tell me about your experience with high school crew....

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:very costly, and huge time commitment. child was already getting up at 5:45 to get to school and then they had to get driven to river and get picked up after about 7:30 to 8:00.

Then the cost was a couple thousand a year.

got unreasonable, I don't know how people do this.

Only way to do it is if your child is very organized and on top of school work and you live close to the river/practice area.

this was our experience also. Great idea but time commitment is HUGE!!! You have to have a spouse that doesn't work to help with the carpools.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Here are links to some of the larger public high school rowing teams around DC that typically have between 100-150 rowers:

bccrowing.net
whitmancrew.org
mcleancrew.org
w-lcrewboosters.org
yorktowncrew.org
warhawkcrew.org

The Virginia public schools follow the Virginia High School League (VHSL) rules for interscholastic athletics. So crew teams have only limited off-season practices. However most schools do offer daily conditioning during the winter months.

TJ has crew also.

[Anonymous]

It's really a great activity for the kids and it can definitely help with college admissions if you are a strong rower. We would not consider a school without a crew team.