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High Point – Oak Hollow Lake will be the venue for High Point Rowing Club’s inaugural rowing regatta on Saturday, March 29th, the program’s Board of Directors has announced.

The 2014 High Point Regatta marks the opening day of the rowing season and costs will be underwritten thanks to a generous sponsorship from Atlas Lighting corporation. Competition will take place between High Point Rowing Club’s youth crew and Triangle Rowing Club of Raleigh.

“We issued an invitation to Triangle Rowing Club to a test of boat speed and they accepted,” said High Point coach Gene Kininmonth. “Triangle is one of the premier youth crew programs in North Carolina and so it is a great honor to have a team of this calibre choose to travel here to race us.”

“Oak Hollow Lake is a tremendous venue for crew and especially for hosting aquatic events,” says Kininmonth. “The City of High Point is very supportive of emerging sports and recreational activities and I expect future High Point Regattas to draw hundreds of competitors and spectators from across the region.”

Racing will commence at 8:30am in the following boat classes:

Women’s Youth Varsity Four
Women’s Youth Varsity Eight
Women’s Youth Novice Four
Women’s Youth Novice Eight
Women’s Youth Second Novice Eight
Men’s Youth Novice Four
Men’s Youth Novice Eight

Crews will launch from Oak Hollow North Ramp and this location will also provide for the best spectator viewing. Free parking is available. Directions.

All rowers, please note the upcoming schedule of rowing activities.

February 15-16 subject to weather constraints and lake water temperatures, we will begin rowing sessions on the weekends for rowers with prior racing experience.

March 1-2 our team will host Learn to Row sessions at 1pm. We already have a number of students signed up and quite a few more are expected. All rowers should make plans to be at these sessions. Weekend rowing will continue in March for all rowers Year 9-12 regardless of prior experience.

Mid-week rowing will begin on Monday, March 10 following the beginning of Daylight Savings Time on March 9.

In the third week of March the Middle School rowing program begins for students in Years 7 & 8. This new group will need assistance getting boats on/off the water so experienced rowers please be ready to help.

Our race schedule is still very tentative as other teams have yet to commit to come to High Point to race. Announcements will be made as events are scheduled.

Please note the following change to the Fall Regatta Schedule:

The Beaverdam Regatta has been cancelled and so High Point Rowing Club has replaced the event with the Occoquan Chase.

Occoquan Chase Regatta
Sunday, October 13th
Sandy Run, VA

“We are pleased to be able to add this regatta to our schedule,” says rowing director Gene Kininmonth. “The Occoquan is one of the premier bodies of water in the United States for rowing, having in the past hosted the Olympic Trials. There is a huge youth rowing community in Northern Virginia and this will be a wonderful opportunity for our crew to race against some of the best scholastic rowers in the country.”

2013 FALL REGATTA SCHEDULE:

Tail of the Tiger
Saturday, October 5th
Clemson, South Carolina

Beaverdam Regatta
Saturday, October 26th
14600 Creedmoor Road, Wake Forest, NC

2013 Head of the Hooch
Saturday, November 2nd
Chattanooga, Tennessee

High Point Rowing Club is a 501(c)3 non-profit corporation which focusses on providing rowing opportunities to Triad area high school students entering years 9-12 in 2013. All team members who regularly attend rowing practice sessions will race at all regattas.

Come try out youth rowing for free!

If you are in grades 9-12 (rising), we’d love you to come give rowing a try. At the end of each summer season, we offer a free two weeks of rowing!

Sneak Peek Week starts tomorrow at Oak Hollow Lake in High Point and continues through mid-August. Oak Hollow Lake is located at 3700 Waterview Road. When you enter the park, our boats are located to the right end of the parking lot. We meet Monday through Saturday mornings at 7:15am at the lake.

Be sure to have a parent sign the waiver and swim form certifying that you can swim. These can be downloaded on the Registration page. Bring these forms with you.

Also bring the following:
• flip flops (we walk the boats into the water)
• water bottle
• dress in close-fitting shorts/t-shirt (Loose clothes get caught in the sliding seat of the boat.)

Questions? Just email our coach, Gene, at contact@highpointrowing.com or call him at (336) 257-9009.

High Point Rowing Club is pleased to announce the first ever Summer Rowing Camps in the Triad. The camps are designed for high school students – NO ROWING EXPERIENCE IS NECESSARY.

Summer Rowing Camps will take place in the mornings at beautiful Oak Hollow Lake. For questions please email rowing director Gene Kininmonth at contact@highpointrowing.com

Register Online & Make Payment

Summer Camp Session I: July 8th – 12th, 2013

Summer Camp Session II: August 5th – 9th, 2013

General Summer Membership: June – Mid August, 2013

The following forms must be completed and returned to the club before participating in any practices or camps:

HPRC WAIVER & RELEASE

Parent Swim Form

The next round of Learn to Row classes have been scheduled at Oak Hollow Lake for students ages 14 – 18 attending any Triad area high school.

