https://usrowing.org/sports/2022/1/6/stay-to-play-policy.aspx
TLDR: If you want to race at a USRowing event, you have to book hotels through a USRowing partner.
Back in the late 90's, early 2000's there would have already been like 10 lawsuits filed over something like this. Any wagers on how people react these days?
…”competitors will be able to book their lodging via any method they choose and will not be required to seek a waiver if they do not book through HBC Event Services.”
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The Friday announcement could be interesting.
Dear USRowing Board of Directors,
Nobuhisa Ishizuka, Greg Benning, Kevin Harris, Sara Hendershot, Marcia Hooper, Matt Hughes, Joe Manion, Meghan O'Leary, Robin Prendes, Steve Shure, Lisa Stone, Jimmy Sopko, Falesha Thrash, Sheila Tolle
As members of USRowing, we have increasing concerns about the lack of leadership shown by those at the helm of US Rowing.
The little information that IS released seems intended to be deliberately divisive. In a Row2k interview, Sarah Hendershot, the HPC chair, declares that all athletes want early selection. This statement, aside from being demonstrably untrue, is beside the point. These kinds of statements are designed to send us all squabbling over the late selection vs early selection debate. The real question is, what is the TEAM goal for 2024. Dare we venture to have a vision that takes us through 2028? How do the selection procedures released this year further the goal of the TEAM in 2024? Saying they are a stop-gap to be scrapped for a different system in 2023 is lazy, irresponsible, and divisive.
The challenges before you directly result from the people you appointed to lead Team USA and their complete lack of unifying vision. Funding, transparency, and the future of the National Team are all on the line, and we are not receiving any information.
What Is The Plan For Funding And The Future
As a board, you have fired 2 CEO's and 3 Men's coaches in the past five years. You have seen a steady decline in funding and a steady decline in National Team results. At what point should you look at how you make decisions and whether or not you should de-certify yourself from running our National Team? If USRowing's goals include growing our sport, are you not bankrupting our organization?
How and why did USRowing lose the funding arm of the National Team in the NRF? Did they not generously provide half of the National Teams budget for years? Should USRowing have worked with the NRF, given that NRF funding is critical to operations? Why is there no information regarding this loss of funds?
Is it deliberate that USRowing is making a lot of changes all at once? Is it a strategy to catch people off guard? Or is it just an attempt to save face because we are out of money?
What progress has Amanda Kraus made in fundraising and diversity, equity, and inclusion?
It appears that if you close the training centers, you will save money on staff, facilities, equipment, etc. You will only have to create races to select;
... keep reading on reddit ➡I proposed a rule change to the 2022 USRowing Rules of Rowing to change the definition of “amateur” to allow adults (post-collegiate) to win prize money at regattas. Sometime in the future I’d like to host a regatta where prize money is given. The first step is changing the rule. Part of the process is the open comment period – and I’d love to have people give feedback to USRowing whether they agree or disagree with this change. I want to make sure the rule reflects what the community actually wants.
Email your comments to members@usrowing.org and copy jules.zane@usrowing.org with the subject line "2022 Rules Proposals Comment."
Here is a link to all the proposed rule changes: https://s3.amazonaws.com/sidearm.sites/usarowing.sidearmsports.com/documents/2021/10/8/2022_Rule_Change_Proposals.pdf
In the aftermath of zero medals, there have been a number of ideas thrown around as to how to change the system to avoid such an embarrassment in the future. Some have been compelling, but there's one idea that IMO, needs to be squashed: reducing the number of international athletes at the IRA/NCAA level.
There is no question that the collegiate Grand Finals look more like a U23 final than an American national championship, and I can understand why this feels strange. But is the solution really to reduce/remove them and lower the level of competition across the board?
I challenge anyone to find an American rower from the top 10 men's and women's teams who believes that they would be a better rower or have a higher potential in the future if only there weren't so many international recruits in their squads. It's nonsense. The real issues have been described well by others--most significantly the financial barrier to being a full time rower.
I simply cannot imagine how reducing the top end speed at the national championships is going to lead to more medals down the line. American athletes get the opportunity to train side by side with some of the current best rowers in the world, many of whom will go on to be Olympians in their respective country. That is an unbelievable advantage, and there's a reason that groups like RNZ have been slow to support athletes who head overseas.
If the problem you'd like to fix is at the college level, then in a perfect world we'd see more financial support for collegiate programs. Men's rowing would join the NCAA and we would see more programs and a larger, healthier sport in America. It is no coincidence that our women's sweep teams have been dominant for the last 20 years (can't win em all) and that you can get a scholarship to a division 1 program with just a good erg and size. It's not as simple as snapping our fingers, but for too long insiders in the US system have refused to entertain NCAA Division 1 men's rowing. That is, to my eye, a much larger barrier to success than the international presence.
Speed order is today and tomorrow. Does anyone have the erg results from today?
