Community Rowing Celebrates 20 Years on the Charles River with Public Row-a-thon
Community Rowing, Inc. (CRI), the oldest and largest community rowing program of its kind in the nation, will host a 20K row-a-thon in celebration of 20 years of public rowing on the Charles River. The event, a fundraiser with timed races and a fun row, will benefit G-ROW Boston, the country’s first rowing and mentoring program specifically for urban girls. G-ROW Boston teaches rowing and leadership skills to more than 200 Boston public school girls annually.
Watertown, MA (PRWEB) August 11, 2005 -- Community Rowing, Inc. (CRI), the
oldest and largest community rowing program of its kind in the nation, will host
a 20K row-a-thon in celebration of 20 years of public rowing on the Charles
River. The event, a fundraiser with timed races and a fun row, will benefit
G-ROW Boston, the country’s first rowing and mentoring program specifically for
urban girls. G-ROW Boston teaches rowing and leadership skills to more than 200
Boston public school girls annually.
CRI’s “20K for 20 Years – Giving
Back to Your Rowing Community” takes place Sunday, September 18, 2005.
Participants will row from CRI’s docks in Newton down the Charles to the
Massachusetts Avenue Bridge crossing Boston and Cambridge and back.
Clubs, schools and single rowers interested in entering teams in the
event should contact Natasha Whitestone at (617) 923-7563 or e-mail protected
from spam bots.
“The Charles River is one of the most storied rowing
venues in the world,” said Alyson Magian, executive director, CRI. “As more and
more Bostonians and Cantabridgians are realize how clean the Charles now is, it
is a great time to celebrate our rowing community.”
The row-a-thon will
kick off at 9am with special guests opening the event. CRI will host fun stops
at the Harvard and Winsor boathouses along the Charles River, and an awards
ceremony and barbeque at CRI’s temporary home at the MDC Daly Rink on Nonantum
Road.
Event open to all rowing clubs, local colleges and universities;
proceeds benefit G-ROW Boston Rowing Program for Boston public school
students.
About G-ROW
G-ROW Boston (Girls-Row Boston) is the first
rowing and relationship-building program designed specifically for girls in the
Boston public schools. G-ROW builds girls’ strength and confidence, and also
aims to diversify the traditionally exclusive sport of rowing. The program was
launched in 1998 under the vision of Olympic gold medalist Holly Metcalf. Today,
G-ROW is a program of Community Rowing, Inc., and reaches more than 200 girls
each year.
G-ROW BOSTON provides girls with a once-in-a-lifetime
opportunity: to learn to row and compete on the Charles River. The girls
practice three days per week throughout the school year to develop new skills,
including on-water rowing and racing, weight and erg training, boat maintenance,
swimming, and leadership skills development. The program also provides mentors,
an academic tutoring program, and college advising through a partnership with
The Bottom Line. To date, nearly all G-ROW graduates have gone on to college.
For more information, visit: www.growboston.org
About CRI
Community Rowing, Inc.
is the largest and oldest community rowing program of its kind in the nation.
With more than 1,000 active members in the greater Boston area, CRI serves
rowers as young as 12 years old to as old as 90 years old. CRI is a
volunteer-run non-profit and has served as the rowing home for more than 15,000
people in just 20 years. CRI also offers adaptive rowing and is home to G-ROW
(Girls Row) Boston, an innovative rowing program for girls in the Boston public
school system.
For more information, visit: www.communityrowing.org
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