National Learn to Row Day: 5 June
Monongahela Rowing Association release
2 June 2010
The Monongahela Rowing Association invites you to come out and
participate in the commemoration of this year’s National Learn to Row
Day, held in conjunction with equipment maker Concept2 and the National
Olympic organization USRowing.
The Monongahela Rowing Association is Morgantown’s community
organization dedicated to the sport of Rowing (member USRowing).
When: Saturday June 5th from 10am to 4:30pm
Where: Morgantown Boathouse, located at 40 Donley Street in
Morgantown’s Wharf district (under the Boathouse Bistro on the trail).
Events will start at 10am and go until 4:30pm, free and open to all
from ages 12.
Events will include Erg rowing demonstrations, Sculling and Sweep
rowing demonstration. Get on the water and experience the exhilarating
feeling of rowing.
Participants will have the opportunity to get on a shell (rowing boat)
and try hands on, on the water rowing in a single shell or a sweep boat.
At 2 pm, information session (on the water demo) dedicated to high
school age students that may be interested in exploring sweep rowing.
(Open to HS age youth regardless of residence location.) Minors will
need signed parental consent to go on the water.
The Monongahela Rowing Association is a non profit 501(c) 3 registered
organization, first established in 1966 that initiated College Rowing
at WVU in modern times.
Membership in MRA is open to anyone interested in the sport of rowing
or interested in supporting the objectives of the organization.
WVU now has great women’s rowing team and offers many scholarships to
female athletes in this great sport. Men’s rowing is a club sport at
WVU.
Morgantown has a great river conducive to the sport of rowing, and
being on this river is a great escape from the hustle and bustle of
Morgantown’s traffic for people of all ages.
Come out on June 5th and give it a try.
For more information please visit:
www.monrowing.org
Parental consent form
email: info@monrowing.org