Winter conditioning schedule.  Winter Conditioning regular schedule resumes today.  Work off the holidays and get ready for the season!

A gold medal season for ODBC.   Both the men's and women's first 8's won the youth 8 events at the Head of the Occoquan.  It caps a nearly perfect season for the ODBC team.  In the local fall regattas, the ODBC men won every youth 8 race and the women's first 8 won all but one, both with times that were better than many college teams.  An ODBC men's 4 won the first race it entered.  The ODBC 8's also topped all the Washington area teams at regattas in Boston and Philadelphia.  Read all about the season here. 

Celebrating Steve Weir.  A large crowd gathered at the Dee Campbell Rowing Center and Oronoco Park on October 4 to honor Steve for his 33 year coaching career.  View the photos. 

Jon Schildknecht is the new girls' head coach.  Jon's a familiar figure,  having rowed at TC and coached on the girls' side since 1997.  He takes the reins from Steve Weir, who's retiring after 33 seasons.  Read more about Jon on the coaches page.

Jon's also a new father.  Congratulations to Carter and Jon!

THE 2008 SEASON: Medals from Occoquan to Ontario.  The TC Crew girls' senior 8 and girls' lightweight 8 capped a great season by winning silver medals in the Canadian Secondary Schools Rowing Association regatta, the Canadian national scholastic championship.  The lights also made the finals at SRAA Nationals and the Stotesbury Cup Regatta.  TC Crew put three boats in the finals at Stotes - more than any other school in the region.  The girl's senior 8 finished fourth, and the girls' lightweight and second 8's were fifth. 

The TC girls' first 8, girls' lightweight 8, boys' second 8 and girls' third 8 are all state champions.  It was a strong team performance at the Virginia Scholastic Rowing Championship on May 10. In addition to the golds, the boys' third 8 won silver and the girls' second 8 took bronze, and the boys' first 8 finished fifth in the petite final.  The TC girls crew won the team trophy for the third year in a row.

Read all the season results here.

Commercial photos from championships are on line.  For Stotesbury and SRAA Nationals, go to the Sport Graphics Web site, pick your race, enter school and event and see up-close photos from every race.  You can order copies in various formats.  And if you're feeling nostalgic, they have regatta photos from the last 20 years.  Photos from all three days of the CSSRA Canadian Nationals  are available from Digital Sports Photography.  Photos from the CSSRA medal dock are on line at goldmedalphotos.com. 

Meanwhile, check our own photo pages, and follow the links to the offsite Web galleries of our photo correspondents.  Hundreds of great shots!

Videos!  If you've never seen the start of a race, check out this view of the boys second 8 from the stakeboat dock.  Plus the boys senior 8 at Stotes, the girls lightweights at Nationals, and more videos and links to TC Crew on YouTube.

The history of rowing in Alexandria.  Here's a hidden gem - an extended inteview with Dee Campbell, from the Alexandria Oral History Project.

NCASRA became VASRA on July 1.  The new Virginia Scholastic Rowing Association, which is being reorganized after some Maryland and DC schools left the regional organization, includes 37 private as well as public schools.