October 2023

October - finally fall and the temperatures are dropping

The Scullers are in fullswing training. During the month of October we welcomed several new members to our team and our “older” athletes have been busy to teach each of the the basics of our sport. For bringing boats safely to the dock, how to use a rigging tool, securing boats on the rack and and and.

Besides that, our team uses every day of the week to train - Monday to Saturday you find us on the IntraCostal, in our Clubhouse or the Twin Lakes Soccer field. After weeks of preparation our team was able to visit two regattas in the past 5 weeks. The Halloween Regatta in Tampa and the last of the BIG FALL REGATTAs the Head of the Hooch in Chattanooga Tennessee.

Before we start our Newsletter … THANK YOU PARENTS for all your support throughout the month of October and November … you are all AMAZING

Halloween Regatta Tampa

The Halloween Regatta is traditionally the first fall regatta the Scullers are visiting. Nearly our entire team went up to the Bypass in Tampa and enjoyed a busy day of rowing. Nearly all athletes have been able to row two events and some even three. The good night sleep was earned after this. Our young team was entered in a variety of races given their abilities. From the Novice to Varsity you could find Scullers participating.

Two results to mentions here:

Our Middle School 8+ placed fifth from about 20 entries. Three of our team just started rowing a few weeks ago but have been already eager to challenge the world. We want to congratulate our team. See the team picture below.

Ava is one of our “older” members already took the burden to start in the 1x. After already two races - her legs already shaky, she had a hell of a ride and finished 2nd in the field. Congrats from all of us (See her picture in her 1x race below)

Regatta HOOCH

Far away from home … exactly 12 hours driving through the night our team and the team of our Masters SCRC arrived at this amazing regatta in Chattanooga. Coach Bernhard arrived with his team in the early morning hours of Friday. Early rigging, securing a spot for our tent and testing the water for the first time. Every piece of that puzzle worked perfectly and we also welcomed back our coach Lyn.

We have been lucky with three days of sunshine and a perfect organized regatta. What all surprised was the strong current to the start line which forced all boats to launch an hour or more for their race and being back 15min later. Coach Stompo entered again every athlete in a minimum of two races, but some raced up to four times during this trip.

Some impressions from our trip:

Introducing two of our newest members

September and October are the month in which we welcome our newest members to the team. In this Newsletter we want to introduce two of them.

Lilly Moore

What to know about Lilly. She is from Florida, born in Venice and she is a brave student of the Student Leadership Academy. Her last movie in the cinema was Spiderman. She enjoys going to the gym and her favorite color is red.

Her last book was The Bell Jar from her favorite writer Sylvia Plath. Impressed from literature she sees her future as a writer, preferable in Paris a city she really would like to visit.

What is her favorite drink you are asking … Coconut Water

Lilly is a great addition to our young team, and we will see her next at the Benderson Chase this weekend on Saturday.

Elton von Wowern

In October we welcomed Elton to our team. From day One he showed incredible enthusiasm and talent for our sport. Elton is a January 7th, 2010, child. He is born far far away from Florida in Taeby Sweden.

He is a clever athlete and beside being a rower in our team he also will be our cox for the upcoming two years, after that he will be grown out of this seat. He started his school career at Pineview and is a big soccer fan. In our soccer training sessions, he is regularly one of the first athletes be chosen for the team.

No wonder Messi is one of his favorite sport persons but secretly his idol is his dad. Southpark was his last movie in the cinema.

After asking about his future career …. Business Person was his straight answer (we are looking forward to having a financial good, situated Alumni :-)

He would love to go back to Sweden for holiday and drink his favorite drink there: Coca Cola. His favorite color is Tain and loved reading Prisoner B07.

What are Will and Caitlin doing?

It is now several months that Will and Caitlin left for school. Both of them settled in very well and joined their rowing program. After settling in both found their places in the team. We met Will at the Hooch regatta, and he was stroking the V2 8+ of his team. Congrats.

Caitlin is now living in Virgina, and her school is Liberty University. Her major is Nursing and at 4am in the morning her day starts. Not a favorite wake up moment for her roommate :-) but Caitlin is determined and follows her strict rowing schedule. And she was busy, her team already raced three times in this fall, and she (and her father Greg) enjoy every moment of it. Go Caitlin Go.

WHATS COMING UP

#GivingTuesday

The 28th of November is #GivingTuesday. All over the USA non-profit organization celebrating their work and asking for support from you.

The Boys in the Boat

One of the best books written about American Life and our beloved Rowing sport. George Clooney took over to direct the movie and we will have with the great storyteller Daniel Brown and exceptional movie in front of us. 10 days before the official opening the Scullers will show the movie at the Regal Cinema - downtown Sarasota. Please join us

BUY YOUR TICKETS HERE

UPDATE: This is a real big team event of Scullers and our Masters. Many Many tickets are already sold … so do not wait to long otherwise it will be sold out. Thank you to all supporting our team and grabbing a part of our rowing history