NEWS

2010 Spring Sports Team MVPs & Coaches Awards

Crew – Boys – Benjamin Meyer, Jefferson Barger

Crew – Girls – Julia Bolger, Emily Hrin

West Potomac High School 2010 Spring Scholar Athlete Award Winners

(Athletes who have a GPA of 3.5or higher during the 3rd quarter grading period).

Varsity Boys Crew: Jefferson Barger, Matthew Bird, Zachary Crews, Matthew Jackson, Louis Michael & Benjamin Meyer JV Boys Crew: Matthew Taylor, Albert Waters & Jack Wilson Freshman Boys Crew: Daniel Berkon, George Bowerfind, Ripley Carroll, Robert Norville, Anthony Tran & Matthew Watson

Varsity Girls Crew: Julia Bolger, Jane Edwards, Christine Gannon, Emily Hrin, Anna Leonard, Cathryn Liebeck, Rachel Martin, Nelson McKeown, Karen Munyan, Anna Soyka & Madeline Stevens JV Girls Crew: Savannah Bishop, Kira Calvaresi, Hannah Gwartney, Laura Jacobs & Madeleine Little Freshman Girls Crew: Keiko Davenport

Men win at State Championship

At the wind delayed VSRC Regatta Virginia Scholastic Rowing Championship held on the 22nd of May; The West Potomac Men’s 4 rowed to first place in the Petite Finals with a time of 5:02.9. Congratulations to the crew of the Jeffery Dietze!

The Crew of the Urban Legend placed well enough at the Rowing Championships held at the Occoquan Reservoir that they qualified to go on to SRAA Regatta (Nationals) May 28 – 29 at Saratoga, NY.

Congratulations to Connor Tufford, Graham Dickerson, Matt Jackson, Chris Castiglioni and the Coxswain Mischa Michael of the Urban Legend!

Wepo Crew Member featured in the Post!

Read - Rowing Against the Current from the Thursday, May 13, 2010 edition of the Washington Post. Maryam Ali - Member of the this year's West Potomac High School Crew Team is featured in this article!

Write to Row (W2R) deadline was April 20th

Details to be released soon.

"Write to Row" Fundraising Campaign is designed to raise money for the WePo Crew Team and build public support for our sport. Donations by participating families, friends, neighbors and contributions from business in our community will continue to help the crew team and the fundraising efforts. West Potomac Crew Boosters, Inc. is a 501 (c) (3) organization; donations are tax deductable.

Coaches working in the summer

Coach Ridley will be the Director of the Patriot Rowing Camp. Congrats Coach Lauren!!! To find out more information please go to their website at patriotrowingcamp.weebly.com

Coach Lauren to UM

Coach Lauren will pursue a Master's degree in Sports Administration the University of Miami. Lauren is a long time rower both in high school and college and is currently a student at GMU.

Dues Policy: See Link on the left

Thanks to June Soriente and Jennifer Rector for setting up the Monthly restaurant fundraisers!!!

Upcoming Events:

Tuesday, July,27 Shane's Restaurant Fundraiser
Wednesday July 28th, 2010 – 6:00 PM PUBLIC MEETING
Location: Mt Vernon Governmental Center in Supervisor Hyland’s Conference Room (at 2511 Parkers Lane near the Mount Vernon Hospital and Sherwood Hall Library, across Parkers Lane from Walt Middle Whitman School)

2011 Team Elections:

President: Julia Bolger
Senior Boys Captain: Matt Bird
Senior Girls Captain: Anna Leonard
Junior Boys Captain: Jeff Barger
Junior Girls Captain: Catie Liebeck

Out Going 2009-2010 Board of Directors

President: Dan Meyer
Secretary: Sean Jackson
Treasurer: Ellen Meyer
VP Operations: Mike Stilwell
VP for Ways and Means: Carolyn Liebeck
VP for Administration: David Bird
Member at Large: Shirlyn Barger

In Coming 2010-2011 Board of Directors

President: Peter Mayer
Secretary: Sean Jackson
Treasurer: Shirlyn Barger
VP Operations: Mike Stilwell
VP for Ways and Means: Carolyn Liebeck
VP for Administration: Sheila Stevens
Member at Large: Becky Monnot

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