Friday September 26, 2008

News

• A sincere thank you to our 60 volunteers who made the GMS REGATTA AND SPRINT a wonderful day. We had 165 entries, great food from Bull’s Bridge, perfect weather and a course record set by our own Mike Sivigny, complete results @ www.regattacentral.com.
• Sue McKellop & Bill Hopewell took regatta photos that can be seen on GMS Facebook (found on our home web page www.gmsrowingcenter.us) or http://picasaweb.google.com/gmsjuniors/2008GMSRegattaVolunteers#
• Save the Date: GMS Banquet November 21st -- details to come.
• Yuri regretfully has moved on but stayed to help with the regatta. We have enjoyed and benefited from his coaching and wish him every success.
• Special Coaching sessions: On Saturday Oct 4th, Tuesday Oct 7th, and Thurs Oct 9th, Rolf Hollmann, a current German National Team coach is available to take private lessons. Email gmsrowingcenter@sbcglobal.net to request a lesson time.
• High Performance Sculling Camp: (HPS)
  2009 HPS group will take place from March to August with the goal of qualifying boats for the U23 and Senior World Championships. There will be commitment of 12-14 Training Sessions/week averaging 800-1200 minutes; It will begin with a two week training camp in March. Details to be posted on website soon.
• Please make sure to secure the barn doors
• If you are the last one off the water, check the log book, turn lights off and lock up, closing all doors and putting slings away— This is especially important if you are last off the water at night….

• Lactate Testing: fall racing is here! tweak your heart rate training ranges to maximize your training. Call Guenter to make an appointment or call the office. GMS PTP (Personal Training Program) coupled with lactate testing has proven results.

Programs

Fall coaching:

Juniors and Cadets:

• Guenter has taken over Junior men’s competitive program and will be supported by Scott Killin. Rolf Hollman will be helping from Oct 2nd-Oct 10th.
• Junior LTR – Cadets - Linda Leaden coach.
• Masters- Guenter will be coaching a Masters group on Wednesday mornings from 7AM-8:30AM from October1 through November 5th; and Saturday session from 7AM -8:30AM from September 27th through November 1st. Please email and let us know if you will be attending.

Winter coaching:

• Junior – Guenter supported by Scott.
• Masters- Guenter
• Fitness and Conditioning: Linda Leaden

Spring coaching:

An additional coach will be hired to support the Junior and Master program

Parent’s corner:

We will be racing on the following dates.

Oct. 5- Head of the Riverfront-Hartford CT

Oct. 12- Head of the CT- Middletown CT *** please note that we are NOT going to Head of the Housatonic. They closed entry deadline a week early.

Oct. 24 & 25-Head of the Fish –Saratoga, NY. Overnight, the rowers will be traveling to and from the race on a bus together. if parents would like to travel We will be making hotel arrangements as well. There will be extra rooms for the parents.

Please let us know if you are willing to head up the regatta food tent. We would like 2 head parents for each regatta... This would involve overseeing the food tent along with other volunteers and helping organize the food list prior to the regatta. Kathy Connery will assist with the food list. Additional volunteers are also needed to help set up, serve and clean up. Please email us and let us know your availability.

(forward from Sue McKellop)
Linda-

Please pass the word to the parents of GMS Junior Rowers, that I have set up an account we can all use to share our photos from the various regattas. I will set up a separate photo album for each event. Parents can email me photos at gmsjuniors@gmail.com and I will upload them to the album. Once we have enough pictures, GMS can distribute them to all the families.

So if anyone has good pictures from this year's GMS Regatta, please send them my way! To start, here is the link to some photos of the many volunteers who helped out.

http://picasaweb.google.com/gmsjuniors/2008GMSRegattaVolunteers#

Go GMS!

Sue McKellop (Mairi's mom)

P.S. If anyone wants to upload pictures themselves, contact me and I can give you the details on how to do it.

Your support and help is greatly appreciated.

• Parents: remember that introducing a new Junior member entitles you to claim a one-time reduction for each student who joins