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It’s Spring 2010. Finally!

Just when you thought we were living in Buffalo, spring arrives!  The four-oar rule has been lifted, the Annual Meeting is around the corner, and W-L is already one deep in its race schedule … with a few wins, too!

With more people starting to use the club again, I wanted to send out the following safety tips, etiquette reminders, and general housekeeping practices, to get us all on the same page and safely into the spring season:

- If you haven’t yet signed up for your new access code, please contact security@potomacstar.com to set up your new code.

- Early spring also means it’s still dark in the morning and early evening when many of us get out on the water.  All shells must carry white lights fore and aft, before sunrise and after sunset.  There are lights available by the logbook.  Use them!  Also make yourself easy to see by wearing light, reflective colors.

- Remember to follow the proper traffic patterns, and know where those rocks are … even when the buoys aren’t!

- When you’re finished erging, please wipe the machine and the surrounding floor area clean.  I recently noticed many of our newest ergs with very filthy tracks … makes it feel like the seat is rolling on a gravel road.  If you don’t find paper towels in the ballroom, then find some in the bathroom.  If we’re out, then be creative – don’t just leave a mess behind.

- And, finally, I couldn’t do one of these things without my usual in-one-ear-and-out-the-other reminder (to the Men, at least) to PLEASE take your post-workout gear home with you.  We just completed the floor renovation in the back locker room and it smells much better back there – - don’t let your nasty gear hang around and ruin it.   Soon we’ll be going through and clearing out the junk on top of the lockers, so if any of it is yours, please remove it now.

After two blizzards and a flood, we’re due some quality water time, aren’t we?  Respect the club and fellow members, respect the river and be safe.

Thanks.  And see you at the Annual Meeting on April 7th!

Bob

Bob Price
President, Potomac Boat Club

We have a date! PBC Annual Meeting, April 7th

On Wednesday, April 7, Potomac Boat Club will hold its 144th Annual Meeting.  If you’re like us, you’re probably asking yourself … 144th?  How did 144 annual meetings happen in a span of 140 years? But if you’re normal, and without a lot of time on your hands, you’re probably just wondering whether or not you really have to be there. The answer?  Yes.  You do.

Here is the schedule of important events:

• 6:30 – 7:30 PM – Social Hour (a.k.a. Happy Hour … you know, with food and drinks and stuff)

• 7:30 – 9:30 PM – Elections (senior members vote on three Board seats and Officers), Committee Reports and Other Business

Okay, the truth is, you don’t have to be there … but you should be. We make much better decisions when you’re around.

See you soon!

PBC Athlete Bio – Joseph Ledvina

Joseph Ledvina
2012 Olympic Team Hopeful

Born: 02/18/1988
Hometown: Milwaukee, WI
Resides: Washington, DC
Club Affiliation: Potomac Boat Club
College: Georgetown University 2010
Event: Men’s Heavyweight Rowing
Experience: 4 years

About Joe
Joe is the son of John and Marianne Ledvina. He played a myriad of sports in high school including football, basketball, and throwing discus and shot put.  Joe majored in Political Economy and minored in Theology at Georgetown.  He currently works at My Truck Buddy Moving Company and is an assistant rowing coach at Georgetown University.  His free time is spent rooting for the Milwaukee Brewers, Green Bay Packers, and Washington Capitals.

Joe moved to Washington DC in August 2006, to attend Georgetown University. He was convinced to come down to the novice men’s first day of rowing practice. He never stopped coming back to the boathouse. He went on to earn his place in the engine room of the first freshman boat that year. Rowing became the focus of his energy from there on out.

Notable moments of Joe’s Georgetown rowing career include narrowly defeating Columbia in the repechage at the 2007 IRA’s as well as his varsity four’s comeback in their semifinal at the 2010 IRA’s in which Georgetown qualified by five hundredths of a second, barely a bow ball. In the following Grand Final, his boat won a Silver Medal, coming from behind yet again.

After the IRA Silver, Joe headed to Penn AC, where his 4+ won the Under 23 trials and earned a place on the 2010 U23 National Team.  Joe’s experience in Belarus furthered his drive to make the Senior National Team and assisted in his development as an elite oarsman. Joe is excited to embrace advanced technique and high level training as the means to pursuing his goals.

National Results
1st Place- Men’s 4+ – 2010 U23 World Championships Trials
2nd Place- Men’s Varsity 4+ – 2010 IRA National Championships
6th Place- Men’s Varsity 4+ – 2009 IRA National Championships
12th Place- Men’s Varsity 8+ – 2008 EARC Eastern Sprints
12th Place- Men’s Freshman 8+ – 2007 IRA National Championships
10th Place- Men’s Freshman 8+ – 2007 EARC Eastern Sprints

International Results
9th Place- Men’s 4+ – 2010 World Rowing Under 23 Championships

PBC Athlete Bio – Maria Bokulich

Maria Bokulich
2012 Olympic Team Hopeful

Born: 9/1/1982
Hometown: Santa Cruz, California
Resides: Washington, D.C.
College: Gonzaga University (2004)
Event: Women’s Open Weight Sculling
Experience: 7 years

Maria online

• Maria’s Blog – Maria2Olympics
• Maria on Facebook

About Maria
Maria stepped onto the Gonzaga University campus as a freshman in 2000 with the intention of continuing her basketball dream. That dream changed when she was introduced to the sport of rowing. This new sport that involved an immense amount of work with little to no glory captivated her and initiated a challenging yet great focus. Her goal from those first few months was to make the U.S. National team. This is still her driving force today.

Her first year at Gonzaga, Maria made the Varsity Eight and would remain there her entire collegiate career. She set the freshmen record times for the 2k and 6k ergometer race then over the next four years went on to become the fastest female in the history of the team setting the programs overall 2k and 6k records. All four records still stand today.

