Crew is the ultimate team sport and one of the most physically demanding. If you are looking for a challenge, camaraderie, and good fun join the Fairfax High School Crew Club. Fairfax Crew accepts all students willing to work hard and develop their minds and bodies. No previous athletic or rowing experience is necessary.
What Drives Us
Challenging.Rowers are the toughest, most determined athletes you will meet! Crew is a sport that demands endurance, strength and skill. It requires consummate teamwork and mental toughness. You will compete with other high schools in races called regattas on the Occoquan River at Sandy Run Regional Park.
Conditioning. With water, land and weight training you will build endurance and muscles. Rowing will keep you aerobically fit and strong in the spring. There are no back benchers in crew! Everyone gets to participate.
Academics. Crew is a growing sport on college campuses. Participation in crew looks good on your college applications. Rowers are scholar athletes!
Team In Action
Fairfax Crew hosts many teams of various types of players; men/women, novice/varisty. As a team sport, our goal is for everyone to be successful, participate, and have fun. Below is one of our teams in action in the 2008 season.
Crew is a Club Sport at FHS. We are self-funded and receive no financial aid from the school. Fairfax Crew is possible because of the hard work and dedication of the student-athletes, our coaches, the school administration, our donors, our community and the Crew Club Boosters. The Boosters actively promote Fairfax Crew throughout the year fundraising, helping with regattas, and doing other needed activities.
Parent Involvement
It would not be possible to conduct regattas or maintain Fairfax Crew without parent volunteers. In order to compete in the regattas, all schools are required to provide their prorated share (based on the number of rowers) of the volunteers that set up and run the local regattas. The regatta jobs include driving launches during the regattas, working the concession stands, directing traffic, etc. Failure to fulfill a job results in a $50 fine to the team for each missing volunteer and means that someone else has to do the job. Each family is expected to volunteer for at least two jobs during the course of the season for Fairfax Crew to meet its quota. Volunteering at regattas is necessary, but it also can be fun, is a great way to meet other parents and learn more about the sport. Those first to sign up get will get first choice!
More vital than volunteering for regatta jobs is volunteering to be a member of the Booster Board. As a non-funded varsity sport, Fairfax Crew receives no financial support from the school or county. It is critical that parents become involved on the Booster Board to conduct the business and organization needed to allow Fairfax Crew coaches and rowers the opportunity to maintain our winning tradition.
Board meetings are held once a month. Many of our board members will be rotating off in the 2009-2010 season and we are looking for volunteers to fill those slots. There are a variety of jobs that need parents. No special skills are required other than enthusiasm and a willingness to contribute to something very special.
It would not be possible to conduct regattas or maintain Fairfax Crew without parent volunteers. In order to compete in the regattas, all schools are required to provide their prorated share (based on the number of rowers) of the volunteers that set up and run the local regattas. The regatta jobs include driving launches during the regattas, working the concession stands, directing traffic, etc. Failure to fulfill a job results in a $50 fine to the team for each missing volunteer and means that someone else has to do the job. Each family is expected to volunteer for at least two jobs during the course of the season for Fairfax Crew to meet its quota. Volunteering at regattas is necessary, but it also can be fun, is a great way to meet other parents and learn more about the sport. Those first to sign up get will get first choice!
