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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There’s a good article in the Post on Wakefield’s crew team that just won the premier Varsity 8 races at the State Championship [b]over schools with much larger programs with more funding[/b]. Many of the athletes are on scholarship, and that has opened up the sport to the kids who are less financially well off. [/quote]

WAY TO GO, WAKEFIELD!!!  I'm so proud of, and for, them; and I don't have any connection to crew.  Good for them!
Maybe some athletic success will make people think more highly of Wakefield or give it a little respect, since any academic success is always dismissed or discredited.[/quote]

[url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2022/05/14/wakefield-boys-girls-sweep-virginia-rowing-championships/]Here's the article.[/url]

Wakefield sweeping the first varsity 8+s really makes these other schools look bad. I'm sure you'll hear Yorktown people say "well we won the states in 4+", but that's not the same. They know this. You drop to 4's when you haven't coached up 8 rowers well enough to compete.

By letting more kids onto the team, they can charge a lower fee per rower. That means each "scholarship" requires fewer dollars. They get a good deal at the Anacostia boathouse, and they don't blow money on extras the way you see with some of the other programs. So the dollars go to hiring coaches, and to expanding the pool of rowers. With a bigger pool, you can fill an 8+ with strong rowers.[/quote]

everyone in the picture of the story is white though. good intentions but still a long way to go.[/quote]

[b]One of the 1V girls is a person of color. A few of of the 1V boys are people of color,[/b] the Post just didn't use that photo. The team as a whole is tremendously diverse- if you'd been at the Occoquan on Saturday and seen the freshman and novice athletes (newer, younger students who are benefiting from the outreach and inclusive approach and will be the athletes in the top boats in a year or two) you would have seen the whole picture. [/quote]

Wakefield is a non white majority school. I do know they tried a bit harder this year to recruit more widely. I think at Wakefield we need to be more honest and provide more education on sports. We have to accept that not all parents and students have grown up in the US and in fact some may have arrived to the US in the past month.  I don't think it would hurt to explain what sports are on the website and when sending announcements.  Think about it - would someone just arriving to the US who might not have had sports at their own school growing up instantly know that Crew means rowing a boat on the water?
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