Join the fun and action of rowing and boat racing on Oak Hollow Lake next Spring with the High Point Rowing Club youth program.

We host a clinic for middle school rowers as well as a competitive program for high school students. Rowing starts at age 11 for any student from High Point/Winston Salem area schools. You can attend any school, public or private, and still row for High Point.

Our team, which is part of the Triad United Rowing Association, is hot off a top ten result at the 2021 Youth Nationals in Sarasota, Florida. More importantly 100% of our Class of 2021 high school seniors graduated and are now studying at 12 different universities such as Duke, UNC Chapel Hill, and NC State to name just some of the local ones.

See the registration page for season dates and practice times and to register and pay online. Note, the middle school program will be capped at 30 participants so please be sure to register early for this program to avoid disappointment,

Rowing with High Point Rowing Club is a transformative experience for the student athlete. Students learn life skills through teamwork, competition, skill development and fitness building.  Our rowers have continued rowing at Division I programs such as Syracuse, Clemson, and Chapel Hill and have even represented the US in international competition.

All participants must be confident swimmers for safety reasons.

Questions? Email Coach Gene contact@highpointrowing.com

 

REGISTER HERE FOR THE WINTER $195

JAMESTOWN, NC – Indoor rowing is taking off across the country. Whether your goals are to get in shape or stay in shape, indoor rowing will help you get there. It is a low-impact way to give yourself a full-body workout.

And now the sport is once again available with instruction for adults in the Triad this Winter by High Point Rowing Club. The sessions are led by the club’s Masters Coach, Mandy Greene.

Rowing Club founder Gene Kininmonth says the indoor rowing machine, or ‘erg’ as it is more fondly known as by those in the sport, is still probably the most unloved exercise machine in the typical gym. “And yet when you are rowing in a group environment it is likely the most fun way to work out.”

Science has shown that social connection adds to endorphin release.

“You get in the erg room and from there Mandy Greene takes you through your concierge workout. Some sessions feel better than therapy.”

Kininmonth says everyone does the same workout but at their own intensity level. “When you hear the rowers around you cheering each other and their own progress you feel the energy levels go up in the room and this incredible endorphin rush.”

Recent studies show that erging improves mental as well as physical health, and helps to combat negative emotions.

“But so many people feel they are just not even in good enough shape to even push themselves enough to receive these benefits,” explains Kininmonth. “They have to stop and then the opposite happens. They feel like they are failing and negativity creeps in, which is the opposite of what you want. When you are rowing you are sitting down. Your body weight is supported and you can go for longer periods of time without a break and that gets you to the point of endorphin release.”

Indoor rowing takes no special innate talent to do well. It is as simple as riding a stationary bike but significantly more comfortable. No experience is necessary and beginners will be guided through the correct rowing technique in the first lesson.

Adults can take an introductory class for $15 during any of the regularly schedule adult ‘Masters’ sessions at High Point Rowing Club’s Indoor Rowing Studio at 124C Wade Street in the Warehouse District in Jamestown.

REGISTER HERE FOR THE WINTER $195

PAY ONLINE $200

No experience necessary to join our amazing group of rowers on Oak Hollow Lake. Enjoy midweek sunsets and Saturday morning sunrises and make this the summer to remember!

Dates and Times: Starts August 10 and ends October 3 when you get to race at the High Point Autumn Rowing Festival.

Tuesday and Thursday evenings (6:00pm-7:30pm)
Saturday at 7:30am – 9am

Cost: $200

Where? OAK HOLLOW LAKE – Use GPS: 3700 Waterview Road, High Point and this will bring you to the entrance to the park. Our boats are to the right of the parking lot.

No partial refund for missed sessions for any reason. Check with your corporate wellness program for full or partial reimbursement.

More Info: Call Gene at 257-9009 or email contact@highpointrowing.com

$75 SUMMER YOUTH LEARN TO ROW & SUP CAMP: August 2-5

Class size is limited so register early to avoid disappointment. 

This camp will take place at Oak Hollow Lake: 3700 Waterview Road, High Point.

This program is open to all middle school and high school students 6th grade and up – all participants must be at least 12 years of age and confident swimmers for safety reasons. Come and try the sport of rowing and paddle boarding in a fun and informative camp designed for beginners.

No experience necessary! Must be able to swim. Just bring exercise clothes, and a desire to learn and have fun.

To enroll, register, pay online and print and complete the registration and swim/waiver release forms (which you can bring to the first practice). Your entry will be confirmed upon completion of registration and payment. If you have questions about our summer programs please contact us.

