Announcements – Page 8 – Beekley Rowing

The foundation held it’s monthly board meeting on May 2, 2011 at Woodstock’s Pizza near SDSU. This was the final meeting of the racing season, as the Men’s team just returned from the WIRA races in Sacramento. In attendance was the President (Jake Wittler), the Vice President (Andy Olson), Secretary (Dan Smith), Coach (Brian Robison), Assistant Coach (Derek Snyder) and former rower Tobin Ortega.

The team did well at WIRAs. Due to new rules enacted by WIRA, the team was only able to enter a novice 8 and a lightweight 4. The Novice 8 had their best result of the season, when they finished 3rd in the Petite Final. They were able to beat teams that they had not beaten all season. (The lightweight 4 struggled, as they broke a rigger in the middle of their race)

Both the team and foundation reported success during the Crew Classic. Alumni Dave Sheeron offered to match up to $1000 raised by the team at Crew Classic. The team earned the full amount, and raised over $2000! Between the Alumni Boat entry fees, and donations, the foundation raised another $670!

Keep an eye out for some upcoming events. We still are planning to have an outing at a Padres baseball game, and we are still targeting a June date for our annual golf tournament!

See the full meeting minutes here, and feel free to join us next month on June 6 @ Woodstocks!

On April 3 at 5:30PM, 19 people met at the Crew Classic for the Annual Beekley Foundation Meeting.

During the meeting, many topics were discussed. Current President Jake started off discussing the state of the foundation. The membership remained stagnate at about 35 members. The foundation did hold its first golf tournament last June, and is putting on the second annual tournament in June.

The focus of the foundation was to originally create a large endowment fund to help fund a full time coach. This goal is unchanged, but the much of the short-term focus of the foundation will switch to getting more alumni involved. This will involve hosting many small events throughout the year, including the main events hosted by the foundation. Due to the limited amount of time available to the officers of the foundation, these smaller events will be run by the members of the foundation.

The full set of meeting minutes can be read here

The first event will be a Padres game hosted by Mike Clodfelter sometime in May, and BBQ event will be lead by Joe Whitaker this summer. Stay tuned to this website (and check your email) for more information.

Go Aztecs!

May 2011 Foundation Board Meeting

2011-2012 Beekley Foundation Officers

Crew Classic Annual Meeting