave group who dragged themselves out of bed before 7 am today.

Reunion Rowing

We have posted pictures of today's Reunion Rowing.

Please click button for the pictures of today by Sam and Lucy Danziger '78'.
Reunion Rowing Page 1 Reunion Rowing Page 2



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Young alumni rowing for colleges this spring 2018

Special congratulations all of our alumni that raced for their colleges this spring ending with the IRAs this past weekend.
If any of you are near a college race check out the following alumni.
Alex Cao - NYU, Aidan Driscoll - MIT, Ben Beckwith - Union, Ben Hawley - Cornell, Bennett Slibeck-Columbia, Bridget Lapage - Cardiff Uni, UK,
Cara Cavanaugh - Dartmouth, Colin Lata - Tufts, Cooper Hurley - Delaware, Dylan Norris - Brown, Evelyn Mesler - Wesleyan, Elizabeth Duserick - Yale,
Fiona Yonkman - Williams, Gabe Blanchard - UPenn, Grant Bitler - Brown, Hailey Novis - Radcliffe, Isabella Berkley - Amherst,
JakeRauh - Dartmouth, Lane Unsworth - Yale, Laurel Wain - GW, Liz Kemp - Radcliffe, Luke Bitler - UVA, Marc Sevastopoulo - Dartmouth,
Mike Queenan - Wesleyan, Miles Neumann - Harvard, Nico Robertson - BU, Sam Hawley - Dartmouth, Shelby Butt - Georgetown, Simon Sharp - Yale,
Sydney Baumgardt - Amherst, Victoria Everett - Cornell, Wesley Fabyan - Harvard, Will Humphrey - Wesleyan.
** Please let us know if I have missed anyone spring 2018 at your college. andovercrew@andovercrew.com**

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Henley Women's Regatta

Rowing in Oxford and Henley

Update June 23rd:

Our J4+ rowed in the time trials early on Saturday and recorded a speed over the 1500 meters that won them a place in the knock out races. The luck of the draw was not kind for our girls. After a few short hours of rest they raced Putney School A team. Putney School won the British National Schools Championship in the coxed four and three of today's Putney crew won the under 16 coxed 4 at HWR last year. Our girls rowed very well but never really threatened the Putney boat. We will be rooting for Putney who have a good chance of winning the Regatta.
Our J8+ raced St. George's College who normally race fours in the UK. Our girls took a lead off the start and settled into a strong, steady drive in the Berkshire lane. Our girls did not sit but moved gradually further away from the other boat to win by a decent margin. In a description that combines British politeness with candor, the margin is reported as "easily". This means more than 4 or 5 lengths.Tomorrow in the Semifinals we will race a boat from National Cathedral School in Washington DC that also had a wide margin of victory in today's race. I will be up at dawn to yell "go Blue" at my computer.

Update June 21st:

Our girls traveled to the UK on Friday 15th June. They had been invited to train at Headington School prior to moving to Henley for the Regatta. Headington school rowing club was only started in 1991. The school has cherished their rowing team and their girls have won the UK National Schools' Regatta 9 out of the last 10 years in a country of very competitive rowing. They have also won Henley Women's Regatta for the last 4 years.

Headington school is in Oxford, the home of Oxford university founded circa 1096 or about 30 years after the Normans defeated the Saxons at the battle of Hastings. It took Oxford until the beginning of the 19th century to found their first boat club. Oxford now has 40 boat clubs including the famous University club.

The Thames River (pronounced Temes from the Middle English Temese) source is in the Cotswolds and it flows 346 Km through Oxford and Henley on Thames to London. This week our girls have moved down river to Henley for final preparation for the Regatta. Below are pictures of the eight in the river just above Temple Island and another picture taken at the Reception for International Crews.



On the Thames above temple Island

Internal Crew reception

The racing will start with the J4+ time trial on Saturday morning at 8.45 am, to reduce the admitted field from 18 to 16 for 1 on 1 elimination races running from 12.12 to 13.08 pm.The Heat allocation will depend on the time trial results. It they survive Saturday they will have the opportunity to race again up to 3 times on Sunday at 09.45 am, 13.50 pm and the final at 15.55 pm.
The J8+ will race against St. George's College on Saturday at 16.12 Henley time or 11.12 am Andover time. It they survive Saturday they will race again up to 2 times on Sunday at 11.15 am and the final at 14.55.
All times quoted are Henley time. Andover time is 5 hours earlier.