PAY ONLINE  HERE 

PRINT AND SIGN THE BELOW FORMS

Parent Swim Form

RELEASE AND WAIVER OF LIABILITY

Join the fun and action of rowing and boat racing on Oak Hollow Lake this Fall with the High Point Rowing Club youth program.

We host a clinic for middle school rowers as well as a competitive program for high school students with discounts available for new students. Rowing starts at age 11 for any student from High Point/Winston Salem area schools. You can attend any school, public or private, and still row for High Point.

Our team, which is part of the Triad United Rowing Association, is hot off a top ten result at the 2021 Youth Nationals in Sarasota, Florida. More importantly 100% of our Class of 2021 high school seniors graduated and are heading to 12 different universities such as Duke, UNC Chapel Hill, and NC State to name just some of the local ones.

See the registration page for season dates and practice times and to register and pay online. Note, the middle school program will be capped at 30 participants so please be sure to register early for this program to avoid disappointment,

Rowing with High Point Rowing Club is a transformative experience for the student athlete. Students learn life skills through teamwork, competition, skill development and fitness building.  Our rowers have continued rowing at Division I programs such as Syracuse, Clemson, and Chapel Hill and have even represented the US in international competition.

All participants must be confident swimmers for safety reasons.

2021 FALL RACING SCHEDULE:

Sep 11: Anniversary Row

October 3: High Point Autumn Rowing Festival

October 9: Head of the James, Virginia

November 6-7: Head of the Hooch, Chattanooga, TN

November 13: Head of the South, Augusta, GA

Join the fun on the water at Oak Hollow Lake this Summer! The Summer Youth Rowing season is for high school & middle school students of all experience levels (including no experience) to row during the summer. The $295 fee covers equipment use, lake fees, coaching services, and administrative costs (insurance, etc). The summer season is June 5 thru August 7.

Rowing sessions will take place in the mornings Monday – Saturday from 7:15am – 9:00am each day.

Participants must be at least 11 years old and confident swimmers for safety reasons.

Participation levels will be capped due to coaching staff shortages in the Triad. Please register early to avoid disappointment.

REGISTER HERE

Youth Learn to Row classes will take place on Oak Hollow Lake in February. These are free intro clinics for high school and middle school students interested in joining the team for the spring season.

Saturday, February 20 & 21 from 1pm to 3pm.

Saturday, February 27 & 28 from 1pm to 3pm.

Wear socks, sneakers and layers of clothing appropriate for the weather on the day.

There will be a brief parent meeting at the beginning of each Saturday session.

Club Patrons
$5,000 & greater
Jackie & Herschel King
McDonalds Restaurants

The Stewards Society
$2,500 to $4,999
Michele Krantz
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Power 10 Club
$1,000 to $2,499
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The Last 500 Club $500 to $999
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Haywood Alexander
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Linda & Ralph Crandall
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CarolAnne Earnhardt
Jo & Gary Earnhardt
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JoAnne Hahn
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Adrian Hronich
Kelly Hrycay
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Up to $99
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Jason Thomas
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Thank you to all of these very generous 2020 donors to High Point Rowing Club and the Triad United Rowing Association. We apologise for any errors or omissions. Please email contact@highpointrowing.com to suggest corrections.

• Written by Charlotte Curri

The cancelation of our spring season in March was a difficult time for the whole team.

We had spent a long winter training indoors and were eager to get out on the water and race. Our hopes were high coming into that season, getting excited to make a push for Southeast Regionals and Nationals. Once Covid-19 hit, these opportunities were unfortunately taken away from us. Despite this, the team kept its drive. Before lockdown went into effect, we were able to take ergs home so we had a way to train. Shortly after, we started having workouts over Zoom. This was definitely not the championship spring we hoped to have. However, it was inspiring to see our teammates faces, even over Zoom, and know that while we were training in our garages we were not alone. After a spring and summer of training over Zoom, we were able to get back on the water. This was a day we had been waiting for over the months we were apart. Although we were only able to return in singles and doubles, we were thrilled to be together in person (at a distance). We were also able to get back the feeling we had been dreaming of for months, gliding over the water. 

If you know our club, you know that we cannot resist to make an event of rowing around our two-story tall inflatable duck. After spending weeks on end practicing every day, all we wanted was have a taste of racing. Thanks to our coaches and community, we were able to do just that. In September we had inter-squad races in small boats that consisted of short sprints, and of course the beloved turn around the duck. This event allowed us to get back to the feel of racing, even if it was not what we expected our season to look like. 

As our fall season on the water was coming to an end, we were able to have one more race, a duel against Greensboro. With the team being as close as ever, despite what we had been through, everyone was eager to race and see who would come out on top. Over the course of two days, High Point and Greensboro battled it out on Oak Hollow Lake in small boats. These two rainy days were nothing but excitement. For a number of people, it was the last time they would be on the water this fall. 

