Georgia Tech Crew
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Georgia Tech Crew
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| Location | Atlanta, Georgia, USA |
| Members | Unknown |
| Alumni | Unknown |
| Homepage | www.gtcrew.com |
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About
This is the Georgia Tech Crew wiki page for recording team history and reconnecting with each other and alumni
Records & Awards
Note team records and awards
History
Present day Georgia Tech Rowing was officially started in spring 1986 with the charter of the Rowing Club. The founder and first team president, Michael May, was a track and Cross-Country Runner, who had no eligibility left under NCAA rules. After being introduced to rowing while co-oping in Huntsville, AL, he and his roommate Mark Turner started to row out of the Atlanta Rowing Club. At ARC, they met the people who would ensure GT Crew’s success: Jeff and Debbie McKenna. Debbie and Jeff would coach, employ, row with, and lead the very few rowers whom comprised the small team. The team first got money from the Student Foundation for used boats and used oars – thus giving Tech Crew its first equipment.
Fall 1987 the team was able to purchase two new boats through a bill passed through the Student Government Association.
The next year, spring 1988, Tech Crew was given a gift: John Hunter. Mr. Hunter was a devout Tech supporter; in fact he was the first non-alum to serve on the advisory board. He fell in love with the team and he agreed to sponsor GT Crew on St. Andrews church land and fund a boathouse. He worked with the Reverend E. Peter Ludden from the church to start the rowing center and gather support from the congregation to donate the land. One of the reasons why Tech Crew was able to get support from the church was they agreed to help start a high school rowing program: the Saint Andrew’s Rowing Club (SARC), named after the church.
Summer 1988, Mr. Hunter donated materials and one contractor to build the dock and boathouse –he didn’t donate the dock and the boathouse outright. The team worked together to build everything under the guidance of the contractor.
Fall 1988, SARC started with great success and high participation sharing equipment with GT Crew. In spring 1990 the high school and college programs were officially separated.
The Crew team steadily grew the next couple years and in the 1992/93 season, the men’s team saw a dramatic change: their lightweight eight stepped up as a force to compete among the top teams in the nation. They were the first to medal at Dad Vails (3rd), the national championships for smaller teams. The most competitive teams such as those from the Ivy League schools compete in other regattas such as the IRA regatta. They were also the first to medal at Champion (2nd), another more prestigious regatta where they competed among some Ivy League Schools. From their two top finishes in highly regarded regattas – it is easy to say that they finished among the top ten lightweight eights in the nation, a feat never accomplished before in Tech Crew History.
The team’s next big accomplishment occurred in spring 1996 with an overall third place finish at the Dad Vail regatta. Both the varsity and novice men’s lightweight eights placed second. In addition, the varsity women’s lightweight four and novice women’s open four placed third, the best season for both the women’s team and for the team overall.
Traveling to the Dad Vails, the team had a trailer accident where most of our boats were destroyed. Some members of the team that were in the van towing the trailer were taken to a local hospital as a safety precaution. Despite the University’s command of canceling the whole trip and sending everyone back home, the team instead traveled to Vails, placing third. The team was placed under suspension and no boats were allowed to be rowed fall 1996.
The next step in GT Crew was spring 1997, again in the varsity men’s lightweight eight and women’s lightweight four. The men finished first at the Southern Regionals (SIRAs) and second (by 0.03 seconds!!!) at Champion Regatta, a nationally competitive regatta. The men decided to compete at the most competitive collegiate race: the IRAs, where all Ivy League Schools compete. The boat beat all other club programs in the nation that year, placing 9th overall in the nation.
The lightweight women’s four placed second at SIRAs and second at Vails – the best finish ever by our women’s team.
The most recent step in GT Crew was Spring 1999, this time by the varsity women. They had their most successful season with two medalling boats at Dad Vails. The open women’s four got second place and the open women’s pair got third (with a faulty rudder).
The spring of 2000 saw GT Crew’s first Dad Vail gold medal. Rather unexpectedly it was the novice men’s lightweight eight that came through with the big win. Unfortunately, only one lightweight from this boat came back as a varsity rower.
Due to the dearth of lightweights in the 2000/2001 season, tech crew fattened up a few mid-weights and fielded its first truly heavy eight. This eight turned heads at SIRA, where, as eight seed, they managed to beat out several varsity programs for third place. The following month, the eight traveled to Philadelphia to again achieve above expectations, only this time at the Dad Vail regatta. They placed fourth out of 27 crews, more than half of which were true varsity programs. The eight broke down into a four in order to compete at IRAs. They placed fourth in the nation, which was a tremendous accomplishment considering they were the only club crew there. The light four also did well in 2001. With two freshmen in the boat they managed gold at SIRA and silver at Dad Vail’s, once again missing the elusive varsity gold.
