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.”
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