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Notes on navigating the website:
As an example: Move your mouse over the headings on the top blue/purple line and a drop down menu will appear to show the selections available.
Under "Parent" you will see the "Food Selection", move the mouse over it and left click to get to the food selection menu page.
Some of us still use ink and paper while others use Android 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 Facebook group (800+ members), our Twitter feed (250+ members)
and our LinkedIn group (250+ members). You can also sign-up for our
newsletter by contacting us at andovercrew@andovercrew.com.
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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Quick Update:
We have posted pictures from the Fall on the Merrimack.
Some of the newbies have never been in a boat before, almost all of them have not rowed before. Now they are on their way to becoming Andover Crew racers. They have
to learn to synchronize with their teammates to make one boat that rows together. They will be tougher, stronger and fitter by the end of the season. They leave
school on a bus immediately after classes and return just in time to catch food together at commons. They are morphing into crazy rowers but check out the smiles.
Fall Rowing page 1
Fall Rowing page 2
When: Friday - October 25th meeting 3.30pm to 4.45 pm.
Who: Everyone
Where: William Brown Boathouse, 620 Lowell Street, Methuen.
Draft Schedule
3.30: Coffee and snacks
3.45: Tours of the boathouse and docks
4.45: end of day
We will not be rowing because the river has been lowered, this week, to facilitate construction work on the Lawrence Dam.
Currently the weather is forecast to be
Sunny:
Temperature: 61.
UV index: 3.
Humidity: 68%.
Wind: WNW 7 mph.
Rain: 2%.
In New England weather forecasts are usually not to be trusted.
Thanks
See you by the river! Go Blue!
We want everyone to have a safe weekend. The image below shows designated areas at the boathouse.
1. Blue - Parking area.
2. Red - Open
3. Pink - Open
4. Orange - Open
 Andover Boathouse |
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Where: William Brown Boathouse, 620 Lowell Street, Methuen, MA
 William H. Brown Boathouse |
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Following are the directions to the William Brown boathouse from the I-93:
The I-93 road works are now complete so we have new directions.
1. 620 Lowell Street, Methuen.(Use this address for your GPS.)
2. Take I-93 North or South to Exit 46 (Route 110/Route 113 toward Lawrence/Dracut)
3. From I-93 North Follow the exit 46B ramp to join Route 110/Route 113.
4. Move over to the far left after joining route 113.
5. Turn left at the traffic lights to Lowell Street/Route 110.
6. From I-93 South stay to the left on the exit 46 ramp. Go straight across at the traffic lights to Lowell Street/Route 110.
7. On Lowell Street/Route 110 Drive straight through the first light and continue on for 1.3 miles.
8. The boathouse is located on the left.
9. Please be careful to indicate early to turn into the boathouse so that people behind you know you are going to stop.
10.Please do not block the long spaces on the sides of the boathouse as these are reserved for school buses and boat trailers.
For a map please go to Click here for map of Boathouse:
Boathouse Map
Go Blue!
Nature created rivers without special attention to the needs of boat races. The Mighty Merrimack is a wide, deep, fast flowing river with bends.
Our coaching staff have invested extensive time to create a racecourse that is as fair as possible to each of up to 4 lanes. The course includes a 17 degree
turn that is marked by buoys.
The resulting finish line is at an angle to the riverbank by the boathouse.
The only person capable of deciding who crosses the finish line first is the finish line judge with a vertical viewing wire on the boathouse bank lined
up with a sighting pole on the opposite bank. Bribery is not permitted. :-)
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Rowing is a team sport. There is no concept of MVP. It is all about the boat and the greater team. The top G1 and B1 boats are made faster by all the rowers below pushing them to justify their places in the top boats. When any boat captures gold at Interschols they are representing the whole team.
Coaches start out with their best guess at boat groupings. They observe the melding of the crew. They make changes to improve the speed. Eventually they may “seat race” the last couple of places in a boat. This means swapping rowers in and out of the boat to see who can make the difference. Spring racing is serious, there is no room for personal preference. Only boat speed matters.
The same philosophy applies to coxswains although it is a little more difficult for the casual observer to see and understand. The first requirement of a coxswain is boat safety. The first racing requirement is to steer well in all circumstances. This is not as simple as it sounds. A 60 ft. shallow draught boat is wobbled by unbalanced rowers, pulled off course by currents and blown off course by winds. A long thin boat reacts slowly to steering corrections. A good coxswain looks ahead to sense currents and winds to ensure the best true line to the finish. There is always a race plan but the opposition sometimes has other ideas so a good coxswain has to modify the race plan on the fly. So in one of these serious spring races, the coxswain is steering, calling the rowing rate, watching for changes ahead, telling the boat their position in the race and trying to urge them on with calls that connect with their deep down inner strength. There needs to be a bond of trust between the rowers and the coxswain. All of our Andover coxswains are brilliant. On the water only the coach and crew can tell which coxswain fits best with each boat.
As we work through the spring the top boats are usually stable but the lower boats are changed around from week to week as rowing skills improve. Coxswains in the lower boats are also swapped around to try and share the racing experience. The goal of the season is to create top boats that win medals at Interschols and beyond and lower boats that acquire the racing skills to move up in the coming years.
The kids work very, very hard every day on the Merrimack in rain, hail and even snow. Hours of freezing cold, painful muscles and nasty looking hand blisters. All for a race that last about 6 minutes. That is 6 minutes of extreme effort and pain with glory or failure at the end.
So what can parents do? Provide support and encouragement. Share your amazement at their efforts and if you live within traveling distance you can come to the races to yell “Go Blue!” Everyone is very welcome at all the races. The rowers might not always express it very well but they really do appreciate supporters on the river bank. Of course we guarantee bright sunshine for every race.
Races at home and away are almost full day events. The rowers have to eat very carefully before the races and are always ravenous afterwards. The parents organize a food table for the rowers so that each boat can eat as soon as they have stowed their racing shell after the race. We will have a group of volunteers to organize and run the food tables at the races. We will have a number of other volunteer tasks.
We will publish directions to the away boathouses.
See full Draft Spring Schedule
To help understand the strange world and words of Crew we recommend the following links.