Alumni
- Georgia Tech Alumni Crew blog - blog by alumni of Georgia Tech Crew team; includes links to blog pages of GT crew alumni
1986
- Jeff Kemp 1986-1990
- Carol J. (CJ) Thompson 1986-1989
- Jeffrey Lukens 1986-1988
- Chris Perras 1986-1988
- Kristan Klimczak-Hardison 1986-1987
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1987
- Kimberley Peele-Mateu 1987-1989
1988
- George Fry III 1988-1991
- Dennis Burke 1988-1990
- Matthew Cobb 1988-1990
- John H. Irby 1988-1990
- Gary Weissel 1988-1990
- Michael Shannon 1988-1990
- Beth Vicenzo 1988-1990
- Tom Broch 1988-1989
- Elizabeth Childers 1988-1989
- Amy Jacoby-Ayers 1988-1989
1989
- Mark Johnson 1989-1992
- Edward Duncan 1989-1991
- John Gallo 1989-1991
- Nichole Laliberte 1989-1990
- Laura Schmid 1989-1990
1990
- James Wilson 1990-1992
1991
- Renee Butler 1991-1995
- Leslie Zimmerman-Howard 1991-1995
- Chris Betz 1991-1994
- Brian Flowers 1991-1994
- Chad Markle 1991-1994
- Brooke Steele 1991-1994
- Chris Vail 1991-1994
- Rebecca Woo 1991-1994
- Jeff Woodard 1991-1994
- Kim (Kilpatrick) Blackwell 1991-1993
- Nidia Fernandez 1991-1993
- Nick Jenkins 1991-1993
- Eric Johnson 1991-1993
- Mignon Kuehmstedt 1991-1993
- David Park 1991-1993
- David Penn 1991-1993
- Joel Peters 1991-1993
- Shannon Peterson 1991-1993
- Michael Allen 1991-1992
- Aimee Boss 1991-1992
- Chris Culberson 1991-1992
- Troy Hicks 1991-1992
- Jefferey Rice 1991-1992
- Bill Redden 1991-1992
- Aaron Thomas 1991-1992
1992
- Shelly Holdren 1992-1997
- Marc Millard 1992-1997
- Jason Skudlarek 1992-1997
- Jennifer (Guerin) Skudlarek 1992-1997
- Andrea Gimon 1992-1996
- Leslie Zimmermann Howard 1992-1996
- Rebecca Woo 1992-1996
- Ashley Chan 1992-1995
- Diane Doss 1992-1995
- Tony Eckl 1992-1995
- Tina Foxx 1992-1995
- Jennnifer (Willis) Takeuchi 1992-1995
- Hody Crouch 1992-1994
- Andrew Kroll 1992-1994
- Roy Krause 1992-1994
- Erin Brown 1992-1993
- Amelia Garret "Millie" 1992-1993
- Vincent Hill 1992-1993
- Philip Kalaricka 1992-1993
- Pascale Pouvreau 1992-1993
- Christopher Stanton 1992-1993
- Deirdre Wilkins-Ritger 1992-1993
1993
- Mike Florit 1993-1998
- Kimberley Becker-Miller 1993-1997
- Janet Kinard 1993-1997
- Joseph Schroer 1993-1997
- Alex Simpson 1993-1997
- Carol Sikes 1993-1997
- Mike Smith 1993-1997
- Clint Strange 1993-1996
- Sterling Odomm 1993-1996
- Danny Piper 1993-1996
- Patrina Pitts 1993-1995
- Mike Chu 1993-1994
- Tracie Johnson 1993-1994
- Michael Kawas 1993-1994
- Roy Krause 1993-1994
- George Nichols 1993-1994
1994
- Gil Nowell 1994-1999
- Jill (Hoffmaster) O'Keefe 1994-1999
- Steve Georgalis "Old Man" 1994-1997/1999-2000
- Brian Lane 1994-1998
- Jason LaRoche "PapaJohn" 1994-1997
- Brian Morabito "Bito" 1994-1996
- Charles Diawara 1994-1996
- Jessica Rider 1994-1995
- Matt Tebbe 1994-1995
1995
- Elizabeth Hildick 1995-1999
- Jeremy Hutcherson "Regulator" 1995-1999
- Dana (McAlhany) Hutcherson 1995-1999
- Bobby O'Keefe 1995-1999
- Charles Reed 1995-1999
- Zac Reed 1995-1999
- Jonathan Snow 1995-1999
- Kelley Williamson 1995-1999
- Sara Willson 1995-1999
- Cliff Cantrell 1995-1998
- Jessica (Powell) Tebbe 1995-1998
- Keith Brouse 1995-1997
- Jennifer Egan 1995-1996
- William Loeffel 1995-1996
- Michael Penland 1995-1996
