ERG High­lights – 2012

Jan­u­ary.  We hosted Stan­ford Uni­ver­sity Women’s Light­weight team’s win­ter camp in Long Beach. Later in the Spring Stan­ford went on to repeat as Light­weight National champions.

Jan­u­ary — April.  We hosted and housed more than 20 ath­letes from sev­eral east coast clubs (pri­mar­ily Ves­per, Potomac and Union) in prepa­ra­tion for Olympics Trials.

April.  Our LBRA women’s light­weight double-​​scull of Sherri Kline and Rachel Stortvedt reached final of Olympics Tri­als, fin­ish­ing 6^th.

April.  LBRA men’s arms & shoul­ders single-​​sculler, Ron Har­vey won the Par­a­lympic Tri­als and qual­i­fied for the USA team for the Lon­don Games

April.  LBRA’s junior team com­pris­ing 4 scullers and a cox’n (Jas­mine & Jill McGill, Emily Louden­back, Mackenzi Sher­man and Madi­son Kerst) won sev­eral events includ­ing the Junior Points Tro­phy at the 2012 Cov­ered Bridge Regatta in Oregon.

May.  LBRA’s junior team of 4 scullers (Jas­mine & Jill McGill, Emily Louden­back and Mackenzi Sher­man) won three gold and one sil­ver medal in cham­pi­onship events (W1x, W2x, W4x & WL2x, respec­tively) at the ultra-​​competitive SW Junior Regional Championships.

June.  LBRA’s girls are national cham­pi­ons in the double-​​scull (Jill McGill & Mackenzi Sher­man) and fin­ished 4th in the quadruple-​​scull (Emily Louden­back and Jas­mine McGill together with the dou­ble) at Youth National Cham­pi­onships.  Jill and Mackenzi attended Junior National Team Selec­tion Camp.

July.  Rachel Stortvedt, LBRA women’s light­weight sin­gle sculler came 4th in World Cham­pi­onships Trials.

July.  Unfor­tu­nately LBRA’s Ste­sha Carle was the final ath­lete to be cut from US Olympic team.

August.  LBRA junior sculler Mackenzi Sher­man, row­ing with Olivia McClean achieved best-​​ever per­for­mance by a US women’s dou­ble, fin­ish­ing 6th at Junior World Championships.

August.  LBRA guest rower, Esther Lof­gren, won gold medal with US women’s eight at Olympic Games, Eton Dor­ney, England.

Sep­tem­ber.  LBRA’s Ron Har­vey, fin­ished 8th rep­re­sent­ing the US in Men’s AS1x, at Par­a­lympic Games at Eton Dor­ney, Eng­land.  Coach Ian Simp­son was Team Leader of US row­ing team at Main Par­a­lympic Vil­lage, Strat­ford, London.

Octo­ber.  Sherri Kik­las & Rachel Stortvedt win sil­ver medal, fin­ish­ing sec­ond in the Champ Dou­ble, at the Head of The Charles – ahead of the 2011 Cana­dian heavy­weight double.

ERG 2012/​13

Basic Weekly Sched­ule (Fall & Winter)

LSD = Long, Steady, Distance

Every­one sched­ule with Dan a min­i­mum of one RP3 ses­sion per week.

Your Com­mit­ment

Elites

• 12 — 14 Train­ing Ses­sions per week (to aver­age 800 – 1200′ /​ week)
• 120 km row­ing per week (average)
• 60,000 rep­e­ti­tions weight train­ing per year

Juniors

• 9 — 12 Train­ing Ses­sions per week (to aver­age 500 – 900′ /​ week)
• 90 km row­ing per week (average)

Weight train­ing: Ath­letes are expected to do two or three weight train­ing ses­sions each week. Core strength­en­ing should be done daily.

