NEWSLETTER

Fall Newsletter 2007

Alumni

Help us find your teammates!

Over the last 3 months, we have been working on cleaning up our Coast Crew alumni database. The goal has been to capture current information, including e-mails, on everyone that has lettered or participated in the Program over the last 50 years. With the help of ‘point people’ that have taken responsibility for each year, and a little help from there friends, we now have close to 350 updated alumni to actively communicate with. We are putting it on your shoulders to update your information through the website as your contact information changes.

Coast Crew is excited to move forward with a more comprehensive website that will continue to evolve with updates coming to the Alumni and History links that will have information on each crew including stories of lore and success. Also, get on the site and check out the ‘Scrapbooks’ link for some great photos and press clippings that support some of our great Crews from the 60’s. Did you know that ’68 JV was our first JV Western Sprints Champion and went on to compete as an eight in the Olympic Trials for Mexico City? It’s a great story and it’s all right there in black and white on the ‘Scrapbooks’ link.

One of the big improvements to the site will be to keep you posted on events that will be driven around embracing the alumni back into an active roll within the program. Larry and Pat want to include us in crew functions, days on the water with the coaches, and just about anything else we can contribute to help make the rowing experience a special one for the athletes as it was for many of us. Expect them to reach out and involve you intimately with the Crew as they come through your town to race. For example, I, Roger Reynolds ’85, and Eric Klug ’82 enjoyed hosting the team for a Pre-Race meal in Seattle when they came up for Opening Day in 2006. Stories were told, just like you would have expected, and the team placed the experience in the memory book, just like we did when we came through. I know the Crew had a similar experience when they were in Spokane for a race with Gonzaga. Dr. Cary Simonds ’68 entertained the teams with stories of the early days in North Lido Channel, and his expeditions and battles with wild game in Africa and other exotic locations over the years.

Moving forward, let’s get behind Coast Crew like we are expected to as alumni and encourage Larry, Pat and the other coaches to keep the traditions that have evolved over the years and create new experiences for the athletes that will leave a lifelong impression on them.

There are going to be plenty of opportunities for us to get involved and serve the program in the coming year, and the website will be the first place to look. Also, as we continue to improve the database, more alumni will get the newsletters and other information we send through the mail and electronically.

Please have your teammates get on the site and register their current info into the database. We need to find more of us!

Reid Hadley – ‘83