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In this issue of Toledo Rowing Newsletter...
Mary Mazzio Visits St. Ursula Academy
MidWest Scholastic Rowing Association Championships
Championships
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Film-maker and Olympic athlete Mary Mazzio Inpsires St. Ursula Academy
Award winning documentary film-maker and former rowing Olympic athlete Mary Mazzio brought an inspiring message of empowering young women to St. Ursula Academy in early April. Her talk garnered some gold medal smiles among the entire SUA student body.
Mazzio first addressed the young women at the school and then visited the SUA rowing team and helped dedicate a boat by using a bottle of champagne she was awarded at the 1992 Olympics. The Olympic rower and her 10-year-old daughter Daisy then had a special dinner with the SUA rowers at Zias at The Docks. The girls were able to meet one-on-one with Mazzio and were given autographed posters.
SUA Rower Krissy Nowakowski said she will never forget the motivational talk. "Mary Mazzio was an inspiration to not only the Crew, but all of SUA. She showed us that we can all accomplish anything we set our minds to, and to never take 'no' for an answer!"
Mazzio was a member of the 1992 U.S. Olympic rowing team before becoming an independent film-maker who has written, directed and produced Lemonade Stories, Apple Pie and A Hero For Daisy. A graduate of Mount Holyoke College and Georgetown Law School, Mazzio is a frequent commentator on women in sports and she speaks nationally on a variety of issues.
She is best known for A Hero for Daisy, which profiled the Title IX demonstration at Yale University in 1976 by two-time Olympian Chris Ernst. The New York Times called the moving account of Ernst's sacrifices a "landmark film" and Sports Illustrated called it "fantastic." Mazzio showed Hero, which has aired on ESPN Classic, during her visit to St. Ursula.
Mazzio has a special relationship with St. Ursula's crew team thanks to the team winning the Chris Ernst/A HERO FOR DAISY trophy for the fastest women's eight-person boat at the Head of the Cuyahoga regatta in Cleveland in 2007 and 2006. When the team competed at the prestigious Head of the Charles race in Boston last October, Mazzio called them her "new favorite high school team" on her Web blog and featured a picture of an SUA rower.
A former law firm partner with Brown, Rudnick in Boston, Mazzio has served on a number of Boards of Directors including Shackleton Schools, Sojourner House (a homeless shelter), The Greater Boston Youth Symphony Orchestras, The Head of the Charles Regatta, and the National Rowing Foundation.
"It would be hard for me to overstate how much the SUA community and crew enjoyed and appreciated Mary and Daisy's visit to Toledo," said Cindy Dana, organizer of the Mazzio visit. "It is an extraordinary woman (and her daughter) who can appeal to, empower, and entertain adolescents, teens, young women, moms, and grandmoms all in the same afternoon. Her movie about the legendary Chris Ernst's struggle to advance Title IX and her message of personal accountability, pushing your limits, finding the right role models, and striving to be your best self were timely and timeless."
If you plan on rowing this season, be sure to get your membership fees in. For a membership application, e-mail denise_gehring@yahoo.com.
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MidWest Scholastic Rowing Association ChampionshipsHarsha Lake, east of Cincinnati. Saturday was one of the best days for racing in my memory. Sunny, very little wind, smooth water, and temperatures in the lower 70’s. The forecast for the next day was grim and turned out to be dead on. SJJ entered three 8’s and five 4’s in the competition. The Hvywgt-4, Frosh-8, and Junior-8 had heats which determined who went to Finals. The rest of the boats: Novice-8, Lwt-4, Nov Lwt-4, Nov-4, and Jr-4 all had heats and semifinals. Five boats got through to the finals: Hvywgt-4, Frosh-8, Junior-8, Nov Lwt-4, and Nov-4. Unfortunately, the weather on Sunday was true to the prediction. Because of that the regatta committee decided to run the schedule in reverse order so as to be sure that qualifying races for Scholastic Nationals were run before the weather forced a cancellation.
The various I-Phones and Blackberries in the park gave many of us the chance to see the heavy weather coming in. At 0900, right on schedule, thunder, lighting, hail, and heavy rain. At 0930 it let up briefly and the I-Phones and Blackberries offered enough for the regatta committee to decide that racing could finally commence at 1045 – which it did. A couple of races were run in some heavy squalls. Frosh-8 came in 6th in its final in a time of 5:07.9; first place time was 4:44.8. Junior-8 came in 5th in its final in a time of 4:45.7; first place was 4:34.2. Varsity Hvywgt-4 came in FIRST in a time of 4:53.1 having won both its heat and its semi-final decisively. About 1430 the committee decided that they would not send out the Novice-4’s. Those boats got gypped; they had done very well in their heats and semi-finals, but were not allowed to race for medals. I understand that it is a safety issue and I support the decision.
The Varsity Heavyweight-4 manned by Chris Ulrich, Taylor Valentine, Josh Konieczny, and Andrew Gaillardetz and coxed by Nick “Freighter” Ritter will be proudly representing St. John’s Jesuit High School at the Scholastic Nationals in Oak Ridge, TN 23/24 May. Between now and then, practices will be strenuous.
ST. URSULA ACADEMY HS
TWO (2) 8’S
coaches: neil mcelroy, pete fox
WOMEN’S Varsity 8
CAREY PETERS
ELLEN RICKER
LAUREN SHEEHAN
KRISSY NOWAKOWSKI
PAIGE MYERS
TAYLOR DANA
ERIN FENTON
ERIN SHEEHAN
ANISSA BEREKSI
WOMEN’S 2nd Varsity 8
KYRSTEN FRENCH
ELYSE KORTIER
CAITLIN PAWLACZYK
RACHEL KRAJEWSKI
EMILY DONNELL
KAYLEE DONCOUSE
TIFFANY CARNICOM
ANDREA GRZESZCZAK
ABBY MELLO
ANTHONY WAYNE HS
oNE (1) 4’S
ONE (1) 8’S
coaches: marybeth hoffman, jill hoffman
WOMEN’S Freshman 8+
Lisa Morlock
Kristine Graves
Libby Durnwald
Brittany Bauer
Carissa DeVault
Kate Hatker
Morgan Hilbet
Amber Hill
Paige Huntsman
WOMEN’S JUNIOR VARSITY 4+
Aaron Patterson
Brittnie Reyes
Amanda Keil
Kaileigh Gibbs
Alexis Zeigler |
NOTRE DAME ACADEMY HS
TWO (2) 8+
ONE (1) 4+
coaches: trevor jones, kelly jones, peter langenderfer
WOMEN’S freshmen 8
elizabeth coyle
sam riccio
madison georgoff
molly eddingfield
nicole fuller
katie miller
ashton genzman
jasmine jacobs
gabby mackinnon
WOMEN’S lightweight 4
anna farrell
kaetlyn veluscek
haley murrell
katie fell
kelley lach
WOMEN’S Junior varsity 8
sarah bremer
mary claus
betsy mccarthy
olivia ullery
lindsay murrell
caitlin rudolph
katherine tylinski
linda scheiber
sam kisov
ST JOHN JESUIT HS
ONE (1) 4+
coaches: rod mcelroy
men’s Varsity-4
Chris Ulrich
Taylor Valentine
Josh Konieczny
Andrew Gaillardetz
Nick Ritter |
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