Stan­dards

• Erg:     Women 7:25 ltw; 7:10 open;     Men 6:25 ltw.; 6:10 open
• Water: Women 8:10 ltw.; 8:00 open;    Men 7:15 ltw.; 7:05 open

Com­pet­i­tive Goals

• One light­weight man and one light­weight woman to rank Top 4 in the coun­try by the end of Feb­ru­ary 2013
• Every junior rower reaches the A Final at Youth Nation­als (or equiv­a­lent), includ­ing a min­i­mum of one gold medal
• All adap­tive row­ers to medal at the World Championships

Costs

• $TBD per month

Train­ing 

• Coached Train­ing Ses­sions Tues­days, Thurs­days, Sat­ur­days and Sundays
• Lac­tate Test­ing: One Lac­tate Test per train­ing cycle to mea­sure per­for­mance progress
• Use of a Heart Rate Mon­i­tor is manda­tory for fall and win­ter train­ing. If you don’t have one, get one. If you have one, use it!
• Make sure you have a stroke meter or some other way of know­ing your stroke rate at all times
• Unless oth­er­wise instructed, every prac­tice begins with a 4,3,2,1 on the erg (18,20,22,24 spm); record total meters cov­ered in 10′. Other than this warm-​​up and for tests, all C2 erg­ing should be done on slides
• Be on time. Unless oth­er­wise instructed,  meet on the water at the Fin­ish Line at 7:00am sharp. We will not wait for late-​​comers (includ­ing coaches)
• Slower boats must start in front and stay ahead. Slow boats should turn ear­lier than the oth­ers and main­tain their posi­tion in front. Boats falling behind risk being waked by the coach boat
• In gen­eral, row through the far­thest line of buoys past the Fin­ish Line. Never turn in front of the bows of another boat, or any other ves­sel; rely­ing on another boat to stop before it hits you can be dangerous
• Keep major chan­nel buoys off your port-​​side blades; this includes in the back-​​channel as well as in the bay
• After prac­tice close the bay doors if you’re the last boat in the bay
• Put the slings away when you’re finished
• Hang tow­els to dry; don’t let them touch the ground, the grit will scratch our boats
• Com­plete the check-​​in book on the podium by the water foun­tains; espe­cially if you use a club boat, or if you are on the water alone
• Minors should be prop­erly super­vised by an adult at all times.

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March 2012

The new ERG tank tops and tee shirts have arrived.  They look great!  Quan­ti­ties are lim­ited, so place your order now!  Only $20 for each item.  Click on the links below to view pdf images of the designs.

ERG Tank design

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END OF FALL REVIEW OF THE LONG BEACH ERG — 2011

News

Coach Scott Charette and the fours, pairs and scullers of the UCLA men’s team joined us for prac­tice on Sat­ur­day Decem­ber 10 and stayed to com­pete at the next day’s Bay series race.  Many of the UCLA men rowed with us last sum­mer and we look for­ward to see­ing them again in 2012.

Big “thank you’s”  to Madi­son and Mackenzi’s par­ents, Ginny Kerst and Patti Sher­man, who pro­vided refresh­ments for the LBRA con­tin­gent at NARF and again at the Christ­mas regatta.

Madi­son orga­nized a coxed octu­ple scull that rep­re­sented LBRA in the Naples Boat Parade on the night of Sat­ur­day 17th. December.

Sev­eral mem­bers of the group recently returned from the 2nd Annual ERG Ski & Abs Camp in Park City Utah.

We will host the Stan­ford Uni­ver­sity Women’s Light­weight team when Coach Al Acosta brings the reign­ing two-​​time national cham­pi­ons to LBRA for their win­ter camp in the new year.   Expect to see a cou­ple of Car­di­nal eights and a four around the boathouse Wednes­day Jan­u­ary 4 through Sat­ur­day Jan­u­ary 7th.

Jas­mine McGill, Jill McGill and Mackenzi Sher­man have been invited to attend the Junior National Team High Per­for­mance Sculling Camp to be held in Oak­land, Jan­u­ary 6 – 8.  Along with other top scullers from around the coun­try they will do a 2k erg test, a 6k erg test and a 2k time trial in sin­gles and do some row­ing in dou­bles.  This is the first step towards selec­tion for the 2012 Junior National Team.

Sherri, Rachel and Lissa (and Emily and the Undine/​Potomac con­tin­gent) are train­ing to com­pete in the two National Selec­tion Regat­tas to be held in Chula Vista March 15 — 17 and April 9 — 12.

New Faces

Lissa Kraw­czyk is the first of the Potomac row­ers to join us this win­ter.  She is stay­ing with her grand­mother in PV while she recov­ers from injuries suf­fered in a cycling acci­dent soon after she com­peted in Pan Am Tri­als this past sum­mer.  The addi­tion of Lissa to the team gives us 3 out of the 4 final­ists in the 2011 Pan Am Tri­als WL1x .

