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Summer holidays is about to end and it's almost time to go back to school. Along with that fall rowing will begin! The club that I belong to is quite small, and it doesn't help that a bunch of rowers just graduated and have gone off to university.
Anyways, our club is looking to encourage more people to come and try rowing and possibly join onto the team. We've done some recruiting at our schools and everything and took down names and email adresses of people interested, but it's just not working out. So how did you all get involved with rowing? Many people at my school don't even know that there is a rowing team, and us who do row are trying very hard to change that, but what else can we do to get people? We've tried just going around and talking about it, bake sales, some announcements, and having a little table set up in the cafeteria with pictures of us rowing and our coach to answer questions.
Any other ideas would be much appreciated!
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| Submitted by tasha5 (
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My school had like a none exsistant rowing club. They had one crew, then this past year we got a bunch of ppl interested that were the populer BIG MOUTHS!! And even though they didnt get anyone else into it that year, they have a whole lot of intrest into the sport because thats all wed talk about in class. Now I dont really know how you can achieve that but just talk about it alot, and i mean until everyone is sick of it. And really hassle the new grade 9's who are shy and need something to get to know ppl by Thats how I got all my coxies!! But other then that Make posters and annonce race results and HYPE up the sport as much as possible just so ppl hear about it and then theyll start talking to you and other rowers about it and get interested. Posters are good, but word of mouth is the best....thats all I can really suggest. GOOD LUCK!!!!
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| Submitted by Juicecox110 (
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I think you never really know what crew is like until you are actually in a shell or more realistically a launch. If you have a list of e-mails, see if the people are still interested and if they are, and your coach is willing, invite like 2-3 at a time to a practice. From this the potential recruits can see how things are run and what a typical practice is like (also maybe have them sit in a seat on the dock). I know that after sitting in a shell and being in the launch for a few I was completely hooked to crew.
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| Submitted by SunkScull (-) on 2002-09-12 13:21:51 website:http:// |
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You will get people interested by being good. Well how do you find people who will be good, well i did a reaserch project on this - aren't rower's sad sad people - well the things i'd found...
1 get people who have done some sport to a high level, doesn't matter if it was dancing! or football, they understand what it takes and get disciplined about it.
2 overall strength is not as trainable as stamina, get strong people, fat is fine, you can lose it quickly
3 get tall people, leverage is usefull as you may have noticed.
and a couple of other things
4 you know that wierd kid that sit's in the scull and can't get the timing, but is there every session - they are worth persivering with.
5 try to promote the sport in the light of the world champs this weekend
6 this isn't perfect advice, i have 2 and 3 but not 1, i started because i couldn't catch a cricket ball (i'm english) and have stuck it for 10 years before starting to coach...
7 bribe the most popular person in school to try it once - we had the england under 18 rugby captain at school - once he tried for about 3 sessions and said it was dam difficult we had an end to 99 percent of the bad mouthing we got previously.
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