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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Crew is great exercise. Aside from distance running, it's probably the most physically demanding endurance sport there is. Spending 4 years in HS rowing crew will cultivate a lot of discipline in a young person and teach them A LOT about themselves. Don't knock the value of that. It's life experience a young person can draw on for decades any time they face a tough challenge.

Added bonus points: 4 man boat or 8 man boat demands development of strong team functioning skills.

Then there is the mediative time on the water and the cultivation in young men a sport they can do their whole lives.

Don't knock it that, when it comes time to apply for college, the number of excellent Universities ( Ivy, Stanford, SLACs) needing to fill their crew team EVERY YEAR is pretty much the inverse ratio of kids capable of filling that role.

Its football/ basketball dynamic in reverse in your kid's favor.[/quote]

No argument that it is a great sport. One 8-man boat equals 20% of the senior class though. It is a tiny school. But there is/was/will be again a group of boys who row on a team that combines with other small schools at the boathouse on the Anacostia.[/quote]

That's a good idea.

Speaking of the Anacostia, maybe SAAS or other small schools with a mission to provide equity would do well to form Crew clubs with less financially resourced schools on the OTHER side of the Anacostia- being that they also share this water resource, and have a large population of young men who deserve more variety in offered sports than FB,BB,Soccer[/quote]

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