High Point Rowing Club will host two weekend Learn to Row Clinics for students attending grade 7-12 at any Triad area school in the coming weeks. The clinics will be held at Oak Hollow Lake on Saturdays at 9am and Sundays at 2:00pm.
No prior experience in rowing is needed. Please click here for directions. The fee for each two day clinic is $25.
“The purpose of these rowing clinics is to give students the opportunity to try out rowing for the first time. This will give a student enough experience to help them decide if this is a sport for them in the future,” says chief coach Gene Kininmonth.
Participants should wear flip flops (not running shoes) and general running attire suitable for the weather. Do not wear baggy shorts as these will get caught in the moving seats in the boat.
Clinics will take place on the following weekends (click on the date to register for that clinic):
October 24-25
November 21-22
Participants must be confident swimmers as a safety precaution and should have their parents sign the waiver and swim form on the Register page on this website and bring it with them to the first session with their payment.
Rowing is now the fastest growing sport in the Triad with many students switching from other sports such as swimming, cross country, and soccer. High Point Rowing Club is the only youth program in the Triad and has received numerous accolades recently in the local media such as the Greensboro News & Record and High Point Enterprise.
Jeri Rowe – Rowing a new way of life in the South
Greer Smith – Rowers make a big splash at Oak Hollow Lake
Click here for some of the many reasons why high school students should try out the sport. The average college rowing scholarship of High Point Rowing Club’s high school seniors in 2014 was $29,000.
Email Coach Gene Kininmonth at contact@highpointrowing.com for more information.
