Titan Crew

Welcome to the fall 2010 season of crew!

The spring season saw the Titan Junior 8 take first at the Midwest Championships in Cincinnati, and then place 7th in the nation at the Scholastic Rowing Association's 76th National Championships in Saratoga Spring, N.Y.

Founded in the fall of 1986 by a group of St. John's parents whose sons encouraged (begged?) them to start a rowing team. We are now into our 24th season. After twenty years, Rod McElroy stepped down as head coach of the St. John's Jesuit High School rowing program. "My older son and his wife brought a young man, P.K.McElroy, my first grand child, into the world on 4 May. I want to be a dutiful and doting grandpa."

"It was a great ride. More friends, both students and parents, than I could ever hope to meet were I not a coach. More laughs, more crazy moments, more thrills when the boys were victorious, more opportunities to offer comfort and solace (not to get maudlin about it) when things did not go quite as planned, more hats and caps, more chances to teach the King's English - you get the idea."

The new season starts with the Float Test/Get Measured for Uniforms/Fill Out the Forms/Pot Luck at the Konieczny Baronial Estate pond in Millbury on Monday, 9 August at 1833 at 24530 W. Moline-Martin Road, Millbury, OH 43447 (1/2 mile east of the intersection of Rte 795 and Fostoria Road).

Any TITAN interested in the ultimate team sport, one that exercises all the major muscle groups of the body, provides aerobic and anaerobic conditioning, and can be a lifetime sport should consider crew at St. John's Jesuit.

We practice in downtown Toledo out of International Park on the mighty Maumee. The first week will be spent introducing novice rowers to the boathouse, the boats (shells), the indoor rowing machine ("erg"), the lingo of the rowing community, and the basics of the rowing stroke. Within a couple of days the novices will go in the "Leviathan" - two shells joined together side-by-side with a
walkway down the center; it will hold up to 16 novices and allow them to learn to row on a very stable platform,.

The crew competes in regattas both fall and spring in Boston, Cincinnati, Cleveland, Columbus, Culver, Dayton, Detroit, Pittsburgh, Toledo, Westerville, and the Scholastic National championships.

Titans have gone on to row at Harvard, Georgetown, Wisconsin, Fordham, Miami of Ohio, The Ohio State University, Boston University, Boston College, Holy Cross, Dayton, Army, Syracuse, St. Joseph's, Dartmouth, Stanford, Trinity, Cincinnati, and Xavier.

Crew offers families of rowers many opportunities to travel with sons and siblings, to meet others of like mind, and to get involved with manyaspects of the sport.