You can see the racing live at https://hwr.org.uk/
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cndWyGw5SWU

Training on the Merrimack

We have added some more images of the Merrimack.

After an amazing season the girls' program has decided to dispatch a team to enter an eight and a four in the Henley Women's Regatta at Henley England from June 22nd to 24th June. The team will leave Andover on June 15th. Until then they are doing "two-a-day" sessions on the Merrimack with Coach Ellen and Coach Logan. They are supported by Dale and Tony and of course Bob our bus driver. The Crew parents are financing the trip and helping with logistics and kit. Please see British Slang and British English

You may notice that the girls are not rowing our usual Vespolis. While in the UK, we will be training at Headington School and they will loan us boats for the Henley Regatta. The boat vendor Resolute has kindly provided us with an eight and a four for training so that our girls can become comfortable in the boats. Headington is a school of 1000 girls in Oxford. They are arguably the best girls rowing school in the UK having won the UK National Schools Regatta 6 out of the last 7 years. They have kindly agreed to host us for pre-Henley training.



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Please click button for more pictures.
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Spring Races

New England Interscholastic Rowing Association Regatta 2018.

An amazing end to a wonderful season. Our B1 - 8th, B2 - 7th and B3 4th. In the team points, we were eighth. Our B1 and B2 scored better than expected by the seedings. Our girls did very well with G1 Silver, G2 silver, and G3 bronze. The girls were second in the team prize with 32 points to Exeter's 35 points.
Our girls will be going to Henley Women's Regatta and will be training at Andover for the coming weeks. A huge thank you to all of our coaches, staff and managers who made this a great season with a strong team spirit that will carry us forward.
Also a huge thank you all the parents who supported the team from the MacLeod's who arrived at 6.30 am and to Susan Sheldon who stayed until 6.30 pm to leave the state park as though we were never there and everyone in between.
Go Blue!

We had Irish guests for the past 10 days, so apologies for the delay in posting the pictures. Here are the first 600. More to come.



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Please click button for the pictures by Carrie MacLeod.
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Please click button for the pictures by Robin Rosenberg, Adin McAuliffe's parent.
NEIRA 2018 RR1 Page 1 NEIRA 2018 RR1 Page 2

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Erik Kristensen ceremony, NMH races and Lower Boat Regatta

We combined the unveiling of the bust of LCDR Erik Kristensen USN with a day of racing with old friends from NMH. Erik was an Andover rower who attended the Naval Academy and then became a Navy SEAL. Erik was KIA when his helicopter took enemy fire during search and rescue Operation Red Wings. An event which is detailed in the movie Lone Survivor.
The sky was crying a little bit and the weather was colder than most other days this week but current was gentle and the wind was a soft head wind. A good day to race.
On the Sunday morning we had a final day of the season's racing for the lower boats we invited our friends from St. John's. The weather was a complete change from the Saturday. There was the atmosphere of a summer picnic for all the rowers, family and fans that turned up to share the event. A fun day to end the season. Thanks to everyone who made this a great season for the rowers.

Please click button for the pictures of NMH races.
NMH Boat races Page 1 NMH Boat races Page 2 NMH Boat races Page 3

Please click button for the pictures of Lower Boat Regatta .
LBR races Page 1 LBR races Page 2


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Exeter and Tabor '18

The really bad weather stayed away and we just had a dull wet day. Exeter won the points trophy. Exeter boys won the top 2 boats but Andover took the other 4 races. Exeter girls took the lower 3 races but our G1 won their race with open water.
It was great to see so many Grandparents who braved the weather and Mr. Palfrey was seen taking pictures of our G1.



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Bringing it home

Please click button for the pictures.
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St. Paul's '18

We had a great road trip to St. Paul's. We won 5 of 8 races. Still some work to do before Interschols. We had one crab in a boat and another clashed oars causing a race restart.