- Brian Robinson 1995-1996
- Matt Seale 1995-1996
- Veronica Tai 1995-1996
- Pat Lee 1995
1996(*began spring 1997 because of suspension)
- Jim Price "Slim" *1997-2001
- Joshua Vose *1997-2001
- Mark Filer *1997-2000
- David Jiminez "Guery" *1997-2000
- Laura (Sassaman) Solomon *1997-2000
- Julia Woodbury *1997-2000
- Natalie (Horan) Woody *1997-2000
- Craig Armstrong *1997-1999
- Tanya Civjan *1997-1999
- Amanda French *1997-1999
- Jacob Gelbaum *1997-1999
- Rhiannon Morgan *1997-1999
- Jeremy Mucha *1997-1999
- Anijka Stone *1997-1999
- Nathan Hines *1997-1998
1997
- Katherine Clarke 1997-2002
- Wes McGee 1997-2001
- Cassi Niemann 1997-2001
- Josh Simmons 1997-2001
- Melissa Babb 1997-2000
- David Jimenez 1997-2000
- Mark Bearak 1997-1999
- Jessica (Meremonte) Johnson 1997-1999
- Mike Siebert 1997-1999
- Vicki Haberman 1997-1998
- Amanda French 1997-1999
- Heather Mann 1997-1998
- Mollie Newton 1997-1998
- Catherine Owens 1997-1998
- Chris Stephens 1997-1998
1998
- Craig Goldstein 1998-2002
- Elizabeth Henry 1998-2002
- Heidi Schafer 1998-2002
- Sarah (Tourtellot) Kimbrough 1998-2002
- Tierson Boutte 1998-2001
- Mark Kiefert 1998-2001
- Jim Kowalski 1998-2001
- Steven Siebert 1998-2001
- Mike Sobin 1998-2000
- Daniel Lee 1998-1999
- Erin Tucker 1998-1999
1999
- Anne-Marie Richards 1999-2004
- Nick Padgett 1999-2002
- Joy (Parrot) Smith 1999-2002
- Casey Nixon 1999-2001
- Justin Brinkworth 1999-2001
2000
- Sarah Schwegman 2000-2005
- Bob Baxley 2000-2004
- Betsy Carter 2000-2004
- Bart DeBacker 2000-2004
- Lisa Hofler 2000-2004
- Chris Houston 2000-2004
- Jim Sinclair 2000-2004
- Melissa (Deen) Hallow 2000-2003
- Suzanna Sayre 2000-2003
- Jordan Smith 2000-2003
- Justin Steigerwalt 2000-2003
- Lee Thackston 2000-2003
- Jennifer Haney 2000-2002
2001
- Sean Fankhauser 2001-2005
- Dana Long 2001-2005
- Brad Ochs 2001-2005
- Fran Ruskin 2001-2005
- Brian Waters 2001-2005
- Jane Woodrow 2001-2005
- Erin Donohoe 2001-2004
- Rebekah Henry 2001-2004
- Katherine (Trainer) Sinclair 2001-2004
- Beth (Burnham) Goldstein 2001-2003
- Deniz Ozmen 2001-2003
- John McLeroy 2001-2002
- Baker Whisnant 2001-2002
2002
- Aaron Rozmus 2002-2005
2003
- Sanja Veledar 2003-2005
- Francisco Palop 2003-2004
- Sara Ouzts 2003-2004
- Katie O'Connor 2003
- Sarah Paglioni 2003-2005
2004
- Brian Holman 2004-2006
Coaches
- Norm Vickers 1991-1992
- Vicki Zadnick Spring 1992-1993
- Jerry Zadnick 1992-1993
- Lucy Gilson 1992-1995
- Robbie Tennebaum Spring 1993
- Victoria Mixon 1993-1995
- Rob Canavan 1995-present
- Niko Demartini 1996-1998
- Chris Betz 1995-1997
- Dan Carroll 1997
- Mike Smith Spring 1998
- Joshua Vose Spring 1998
- Ethan Johnson 1998-2006
- Sara Willson Fall 1998
- Janet Kinard Fall 1998
- Harriet Hamilton 1999
- Shelly Holdren 1999
- Steve Georgalis 2000-present
- Zack DePace 2000-2001
- Julie Hildebrand 2001-2002
- Cassi Niemann 2002-2005
- Slim Jim Price 2002-present
- Andy Capano 2002-2004
- Elizabeth Henry 2002-2004, 2006-present
- Dana Prey 2003-2004
- Anne-Marie Richards 2004-2005
- Geoff Shealy 2004-2005
- Dana Macklin 2004-2005
- Ross Beattie 2005-present
- Brian Waters 2005-2006
- Nick Marino 2006-present
- Curt Browder 2006-present
- Dan McNair 2006-present
- Jenny McNair 2006-present