Ron Har­vey has joined ERG  as he embarks on his jour­ney towards return­ing to the podium at the 2012 Lon­don Par­a­lympic Games next August.

Join­ing us for the Win­ter break

Ste­sha Carle — Sil­ver medal W4x 2011 World Cham­pi­onships.  Train­ing for Lon­don 2012 Olympic Games with women’s national team based in New Jersey.

Scott Charette — Head coach, UCLA men’s team.

Meryl Engler - Rows at Syra­cuse U. coached by Justin Moore.

Roberto Goros­tiza — Rows at UC San Diego.

Heather Har­g­reaves — Rows at UC Berke­ley under coach Dave O’Neill.  For­mer mem­ber LBJC.

Esther Lof­gren — World Cham­pion W8+ 2011.  Train­ing for Lon­don 2012 Olympic Games with women’s national team based in New Jersey.

Liz Trond — Coach Con­necti­cut Row­ing Club junior women.  Head coach US Women’s Junior National Team (sweep).

Alex Twist — Light­weight sculler and assis­tant coach at the Seat­tle Row­ing Cen­ter.

Brea Wiley - Rows at UC Berke­ley under coach Dave O’Neill.  For­mer mem­ber LBJC.  Rowed for LBRA 2011 Cana­dian Henley.

Join­ing us in January

Emily Dries­si­gacker - rowed at Dart­mouth U.  4th place W4x 2010 U-​​23 World Cham­pi­onships.  Train­ing for selec­tion to Lon­don 2012 Olympic Games. Emily should be here with her mother later this week.  I am cur­rently final­iz­ing hous­ing for Emily.

Potomac BC - Coach Reilly Dampeer brings two men’s and 2 women’s dou­bles to join us as they pre­pare to com­pete in the Olympic selec­tion regattas.

We will also be joined by a light­weight men’s dou­ble and a women’s dou­ble from the Undine Barge Club in Philadel­phia — both these boats are com­prised of cur­rent and for­mer mem­bers of the US national team.  Another Undine rower, Kate McFetridge (a for­mer USC rower) has con­tacted me and may soon be join­ing us too.  Kate recently fin­ished 7th. in the Cham­pi­onship Sin­gle at the Head of The Charles.

Cur­rent Ath­lete Roster — regulars

Der­rick Diego — Light­weight, rowed at UC Irvine under coach Scott Charette.  Train­ing for Club Nationals/​Canadian Henley/​U-​​23s.

Ron Har­vey - 4th place A1x 2011 World Cham­pi­onships.  Train­ing for Lon­don 2012 Par­a­lympic Games.

Madi­son Kerst — Coxswain and coaches’ assis­tant.  For­mer LBJC var­sity coxswain.  Train­ing for selec­tion to 2012 JNT.  Junior at LB Poly HS.  

Sherri Kline — Light­weight.  World Cham­pion 1999WL4x.  2nd. place WL1x 2011 Pan Am Tri­als.  Train­ing for selec­tion to Lon­don 2012 Olympic Games.

Lissa  Kraw­czyk  - Light­weight.  2nd. place WL1x 2011 Pan Am Tri­als.  Train­ing for selec­tion to Lon­don 2012 Olympic Games.

Dan McGill — Coach.

Jas­mine McGill — Sil­ver medal WL2x 2011 Youth National Cham­pi­onships, sil­ver medal WJ2x Club Nation­als.  Recruited to row next year at Tulsa U.

Jill McGill — Sil­ver medal WL2x 2011 Youth National Cham­pi­onships, sil­ver medal WJ2x Club Nation­als.  2nd J1x Head of Charles.  High school freshman.

Guillermo Ordones — Light­weight.  Learned to row in his native Chile.  Train­ing for Club Nationals.

Laura Pomatto — Light­weight.  Recently grad­u­ated from USC.  Won 4+ 2011 San Diego Crew Clas­sic.  Train­ing for Club Nationals/​Canadian Henley.

Mackenzi Sher­man — 4th. place W4x 2011 World Junior Cham­pi­onships.  Train­ing for 2012 World Junior Cham­pi­onships.  Recruited to row at LMU next year.

Ian Simp­son — Coach.

Nic Smith — Light­weight.  Rowed at UCLA for Scott Charette.   Attended 2011 Penn AC U-​​23 Camp.  Train­ing for Club Nationals/​Canadian Henley/​U-​​23s.