All the new words, there will be a test
How to row but you are not allowed to use this to critique
Different types of boats and rigging
What rowers eat
Given that many races are decided by 0.2 seconds it might be good to listen to a video created by the Canadian team with a speech from a movie.
Please forgive the swear words.
If the Inches video has raised your blood pressure than you can be calmed by this video made by Oscar Tang'56 on his retirement as President of the Board of Trustees.
An Andover Life - Andover Crew- Oscar Tang '56
© 2019 Phillips Academy
Fall 2024 News
This coming weekend is the Head of the Charles Regatta
For live video feed and race results please go to Head of the Charles Regatta
There will be 5 boats racing under the name of Andover Crew or Phillips acadaemy. If other Friends of Andover crew are racing, please email andovercrew@andovercrew.com and we will post it on facebook and on this page.
The races are:
Women's Youth Eights boat # 79 Sun 9:02 am
Phillips Academy Andover (A)
G. Cardinale/M. Lehman/L. Shmuylovich/M. Rogers/A. Rodeheffer/A. Elliott/A. Erickson/C. Romano/S. Older (Cox)
Men's Youth Eights boat #81 Sun 11:13 am
Phillips Academy Andover (A)
M. Panda/D. Lasso/H. Sastre/C. Rutkoske/A. Myers/W. Trainor/C. Domina/N. Kramer/C. Cho (Cox)
Directors' Challenge Parent/Child Doubles boat #40 3:34 pm
Phillips Academy Andover
C. Hurley/Coach D. Hurley
The alumni boats are:
Men's Senior Master Eights [50+] #33 Sat 9.08 am
Friends of Phillips Academy (A)
C. Morse/B. Pay/P. Devulapalli/W. Maushardt/D. Lippold/S. Brownlee/J. Pawlowski/S. Sias/C. Craft (Cox)
Men's Grand Master Fours [60+] #21 Sat 10.08 am
Friends of Phillips Academy (A)
M. Atkeson/C. Mckay/J. Rafner/F. Hathaway/S. McKay (Cox)
After trolling through Regatta Central here is my best guess at Friends of Andover Crew racing in the HoCR. UPDATED WITH RESULTS. WELL DONE EVERYONE! Special note on
Saturday for Travis Metz and Taylor Washburn for winning medals. And an extra special note for Sunday for Mia Levy, Nate Bechard, and especially Dale and Cooper Hurley
for medal results. With our students and alumni racing the HoCR we had Andover Crew rowers spanning more than 60 years of age difference on the river this weekend.
Our Alum speed record for the day goes to Nate Bechard '23 with the Cornell Lwts at 14.18.
Best Guess list of everyone!
Event DayTime Who Boat Club
15 Men's Master 8 50+ Sat 9.08 Travis Metz #1 Ex Nemo| 2nd 15.24
15 Men's Master 8 50+ Sat 9.08 Evan Panich #28 Brown alum| 9th 16.42
15 Men's master 8 50+ Sat 9.08 Andy Finch #33 DeWolfe RC| 27th 18.07
15 Men's master 8 50+ Sat 9.08 David Lippold #22 Friends of PA| 33rd 19.20
16 Men's master 60+ Sat 9.19 John Chatzky #4 1980 RC| 7th 17.07
17 Women's Master * 50+Sat 9.32 Jen Bauer #20 Greater Lawrence RC| 30th 20.35
17 Women’s 8 50+ Sat 9.32 Ellen Minzner #13 Old Glory BC|19th 19.30
17 Women’s 8 50+ Sat 9.32 Janet Conklin #13 See above.
20 Men's master 4 60+ Sat 10.07 ??? #18 Friends of PA| 20th 22.47
22 Women's 4 60+ - Sat 10.32 Martha Beattie - #16 – Upper valley| 19th 24.06
23 Men’s Alum 8 Sat 10.51 Sam Boshar #24 MIT grad| 25 35th 16.33
23 Men's Alum 8 Sat 10.51 Jacob Hudgins #3 Ever Green BC| 10th 15.09
23 Men's Alum 8 Sat 10.51 Logan Jasper #10 Purple calf BC| 14th15.23
23 Men's Alum 8 Sat 10.51 Aaron Finder #10 Purple calf BC| 14th15.23
29 Men's Master 8 30+ Sat 12.14 Taylor Washburn #3 Old Glory BC|3rd 15.27
34 Women’s club 8 Sat 1.32 Brook Birdsall #7 MIT|15th17.21
50 Women’s Youth 8 Sun 9.02 List #79 Andover Crew| 64th 18.52
55Men’s Youth 8 Sun 11.13 List #81 Andover Crew| 71st 15.56
63 Dir women's Quad. Sun 1.27 Alison Smith Lord #35 Martha's Mums| 22nd 21.51
65 Men's Lwt 8 Sun 2.02 Nate Bechard #3 Cornell Lwt| 2nd 14.18
67 Women's Champ 8 Sun 2.25 Mia Levy #6 Yale| 2nd 15.33
67 Women's Champ 8 Sun 2.25 Sofia Garcia #14 Yale| 14th 16.08
72 Dir Chal Sun 3.34 Dale& Cooper Hurley #40 Andover Crew3| 3rd!! 18.14
If I have missed anyone please post it on our Facebook group or email andovercrew@andovercrew.com
Older News:
 Season 2024 |
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Our season is almost over. Our Lower boats had a great season of racing and they have pushed the tops boats to faster and faster every week. The students attending Interschols are racing for the whole team.
Here are my best efforts at a list of Andover Crew Alums racing for colleges at the end of this season. Please email andovercrew@andovercrew.com with any
corrections or additions. GOOD LUCK for the season!!
Boston U: Seamus Dalmann, Wynant Hubbard, Columbia: Sebastian Frankel, Dartmouth: Jacob Hudgins, Adin McAuliffe, MIT: Brook Birdsall, Emily Warren,
Navy: Adres Aleman Northeastern: Penn: Giselle Jones-Mollod, Stanford: Hannah Justicz, Resse DiBaise, Willaims: Vaughn Sanders, Isabel Mikheev,
Yale: Sofia Garcia, Mia Levy,
We are still updating this website with the pictures and videos from the season. Race videos are still available on Facebook but will also be posted here for posterity. If anyone has pictures or videos they would like posted please email andovercrew@andovercrew.com. A big thank to Luke who have been our main photographer this year while we did the videos.