I think we should come together and evaluate the complete lack of competency at Summer Nationals. It is beyond clear that USRowing is incapable of running a Summer Nationals event with any sort of true substance behind it. Everything about the regatta since I’ve arrived (Thursday) has made it so clear how little money was invested into this Summer “flagship” regatta of theirs. Its shown how disinterested USRowing is in running a complete regatta that emphasizes competition on all levels.
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0 water available on site to the athletes during a summer heat wave with heat indexes over 100 degrees at times with many athletes entered in multiple events (one cooler of water bottles at the recovery dock isn’t enough)
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A dock from the main launch site with a pipe sticking out on one side so could only launch from one side of the dock at times.
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no finish line horn?? I know this doesn’t really matter but like come on this takes so little effort
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changing the lightweight weigh in rules in the middle of the night the night prior to weigh ins and first races
And finally the way in which they handled the weather. The point when they decided to suspend racing was far too premature and they could’ve kept racing safely for another 2 hours in my opinion. There’s a reason we don’t award medals based off time trials — things change when athletes are side by side and that’s the true colors of this sport. Continuing to eliminate side by side racing opportunities for individuals all throughout the different levels of speed at the regatta is lazy, especially in competitive events where the semifinals had some very good prospective racing in it. And even with the weather delays there is plenty of time in the day Sunday to still fit in more races. I understand people are already entered in a lot of races and so jamming more racing in might be ill advised but there are a lot of senior athletes who only entered in the single and now will leave the regatta with only having had a time trial to show for their training.
I think there’s a larger issue here at play of how USRowing treats senior athletes compared to the cash cow of scholastic and youth, but, it becomes quite clear why the US is so slow at sculling when we have our one summer regatta geared towards development of these athletes get completely stripped down to a time trial and then final with no initiative to try and fit in trials events semis.
Combining it was outstanding this year. What are the expectations for next year?
How does the process work? Are you at a disadvantage if you haven’t gone through u23s? Do you have to go to a top rowing school in college or is it purely based on scores/fitness? Just wondering.
Hey guys, so as a Junior Rower, we've been presented with the opportunity to have our regional, and national championships (which have been cancelled) go "virtual". This means that regional races will be held by people erging a 2k between May 1-15 and submitting them as boat entry times, and qualified crews in each event will then go compete at nationals.
What do you guys think of this, and is this Virtual regionals/nationals an important regatta? When college coaches see that you got 1st place at virtual regionals or virtual nationals, do they care?
It looks like there is more of the same to come in the Nationals. Here is an interesting article about how the IRA expects to apply their control regarding COVID at the Nationals this year.
https://www.row2k.com/ira/features/2021/1830/IRA-2021-Preview--How-To-Watch--What-to-Expect/
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What clubs are using USRowing's guidelines for reopening? We have been using them but every time we get close "local infection rate is less than 50 new cases per 100,000 people in total for the last seven-day period" standard our county increases the amount of testing.
Hospitalization rates for Covid are down 35% in the last month in our county. The number of people actually sick are down big. Could we reopen based on this good news? Many other clubs in our state and region are rowing quads and eights. We are feeling left out and the club's finances have run dry.
What’s it lookin like this year
Unless social distancing is somehow allowed by October in MA, this would seem to put the nail in the HOCR coffin for anyone of any distance away:
- 1x only
- Only rowers within 120-140 mile radius
- Recommend not having rowers > 65 years old
- "Failure to provide a safe rowing environment are grounds for suspension or revocation of organizational membership and decertification of a regatta."
https://usrowing.org/documents/2020/5/21//Events_Guidelines.pdf?id=2289
It nows includes a formula to determine if teams can return to the water!
Let’s count the national championships available for youth rowing ..
Scholastic Rowing National Championship
USRowing Youth National Championships
USRowing U15/U17 National Championships
USRowing National Championships
Theoretically some kid out there could walk out of 2019 as a four time national champion? Overkill? Redundant? Am I missing any races? Hard to keep track of all of these national championships.
Just doesn’t make much sense to add an extra day to youth nats only to cut half the events the next year.
Plus they published a pretty comprehensive guide for coaches to ensure healthy ltwt programs.
Big news yet USRowing is keeping it on the down-low. Patrick McNerney quits for personal reasons on January 2... less than a month after the annual meeting in Philly. What happened?
In an effort to expand national team identification, USRowing is pleased to announce a new online erg score submission program. Athletes interested in the U23 and Senior National Team may choose to post monthly scores to USRowing’s website by filling out the online form. Scores will be ranked monthly and will carry over from each month. Athletes need only update their scores if they have new personal records to post. Only the athlete’s name, age, affiliation, and scores will be posted. In order for there to be a new individual at the top of the erg list for the month, the winning score from the previous months would have to be bested.
October results are posted and November submissions are now being accepted. Post today!!