Rachel Stortvedt — Light­weight.  Rowed at UC Irvine.   4th. place WL1x 2011 Pan Am Tri­als.  Train­ing for selec­tion to Lon­don 2012 Olympic Games.

Michelle Voelker — Since row­ing with coach Steve Guentz at CSULB, Michelle has been a com­pet­i­tive triath­letes, par­tic­i­pat­ing in sev­eral iron­man competitions.

Will Young — Rowed at UCLA.  Also stud­ied at Carnegie — Mel­lon.  Train­ing for Club Nationals/​Canadian Henley/​U-​​23s.

Cur­rent Ath­lete Ros­ter — Affil­i­ated Masters

Helen Fryk­man

Tom Whin­frey

Fritz Theyer

Rob Glid­den

Mon­ica Downer

Kim Bishop

Mary Per­rot

Bill Bater

Fall Rac­ing High­lights (ERG reg­u­lars results)

Head of The Charles Oct. 22 & 23

WClub 1x — 12th.  Jill McGill

WClub 1x -  15th.  Jas­mine McGill

WChamp 2x — 6th.  Rachel Stortvedt & Sherri Kline

WChamp 1x — 25th.  Mackenzi Sherman

Head of The Amer­i­can Oct. 29  (Five wins)

WHS2x — 1st.  Jas­mine & Jill McGill

ML1x — 1st.  Der­rick Diego

M2x — 1st.  Will Young & Guillermo Ordones

WL1x — 1st.  Jas­mine McGill

WHS1x — 1st.  Jill McGill

Newport Autumn Row­ing Fes­ti­val Nov. 6  (Five wins)

M1x — 3rd.  Nic Smith

ML1x — 2nd.  Der­rick Diego

W1x — 1st.  Sherri Kline

WL1x — 1st.  Rachel Stortvedt

WL1x -  3rd.  Laura Pomatto

WJ1x — 1st.  Mackenzi Sherman

WJ1x - 3rd.  Jas­mine McGill

WJ1x -  4th.  Jill McGill

M2x — 1st.  Nic Smith & Grif­fin Lowe

W2x — 1st.  Sherri Kline & Rachel Stortvedt

W2x - 2nd.  Jas­mine & Jill McGill

Christ­mas Regatta Dec. 4 (Ten wins)

WL1x — 1st.  Jas­mine McGill

WJ1xA — 1st.  Jill McGill

WJ1xB — 1st.  Mackenzi Sherman

WJ1xC — 1st  Sara Clark  (LBRA sum­mer racer)

MM1x — 1st.  Bill Bater

MML1x — 1st.  Rob Glidden

WJ4x — 1st.  Jas­mine McGill, Madi­son Kerst, Mackenzi Sher­man, Jill McGill

MM2 –  — 1st.  Fritz Theyer & Rob Glidden

W2x — 1st.  Laura Pomatto & Mackenzi Sherman

M2x — 2nd.  Will Young & Guillermo Ordones

WJ2x — 1st.  Jas­mine & Jill McGill

Mx2x — 1st.  Dan & Jill McGill

Mx2x -  2nd.  Der­rick Diego & Andrea Arriola

Mx2x - 3rd.  Mackenzi Sher­man & Will Young

Mx2x - 4th.  Laura Pomatto & Guillermo Ordones

Mx2x - 5th.  Jas­mine McGill & Bill Bater

Bay Series Dec. 11 — Rel­a­tive posi­tion vs. world’s best time for boat-​​class

1.  WL2x  Sherri & Rachel

2.  WJ1x  Mackenzi

3.  MA1x  Ron Harvey

4.  WJ1x  Jasmine

5.  WJ1x Jill

9.  WL1x Lissa

11. M1x Nic

13. M2x  Roberto & Derrick

14. WL1x Laura

16. M2x  Will & Guillermo

USRow­ing Train­ing Cen­ter Partner

The Elite Row­ing Group has been accepted as a USRow­ing Train­ing Cen­ter Part­ner Pro­gram.  This pro­vides a great oppor­tu­nity to return Long Beach to the posi­tion of national and inter­na­tional promi­nence it once held.

Group train­ing 6:30am every Tues­day, Thurs­day, Sat­ur­day, Sunday 

Indi­vid­ual tech­nique ses­sions 6:30am every Mon­day, Wednes­day, Friday