There will be a meeting Tuesday, May 11 at 7:00 p.m. in our regularly scheduled classroom

There will be a meeting next Tuesday, April 20 at 7:00 p.m. at our regularly scheduled meeting place

All parents need to complete Waivers for their sons for this rowing season. There are DETAILED instructions when you click on the link below "FORMS" to the left of the website. You will need to complete TWO different waivers as the Head of the Charles and the Hooch require a different waiver than the rest of the regattas.

The Events Calendar has been updated to include all Regattas for the 2009-2010 season as well as the Hotel drop dates and contact information, rates etc. Please CLICK on "EVENTS" on the left and you can go thru the entire calendar month by month. You will also see a list of UPCOMING EVENTS to the right. Upcoming Events will scroll up as dates approach.

The entire Belen Crew family congratulates Anthony Martin and Gabriel Campo for being named semifinalists in the 2010 National Merit Scholarship Competition. They are among 16,000 of the highest scoring students in the nation and among the three students from Belen that were named. Congratulations Anthony and Gabriel!

WE WILL BE UPDATING THE WEBSITE SHORTLY WITH THE INFORMATION FOR THE 2009-2010 YEAR.

Pablo Rodriguez-Cepero was among a select group of 30 rowers and 5 coxswains from across the U.S selected to attend the US Rowing Junior Men's National Team Development Camp in Pittsburgh, Penn this summer. This invitation-only camp is focused on training and grooming high school athletes who have been identified as having the ability and desire to potentially compete at a national and international level.

We are happy to report that his Junior 4 boat won a Silver Medal and in addition to that missed a Bronze Medal by 0.1 second on another boat he coxed at the Club National Regatta held in Oakridge, Tenn.

Congratulations Pablo!!!

GO BELEN CREW!!

Congratulations to Alex Olesen on receiving an invitation to the Penn Athletic Juniors rowing Camp. Penn AC is home to the finest competitive rowing program in the United States. In the past 25 years they have produced dozens of Olympic and World's Championship gold, silver and bronze medalists and many US National Champions.

Congratulations Alex on this incredible achievement which is no doubt the result of all of your hard work and dedication!

For more information on Penn AC visit their web site at www.pennac.org

Three Belen Jesuit Prep crews traveled to New Jersey to compete at the 75th Annual Scholastic National Rowing Championships and all three entries the Freshman Eight, Lightweight Eight, and Junior Eight advanced to the semifinals.  On the second day of racing, Belen’s Freshman and Junior Crews turned in Silver medal performances, and Belen’s young Lightweight Eight with one Senior, one Junior, and six Sophomore rowers was ninth fastest in their category.

The event was held at Mercer Lake in Princeton, NJ site of the 2008 Olympic Trials.  A total of 120 high school programs from throughout the East Coast and Midwestern states competed for gold, silver, and bronze medals in twelve events per gender.  Robert Weller, Kevin Lowenhaupt, Fernando Ruiz, Juan Avila, Julian Mazaira, Alex Jasman, Joshua Muñoz,  Jordan Llano and coxswain Gregory Santos with alternates Eddy Cosio & MJ Verdeja ; Belen’s Freshman Eight that had not lost a race all year finished two seconds behind gold medal winner St. Joseph’s Prep.  A half hour later Belen’s Junior Eight with Victor Garcia, Carlos Fernandez, Chris Hernandez, Victor DeZarraga,  Nicholas Tomasino, Jose Avila, Jorge Ginory-Perez,  Alex Olesen, and coxswain Pablo Rodriguez-Cepero finished 4.21 seconds behind the St. Joseph’s Prep Crew and 3.9 seconds ahead of the bronze medal winner Plant High School from Tampa.  Belen's Wolverine Crew is coached by Dawn Scott Viyella and Edgardo Carranza.

Freshmen Eight at Nationals	Lightweight Eight at Nationals	Junior Eight at Nationals

For official results of all flights please go to:

http://secure.powerhousetiming.com/powerhouse/webpages/raceResults.jsp?raceId=209

Note: The rowers from Belen Jesuit Preparatory School competed in events 27, 44, 88, 118, 126, 135, 157, and 163.

If you would like a copy of the year end video please contact Alina Hernandez. If you would like to view it now online it is posted at: http://web.me.com/mikeverdeja/Mike_Verdeja/Belen_Crew.html.

LINK HAS BEEN UPDATED

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