The classes will be held on the weekends of April 20-21 and April 27-28 at 3pm each day. Cost per participant is $50 for all four sessions. These classes are for students with no prior rowing experience. All participants must have their parents verify in writing that they can swim. A parent of each participant must attend the first class.

High Point Rowing Club is based at Oak Hollow Lake at 3700 Waterview Avenue, High Point, NC 27265.

From Johnson Street take Old Mill Road east to the very end and then go right on Waterview Ave. Continue on to the end of Waterview where you will see the gate entrance to Oak Hollow Lake.

Email contact@highpointrowing.com to sign up for the classes and to receive further updates.

The rowing classes will be instructed by Coach Gene Kininmonth, an internationally acclaimed coach, who has coached prestigious collegiate rowing programs such as the University of Southern California and George Washington University.

Kininmonth’s last collegiate race was as coach of the USC crew that raced Canada in the final of the Grand Challenge Cup at England’s Henley Royal Regatta, an event now famous for its feature in the movie blockbuster The Social Network.

EMMA LLOYD is High Point’s Rower of the Month for March.

A freshman student at Bishop McGuinness High School in Kernersville, Emma joined the High Point Rowing Club last fall. In only her first season of rowing she was selected to lead the varsity crew as the Stroke. The stroke of the crew is similar to a quarterback in football, setting the rhythm for the crew and timing of race strategies.

In rowing, setting a strong rhythm for the crew is vital and Lloyd draws on her experience from Irish dance with the Walsh Kelley School. Lloyd is one of the top 50 Irish dancers in the southeast United States.

In November, Lloyd led High Point’s varsity crew at the Head of the Hooch Regatta in Chattanooga, TN. The Tennessee boat race featured thousands of competitors and is the second largest rowing race in the nation.

In addition to rowing and dance, Lloyd swims for Bishop McGuinness HS and Bur-Mil in Greensboro.

High Point Rowing Club will host an Open House at Oak Hollow Lake Marina for folks interested in learning more about rowing at 2pm on Sunday.

The address is:

3431 N Centennial St, High Point, NC 27265.

Note, this is on the golf course side of the lake. Enter the Marina and you will see the rowing boats in the parking lot on your left.

All students at any Triad area public or private high school are welcome to attend with their parents to learn more about the fastest growing sport in the Triad and to meet other students and parents. Please email Coach Gene Kininmonth at contact@highpointrowing.com or call directly at (336) 257-9009 with any questions.

High Point Rowing Club is working with Greensboro city officials to start a new rowing program at Lake Brandt, the team’s program director Gene Kininmonth has announced.

“Lake Brandt is an ideal venue for rowing and it is within close proximity to a significant number of private and public schools in Greensboro,” says Kininmonth. “Half of the High Point Rowing Club’s members are residents of Greensboro and Summerfield so clearly there is demand for the sport. It makes sense the city has its own rowing program.”

While the city has never had its own crew team, Greensboro’s Caroline Lind is famous for winning two Olympic gold medals in the sport of rowing. Lind won gold for the United States in the women’s eights event in Beijing and then struck gold again at the London Games last summer.

Factor in that more female college students receive athletic scholarships for rowing than any other sport and you realize Greensboro high school students have been denied access to one of the most lucrative sports for getting into the college. Since Title IX, the sport of choice of college athletic directors to counter football is women’s rowing. So, there is huge demand at universities for high school students with rowing experience.

“Rowing coaches from across the nation are already visiting Greensboro high school athletes that are playing sports such as swimming and track and trying to recruit them to row,” says Kininmonth. “The demand for athletes is huge. Imagine how many more opportunities for Greensboro students there will be with an actual rowing team in the city.”

According to Kininmonth the teams will not split until enough students are committed to rowing at each location. “Otherwise, we are just too thinly spread on resources. But we are quickly approaching the tipping point. It will be good to have healthy competition in our own backyard.”

Greensboro Crew will be open to students age 14 – 18 attending any public or private school in the Greensboro/Summerfield/Oak Ridge areas.

Parents or students interested in rowing should contact Gene Kininmonth at contact@highpointrowing.com or by calling (336) 257-9009.

 

High Point Rowing Club racing shirts have arrived. Special thanks to Artistic Apparel Company for their great service.

Crew racing shirts are for rowers and family/friends. Demonstrate your support for the team by wearing your High Point Crew shirt. We have all sizes including ladies cuts and regular. Pick up at practice. $15 each. 

