6:30 pm start time in the 3rd floor conference room at the Quest Center (1213 Purchase Street, New Bedford).  We’ll have Gail Silberstein and Maura Glandorf from The Rower’s Edge speak to the kids about college, rowing in college, and how to navigate through the process.  It is open to all of the kids that have rowed with us since June, no matter if they’re still rowing with us, what age or what grade their in.  Parents are encouraged to attend with their student athlete.

Here’s an agenda for the evening:

How to get started
What to look for in a school
What to look for in a rowing program

Overview of College Recruiting
•D I, II and III-What it means
•Recruiting
•Official Visits
•Athletic Scholarships
•Who gets recruited
•NCAA
•Letters of Intent
•Likely Letters
•How much can Rowing Help
•Lightweights and Coxswains
•Role of High School Coach

How to navigate the process
•Be honest about your performance, 1st choice of school & goals
•OK for parent to be in initial meeting with child and coach
•OK to ask what coach can do for you and where you stand with respect to other recruits
•Parent should be involved in scholarship discussion and commitment
•Be sure to listen to what the coach is saying not what you want to hear
•OK to be interested and pursue more than 1 school
•Decision making-pressure to make a decision - this is when it is most important that you have been honest with yourself about what the coach has been saying.  Coaches do not have control over admissions.  Parents should take an active role in the admissions choices that are made.