In the cold wind and rain today Andover Crew faced the first challenge of the Spring season and did us proud. B1 and B3 won their races and the other boats laid down efforts that gave great hops for the future.
We have posted some pictures and videos of the racing on the water today. Click here to jump to Spring 2024 pictures and videos.The videos can also be viewed in the Facebook group Friends of Andover Crew
The Spring schedule also contains a link to the official race results and times.
Book your calendar now for the Saturdays of Spring. Come hail, rain, or snow, we will be racing.
Spring Schedule 2024
Here are our best efforts at a list of Andover Crew Alums racing for colleges this spring. Please email andovercrew@andovercrew.com with any corrections or additions. If you are lucky enough to attend a regatta with these athletes, wish them well. GOOD LUCK for the season!!
Boston U: Seamus Dalmann, Kylie Lough, Dartmouth: Jacob Hudgins, Adin McAuliffe, MIT: Kevin Guo, Emelie Eldracher, Emily Warren, Sam Boshar, Rick Ono, Navy: Alexander Grande, Northeastern: Adya Chatterjee, Penn: Giselle Jones-Mollod, Stanford: Hannah Justicz, University of Michigan: Kennedy Nduaye, UVA: Janet Conklin, Willaims: Vaughn Sanders, Isabel Mikheev, Yale: Rudd Fawcett, Sofia Garcia, Mia Levy, Clarisa Merkatz,
To live is to row, to row is to race, to race is to test the limits. NEIRA beckons.
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 2024 (Teams, times and boats may change) Date Day Team Opponent Site Time 6-April-2024 Sat Boys B1-B3 Salisbury & Deerfield Home Results 6-April-2024 Sat Girls None Race Practice Home Done 13-April-2024 Sat Boys B1-B5 Kent Home Results 13-April-2024 Sat Girls G1-G5 Kent Home Results 20-April-2024 Sat Boys B1-B6 BC High & St. John's Prep Home Results 20-April-2024 Sat Girls G1-G5 CRI & Deerfield Home Results 27-April-2024 Sat Boys B1-B4 Hanover & Bedford Home Results 27-April-2024 Sat Girls G1-G4 Hanover & Bedford Home Results 4-May-2024 Sat Boys B1-B5 St. Paul's Away Results 4-May-2024 Sat Girls G1-G4 St. Paul's Away Results 11-May-2024 Sat Boys B1-B5 Exeter & Tabor Home Results 11-May-2024 Sat Girls G1-G4 Exeter & Tabor Home Results 18-May-2024 Sat Boys B1-B3 No Race Home 18-May-2024 Sat Girls G1-G3 No Race Home 25-May-2024 Sat Boys B1-B3 NEIRA Away 7.30 am 25-May-2024 Sat Girls G1-G3 NEIRA Away 7.30 am 8-June-2024 Sat Alumni Reunion Come on down Home 7.00 am
The number of boats depends the other schools.For past years' results go to Row2k results and enter the year.
The times listed are approximate times for the athletes to join their boat for race preparation..
GO BLUE!!
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After four long years of rowing with a purpose, today the seniors have the freedom to mess around on the Mighty Merrimack. Some try a single other in mixed eights. The coxswains row and the rowers cox. When they land they 'walk' up through an arch of oars as a final thank you for all the spirit of team. And then one last final enthusiastic leap into the Mighty Merrimack. Some may go on to row in the Olympics, others may never row again but they all will take away amazing memories of the bonds they built with their fellow crazy boatmates. This is also the day we take the launches out of the river, clean tehm and store them for the summer.
Please click buttons for the pictures.
Senior Walk page 1
Senior Walk page 2
Senior Walk page 3
You can download the images for personal use by rightclicking. If anyone wants a high resolution copy of any image please email andovercrew@andovercrew.com
Please click for the videos.
Senior Walk 2024
Another great day of racing. The weather was soft and the river Gods were happy so we had calm water and mild wind. We raced 6 boats of boys and girls. Andover did very well prompting our brave coxswains to agree to the time honored custom of throwing the coxswain into the Mighty Merrimack. Some of the rowers joined in. It should be noted that at this time of the season, air temperature is not a good guide water temperature.
If any parent would like to share their photographs on this site, please email andovercrew@andovercrew.com and together we will make it happen.
You can download the images for personal use by rightclicking. If anyone wants a high resolution copy of any image please email andovercrew@andovercrew.com
 Race face |
 Pulling ahead |
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 A happy Washburn |
 The reward of victory |
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Hanover High and Bedford High races page 1
Hanover High and Bedford High races page 2
Hanover High and Bedford High races page 3
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G1 Hanover & Bedford race
G2 Hanover & Bedford race
G3 Hanover & Bedford race
G4 Hanover & Bedford race
G6 Hanover & Bedford race
B1 Hanover & Bedford race
B2 Hanover & Bedford race
B4 Hanover & Bedford race
B5 Hanover & Bedford race
B6 Hanover & Bedford race
Our Parking area was full with four visiting schools. We definitely need more Andover supporters to shout at the finish. Everyone is welcome. Come on down. We had a great day of racing.
The weather was grey and calm. The current was fast. Spring racing is a preparation for Interschols or New England Interscholastic Rowing Association competition at the end of May.
In rowing there are no MVPs. No rowers in a boat can reach the finish line faster than the rest of the boat. Strength and stamina matter, but without coordination with the other boatmates essential.
There is competition for boat places. The only criteria for being in a seat is being able to make the boat go faster. The more a 6th boat improves, the more a 5th boat needs to improve to hold a place.
All the way up the B1 ad G1. When we finally send 6 boats to NEIRA they will carried by all the effort of all the rowers on the team. Every win and every loss of every boat is the responsibility
of the whole team. And so we need to improve every week to peak at NEIRAs.
This week we had some wins and some losses. Rowing is a tough sport. It is not for the weak of body or spirit. All the hours of effort on the water in all weathers comes down to a race of about
300 seconds. In the G2 race, after racing for 312.1 seconds, G2 was on 0.6 of a second behind the winner. To beat Deerfield at NEIRA we have to improve only 0.2% more than Deerfield will improve.