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Races? I'm here for the chicken


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Release

For videos please visit Facebook - Friends of Andover Crew


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St. Paul's races Page 1 St. Paul's races Page 2 St. Paul's races Page 3


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Hingham, Boston Latin and St. John's races - April 28th 2018

Finally summer arrived. We moved the food tables outside. The sun was shinning, the river was calm and we had a gentle tail wind. The rowers were roaring to go and go they did. We had 6 boys' races and 4 girls' races. We won 9 of the 10 races with open water. Everyone was happy at the end of the day. The coxswains were sacrificed to the river gods. We have tougher races ahead in the coming weeks.


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Please click button for the pictures.
Hingham High, Boston Latin and St. John's races Page 1 Hingham High, Boston Latin and St. John's races Page 2 Hingham High, Boston Latin and St. John's races Page 3 Hingham High, Boston Latin and St. John's races Page 4 Hingham High, Boston Latin and St. John's races Page 5

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BC High and Belmont races and girls' scrimmage - April 21st 2018

We have posted pictures from the races with BC High and Belmont and girls' scrimmage on April 21st.
In the New England spring there is a temperature tipping point somewhere in the mod 50s. A little below and it feels very cold, a little above and it feels like summer. On Saturday over the course of the day we moved through the tipping point. We were joined by the BC High and Belmont boys for racing and the girls had a special scrimmage racing down the course.
We had a great day of racing. Our results and the sunshine persuaded our coxswains to continue the 200 year old rowing tradition and 50 year old Andover tradition of sacrificing our winning coxswains to the river gods.


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Race to the line
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Eight oars
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Winning flight
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Winning smile

Please click button for the pictures.
BC High and Belmont races Page 1 BC High and Belmont races Page 2 BC High and Belmont races Page 3 BC High and Belmont races Page 4

Please click for the videos. Thanks to Adam V. for beautiful work.
B1 Drone Video
B2 Drone Video
B3 Drone Video
B4 Drone Video
B5 Drone Video
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Race reports Kent races - April 14th 2018

The day started of dark and dull and gradually grew colder over the afternoon. There was clean competitive racing with Kent winning as expected until the G1 girls broke out the happiness warmth with a surprising open water victory to take the Hart Perry Cup. Congratulations to Coach Minzner and the girls! Although we came in second in most of the races we are confident that we will continue to improve in speed and peak in time for Interschols.

A huge thank you to all the supporters who braved the weather to cheer, bring copious amounts of food and help serve the ravenous rowers who consumed 12 chickens, 12 qtrs. of meat chili, 6 qtrs. of veggie chili, 15 lbs. of rice, 15 lbs. of banana, tray upon tray of cookies, brownies, grapes, strawberries and much more. Those of us, less exercised, look on in envy as they consume without gaining an ounce.
An extra thank you to those who worked the kitchen and helped with the serving table.


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Even the dog thought it was cold
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B1 after the race
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G1 crossing the line
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To the victor, the spoils

Pictures of Kent races:
Kent races Page 1 Kent races Page 2 Kent races Page 3

More pictures of Kent races by Roddy Scheer:
Kent races Page 1 Kent races Page 2 Kent races Page 3

Please click for the videos. Thanks to Adam V. for beautiful work.
Click on Kent B2 Drone Video
Click on Kent B3 Drone Video
Click on Kent G1 Drone Video
Click on Kent G2 Drone Video
Click on Kent G4 Drone Video
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Salisbury and Brookline Races - April 8th 2018

It was a clear cool sunny day but with a wicked westerly crosswind. We launched 7 boys' boats and 4 girls' boats. Our girls won the G1 and G2 races with Brookline and our G3 and G4 came in third and fourth in the G2 race. Our B1 boat beat Brookline but lost to Salisbury. Our B2 won their race by open water. Brookline won the B3 race with our B3 and B4. Brookline won the B4 race with our B5, B6 & B7. For many of our athletes this was their first ever race on the Merrimack.


