Junior Rowing

Camp Randall Rowing Club offers a competitive rowing program for high school students throughout our community through our Junior Program. No previous experience is required. This program is also open to mature 8th grade students who have some previous rowing experience.

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Our Junior Program goals:

• Develop student athletes and help them achieve their goals

• Provide athletes with the knowledge and skills base necessary to be competitive at a regional and even national level

• Train the “whole athlete,” including pre-performance routines (nutrition, sleep, hydration, stretching, etc.), injury prevention, and accountability on and off the water

• Develop proper rowing technique

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Junior Program Seasons

Athletes are training year-round to improve their fitness and technique.  Camp Randall Rowing takes advantage of all the days we can get on the water before a winter of on land training. We open our on-water season with a week-long training in Tennessee during spring break.

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Practices are five days a week (M-F 4:45 - 6:45pm). In spring and summer months, practice typically goes until 7 pm and a sixth practice gets added on Saturday (7:00 - 9:00 am). Athletes do not have to attend every practice, but they do need to inform coaches about their attendance each week (so coaches can plan boat lineups).

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Our athletes compete locally, regionally, and nationally in both spring and fall seasons. As is true with cross country and track, in rowing, fall racing season races races are longer (3000-6000m) and spring season races are shorter sprints (1500-2000m). The fall season of rowing is considered the “endurance” season in rowing.