Welcome to Spring 2020 BLS Crew rower registration! A parent or guardian (not the BLS student) must complete this registration form. Please read the following information and complete all pages. Questions with asterisks are required. You must click the "send" button to finish the registration and save your answers!

PRACTICE SCHEDULES AND PROGRAM INFORMATION are available at https://www.blscrew.org under the "Spring 2020" tab.

No rower will be able to start practice without submitting the required forms as PDF email attachments to registrar@blscrew.org.

Varsity rowers and returning Novice rowers must submit forms by Friday December 20, before the BLS winter break starts.

New Novice rowers must submit forms by January 17, 2020, to start practice on January 21 or, if joining the team later, at least two days prior to their first day of practice.

Forms can easily be scanned and emailed as PDFs using a free smartphone scanner app (for example, "Tiny Scanner" or "Genius Scan").

WHAT PROGRAM TO REGISTER FOR:

- If you have rowed Varsity before, you remain in Varsity
- If you started in Spring 2019 or earlier, and you are currently in 9th grade or above, you should register for Varsity
- If you started in Spring 2019 or earlier, and you are currently in 8th grade, and you are a girl, you should check with
   Jasmine (jasmine@blscrew.org) and/or Hannah (hannah@blscrew.org)
- If you started in Spring 2019 or earlier, and you are currently in 8th grade, and you are a boy, you remain in Novice
- If you started in Fall 2019, you remain in Novice
- If you are new to BLS Crew, you start in Novice

REQUIRED FORMS:

(1) For ALL Spring 2020 rowers: A Spring 2020 BLS Sports Clearance Form, obtained from the BLS nurses' office. A physician's school/camp form completed within the past 13 months must be on file with the nurses' office to get the Sports Clearance Form.

(2) For Spring 2020 rowers who did NOT row in Fall 2019: A concussion training certificate, obtained by doing the video training at http://nfhslearn.com/courses/61037/concussion-in-sports.

(3) For Spring 2020 rowers who did NOT row in Fall 2019: A signed Safety Pledge, downloaded from: https://www.blscrew.org/rower-safety-pledge

(4) For new Novices ONLY, a completed swim test form, available at https://www.blscrew.org/swim-test-form. (Note: Since on-the-water practice does not begin right away, the swim test needs to be completed by early March.)

Rower fees are due by December 20, 2019, for Varsity rowers and returning Novice rowers, and by March 13, 2020, for New Novice rowers UNLESS a financial aid or alternative payment arrangement has been made. BLS Crew is committed to ensuring that crew is accessible to all BLS families, and financial aid is available for families for whom the full rower fees are not affordable. To request financial aid, please email registrar@blscrew.org.

PAYMENT OPTIONS:

(1) PayPal or credit card: Use the link on the BLS Crew website: https://www.blscrew.org/payment.

(2) Check: Payable to Friends of BLS Crew (include rower name, "Spring 2020" and team, e.g., Boys Novice, in memo line) and mailed to:

Friends of BLS Crew
c/o Roberta Upton
96 Goodenough Street
Brighton, MA 02135-2144

FOR VARSITY ONLY, BUS TO BOATHOUSE PRACTICES: For the past few seasons, BLS Crew has provided bus transportation to the 5 pm Varsity boathouse practices. Most rowers and families have felt that the bus is very helpful to allow rowers time after school for homework and extracurricular activities, and to avoid a long and complicated trip by public transportation at that time of day.

To make this bus happen, we need the majority of Varsity families to make a $300 contribution to BLS Crew to fund it, in addition to the standard rower fees. At the same time, we understand that some families will not be able to fit this additional contribution into their budgets or will not contribute because their rowers do not use the bus. We also greatly appreciate that some families have offered to make a donation above and beyond $300 to make the bus financially possible. All rowers will be able to use the bus regardless of their family's financial contribution. The last section of this registration form contains questions about your family's ability to contribute to the bus.

For Novice practices that start at the boathouse at 3:15 pm, rowers are able to take the MBTA/BLS Supplemental Bus #57 that conveniently leaves from right outside BLS after school, therefore there is no need for BLS Crew to provide a Novice bus.

QUESTIONS? Email registrar@blscrew.org with any registration or payment questions. After the registration form is submitted, the "Parent 1" email address provided below will receive an email with this information, and it is also available at www.blscrew.org.

Thanks!