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Finish Line
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Up and over

Pictures of Salisbury and Brookline races:
Salisbury & Brookline races Page 1 Salisbury & Brookline races Page 2 Salisbury & Brookline races Page 3

Please click for the B1 video. Thanks to Adam V. for beautiful work.
B1 Drone Video
Copyright 2018 © Adam Vlasic.


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Spring Practice

We have two pages of pictures covering two different days of practice. One on a clear day and the other in a snow storm. Rowing is not a sport for the weak of spirit. Racing 1500 meters against the best of New England and pushing through the pain to pull harder like a dog for the last 500 meters takes mental as well as physical strength. Andover rowers who train do to do this, brush off a little snow storm like it was only a flake. The rowers of 1958 did it, the rowers of 1988 did it and now the rowers of 2018 still do it.

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Layed back rowing
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River cleanup
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Blizzard rowing
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60 years of rowing sun, rain or snow

We have posted pictures.
Practice Days Page 1 Practice Days Page 2

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2018 Florida Pre-season Rowing trip

While it was snowing on the Merrimack some of our lucky rowers and coaches were tempting aligators on a canal in Florida. The trip provided warmth and almost perfect rowing conditions to transfer the rattling winter erg training to the gentle glide of river rowing.

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The tribe
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The aligator
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Coach Jester
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The sunrise

We have posted pictures of the Florida trip. Click on button.
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The 2017 Photo Stories

















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Taming the river



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The new Hart Perry - Bill Brown Trophy.
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Smile it is racing season.


There is a new fashion on the Merrimack. For the first time ever we have provided bright yellow "pogies" to keep the extremities warm during rowing. As you all should know, this is New England and we will row in any weather unless there is a safety concern such as lightning.

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Alumni News

Congratulation to Liv Coffey '07 who stroked the Cambridge Women's Boat Club to victory in The Boat Race this past Saturday. Liv rowed for Andover, Harvard and the US team where she won a World Championship. Someone told Liv it was impossible to complete an MBA at Cambridge and row for the University. Well she has completed the first part, I am sure she will be successful at the second part.
You can watch the race on YouTube here Cambridge Oxford Women's Boat Race 2018

Our annual Reunion Row will be at 7.00 am on June 9th. Please email andovercrew@andovercrew.com if you will be coming so that we can have a rough idea of numbers. We look forward to seeing everyone from '58 to '13.
Time to call your classmates ans see who is still made of the stuff that gats rowers out of bed and on the river with the rising sun. All alumni are welcome even it is not your reunion year.

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Andover Crew history

Interested in the history of Andover Crew?
We have now posted all the yearbooks to http://www.andovercrew.com/YearBook/indexYearBooks.html . Enjoy! We are still missing Yearbooks for the following years 1958, 1959, 1984,1985, 1991 and 2004.

Here are some yearbook pictures. Please see if you can guess the year and name any of the people. These are also posted on Facebook.
You can email your answers to andovercrew@andovercrew.net.

Yearbook
With help from Hobey Birmingham '62
Boys 1963
Standing Row: Coach Bill Brown, James Pinney '63, Jan Askman '63, James Wells '63, John Born '63, Hugh Emory '63, Dan Eubank '65, Gib Vincent '63, Gordon Hardy '63
Front Row: Paul Hoffman '63
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With help from Neil Batt '82:
1st Row: E.Roche '83, P. Tipton '83, D. Mahoney '82, M Weatherley-White '82, J Doggett '83
2nd Row: T. Lameyer '82, N. Batt '82, D. Duquette '82, S. Hochman '84
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With help from Struan Robertson '83:
Girls 1 and 2nd 1983
1st Row: Rachel Moscarella '83, J. Gillivray ;84, Rachel Simons '83, Carolyn McGowan '83, ?
2nd Row: Thayer Tolles '83, E Stier '83, Donna Hoitsma '83?, Betsy Biern '84
3rd Row: L.Doucette, Susannah Hill '83, E. Crowther, L. Zuckerman '83, Elizabeth McHenry '83
4th Row: P. Canfield, S. Black '83,S. Hazelwood '85, Milisa Galazzi '84.
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Boys 1 and 2nd 1983 L-R, Boys First Boat:
1st Row: Max Drake '83, Patrick Tipton '83, Geoffrey Tuller '83, Alec Hugo '83, Chris Tompson '83,
2nd Row: Jeb Doggett '83, Eamon Roche '83, Steve Hochman '84 & Bruce Trask '83,
3rd Row: Boys 2nd Boat- Art Muldoon '84, Mikkel Hermann '83, (coxswain)?, John Helmers '83, Struan Robertson '83, Peter Washburn (coach)
4th Row: Dan Miller '83, ?, Fritz Reichenbach '83, Steve Blackwell '83.
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1982 G1
1st Row: P. Hager, R Moscarella '83, R. Simons '83, C. Richards '82, L. Carr
2nd Row: J. Mulvihill '82, T. Tolles'83 , E. Biemann '82, M. Durham '82