We are improving every week. We hope for great things this season.
If any parent would like to share their photographs on this site, please email andovercrew@andovercrew.com and together we will make it happen.
You can download the images for personal use by rightclicking. If anyone wants a high resolution copy of any image please email andovercrew@andovercrew.com
 Go faster glasses |
 Might work better with a boat |
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 Drive |
 Pre-race confidence |
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Deerfield, CRI, BC High & St. John's races page 1
Deerfield, CRI, BC High & St. John's races page 2
Deerfield, CRI, BC High & St. John's races page 3
Deerfield, CRI, BC High & St. John's races page 4
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G2 Deerfield & CRI race
G3 Deerfield & CRI race
G3 Deerfield & CRI race
G5G5 Deerfield & CRI race
B1 BC High & St. John's Prep race
B2 BC High & St. John's Prep race
B3 BC High & St. John's Prep False start
B3 BC High & St. John's Prep race
B4 BC High & St. John's Prep race
A great day of racing with weather of every type within the 2 hours. We had sunshine, calm, rain, wind, all for a few minutes each.
Fall crew is for fun. We mix up boats every week. Spring crew is for racing and building boats for NEIRA. Anyone can make any boat provided they make the boat
go faster. Rowers arrive at Spring crew with strength and stamina developed over the winter. Each week they improve their skill. Each week the coach must select
group of rowers that make the boat go fast. Part of the skill is good rowing. Part is the ability to balance and synchronize with the other rowers. NEIRA rules
require coaches to make each boat as fast a possible starting with the top boats and working down. There is no room for any other criteria except boat speed. Parents
need to check with their favorite rowers each week to see which boat they have achieved.
There was some confusion of the finish of the B2 race. The Andover Crew spirit for the last 69 years requires that if there is any doubt the race is awarded to the
visitors. So we awarded the B2 race to Kent. Our job is to make sure that by NEIRA there can be no doubt.
All boats raced amazingly well for this early in the season. Usually Kent are better than us at this stage and we improve more than them over the weeks to NEIRA.
We had some very close races. Congratulations to all the boats. The trophies this year were awarded for the B1 and G1 races. B1 tool the Hart Perry and Bill Brown Trophy,
Kent won the Hart Perry kit.
If any parent would like to share their photographs on this site, please email andovercrew@andovercrew.com and together we will make it happen.
You can download the images for personal use by rightclicking. If anyone wants a high resolution copy of any image please email andovercrew@andovercrew.com
 Pushing off for battle |
 Jumping for joy |
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 Don't mess with us |
 John Dent's Hart Perry and Bill Brown Trophy has come home |
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Kent races page 1
Kent races page 2
Kent races page 3
Luke Christodoulou also joined us on Saturday and took some amazing photographs. We will post these on this website tomorrow to keep them for posterity. You can view them now at Kent Race photos by Luke Christodoulou
Please click for the videos.
G1 Kent race
G2 Kent race
G3 Kent race
B1 Kent race
B2 Kent race
B3B4 Kent race
G4G5B5 Exhibition race
The race season has started. The Nature Gods decided to test our perseverance this week. We had a snow storm on Thursday, a rattle of an earthquake on Friday and for race day we
had a fast Spring river with a wind out of the frozen North rising to near 20 mph creating waves and a little rain thrown in to test us. This is New England Spring racing.
Rowing is probably the only sport where having the wind at your back is not a good thing. Rowers want their blades under the water but not too deep. The waves mess up that plan.
Coxswains have to steer a steady course despite unbalance in the crew and the changing wind and current pushing in opposite directions. All this on the first day of racing.
Our rowers, the girls in the morning and boys in the afternoon, did a great job on the water today. B1 and B3 started the season with well earned wins and the other boats displayed a drive that gives hope for the future.
It was a great day of racing.
A big thank you to all the coaches and the parents who provided the food table to ensure a quick recovery for the cold, wet and tired rowers after the races.
Our boats leave 40 minutes before race time to row upstream to the starting area. They then practice in a warm up area to get the muscles ready to race. Then the boats assemble side by side and row down to the starting line.
A line judge calls when the competitors are lined up and the referee starts the 1500 meter race. The current of the Mighty Merrimack makes our race boats go faster than they would on a lake so our race course is actually longer
than 1500 so that the times are comparable to races on lakes or smaller gentler rivers. We have a slight, 15 degree turn on our race course. It was measured out with GPS to ensure that all the lanes are equal and fair.
Onward and upward. Next week Kent School will be join us to battle for historic trophies.
If any parent would like to share their photographs on this site, please email andovercrew@andovercrew.com and together we will make it happen.
You can download the images for personal use by rightclicking. If anyone wants a high resolution copy of any image please email andovercrew@andovercrew.com
 Rowing in the rain |
 Pick a lane, any lane |
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 Winning smiles |
 Bend that oar |
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Girls race page 1
Salisbury, Deerfield, Belmont Hill and Andover races page 1
Salisbury, Deerfield, Belmont Hill and Andover races page 2
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Salisbury, Deerfield, and Andover B1
Salisbury, Deerfield, and Andover B2
Salisbury, Deerfield, and Andover B3
Belmont Hill and Andover B4
Belmont Hill and Andover B5 & B6
Preparing for the first race
 Planning the day |
 Planning the day |
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 Smiling in the cold |
 Determination |
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Practice April 5th.
Rowing in the rain
 Water, water everywhere |
 Perfect blades |
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Practice March 28th
As the snow prepares to melt and the Mighty Merrimack starts to flow free preparations are in hand to install the docks for Spring racing.
The students will have been preparing with activities to build their strength, stamina and speed with exercise programs and erg workouts. Spring races are won with winter work.
 The docks hibernating |
 The ramps waiting for the ice to melt |
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 The Mighty Merrimack longing for the Spring races |
 The Andover rock ready to roll |
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Hibernating boathouse page 1
Coach Taylor Washburn '03' Director of Andover Crew.
Taylor is an '03 graduate of PA. He rowed at Andover and Princeton before going on to row with the US National Lightweight Team. He comes back to Andover with coaching experience at Andover, NMH and Tabor. His 2012 Tabor B1 lost the NEIRA championship to Andover B1, coached by his father, by 0.233 of a second. We are told he has improved. :-)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 Taylor and his team every success.
