One eventful day it will be! Please join Beach Crew, members of the Beach Crew Alumni Association, and the community of the Pete Archer Rowing Center on Saturday, November 12, for the annual Long Beach Fall Collegiate Invitational Regatta and several other events following the races.

Join us at 8:00 AM as the Varsity crews of, The Beach, UCLA, UCSB, USC, UCI, LMU, SDSU and Chapman University, face off in a 4000 meter head race down the historic Marine Stadium, through Alamitos Bay, and around Naples Island, finishing at Second Street. At 8:30 AM, Novice crews begin several rounds of 850 meter sprints inside Marine Stadium.

Breakfast will be served free-of-charge for all athletes through the generous support of the Seal Beach Lions Club and the Beach Crew Alumni Association. The parents, CSULB community, and members of the Pete Archer Rowing Center, are invited to join us for a $2 min. donation to the team.

Alumni of the team are encouraged to participate in the Beach Crew Alumni Association’s Annual Meeting at 10:30 AM to hear about BCA’s future alumni events, latest support efforts to the team, and to elect the Board of Directors for the next season.

Concluding the day’s events, the Beach Crew Alumni Association (BCA) conducted their annual meeting to cover current investment projects, ideas, and to plan BCA’s next event for alumni and the crew community. BCA would like to welcome Ken Glenn (’72) and Elena Delgado (’08) to the Board of Directors.

Project “NextGen” Scheduled to Launch over the Holiday Break

BCA will move away from the team’s general website to launch a new community for Beach Crew Alumni to collaborate, stay in touch, and track membership across the world. This project has been underway for the past year between the CSULB Foundation and Associated Students Inc. BCA will have its own way to communicate with alumni and separate the B-Newsline from its operation.

Beach Crew’s General Manager, Brandin Grams, has been working with the CSULB campus, to launch this around the holiday break to insure minimal downtime of the team’s general website. Stay tuned for more details.

Beach Crew Alumni at Other Institutions

BCA would like to recognize alumns who are off facilitating other rowing teams at higher education institutions around Southern California:

• Steve Guentz [Chapman University]
• Michael Long [UC Irvine]
• Scott Charette [UCLA]
• Ron Long [Loyola Marymount]

Join or Renew Your Membership

Become a member of the Beach Crew Alumni Association today. If you were a member in the past year, it is time to renew. Follow this link to register or renew your membership.

Beach Crew’s novice teams didn’t let anyone pass them on their home turf in CSULB’s Fall Collegiate Invitation Regatta. The Men’s and Women’s Novice 8+’s took on UCLA, UC Santa Barbara, Loyola Marymount, and Chapman University. In a series of eight different fairly drawn heats, The Beach took on every other shell, some with almost an entire boat length of open water between them. Coaches Jeffrey Vreeland and Ryan Spagg are gearing up their crews to end the fall racing season with a bang.

In the Naples Island Head Race, the Men’s Open 8+ event was dominated by UCLA with Loyola Marymount, UC Santa Barbara, and The Beach, finishing within 50 seconds of each other. Chapman University trailed. The Beach was overtaken in the Women’s Open 8+ by UC Santa Barbara by 40 seconds with Chapman University behind The Beach by four seconds.

Following the racing, all athletes were served breakfast sponsored by the Beach Crew Alumni Association with the help of the Leos of the Seal Beach Lions Club. Our thanks go out to John O’Donnell, Renn Levy and Rob Glidden as our USrowing officials for the weekend. We also want to thank Bill Eldon, Bryan Bayer, and Katrin Gleie.

Official results of the regatta are posted at Row2k.