For more alumni stories click here Alumi Corner
Year Books Andover Crew

We have started digging into the history of Andover Crew.
Looking for new alumni new, please send them in if you have some to share
Here are some old pictures from Henley:

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1959 - First Andover trip to Henley
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1959 Andover vs Thames Rowing Club

1959 Boat: Bow-Bill Taylor, 2-Chris Miller, 3-Jack Allen, 4-Renny Maier, 5-Dick Masland, 6-Art Burnham, 7-Bill Sanford, stroke-Maynard Toll (Captain), cox-Patrick Cary-Barnard. (Thanks to Bill Sanford)

We have also started a web page for the rowing entries in the Year Books from 1956 when Coach Brown founded Andover Crew. Below is the first entry from 1956. We have now posted all we have on Year Books Andover Crew
We are still missing Year Books for the following years 1958, 1959, 1984,1985, 1991and 2004. If you have a Yearbook for any of these years and are willing to scan it or send it to us to scan please email us at andovercrew@andovercrew.net.


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1956 Year Book

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Old Fashion Jump to, if you prefer

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The Spirit of Andover Crew

Crew is a little different from other sports. All the students, boys and girls, everyone from varsity first boat to the sixth boat, train together, practice together, race together. Everyone jumps on the same bus for the bone-rattling trip to the boathouse. Everyone helps with the launches. Everyone shares the same cold wet days on the Merrimack. Everyone shares the same pain, the same pleasure. Everyone will have the same joy as the boat starts to sync and the speed increases. There is no individual effort. There is no individual glory. Only one boat, eight rowers, one coxswain, one shell. A racing boat.

Below is a multimedia section including a video of this year's (07) interschols, Michelle's call and video from Henley '06 and a documentary video about Andover crew made by Katherine Adams '06. Recently we have noticed people referring to Andover crew as a world class program. The shallow reason for such an accolade is probably the recent racing performance such as B1 with two silvers and a gold and G1 with three silvers in the last three New England Championships. We think the program is world class because of the spirit of Andover crew down through all 12 boats. We hope the videos below will help you visit again with the spirit of Andover crew.

Interschols '07 Video

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Click the links below for Interschol video thanks to Jim Moroney.
Click here for Interschol video part 1
Click here for Interschol video part 2
Click here for Interschol video part 3

Abingdon Race Henley '06 - Michelle's Coxswain's Call: You can feel the spirit as you listen to this race from Henley '06. Abingdon, one of the top English schools, used their fantastic start to take an early lead of over a boat length. Lesser crews would have crumbled. Andover clawed back into the race and then pulled off a tremendous sprint to take the victory.

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Click the CONE for a video combination of the coxswain's recording and the TV recording of the Abingdon-Andover race. The video will start with a photograph of the team racing at Henley. The TV footage from www.rowtv.co.uk will appear for the last 500 meters.

Andover Crew video: Katherine Adams created this Andover crew video in the Spring of '04. As you watch this movie I think you will appreciate that Andover Crew is something very special. We have split the movie into four parts to make it easier to play and download. Please click on the link and it will play using Media Player. You may also right click on each part to download the four files and then use the 'open' command under 'file' to select all four to play as a group.
Andover Crew Video Part 1
Andover Crew Video Part 2
Andover Crew Video Part 3
Andover Crew Video Part 4
Courtesy of Katherine Adams '06

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General Information

Coaches:

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Coach Dale Hurley Director of Andover Crew.