Coach Dale Hurley 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.
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 Amanda Foushee Instructor English. Amanda was a coxswain in her rowing life and is excited to be back on the water
Coach Jose Manuel Zorrilla Matilla Instructor Physics and supervisor of the Phillips Academy Observatory.
Coach Kelly Moroco Instructor in mathematics. Kelly speaks English, Chinese and a little French.
Coach Aiden Spencer Teaching Fellow in Philosophy and Religious Studies. Rowed at Hobart and William Smith Colleges and also at St. Paul's school where his father was a coach.
Captain election results:
Girls' Team co-Captains '23/24:Whitney Kanter and Emily Turnbull.
Boys' Team co-Captains '23/24: Nate Bechard and George Stoody.
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
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!
Catching a crab can be a race stopping event. Corpus Christi ejector crab (Emma Sprints, 2014). Click here for video EJECTION 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
Crew after a week with the coaches
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.com
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
To volunteer to help with raceday food, please click this link Link to SignUpGenius.
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.com.
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
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.
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
Here is a video Created by two members of the Andover Crew team this year 2019.
Created by Rick Ono '19' and Sam Boshar'19
© 2019 Phillips Academy
Here is a video thanks to Neil Evans, Associate Director, Digital Communications at Andover.
An Afternoon on the Water
© 2019 Phillips Academy
Here is a video made by Oscar Tang on his retirement as President of the Board of Trustees.
An Andover Life - Andover Crew- Oscar Tang '56'
© 2019 Phillips Academy
Bring back the Merrimack spirit.
When: Saturday June 10th meeting 07.00 am to 9.30 pm.
Who: All the 3s and 8s plus any other Andover Crew souls brave enough to join us especially anyone who missed out during COVID.
Please email andovercrew@andovercrew.com so that we have a good idea of the numbers.
Where: William Brown Boathouse, 620 Lowell Street, Methuen.
Draft Schedule
7.00: Rowers arrive.
Sort everyone into boats.
Carry boats and oars to the dock.
7.30: launch for a gentle row on the mighty Merrimack.
Later: Refreshments in the Bill Brown Boathouse.
See you by the river! Go Blue!
Where: William Brown Boathouse, 620 Lowell Street, Methuen, MA
Following are the directions to the William Brown boathouse from the I-93:
The I-93 road works are now complete so we have new directions.
1. 620 Lowell Street, Methuen.(Use this address for your GPS.)
2. Take I-93 North or South to Exit 46. (Route 110/Route 113 toward Lawrence/Dracut)
3. From I-93 North Follow the exit 46B ramp to join Route 110/Route 113.
4. Move over to the far left after joining.
5. Turn left at the traffic lights to Lowell Street/Route 110.
6. From I-93 South stay to the left on the exit 46 ramp.
7. Go straight across at the traffic lights to Lowell Street/Route 110.
8. On Lowell Street/Route 110 Drive straight through the first light and continue on for 1.3 miles.
9. The boathouse is located on the left.
10. Please be careful to indicate early to turn into the boathouse so that people behind you know you are going to stop.
Click here for a
Boathouse Map
Go Blue!
We have posted pictures from our fun 2019 Reunion Row. Click here 2019 reunion Row pictures.
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
 Interschols 2007 |
 Pre-Henley 2007 |
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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.com.
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 |
 1970s? |
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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 |
 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. |
 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 |
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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:
 Henley boat |
 Three of the boat are here |
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 1959 - First Andover trip to Henley |
 1959 Andover vs Thames Rowing Club |
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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.com.
 1956 Year Book |
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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.
 John Dent 1970 |
 John Dent 2007 |
 John Dent 2016 |
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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.
This is a list of Andovercrew videos on YouTube by various contribitors in no special order.
Oscar Tang: Andover Life
Abingdon-Andover Henley06
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
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These will be moved to their own pages before the end of April 2023.
In honor of the Reunion Row, here is a New York Times article descibing the birth of Andover Crew.
 Birth of Andover Crew |
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Bronze medals for B2. Ever so close to medals for B1, B3, G1, and G3. Powerful race by G2 in their Petite Final. Great racing by all the boats.
By my back of the envelope calculation, our team trophy positions were 3rd for the boys and 5th for the girls in New England.
2022 - New England Championships Boys: Team Trophy 3rd, B1 4th, B2 3rd, B3 4th.
2022 - New England Championships Girls: Team Trophy 5th, G1 4th, G2 8th, G3 4th.
Kudos to all the athletes, coaches, and parents who pivoted with perfection and panache in the face of the overnight changes to the race configurations.
NEIRA Livestream starting at 8 am
Time flies. Another season is past. I want to give a shout-out to the coaches who have dedicated a launch to race commentary for the boathouse audio and have allowed us to provide live video via Facebook for both local and remote friends. A shout out to Coach Emily Visco, our driver, and to coach Thomas Jared Severo who has been the voices, plural, of the commentary for the home race video. Rowing is not a great spectator sport and he certainly made the races more entertaining. Together we have been able to transport the feeling of the Mighty Merrimack to homes across America, the Far East, and Europe. A special shout out to Paul Morrell our resident OPP support, who jumped in the launch on Saturday to cover for an ill Coach Emily as a driver. I never knew these launches could be as smooth as this launch was this weekend
The whole tribe also owes a huge 'thank you' to the Food Table team organized by Yuriko Ono and Grace La. My wife did this for many years so I understand the enormous commitment and effort required to provide necessary sustenance for the traveling tribe. The last final act of the season for the food table will be Interschols where the table has to operate all day. This will only be possible if parents from every boat volunteer.
Continuing with the thanks we cannot forget the brave finish line judges, Brian Bechard and Ash and Suzanne Dabbous. Race officials and biased parents can be very excited about precise finish judgements. Our flagging was impeccable.
And last and most importantly thanks to all the athletes and the coaches who have brought us back to almost civilization after a miserable pandemic. The opportunity to feel the passion and excitement of raceday is a wonderful tonic. Rowing is not a sport where individuals stand out. No rower can move faster to the finish line than anyone else in the boat. You don't have to like your boatmates but for about 5 minutes everyone's outcome depends completely on everyone else. This combined with the grueling hours of training in rain, sleet, and snow and later in scorching sunshine helps to form tight trusting bonds with the other humans. Every rower in every boat contributes to the speed of all the boats. So when our boats head off to NIERAs that carry with them the spirit if every spring rower.