She was selected as a member of the All American team her junior and senior year. In addition, she was also a member of the Collegiate Rowing Coaches Association team all four years as well as a member of the WCC and WIRA All Conference teams her sophomore, junior and senior years. Her final honor was to be selected as the Gonzaga Senior Women’s Athlete of the year.

Maria spent her college summers on the East Coast training out of the prestigious Vesper Boat Club as well as a variety of national team development camps in Princeton, NJ. With the familiarity of the East, she moved to Westport, CT after graduation to begin her sculling career at Saugatuck Rowing Club. In the single person shell, she began to learn the skills of finesse and balance that would take years of experience to perfect. In the Spring of 2005, she was invited to train out of the national team training center, however four months into training suffered a severe back injury. After taking some time off to heal and coach in Sydney AUS, she eventually took a job coaching at The George Washington University in Washington DC. Two and a half years later she resigned to begin training at Potomac Boat Club and to follow her original true passion and dream that was never fulfilled, to become a member of U.S. National sculling team.

Maria is the seventh of eight children to Paul and Pat Bokulich. She grew up playing basketball and helped lead Soquel High School to the Central Coast Championship game her sophomore year. At Gonzaga University, she earned a degree in Exercise Science while rowing all four years. During her break from training Maria spent a year coaching in Sydney, Australia, before she moved to Washington, D.C., to coach at George Washington University. She will eventually coach at the college level again.

National Results
1st Place – Scullers Head of the Potomac – Women’s 1x 2010
1st Place – Mid-Atlantic Erg Sprints (Indoor ergometer race) 2010
1st Place – WCC Champion 2000, ’01, ’02, ’03, ’04
3rd Place – Gonzaga Varsity 8+ – 2004 WIRA
2nd Place – Gonzaga Varsity 8+ – 2003 WIRA
1st Place – Gonzaga Varsity 8+ – 2002 WIRA
2nd Place – Gonzaga Varsity 8+ – 2001 WIRA
3rd Place – Vesper Women’s Senior 8+ – 2003 National Championships
1st Place – Vesper Women’s Senior 4+ – 2003 National Championships
1st Place – Vesper Women’s Senior 8+ – 2002 National Championships
1st Place – Vesper Women’s Senior 8+ – 2002 Schuylkill Navy Regatta
1st Place – Gonzaga Varsity 8+ – 2003 ECAC (Eastern Collegiate Athletic Conference)
2nd Place – Gonzaga Varsity 8+ – 2002 ECAC (Eastern Collegiate Athletic Conference)
3rd Place – Gonzaga Varsity 8+ – 2001 ECAC (Eastern Collegiate Athletic Conference)

International Results
12th Place – Women’s Champ 1x – 2010 Head of the Charles
1st Place – Senior Women’s A 8+ – 2003 Royal Canadian Henley
1st Place – Senior Women’s B 8+ – 2003 Royal Canadian Henley
1st Place – Champ Women’s 8+ – 2003 Royal Canadian Henley
1st Place – Senior Women’s B 8+ – 2004 Royal Canadian Henley

PBC Athlete Bio – Kevin Baum

Kevin Baum
2012 Olympic Team Hopeful

Born: 11/01/1984
Hometown: Potomac, Maryland
Resides: Arlington, Virginia
Club Affiliation: Potomac Boat Club
College: Stanford University 2007
Event: Men’s Heavyweight Rowing
Experience: 10 years

About Kevin
Kevin is the third of three boys born to George and Julie Baum. George is a long-time Potomac Boat Club Senior member.  In addition to training to make the National Team, Kevin works as a technical consultant working primarily with the Department of Energy on a variety of projects related to automotive fuel cells.

In high school at St. Albans School, Kevin played basketball, ran cross country, and rowed. Kevin followed the footsteps of his older brother to Stanford University in 2003 with the intention of continuing the rowing career he began in high school.  After a successful year in the freshman eight, finishing 5th at the IRA National Championships, the highest finish for a Stanford Freshman crew in school history, Kevin spent the next three years in the Varsity boat. He was the only member of his class to race every single race all three years in the Varsity boat, and was a member of the first Stanford crew to win the San Diego crew classic over perennial rival Cal, and beat the Washington Varsity boat for the first time in program history. He capped off his rowing career at Stanford with a 2nd place finish in the 2007 IRA championship, again achieving the programs highest finish in the varsity event.  He was selected as a member of the All Pac-10 Team in 2006, and was a member of the Pac-10 All Academic Team from 2004-2007. His senior year he served as team co-captain.

In the summer of 2006, Kevin was selected to stroke the coxed four at the Under-23 World Championships. Although his boat finished a disappointing sixth place, it inspired the dream of continuing rowing after college and hopefully representing the USA again at the senior level. After taking some time off due to the demands of a teaching job in inner-city Philadelphia, Kevin moved back to Washington DC to begin training in hopes of making the National Team and participating in the 2012 Olympics.

National Results
1st Place – San Diego Crew Classic ’06, ‘07
2st Place – San Diego Crew Classic ’05, ‘04
1st Place – Windermere Collegiate Crew Classic – 2006
2nd Place – Stanford Varsity 8+ – 2006 Pac-10
2nd Place -Stanford Freshman 8+ – 2004 Pac-10
2rd Place – Stanford Varsity 8+ – 2007 IRA National Championship
5rd Place – Stanford Freshman 8+ – 2004 IRA National Championship
2st Place – Stanford Champ 4+ – 2006 Head of Charles (1st Collegiately)
1rd Place – Stanford Varsity 4+ – 2006 IRA National Championship (Program did not send 8+)

International Results
6th place – Mens 4+ – 2006 Under 23 World Rowing Championships