After the time change on November 1, we headed indoors to finish out the season. With days getting shorter and the water temperature growing colder, we have been training in the erg room. We are fortunate enough to have a facility that allows us to follow the USRowing Covid-19 guidelines to safely train together. With our ergs twelve feet apart and the garage door open so air is constantly flowing through, we have had a productive end to the fall. The whole team is excited to put in the work to get stronger and faster over this winter season. We have already seen PRs and have heard the sweet sound of the PR bell ringing. This gives us nothing but hope for the months to come. Looking to winter, it is a time to put our heads down and take each stroke with the goal of preparing for next season, and maybe even having that champion season we missed out on last spring. Overall, we are grateful every day for the opportunity to practice our sport together as a team, as this is something we have learned to not take for granted.

Charlotte Curri is a 2020-21 High Point captain, coxswain, and U17 USRowing SE region champion in the quad sculls and state champion in the lightweight fours.

Cambridge University Boat Race winner Kate Horvat will be the guest speaker at this year’s Celebration of Rowing banquet.

The 6th annual Celebration of Rowing banquet, hosted by the Triad United Rowing Association will take place at 6pm on Saturday, November 23, at Sedgefield Country Club.

“Kate Horvat has enjoyed a rich rowing career among some of the most historic institutions of our sport,” says banquet Chair Jackie King. “Kate descends from a renowned family of rowers in Philadelphia, where she rowed on the Schuylkill River as a high school rower. She then rowed at Yale University before being recruited to the University of Cambridge in England as a graduate student where she was a member of the 2019 winning Boat Race crew.

“We always grateful to have a guest speaker who has made an impact on the international stage and Kate shows our youth rowers just how rewarding a strong focus on both their sport and their academics can be. We are so honored to have Kate joining us to speak on this occasion.”

The legendary men and women’s two-boat races between Oxford and Cambridge Universities draw around 250,000 people each year to the banks of the River Thames, and millions of people watch it on television and live streams. 

B U Y   D I N N E R   T I C K E T S

The Celebration of Rowing banquet is a social event for recognizing an appreciation for our sport and our local rowing community. Celebration of Rowing is the one time each year when the Triad rowing community gathers to honor its own and enjoy hearing from a keynote speaker who has made a national impact on the sport of rowing.

Cocktail attire with ‘team colors’.

Kate Horvat will follow a talented line of speakers in recent years who have each had a national impact on the rowing community: 2014 Caroline Lind, 2X Olympic gold medalist 2015 Misha Joukowsky, Resolute shells 2016 Jack Carlson, Rowing Blazers 2017 Jason Read, 911 firefighter & Olympic gold medalist, and 2018 Megan Cooke-Cargagno, world champion rower & Duke University Women’s rowing coach.  “The Celebration of Rowing banquet is a special night for rowers,” says the event chair Jackie King. “It is about coming together to celebrate the sport we all love and for many of us a sport that has held a profound transformational effect on our lives.”  

BUY A RAFFLE TICKET TO WIN AN ERG!

The High Point Masters have pooled together to buy a brand new erg, which will be raffled off at the banquet. Purchase your ticket online to win this Concept2 Model D erg with PM5 monitor.

ONE RAFFLE TICKET FOR $20

SIX RAFFLE TICKETS FOR $100

Jamestown, NC – High Point Rowing Club is excited to announce a new season of Youth Indoor Rowing for high school and middle school students at its Jamestown Indoor Rowing Studio. The purpose of the Youth Indoor Rowing is to foster healthy living in a fun team environment for students through the wonderful sport of rowing. Students will be be prepared for the challenges of the spring boat racing season after completing the indoor rowing program.

No prior rowing experience is necessary. 

“Indoor rowing has taken off as the new spinning and we have received lots of interest from students wishing to try out this sport,” says club organizer Gene Kininmonth. “Rowing is low-impact making it safe from the types of head and knee injuries we see in other sports.”

In addition to indoor rowing, students will also participate in strength and conditioning as well as a boxing fitness regimen (which does not involve students hitting each other).

Format: Participants with no prior experience will start with a learn-to-row format on the Concept2 rowing machines.  As technique and stamina improve, a more competitive format will be adopted.

Dates and Times: Each day, Monday – Friday from 4:30pm – 6:00pm and at 9am on Saturday mornings. Students are not expected to be at every session. The season begins on Monday November 11 and will go through to February 22, 2020

Attire: Tee shirt, form-fitting shorts, and running shoes are usual attire. Loose fitting shorts will likely catch in the “slide” (where the rowing seat moves back and forth on the rower). Bring a water bottle too!