The coaches deserve a special mention. If you coach basketball, you turn up at the gym and coach for a couple of hours. Job done. If you coach crew, it is a little more involved and intense. You have to prep the kids before the practice, organize your launch, overseas safety on the water as well as coaching the art of rowing. Most of our students have never been in a boat before they arrive at the mighty Merrimack. The river can be very scary especially in rough weather. Coaching rowing takes way more time than other sports and carries more responsibility. All this for the pleasure of seeing 9 teenagers gliding a boat on the water like perfectly choreographed dancers.
It was a good day to be by the river. A great day to be out on the river. We had 11 races. We raced for the Swift trophy. This is based on the results of
the races for the top 4 boats. On the girls side Exeter won and Andover came second in the G1, G2 and G4 races. G3 won their race by 7 seconds. There
was a fifth boat race between Exeter and Tabor. We need to recruit more girls to the program for next year. On the boys side, the result were Exeter,
Andover, Tabor for the top 3 boats and Andover, Exeter, Tabor for B4 and B5. The B6 and B7 both raced and beat the Exeter B6. This was our last race before Interschols.
Also thanks to Lou Christodoulou for the pictures taken from the Boathouse at the finish line.
If you want to download the video simply run the video and right click to select "save as"
If any parent would like to share their photographs on this site, please email andovercrew@andovercrew.com and together we will make it happen.
 There is a wind |
 Pre-race preparation |
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 Moving the Rosy&Sam off the start line |
 The Andover Crew tribe again |
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Please click buttons for the pictures.
Exeter and Tabor races SD page 1
Exeter and Tabor races SD page 2
Exeter and Tabor races SD page 3
Exeter and Tabor races LC page 1
Exeter and Tabor races LC page 2
Please click for the videos.
Exeter and Tabor B1
Exeter and Tabor B2
Exeter and Tabor B3
Exeter and Tabor B4
Exeter and Tabor B5
Exeter and Tabor B6B7
Exeter and Tabor G1
eExeter and Tabor G2
Exeter and Tabor G3
Exeter and Tabor G4
We have just posted videos of our races with St. Paul's School. We have uploaded another 4 Pages of St. Paul's pictures thanks to Lou Christodoulou.
I-89 crosses the St. Paul's canal about 100 meters before the finish line. We had to pick, and so we captured the earlier part
of the race. One of the parents has given me a video of the last 100 meters of the G3 race so it is posted with the others below.
This week was our only away race apart from NIERA's at the end of the season. St. Paul's is a beautiful old New England boathouse and
they are the only school still racing wooden boats from the 1970s. They have a skilled person who can still repair these. It was a good
day with mixed racing results. Our G1 lost for the first time this season but our B1 won their race. The race course is a straight channel
between two lakes. The race is a very straight line and a good measure of the balance between the two sides of the boat and the skill of our coxswains.
I was taking videos so I do not have many pictures. I would love to post pictures from other supporters.
If you want to download the video simply run the video and right click to select "save as"
If any parent would like to share their photographs on this site, please email andovercrew@andovercrew.com and together we will make it happen.
 Road Trip |
 Rigging the boats at St. Paul's |
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 Northern Water Snake settling in to watch the races |
 Out in front |
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Please click buttons for the pictures.
For more pictures page 1
For more pictures page 2
For more pictures page 3
For more pictures page 4
For more pictures page 5
Please click here for St. Paul's videos.
SPS B1,Andover B1
SPS G1,Andover G1
SPS B2,Andover B2
SPS G2,Andover G2
SPS B3,Andover B3
SPS G3,Andover G3
SPS G3,Andover G3, Finish line thanks to Lisa Ndiaye
SPS B4,Andover B4
SPS G4,Andover G4, SPS G5
SPS B5,Andover B5
We knew this would be a tough racing day. Brunswick is one of the fastest teams this year and Hanover is a very deep program. The wind was
gentler than on the Friday but was still blowing from the north and annoying the river. The choppy water made it tougher to keep boats together.
On the shore, the wind was not a problem so it was a great spectator day.
The choppy water also makes life difficult for a photography trying to focus on distant boats. So this week a few more shots than normal have dodgy focus.:-)
We have just posted the full set of videos form last weekend.
If you want to download the video simply run the video and right click to select "save as"
If any parent would like to share their photographs on this site, please email andovercrew@andovercrew.com and together we will make it happen.
 Preparing for battle |
 Rowing in the waves |
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 Arshay Cooper - A Most Beautiful Thing |
 The Andover Crew tribe |
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Please click buttons for the pictures.
Friday in the wind page 1
Brunswick School and Hingham High races page 1
Brunswick School and Hingham High races page 2
Brunswick School and Hingham High races page 3
Brunswick School and Hingham High races page 4
Please click for the videos.
Introduction1
Brunswick, Hanover,Andover B1
Brunswick, Hanover,Andover B2
Brunswick, Hanover,Andover B3
Brunswick, Andover B4
Hanover,Andover B5
Hanover,Andover B6, Andover B7
Hanover,Andover G1
Hanover,Andover G2
Hanover,Andover G3
Hanover,Andover G4
Week three of racing. All the boats are showing significant improvement. I had to choose between taking pictures and doing video so
there are not so many pictures this week. It was a wet week for the coxswains as all the boys' boats and two of the girls' boats won their races. The rowers
arrive at the boathouse fit and strong from winter erging. But erg don't float. To transfer the power from the rower to the water takes timing and skill. Over the
season the coaches help the rowers improve their technique. Once a boat can row together they have to learn how to race. At the beginning the crew have to pull hard
and fast to drive the boat from standing start to running at about 12 miles an hour. Then the 'settle" into a sustainable rhythm for the middle of the race with occasional
"power 10s" and if they have anything left, they can try a "sprint" for the finish line. This all take strength, stamina and most importantly skill. It is skill that
improves as the weeks go by.
