National Learn To Row Day to be Held at Rogers Lake Boathouse on Saturday, June 7, 10-2, Free, All Welcome
OLD LYME–The Lyme-Old Lyme High School (LOLHS) crew team on Sunday continued their dominance of the Varsity Four category at the Connecticut Public School State Championships.
The Old Lyme Rowing Association (OLRA) in a press release heralded the team’s multiple wins, as well as the return once again of the Hart Perry Points Trophy for excellence in fours.
The LOLHS team competed in the May 18 championship event on Lake Waramaug in Litchfield, winning the three boys varsity races in four-person boats and garnering two first places finishes and a second place finish in girls varsity races.
“The Lyme-Old Lyme High School program has dominated Connecticut public school fours competition for the last ten years, winning the points trophy numerous times,” the OLRA said.
An escort of Old Lyme emergency vehicles accompanied the team’s buses on the final leg of their return to the high school.
The Lyme-Old Lyme High School crew team operates out of the Fred Emerson Boathouse and is supported by the OLRA, which also hosts the Blood Street Sculls.
The boathouse, now in its third building opened in 2017, has been an incubator for rowing excellence for over 50 years. Started in 1965 on Blood Street by Fred Emerson, the organization initially known as Blood Street Sculls has cultivated national champions and Olympians since its inception.
Learn more about OLRA’s summer and fall programs for adults and kids at National Learn To Row Day on Saturday, June 7, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the boathouse on the corner of Boston Post Road and Town Woods Road.
Information about the free event is available at www.oldlymerowing.org.
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