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Rise to the occasion, PBC!

Social Committee Chair Virginia Bryant and Coach Reilly Dampeer and her Open Scullers want to remind everyone that the Rising Stars Dinner is less than two weeks away!
The Second Annual Rising Stars Silent Auction and Dinner is coming up on January 21. This is your opportunity to play a vital role in America’s success in international athletic competition and the strong tradition of competitive excellence at PBC. Show your support: donate services or items for the silent auction, buy tickets to the event, bid up auction items!
For more information, check your mail for your invitation …

The Concept2 Holiday Challenge is kicking our rear

UPDATE!

For all of the ergers we have, we are woefully behind in the standings.

Let’s go ahead and get this done for the PBC team.  And by the way, for every person who completes at least 100k during the challenge, Concept2 will donate $.02 for each kilometer (1000 meters) you accumulate to your choice of the following organizations:

Vermont Disaster Relief Fund…

Start your New Year’s Resolution to be social in December!

Hosted by the PBC Open Sculling Program, you are cordially invited to celebrate the Season’s Spirit of Giving in our beautifully decorated, heated ballroom!
The Potomac Boat Club Annual Holiday Party
Date: Sunday, December 11, 2011
Time: 3:00 – 5:00 PM
Dress: Festive Attire (Yes, it’s time for that sweater. The only time.)
Hors d’Oeuvres ~ Beverages
Good Friends and “Others”
Fun Photos …

Special Reports and Polls

Don’t worry. Only 38 percent of you will need therapy after reading this.

Gosh.  So funny.

Remember that time you were filling out your security clearance paperwork and you had to ask your mom for a copy of her passport and you found out that not only was she 10 years older than she had been telling everyone your entire life, but that her birth name was something only she and her sisters could pronounce?

Oh.

Well, welcome to our world, Potomac Barge Club founded in 1859!  Click here to read yet more about …

Save the date! Dec. 13 – Public Info Mtg re Non-Motorized Boathouse Zone along G-town Waterfront

PUBLIC INFORMATION MEETING FEASIBILITY STUDY TO IMPLEMENT A NON-MOTORIZED BOATHOUSE ZONE ALONG THE GEORGETOWN WATERFRONT CHESAPEAKE & OHIO CANAL NATIONAL HISTORIC PARK AND ROCK CREEK PARK

TIME/DATE: 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm, Tuesday, December 13, 2011
PLACE: Washington Harbor, 3050 K Street, NW, Suite 200, Washington, DC 20007

The National Park Service (NPS) will conduct a public information meeting on Tuesday, December 13, 2011, regarding a feasibility study to examine implementation of a non-motorized boathouse zone along the District of Columbia’s side of the Potomac River waterfront …

The Race Report

OS Stefanie Kozuszek reminds us what it’s really all about

Tonight is the Rising Stars Dinner and Auction, an event to support the National Team and Olympic dreams of members of PBC’s Open Sculling Program.  Following the dinner, our Open Scullers will leave for California and the final leg of training for the regattas that will determine this year’s Olympic team.  Our shared hopes, dreams, and best wishes for success, go with them!

In this month’s look into the world of …

Open Sculling 2012 Preview

After a successful 2011, it looks like our Open Sculling Program is getting some new blood!  Open Sculler Katie Stainken contributes the following post.

To learn more about Potomac Boat Club’s Open Sculling Program and Katie, please visit The Open Sculling Program page at http://www.potomacstar.com/racing-programs/test/.  And check back soon for new teammate bios!

A big PBC WELCOME to our new Open Scullers and coaches!

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Since the last update from the Open Scullers, quite a few exciting changes have taken …

The 2011 PBC Triathlon

In case you didn’t check the listserv this week, or conveniently chose to ignore the message, you were invited to participate in the 2011 PBC Triathlon this morning.  Missed that one, huh?

On November 19, 2011, PBC’s Open Scullers, led by Coach Reilly Dampeer, combined their usual training efforts into a little triathlon. They erged, ran, rowed, and invited everyone to participate in the “fun.”

Here was the format:

Erg – 10km
Run …

PBC’s Shumway finds gold in Mexico

Potomac Boat Club’s Margot Shumway won gold today in the Women’s Single event at the XVI Pan American Games 2011.

Margot’s win earned the U.S. one of the two gold and one bronze medals won by our National Team on this second day of finals in Ciudad Guzman.

Click here to read the Rowing News article about Margot’s win and here to read the ESPN …

Kevin Baum … from Red to Blue

We wish Kevin the best of luck on his quest to earn a seat in the Blue Boat. Don’t forget to write.

To read Kevin’s bio, click here.  -PS

Time is impervious to the effect specific moments have on people. We ascribe extraordinary value to events, which can re-define us as people, yet are offered no chance to sit by and observe that moment. The clock keeps ticking and lives need living, regardless of the internal psychological transformation that has taken …

2011 SHOP Results

For random photos from the morning races, click here.

Another great race timing job by the Edmonds family!  Results for the 2011 Charlie Butt Annual Scullers Head of the Potomac (SHOP) are below.

Thanks to the PBC Regatta Committee and the many volunteers who made the SHOP such a huge success.  Mostly, though, thanks to you, our many SHOP participants!  You came all the way from California, Texas, Durham, North Carolina, and even rolled out of your racks up on O Street NW to make for a fun but competitive day of racing in the Nation’s capital!

Congratulations to everyone! See you at the 32nd …

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