@PhotographerMom Thank you so much for all the information. As the first (and most likely only) rower in the family, we are all sort of figuring the whole rowing world out as we go. I had no idea that college coaches will keep in contact with the club team back home more than they would with the coach at BS. Until now, I just sort of (naively ?) assumed that I would end up leaving the club team at home and row in the spring at Loomis during the season and erg throughout the rest of the year and row once I’m back home either solo or with a summer program.
I would probably have to figure out how that would work out with the strokes coaches or whether they would even be open to allowing me to still be part of the team considering that I don’t think they have any current members who aren’t in the bay area (as in there are no BS kids who come back during breaks–at least not any I know of). Furthermore, the Strokes work on the School Year calendar so they don’t do practices in the summer, but rather they hold summer camps/training boot camps so again not sure how that would work out. You’ve definitely given me a lot to think about and to start figuring out before I head off to BS.