If you view the B1 race video below, you will see our B1 had a very good start putting them into the lead by about a boat length. The Duxbury Crew fought back gallantly and walked
to within 2 seats of the Andover boat. At this critical point the Andover coxswain call a move and the Andover boat walked back to lost seat and from then on kept walking away.
Great racing by both crews.
If any parent would like to share their photographs on this site, please email andovercrew@andovercrew.com and together we will make it happen.
 Wet winners |
 Walking on the water |
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 Flying winner |
 The coxswain bunch |
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Please click buttons for the pictures.
St. John's Prep, Duxbury Crew, Andover races page 1
Please click for the videos.
SJP, Duxbury Crew, Andover B1
SJP, Duxbury Crew, Andover B2
SJP, Duxbury Crew, Andover B5
Duxbury Crew, Andover G1
Duxbury Crew, Andover G2
Duxbury Crew, Andover G3
Duxbury Crew, Andover G4
This was the second week of racing. We raced 3 girls' and 2 boys' boats of Kent, 2 girls' and 3 boys' of Hingham High and two boys' boats of Belmont Hill.
Kent and Belmont are two of the oldest school rowing teams in New England. Both have been racing since the 1920s. Andover won 6 of the eight races. Kent and Andover
have a long intertwined shared history. John Dent, Stewart MacDonald and Kathryn 'Luc' Green all coached at both schools. Hart Perry, Bill Brown and Pete Washburn
we all good friends. Stewart MacDonald coached Luc green at BUTE and Dale Hurley on the National team.
And so the two schools honor their past by racing for two trophies. The girls race for the Hart Perry cup donated by Stewart MacDonald and the boys race the the
Perry and Brown trophy donated by John Dent to replace the Dent oars.
This year Andover won the girls' trophy and Kent won the boys' trophy.
If any parent would like to share their photographs on this site, please email andovercrew@andovercrew.com and together we will make it happen.
 Out in the lead |
 Early smiles |
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 Winning smiles |
 Bringing home the cup |
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Please click buttons for the pictures.
Kent, Hingham and Belmont Hill races page 1
Kent, Hingham and Belmont Hill races page 2
Kent, Hingham and Belmont Hill races page 3
Please click for the videos.
Kent B1, Hingham B1 and Andover B1
Andover B3 and Hingham High B3
Andover G1, Hingham G1 and Kent G1
Andover B6 Belmont Hill B6 and Andover BG7 (Mixed boat.)
Friday was a soft day on the Mighty Merrimack as the rowers start the long climb through the season to racing perfection. Saturday was Mother Nature
teaching us all that we are not in control. We row in hail rain or snow but not lightning. We did race the 4 top boats and we have some very exciting finishes.
all the boats exhibited composure on a difficult day. Go Blue!
If anyone else has pictures or videos they would like to share please email
andovercrew@andovercrew.com and we will share a cloud folder with you.
 Early days, getting better |
 Ready Start |
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 Ready for battle |
 Winning smiles |
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Please click buttons for the pictures.
Preactice page 1
Races page 1
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.
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 |
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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.
Go Blue!
We have posted pictures from the Merrimack.
Fall on the Merrimack page 1.
Fall on the Merrimack page 2.
This is a beautiful picture taken by on the day before Halloween.
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 Head Race 5 miles |
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Back in March as the ice melts Interschols seems a lifetime away. Then we blink and we are hugging our seniors for the last time. We wish our group of amazing seniors a life full of curiosity, wonder and achievement. Their colleges are lucky to have them. We are sure that the focus, determination, tolerance and compassion they have shown on the water will enhance the world for the next generation while it is temporarily in the hands of this generation.
Thank you to all the coaches for the enormous efforts and their wonderful example and mentoring through this program. There is a great deal of talk about knowledge and goodness. All the talk means nothing if young people do not see adults for whom sharing knowledge and delivering kindness is a way of life. This program is knowledge and kindness in action.
Our returning rowers now have about 360 days to prepare for the start of Interschols 2020. They should eat healthy, exercise well and be brave but careful so that they grow in strength and fitness for next year.
For anyone starting to think about college rowing programs there are links at the end of this page. You can also talk to the coaches and young alumni at these programs to decide if they might be a good fit for you.
A huge thank you to the parents for support at the races, food tables, equipment donations and most importantly the sharing of your offspring. This program can only prosper and grow with enthusiastic support from the whole crew family.
The season has closed for our lower boats. Rowing is a tough sport. We hope the passion has overcome the pain. We wish them all a great summer and look forward to seeing the returning students on the Mighty Merrimack in the fall.
We have posted links to detailed results in the Spring 2021 Schedule Table.
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.
Any Alumni racing for their colleges this spring please let us know at andovercrew@andovercrew.com
Alex Cao - NYU, Ben Beckwith - Union, Ben Hawley - Cornell, Bennett Slibeck - Columbia, Bridget Lapage - Cardiff Uni, UK,
Cara Cavanaugh - Dartmouth, Colin Lata - Tufts, Dylan Norris - Brown, Emelie Eldracher – MIT, Elizabeth Duserick - Yale,
Fiona Yonkman - Williams, Gabe Blanchard - UPenn, Grace Hannam – Dartmouth, Lane Unsworth - Yale, Laurel Wain - GW,
Liz Kemp - Radcliffe, Luke Bitler - UVA, Marc Sevastopoulo (captain) - Dartmouth, Molly Katarincic – Dartmouth, Nico Robertson - BU,
Nate Cruz Walma – MIT, Olivia Brokaw – Brown, Rudd Fawcett – Yale, Shelby Butt - Georgetown, Simon Sharp - Yale,
Sofie Brown – Syracuse, Tiffany Tien – Williams, Victoria Everett - Cornell, Will Humphrey - Wesleyan.
I should also mention young alumni noted for their recent rowing efforts: Grant Bitler who won The Boat Race with Cambridge University and Liv Coffey and Cooper Hurley who are currently members of USA national team boats.
An absolutely beautiful early morning on the Merrimack. Our eldest rowers graduated in 1959, our most organized were the '79s who populated their
own boat and our most determined was Claire Coffey who dragged herself and her 8 month old out of bed to join us on this early morning. Thanks to my
wife Rosy for sustenance and child minding, Coaches Hurley and Harris for organizing the boats and driving the launch and new graduate coxswain
Logan McLennan who commanded one of the boats. We had 3 eights on the water. The two with the younger rowers actually did a racing piece. Something
they might regret a little later today. We rowed down river from the "new" boathouse (2012) and past the "old" boathouse (1980) to the "older"
boathouse (pre 1980).
