Sunday, April 01, 2007

THANKS SD TROJANS !! Great Crew Classic !! [ Recap]

From: Ray Weber
Date: Sunday, April 01, 2007 9:53 PM

As President of the Trojan Club of San Diego, I want to take a moment and thank all of you that made it out to Mission Bay this weekend to support our 2 Rowing teams ! The Men's Club team is a great bunch and a pleasure to be around with great, great leadership in Coach Gene! They are a program on the rise !

As you know by now, the USC Women's team was the talk of the day, just cleaning up in 3 races and just missing in a 4 th. My understanding is that they will easily be ranked in the Top 5 in the nation in the new rankings this week ! They were nothing short of superb in the water all weekend - see www.usctrojans.com and www.crewclassic.org. for race details !

Bringing the TMB down each year brings so many smiles and so much pleasure to most attendees at the Classic and we should continue to look to do this for years to come, in my opinion! The smiles and appreciation on the faces of the young , victorious Trojan athletes [ and their friends and families] as the teams were serenaded with ''Tribute'', won't be forgotten anytime soon. The USC crowd was very big this year, lot's of appreciative parents, alum,SD locals and athletes, all dressed in Cardinal ! The turnout was excellent , the SC tent was festive, the USC and SDTC banners were hung, great BBQ, quality teams, Coaches, and people and the TMB performing in all corners of the venue, ...just puts it over the top ! Many locals and parents of the athletes, some who were experiencing their very first USC Event , made it a point to thank me / us for just being out there and for helping to provide a quality setting at the USC tent, for making them feel most welcome, and most of all ....for helping to bring down the band to make for the USC 'Spirit of Troy! '

Thanks again to the TROJAN CLUB of SAN DIEGO for being the ones to come through for our traveling Trojans ! Please send over any pictures [ esp. the TMB playing IN the bay !!!! ] to myself or to Joe Palen at the web site and you'll also read about the ''34th Annual'', SD Crew Classic, in Monday's SDUT !

"Fight On., Row On ''.... and thanks again TCSD !''

Ray