Camp Randall Rowing Club offers community-wide rowing programs for high school age athletes, who are known as juniors in the world of rowing.
Head Coach Mary Beth (MB) Blanding and her staff hold team practices at the Brittingham Boathouse located at 601 North Shore Drive, Madison, WI 53703 on Lake Monona Bay near the Monona Terrace Convention Center. The Camp Randall Juniors participate in national and international regattas throughout the Midwest and compete against other Junior and High School crew competitors . All CRRC athletes and parents are required to complete Registration forms & to sign Regatta and Club Waivers, to sign the Club Code of Conduct and to sign-up to help with Club activities. Learn more about joining here. Below is a video produced by one of CRRC's rowers.
Spring/Summer Rowing:
- Spring Racing Season - From beginning of the Madison Metropolitan Schools Spring Break until second week of June
- Summer Season - From second week of June until End of July
Fall/Winter Workouts:
- Fall Racing Season - From September until mid-November
- Winter Workouts - Held in the basement of Hilldale Mall from the first week of January until the end of March or as soon as the ice melts on Lake Monona.
Summer, Spring & Fall Practice Location: Brittingham Boathouse, 601 N. Shore Drive, Madison, WI 53703
A tremendous amount of positive feedback comes from rowers and their families regarding the Camp Randall’s programs. Most parents agree that the junior rowing program helps give their kids a sense of belonging, increased responsibility and heightened maturity- while having a lot of fun.
It’s shown that young adults that participate in rowing tend to excel academically, and in fact, there have been a number of our Camp Randall’s Junior rowers who have been admitted at premiere colleges and universities across the country and many with rowing scholarships. These include the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Harvard, Vassar, Bard, University of Texas, Tulane, Wesleyan, Carleton, Boston University, NYU, Duke, Brown, Columbia, University of Iowa, University of Minnesota, Beloit College, Northland College, Denison University, Syracuse University and many other fine institutions around the country.
One of the CRRC rowers put together a video that has some footage of Spring Training and some reflections on what rowing has meant to some rowers. It was originally prepared for the 2009 Spring Parent meeting.
Camp Randall Rowing Club Juniors Dane County Community Supporters include:
CRRC Junior Parents & Alumni
Great Dane Pub & Brew Company
Evjue Foundation
Capitol Neighborhoods, Inc.
Nolen Shore-Block Eight, LLC. &
McGrath Associates, Inc.
UW Athletics Department
Krupp General Constructors, LLC
Joe Daniels Construction Company, Inc.
Madison Parks Foundation
Brittingham Madison Trust
J. H. Findorff & Sons, Inc.
Pleasant T. Rowland Foundation
Madison Parks Commission
Madison Parks Division
The Sushi Box
Norman Bassett Foundation
Madison Teachers, Inc.
Robert H. Keller, Co.
Etes-Vous Preps Coffee Co.
Madison Firefighters Local 311
UW-Madison Chancellor’s Office
