Middletown High Crew 12-Hour Ergathon Saturday

The Middletown High School Crew Team Ergathon is an all-day event involving more than 80 members who will man rowing machines in the high school gym in an effort to raise funds for much-needed equipment. 

Saturday, from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m., the High School Crew team will be on ergs (rowing machines) for 12 hours. Each team has one rower on the ergs for the whole 12 hours.

Mayor Dan Drew will be joining participans from noon to 1 p.m., as well as some teachers who will be rowing and challenging the students.

The team is also selling Pandora Middletown High Crew beads and tote bags to raise funds, as well as the following benefits:

April 25 — Coldstone Creamery Fundraiser! 9 a.m. to 9 p.m.

May 1 — Cypress Restaurant Dinner Fundraiser!

May 20 — Puerto Vallarta Fundraiser!

Crew is a wonderful sport for local youth. It affords them the use of our terrific resource, the Connecticut River.

The sport offers a great opportunity for the rowers to build strong character, healthy bodies and a solid athletic spirit. Participation in crew has a potential to open the doors of some of the finer colleges and universities to our athletes.

Crew is also an expensive sport. A new boat = $30,000. A used boat = $15,000. Oars = $2,000+. In this day and age, a school budget just cannot absorb that kind of expense.

Donations may be sent to: The Middletown High School Crew Team, Middletown High School, 200 LaRose Lane, Middletown, Connecticut, 06457. Attn: Wendy Sheil, Head Coach; with “MHS Booster Club — Crew," in the memo line.

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