saquish rowing education society inc.

"ROW HARD"

FALL 2008 ROWING SEASON

This year our fall rowing season has been one of our busiest season so far for the Saquish Rowers.

With three youth teams starting at the beginning of September it looks to be one of our most exciting seasons yet.

Our award winning high school boys team coached by Mike Jenness consists of five senior that will be competing in their final Icebreaker Youth Championship Race in Hull in November. They are joined by two of our novice boys that have moved up to our high school team.

Our all new girls high school team under the direction of Coach Jan Reddy consist mainly of seniors, show to be a very stronger team and are great contender in the Icebreaker Race as well.

Our novice team which started out with two rowers and has now grown to a crew of six are coached by Ashley Reddy.

On Friday October 10^th some of our youth rowers will be traveling for an overnight rowing event at Lake Champlain in Vermont. Chaperoned by Mike and Cathy Jenness. Rowers will compete on Saturday in multiple events throughout the day and then make the long trip back home. Best of luck to our youth team!!

We have three adult teams that have been very busy practicing for the upcoming Weir River Race on October 18^th in Hull with a 2pm start. They will be competing with teams from all over New England and as far away as England and Holland.

We have a full schedule for November as well starting out with our own sponsored event in Plymouth on Saturday November 1^st at 10am.

Registration is at 8am and we encourage all of our rowers to pre register. Fees are $20.00 per person or $100.00 per boat. To pre register go to our website saquishrowingeducationsocietyinc.org

On Saturday November 15 our youth team will participate in the Pemberton Sprints in Hull at 12 noon in preparation for the Icebreaker on Saturday November 22^nd.

On Friday night November 21^stat 6pm our youth rowers will convene at the house of Dennis and Jan Reddy for the annual pasta feast where we will watch movies from past Icebreakers and get some inspiration from Head Coach Mike Jenness in preparation for our big day on the 22^nd.

Saturday November 22 will be the Annual Icebreaker Northeast Region Youth Championship Race where nearly 200 youth rowers will compete in the largest youth event in New England. Come to watch and support our award winning youth rowers as they compete in multiple events throughout the day. This is an all day event starting at 8:30am-4pm. We encourage all of our adult rowers and parents to come and support our youth rowers as they compete in a grueling all day event. Come for the day or come for a few hours. The kids have worked very hard to get to this point and would appreciate all of your support.

March 01 2008 kicked off the Saquish rowing season with the annual 28th Snow Row in Hull . Saquish rowers played host to the visiting rowers from Cornwall England. Our men's team rowing in the Mike Jenness Sr. gave the visiting Cornish mixed team rowing in the Saquish a run for their money by placing 2nd in the men's professional Gig event with a time of 34 minutes.11 seconds with the Saquish men having a second place win with an amazing take over of the Belfast Maine Team at the finish line. The Cornish mixed team had a impressive time of 32 minutes and 32 seconds which was 17 seconds faster than last year, and as usual coming in first place in the Gig division. Our women's team rowing in the Interceptor held onto the trophy for the 4th consecutive year with a 1st place win. With a woman's team having the best time of 35 minutes and 57 seconds, being the first all woman's team over the finish line, they shaved 4 minutes and 44 seconds off last years time. The Cornish women's team was unable to make it this year to compete. Our mixed coxed four team rowing in the W.G.Tucker came in with a time of 45 minutes and 02 seconds which was very impressive having two new novice rowers. A job well done!!!! The two man crew in the Burrage with rowers Burt Jenness and Mark Porcart won the work boat class with a time of 53 minutes 21 seconds. Which was 7 minutes 24 seconds faster than last year. In closing one of the most impressive times again was by Cornish rower Beverly Davis rowing alone in the Livery single, finishing in 47 minutes 01 seconds 8 minutes 1 second faster than last year.

Congratulations to all for a job well done.

As you will see in some of the pictures you will notice that when the crews come over the finish line they toss or hold up the oars in a traditional salute to the finishing teams