Address: 124-C Wade Street, Jamestown, North Carolina.

Cost: $275 per participant. No partial refund for missed sessions or weather related cancellations.

More Info: Email contact@highpointrowing.com

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Festival Park, High Point – Oak Hollow Lake will welcome over 600 rowers and thousands of spectators from across the southeast region of the United States to the 2019 High Point Autumn Rowing Festival on Saturday. 

A record 182 boats have entered to race the winding 5,000 meter race course.

This puts the event close to capacity according to race director Gene Kininmonth, who says the festival will be the biggest rowing event ever held in North Carolina.

Kininmonth says High Point’s rowing festival has now become a boutique rowing destination.

“We have a big increase in the number of rowers coming in from Tennessee and Virginia. They come with their families and stay overnight. This will give a nice boost to the local economy.”

At the mid point of the race crews will row around a three story tall inflatable duck. “They want to row around the duck,” says Kininmonth.

Participation numbers in rowing continues to climb in North Carolina and High Point is at the epicenter of this remarkable growth. With the festival near capacity due to limited dock space, the High Point Convention and Visitors Bureau recently granted the city $98,000 to install a floating dock and race course at Festival Park. The dock will allow the rowing festival to double in size in 2020. 

In addition to scenic views of the rowing on Oak Hollow Lake, spectators will enjoy listening to Carolina Beach Blast music and feast from a number of food trucks serving coffee, slushies, burgers and tacos.

WANT TO GO? Races begin at 9am. The regatta is open to the general public and admission is free. Parking is $5.

WHERE? 1841 Eastchester Drive, High Point, NC 27265

CLICK FOR RACE SCHEDULE

The summer is a wonderful time for students to row and Oak Hollow Lake is the best place to row in High Point.

High Point Rowing Club has many opportunities for students this summer, including two 1-week learn to row camps or an ‘all-summer’ rowing extravaganza. All camps are suitable for students with no prior rowing experience.

Please note space is limited in our learn to row camps so please register early to avoid disappointment.

ROWING DATES:

SESSION 2: August 5 – 9

ALL SUMMER MORNING CAMP

Oak Ridge, Tennessee – Twelve High Point youth rowers will team up with eleven Greensboro rowers to represent the Triad United Rowing Association this weekend at USRowing’s Southeast Regional Rowing Championships.

The Southeast Youth Championships event offers opportunities for crews within the region to qualify for the USRowing Youth National Championships

High Point rower Charlotte Curri will team up with Greensboro captain Kate Messick to open racing in the time trial for the women’s youth lightweight double sculls. Charlotte and Kate will also join Natalie Earnhardt and Alexa Robb on Sunday in the final of the women’s U17 quad sculls, an event the club won in 2018.

Next up for High Point on Saturday morning, Matthew Hronich and Isaac Gates will race the men’s double sculls event. Matthew and Isaac will also team up with Aydin Hall and Sarvesh Venkittu in the U17 quadsculls later in afternoon racing. The oarsome foursome won the U17 quad event at the recent Dogwood Championships and expectations are high for the crew.

Junior Ognovich, Lindsay York, and Kinkead Crotts will team with Greensboro’s Alexa Robb in the women’s quad sculls time trial. Ognovich won the regional championships in 2017 in the pair with Maddie Mullins. This is the first time the club will represent in the women’s open quad event.

In afternoon racing, High Point’s U15 rowers Elizabeth Richards, AnaLucia Albino, and Claire Lytle will join forces with Greensboro U15 rowers Eleah Stewart, Aubrey Bews, Ellie Anderson, Victoria Albright, Catherine Lawrence and Isabella Gregorio to race in the U17 youth eights event as a prelude to their U15 final on Sunday.

To conclude Sunday racing, Junior Ognovich and Lindsay York will team with Grace Denenny and Kate Messick in the final of the straight fours race.

CLICK HERE for HEAT SHEETS OF ALL RACES

The 2019 USRowing Southeast Youth Championships will be held at Melton Hill Lake, 697 Melton Lake Dr, Oak Ridge, TN 37830

The summer is a wonderful time for students to row and Oak Hollow Lake is the best place to row in High Point.

High Point Rowing Club has many opportunities for students this summer, including two 1-week learn to row camps or an ‘all-summer’ rowing extravaganza. All camps are suitable for students with no prior rowing experience.

Please note space is limited in our learn to row camps so please register early to avoid disappointment.

ROWING DATES:

SESSION I: June 24 – 28

SESSION 2: August 5 – 9

ALL SUMMER MORNING CAMP