Dale joined us in 2006 and has been a inspiration to our young rowers ever since with his famous launch cry of "What do you do when you are not having fun?" "PULL HARDER". He came to the program with coaching experience at Blair Academy, University of Pennsylvania, University of Tennessee, and the US Naval Academy built on top of a successful rowing career that included being a 5 time member of the U.S National Lightweight Rowing team. This past 3 years he ran a very enthusiastic girls program that improved their Interschols results each year culminating with winning Interschols on 2015.

The goal is to inspire happy rowers to learn to row in the fall and win the New England Championship in the spring. We all wish Dale and his team every success.

Andy Finch will be the Head Coach for the boys and Ellen Minzner is the Head Coach for the girls.

Coach Ellen Minzner is a two-time World Champion in the Lightweight Women's pair who as a coach has helped thousands of athletes start rowing. She has coached at Wellesley College, Kansas State University, and the University of California at Berkeley, as well as at high school programs including the Winsor School, Greater Lawrence Rowing, and CRI where she won the Isabel Bohn Award from US Rowing, recognizing her significant achievement in providing opportunities in rowing for athletes with disabilities.

Coach Andy Finch learned to row at Boston University. After four years with the BU program, and upon graduation, Andy went on to row on the Lightweight US National Team for 3 years; 1994, 1995, and 1996. Coach Finch has previously coached at Brooks School, Philips Exeter, and more recently founded the rowing program at St. John's Prep in Danvers, MA. He continues to row and competes annually in the Head of the Charles Regatta which he has only missed once since his first in 1991.

Coach Susan Lindholm A dedicated coach with a profound understanding of exercise physiology, Lindholm has directed men's and women's programs on all levels. She is a 1982 graduate of the University of Rhode Island where she successfully competed as a lightweight rower and coach. Lindholm has also coached at Riverside Boat Club, Boston University and most recently was Head Coach at MIT.

Coach Brendan Mackinson teaches in the Natural Sciences. Coach Mackinson is following the same path as Bill Brown in that he was a sailor who moved on to coaching Crew.

Ms. Claire Dahm - PA Teacher in History and Social Science. Coach Dahm's college research included criminal rehabilitation programs. Coach Dahm learned to row in Australia where water rotates in the opposite direction.

Mr. Logan Jester - PA Teaching Fellow in Math. Coach Jester rowed at college and is also a graduate of the CRI Institute of Rowing Leadership.

Coach Profile - School website

Captain election results:
Girls' Team co-Captains '19: Elaine Irvine and Ina Li.
Boys' Team co-Captains '19: Nick Demetroulakos and Jacob Hudgins.

O Captain! my Captain! rise up and hear the bells;
Rise up--for you the flag is flung--for you the bugle trills;
For you bouquets and ribbon'd wreaths--for you the shores a-crowding;
For you they call, the swaying mass, their eager faces turning;

Walt Whitman

Coach Peter Washburn - Andover Crew 1981 to 2014

We owe a huge thank you to Pete Washburn and his wife Kit for the last 33 years. Thanks for all the boats that raced at Interschols, Youth Nationals and Henley Royal Regatta but most importantly thanks for being a wonderful coach and mentor to generations of Andover rowers and coxswains.
The pictures below are a team photograph from 1981 and a race day picture from 2013.
You will always be in our hearts.
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Training and Fun

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Some guidance for the art of erging with skill and style. Read and inwardly digest this guidance and then do the complete opposite and you will have perfection!

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Now that the crews are on the water, some people will be catching crabs. If you are going to do something, you might as well excel at it. Here are instructions for catching a really good crab!

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You will need a mp4 player such as QuickTime or DIV/X.

For a video of a real-life ejector crab from the MIT website, thanks to Kit H. ejector crab

Diet is very important for all of us. Strenuous sports such as Crew add an extra dimension to diet planning. Eating properly is essential for good health. Some useful advice for rowers and parents bringing food to races can be found in this Training diet guide link. Staying healthy should be the first priority.