The sport of Rowing or “Crew” as it is commonly referred to is taking off in the state of North Carolina.

At the collegiate level Duke University now has one of the finest women’s varsity rowing programs in the nation and the University of North Carolina has a rapidly improving Division I NCAA women’s program as well. Both universities also sanction club men’s rowing programs.

Locally, Wake Forest University has sanctioned men’s and women’s student club teams and High Point University has also entered the collegiate club ranks with a team of their own.

Both universities share Oak Hollow Lake with the High Point Rowing Club youth program for rowing.

But while the sport is taking off, it is also still very new in the state and certainly still unheard of to many in the general public. High Point Rowing Club is the newest rowing program in the nation and is currently comprised of high school students from various high schools around the Triad. On October 13th, the crew will enter its first competition when it heads to Raleigh to face off against other youth rowing programs from Charlotte, Asheville, Raleigh and Columbia, SC.

For a video presentation from the finest rowing in North Carolina, enjoy this production from Duke University.

High Point Rowing Club will offer rowing scholarships to up to ten High Point area high school students, program director Gene Kininmonth has announced.

No prior rowing experience is necessary.

“This is part of an identification program to draw talented High Point area student-athletes into the Olympic sport of rowing,” says Kininmonth. “These scholarships will be earmarked for male and female high school students based on athletic ability and a demonstrated desire to attend a four-year college or university upon graduation.”

Students will be considered for the rowing scholarships based on past participation in sports, general academic standing, and potential to succeed in rowing. Typical fees to be a member of the rowing program will be waived for scholarship recipients.

“We are looking for athletes who may not be the stars on their football, track & field, or volleyball team but love to work out, enjoy being part of a strong team environment, and are serious about doing well in school,” added Kininmonth. “We will teach these students how to row and expect them to be earning college athletic rowing scholarships when they graduate high school.”

Students wishing to be considered for a High Point Rowing Club scholarship should contact the program using the contact form with SCHOLARSHIP in the subject line and include general background on the student’s athletic and academic achievements. Student’s should include their class year for the 2012-13 year and the school they attend.

University scholarships in rowing are particularly attractive for female students as there are almost 2,300 available across the United states with many colleges choosing big female rowing teams to counter male football teams to meet the gender equity requirements of Title IX.

Gene Kininmonth has a track record of drawing the best from his teams in the past.  In his first major coaching assignment he led UCLA to 2^nd in the PAC-10 Championships and then later coached George Washington University to its first ever Atlantic 10 title. His last coaching appointment was at the University of Southern California, where he led the Trojans to the final of the 2008 Grand Challenge Cup at England’s Henley Royal Regatta, the sporting event made famous for featuring Harvard’s Winklevoss Twins in the movie The Social Network.

High Point Rowing Club is a newly formed, all-volunteer run organization with operations based at Waterview Avenue at Oak Hollow Lake. It is currently open to both female and male students aged 14-18 years of age.

If you would like more information about the High Point Rowing Club or wish to speak with Gene Kininmonth please call him directly at (336) 257-9009 or via email at contact@highpointrowing.com

 

The new academic year is fast approaching for local High Point middle and high schools and High Point Rowing Club has finalized the purchase of two rowing shells and a motorboat for the juniors program.

We hope to complete the purchase of a boat trailer this weekend for picking up these boats, which are in clubs as far away as Louisville, KY.

Once the equipment is in place at Oak Hollow Lake we will organize an information session for students and parents interested in joining the team. No rowing experience is necessary and please know that your first rowing session with the program is free of charge and without obligation. However, all participants must have a parent or life guard certify on the Swim/Float Test form that they can swim in advance of engaging in rowing activities. Please bring this completed form with you to the lake.

If you would like to talk to someone about the sport of rowing please  feel welcome to call the program director, Gene Kininmonth, directly at (336) 257-9009 or email contact@highpointrowing.com.

Rowing has come to High Point, North Carolina.

High Point Rowing Club has been formed to bring opportunities to row to the High Point community. We have received city approval to row on Oak Hollow Lake and are now in the process of acquiring boats and oars, coach boats, a trailer, and general safety equipment such as life jackets.

High Point Rowing Club welcomes participation from people of all areas of the community. Our focus in the beginning will be the establishment of a juniors program for high school students from Year 8 – 12 but we also welcome interest from college students, and adults looking for a non-impact sport to keep them in shape. Whether you are looking for a new outdoor recreational opportunity or a chance to compete in a truly unique sport, rowing is the sport for you!

NO EXPERIENCE NECESSARY!

If you would like to talk to someone about the sport of rowing please  feel welcome to call the program director, Gene Kininmonth, directly at (336) 257-9009 or email genek@highpointrowing.com.