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Fall and Spring programs are $1500* per season. Varsity practices are 6 days a week, Monday-Saturday. Novice** practices are 5 days a week, Tuesday-Saturday.

*Financial aid is available. Please contact newportrowingclub@gmail.com for information.

**Novices are new rowers who have less than one year (two seasons) of racing experience

**Extended Spring Season is for select crews who qualify for nationals. The qualifying regatta is USRowing Mid-Atlantic Youth Championships.

NOTES:
All competitive program athletes will compete in all regattas unless noted otherwise.

 USRowing Mid-Atlantic Youth Championships - All crews compete, boats competing in select categories have the opportunity to qualify for USRowing Youth Nationals in Sarasota, FL.

Please download and review the parent and athlete handbooks below at the beginning of the season. 

All athletes, employees, and family members are expected to abide by the NRC code of conduct.

The code of conduct can also be found at the back of each of the handbooks above.

Newport Rowing Club’s High School Competitive Rowing program is open to athletes entering 9th grade through 12th grade and is divided into two groups, Novice and Varsity. Novices consist of athletes with less than 1 year of competitive rowing experience. Please note if your athlete participates in NRC’s Middle School Rowing or Middle School Winter Rowing program, when your athlete enters High School they will progress to the Novice program as the Middle School programs do not race. Once an athlete has one full calendar year of racing experience, they will progress to Varsity.

Since 2010, NRC athletes have been recruited to row at many different universities around the country.  We have also had a number of athletes make the USRowing National Team and Olympic Team.

Below is a list of all the colleges where former NRC athletes have rowed after graduating High School:

Newport Rowing Club has a growing list of athletes who have represented the United States through the Junior National, Under-23, and Senior National teams:

·       Justin Best (2018, 2019 U23 Team; 2021 & 2024 Olympic Team; 2022, 2023, 2024 Senior National Team)

·       Lainey Tierney (2021 U23 Team; 2022, 2023 Senior National Team)

·       Rose Carr (2015, 2016, & 2017 Junior National Team)

·       Michael Glaude (2016 U23 Team)

·       Nathan Smith (2012 Junior National Team; 2013 U23 Team)

NRC was undefeated in the Women’s Youth 1x, rowed by Grace Moore ‘24, in the 2024 Spring season, culminating in a bronze medal at the USRowing Youth National Championships.

Newport Rowing Club has had two athletes who have won medals at the C.R.A.S.H.-B. World Indoor Rowing Championships. In 2012, Sabine Sellers placed 5th overall in the Lightweight Junior Women’s 2k and in 2014, Julia Baumel came in 2nd in the Lightweight Under 23 Women’s 2k.

From 2013 to 2017, Newport Rowing Club’s alumnus Julia Baumel held a world record for the Indoor Lightweight Women’s Marathon (42,195m) ages 17-18 with a time of 3:09:04.4.

There will be 3 to 5 races (called regattas) per season. Fall races are “head races”, 4000-6000m time trials in which boats are sent down the course one at a time at 10 to 20 second centers. Spring races are sprints, 1500-2000m races in which 4 to 7 boats line up in lanes and begin at the same time. Regattas are busy and exciting events! There are typically a lot of boats moving around in a congested space and athletes are typically working on a tight schedule. For your safety, please wait for your athletes at the parents tent and enjoy watching the races come down the course.

For more information about racing, see our “General Regatta Information” page under "News".

Races our athletes have participated in since NRC was founded in 2010:

FALL

§  Head of the Charles (Boston, MA)

§  Head of the Hooch (Chattanooga, TN)

§  Navy Day Regatta (Philadelphia, PA)

§  Philadelphia Frostbite Regatta (Mercer Lake, NJ)

§  Bill Braxton Memorial Regatta (Mercer Lake, NJ)

§  Head of the Schuylkill Regatta (Philadelphia, PA)

§  Head of the Christina (Wilmington, DE)

§  Head of the Ohio (Pittsburgh, PA)

§  King's Head Regatta (Upper Merion, PA)

SPRING

§  Saratoga Invitational (Saratoga, NY)

§  Metropolitan Youth Speed Order (Leonia, NJ)

§  USRowing Mid-Atlantic Youth Championships (Mercer Lake, NJ)

§  USRowing Youth National Championships (Sarasota, FL)

§  Cooper Cup Regatta (Pennsauken, NJ)

§  Steve Nezcypor Regatta (Pennsauken, NJ)

§  Mercer Sprints Regatta (Mercer Lake, NJ)

§  The Baltimore Invitational (Baltimore, MD)

§  Stotesbury Cup Regatta (Philadelphia, PA)