Crew first day on the water

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Crew after a week with the coaches

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Strokes thru' the ages

I know we have many alumni who go weepy eyed at the sight of an old wooden boat and cannot believe that the feather light modern oars can propel a boat at speed. Michael Callahan of the Universiy of Washington has written an interesting article comparing the stroke used in 1949 with that of today. To see this article Click here

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The 1949 boat merged with the 2009 boat

If all this exertion is too much for you and you would rather some very light training , then try simulated crew with this game for your family interesting board games.

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Parental Support

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In the Fall our duty as parents is to make supporting, understanding nods at the comments that crew is "awesome", "tough", "exhilarating" and of course pretend that we understand the new language. We must not comment on the new found appetites, tendency to dress in layers and almost complete immunity to the weather. In Spring the racing season offers a direct opportunity for parents to participate. Everyone is welcome and encouraged to attend the race meetings and yell "GO BLUE". The students really appreciate the loyal band of supporters to cheer them to victory. The races are exhilarating, exhausting and appetite creating and that is just for the supporters. Over the duration of the race meeting, the parents provide a hospitality table for our athletes to quench their thirst and quell their hunger after a hard race.

We can have up to 120 hungry students to feed. You would be amazed at the amount of food consumed. Our athletes are very serious about what they eat before and after a race. It appears they really listen to all the comments about healthy eating that you thought had fallen on deaf ears.
Check out what rowers should and should not eat and when
In Spring we publish a sample menu for the food table. Everyone can join in by bringing food or making a donation to purchase food.
Click here for the food menu for our race If your child has any special food requirements or preferences please have them inform us before the races and email andovercrew@andovercrew.net
To make every race a fun filled success we need loads of help from parent volunteers. Parents can bring food, organize the food table, take pictures, send twitter results and even write up rce day reports for the website. Every little bit of help makes the boats go faster.
Click here for Parent Information
Click here for the sign up sheet.Parent Volunteer Sign Up

The most important thing parents can do is provide encouragement and, if possible, come to support the students at Parents Weekend in the Fall and the races in the Spring. A crew program needs good equipment to be competitive. The Andover crew program has also benefited over the past 50 years from parent and alumni donations. Much of our equipment has been acquired with these donations. Hence the funny names on the boats -- "Pete and Jerry", Cashin. Lone Star and Coach Moss. When crews have won the right to attend the Henley Regatta in London, it has only been possible with the generous donations of parents and alumni to pay for a trip that will be remembered for a lifetime.

If you would like to be on our email list please email us at andovercrew@andovercrew.net.

Top 7 Reasons To Be A Crew Mom/Dad

1. Cooking lunch for the kids on the team is like cooking for a small village.
2. The people from the Child Abuse Prevention Center keep calling about the cuts and bruises on the backs of your child's legs.
3. Standing in the rain and mud on Saturdays in April is much better than relaxing at home.
4. What the hell is a unisuit?
5. Your kids haven't gone to bed this early since they were two years old.
6. You can personally keep Johnson and Johnson in business by buying Band-Aids, gauze, and Neosporin for all their blisters.
7. After all these years they finally eat everything on their plate.


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Spring Schedule

To live is to row, to row is to race, to race is to test the limits. NEIRA beckons.

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A Call to Oars:
Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more;
Then imitate the action of the tiger;
Stiffen the sinews, summon up the blood,
Disguise fair nature with hard-favour'd rage;
Now set the teeth and stretch the nostril wide,
Hold hard the breath and bend up every spirit
To the full height. On, on, you noblest rowers.
Whose limbs were made in New England show us here
The mettle of your pasture; let us swear
That you are worth your breeding; which I doubt not;
For there is none of you so mean and base,
That hath not noble lustre in your eyes.
I see you stand like greyhounds in the slips,
Straining upon the start. The game's afoot:
Follow your spirit, and upon this charge
Cry 'Go for myself, my family and Andover Crew!'
(Mostly from Henry V Act 3 Scene 1)
- Apologies to Will Shakespeare.