Go Blue!
If anyone else has pictures or videos they would like to share please email
andovercrew@andovercrew.com and we will share a cloud folder with you.
We shared a short video of one of the boats on the water in our Friends of Andover Crew on Facebook. You have to join the Facebook and our group to see the video.
Facebook video
To play the video directly from this page, please
Click on Reunion Row 2019 Video
Copyright 2018 © Sam Darby.
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 Reunion row 2019 - Our most determoned rower |
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Reunion Row 2019 page 1
Reunion row 2019 Page 2
A good day at Lake Quinsigamond ending a season of challenges from illness, freak accidents away from the river and late season injuries.
We were moving people in all the boats right up to the final week due to outside influences. After races against the top 18 of our over 20 school
league we end up with Girls' team: 6th, G1 5th, G2 5th G3 6th & Boys' team: 4th, B1 6th, B2 4th, B3 Silver.
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 throughout the season, especially Jen Irvine, Yuriko Ono and supporters who organized
the food table this year. They did Rosy proud. The prize for parent endurance goes to Dave MacLeod who turned up to support the team with a broken
collar bone sustained in a biking accident the day before.
Thanks to Robin Rosenberg who shared her photographs. If anyone else has pictures or videos they would like to share please email
andovercrew@andovercrew.com and we will share a cloud folder with you.
Go Blue!
The NEIRA races on the weekend were broadcast live on the YouTube NEIRA channel. You can still watch the races on the web. The channel is
NEIRA YouTube
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Please click button for the pictures by Robin Rosenberg, Adin McAuliffe's parent.
NEIRA 2019 RR Page 1
NEIRA 2019 RR Page 2
NEIRA 2019 RR Page 2
Our Season finale for the G4, B4 and B5 boats at Hanover was blessed with the best weather so far this Spring. The whole day had the spirit of a picnic. The Hanover boathouse is on the New Hampshire side of the Connecticut River opposite the state of Vermont. At this point it is a wide slow river with open navigation for miles above the boathouse. We raced upstream.
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 B4 winning with open water |
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Hanover races Page 1
Hanover races Page 2
The weather was beautiful for our Grandparents' Weekend at the boathouse. It sunny in the low 60s with a 13 mph NW wind. The wind running against flow of the river cause some chop and white caps upriver on the race course. Our boys team suffered from last minutes changes in B1 due to illness that rippled down the lineup. At this stage of the season a missing rower is a major disruption for a boat. The high point of the afternoon was a powerful 6.8 second victory by our G1 over the visitors. The closet race of the day was our G3 where we completed the race in 359.1 seconds but Exeter squeezed in at 358.5 seconds. They obviously peaked too early, we will get them at NEIRAs.
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 The walk of pride |
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Exeter, Tabor & St. John's races Page 2
Exeter, Tabor & St. John's races Page 3
Exeter, Tabor & St. John's races Page 4
Last week we raced St. Paul’s girls and boys and St. Johns. The St. Paul’s girls were very good and won their races. The boys split the races with St. Paul’s with B3 being a very close race with only a deck separating the winning boats and bested all the St John’s boats. We also joined with St. John's to share Coach Bob Arsenault's charcoal smoked meats
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St. Paul's races Page 2
This spring schools have been hit with a repeat wave of flu. So all schools are juggling with their boat lineups. This week we welcomed 4 different schools with boats at different levels. Andover did well in this controlled chaos as the boys won all their races and the girls took the G1 anbd G2 races.
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 A little help from an alumnus |
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Here are pictures of the races thanks to Aya Murato P'21 and Roddy Sheer P'20 as I was at home killing the flu with some Uisce beatha.
A huge thank you to Yuriko and supporters for the food table.
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 The tribe arrives |
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Pictures of Kent races by Aya Murata P'21:
Kent races Page 1 AM
Kent races Page 2 AM
More pictures of Kent races by Roddy Scheer P'20:
Kent races Page 1 RS
It was a clear day but the water was black and angry for our first race of the season with Salisbury and Brookline at Salisbury's home lake in Western Connecticut. Later in the season this can be an idyllic site. Our tribe of 6 boats of athletes and camp followers had traveled almost 3 hours from home to test our mettle for the first time of the season. A strong tailwind with choppy water made for some difficult rowing. Our girls did well winning two races with Brookline. Salisbury is only boys. Our boys did not do so well. We lost a large group of seniors last year and so now our younger rowers have a bigger hill to climb before Interschols. I am sure they will succeed.
 The tribe assembling the boats |
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Pictures of Salisbury and Brookline races:
Salisbury & Brookline races Page 1
Salisbury & Brookline races Page 2
We have two pages of pictures covering two different days of practice. We have posted pictures.
Reaching for glory
Merrimack garbage boa
We promised sunshine except on most days
Tee shirts and down jackets.
Practice Days Page 1
Practice Days Page 2
While the rest of us were basking in the cool of the New England Spring our intrepid rowers decided to brave the extreme heat and alligators of the Florida swamp land to prepare their muscles for the coming warm racing days.
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We have posted pictures of the Florida trip. Click on button.
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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
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.
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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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**
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.
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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/
or
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cndWyGw5SWU
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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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 Robin Rosenberg, Adin McAuliffe's parent.
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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
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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Exeter and Tabor races Page 2
Exeter and Tabor races Page 3
Exeter and Tabor races Page 4
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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St. Paul's races Page 2
St. Paul's races Page 3
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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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
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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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
Copyright 2018 © Adam Vlasic.
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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 G1 crossing the line |
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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
Copyright 2018 © Adam Vlasic.
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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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.
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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We have posted pictures.
Practice Days Page 1
Practice Days Page 2
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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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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We have re-ordered Andover Crew hats. Most of the hats this year will be white with blue embroidery. Every rower and coach will get a free hat before Grandparents' Weekend.
Any leftover hats will be available for $20.
If you would like a hat please email andovercrew@andovercrew.com.
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