Preliminary Andover Spring Racing Schedule 2019 (Teams, times and boats may change)
Date Day Team Opponent Site Time
06-Apr-2019 Sat Boys B1-B3 Brookline and Salisbury Away 12.30 pm
06-Apr-2019 Sat Girls G1-G3 Brookline and Salisbury Away 12.30 pm
13-Apr-2019 Sat Boys B1-B4 Kent Away 12.00 pm
13-Apr-2019 Sat Girls G1-G4 Kent Away 12.00 pm
20-Apr-2019 Sat Boys B1-B? No Race scheduled TBD Home 1.00 pm
20-Apr-2019 Sat Girls G1-G? No Race scheduled TBD Home 1.00 pm
27-Apr-2019 Sat Boys B1-B6 Hingham, BCH & Boston Latin Home 1.00 pm
27-Apr-2019 Sat Girls G1-G6 Hingham, BCH & Boston Latin Home 1.00 pm
4-May-2019 Sat Boys B1-B5 St. Paul's & St. John's Prep Home3.00 pm
4-May-2019 Sat Girls G1-G5 St. Paul's & St. John's Pre Home 3.00 pm
11-May-2019 Sat Boys B1-B6 Tabor-Exeter Home 1.00 pm
11-May-2019 Sat Girls G1-G6 Tabor-Exeter Home 1.00 pm
18-May-2019 Sat Boys B4-B6 Hanover Away 12.00 pm
18-May-2019 Sat Girls G4-G6 Hanover Away12.00 pm
25-May-2019 Sat Boys B1-B3 Interscholastics (NEIRA) Away 8.00 am
25-May-2019 Sat Girls G1-G3 Interscholastics (NEIRA) Away 8.00 am
08-June-2019 Sat Alumni Reunion Row Home 7.00 am

The number of boats depends the other schools. The possible Post Season competition depends on Intershol results

For past years' results go to Row2k results and enter the year.

The times listed are approximate times for the first racing boat to go on the water. The teams and supporters arrive about an hour earlier to setup for the races.

GO BLUE!!

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Related links

We believe all of the links are working again. Please email us if you have any problems with the links or if you have a favorite link that you would like us to add to our list.


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AndoverCrew on YouTube

This is a list of Andovercrew videos on YouTube by various contribitors in no special order.

Oscar Tang: Andover Life
Abingdon-Andover Henley06
Ian Sigal -- Work Ethic
Ian Sigal -- Team Mates
Ian Sigal -- Goals
2011 NEIRA B1 Final
2011 NERIA G1 Final
2011 NERIA B3 Final
2011 National Championships
2011 National
2011 NEIRA G2 heat
2011 NEIRA B2
2011 NERIA G1 heat
2011 NEIRA G2 Final
2011 NEIRA B1 Heat
2011 NEIRA B2 Final
2010 NERIA Trophy presentation
2010 Interschols Luc goes swimming
2010 Interschols Girls G1
2007 Henley Women's Regatta

We have added video, thanks to Joe Bouscaren. They are on Youtube as well. Search Andover B1 Neira.
You can click on them to play if this is jumpy or slow then you can right click and download them to your computer and play.
They are MP4 format and can be viewed with a free player from www.divx.com.
Click on Interschols Race video B1
Click on Interschols Race video B2
Click on Interschols Race video B3
Click on Interschols Race video G1
Click on Interschols Race video G2
Click on Interschols Race video G3
Click on Row2k Article
Click on Andover Crew video with natural sound
Click on Andover Crew video with music

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Andover crew Hats - THE definitive fashion statement this Spring

We have re-ordered Andover Crew hats. Every rower and coach will get a free hat before Grandparents' Weekend. Over 130 hats. Additional hats have been purchased for parents, friends and alumni of Andover Crew. These hats are available for a donation of $20. Wear your hat when you visit the campus to show your support for the crew program. When we reach a 150 donations, we will have covered the cost of the hats for the rowers.
If you would like a hat please email andovercrew@andovercrew.net. We will email you donation instructions. The hats are lightweight with a built in sweat band.:

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Andover Crew Hat - front
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Andover Hat - back

We also have a small quantity of dark blue and light blue visors for $10.
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