The Indianapolis Rowing Center

Emma Preuschl will represent the USA at the World Rowing Championships in New Zealand this November.  Preuschl will row in the Adaptive 4+. 

This is Preuschl’s third US National Team: She rowed for USA in the Beijing Paralympics in 2008 and in the World Championships in 2009.  

Currently finishing her advanced degree at Purdue University, Preuschl trains [...]

Jackie Kleinhans will join IRC as the Club Coach and Equipment Manager.  Kleinhans will serve as the associate program director and coach of the Juniors and head coach of the Masters program.  She will also be responsible for building and maintaining the IRC fleet.

Kleinhans coached for the past three years with the Great Miami Rowing Center in [...]

Congratulations to the seven IRC rowers who represented IRC at US Club Nationals in Oak Ridge, TN.  IRC raced a womens intermediate 4+ (Angela Metzler (c), Katie Laine, Melinda Miles, Caitlin Gray, Stephanie Barber), a womens intermediate 1x (Caitlin Gray), a junior mens 1x (Nathaniel Kallmyer) and a intermediate mens 1x (David Runyan). 

The women’s [...]

Crews docking after morning practice at US Pre-elite Camp

IRC Director Bernadette Teeley is in Philadelphia this week, coaching the US Pre-Elite Camp out of Vesper Boat Club. Teeley was invited to coach this development group of college rowers by the US National team coaches. The rowers will compete at Club Nationals and Candian Henley, and [...]

Congratulations to Masters Rower Jeff Garant, featured in the July 4th edition of the Indianapolis Star.   Jeff’s renewed commitment to a healthy lifestyle brought him back to rowing and contributed to his 50 pound weight loss.

Read More from the July 4th, 2010 Indianapolis Star

IRC received the new training barge– just in time for our summer programming!

Congratulations to former IRC rower Pat Close for competing this past weekend in the 2010 USRowing National Selection Regatta #1.  Racing began Friday at the Finn M.W. Caspersen Rowing Center on Mercer Lake in West Windsor, NJ and continued through finals on Sunday.  Pat competing in the Men’s 1x and made it all the way [...]

IRC is one of 15 Indiana agencies to receive a 2010 Champs Grant!  The funds will be used toward the purchase of a rowing barge and life jackets for our youth programming.  Read the full pressrelease2010 from the Indiana Sports Corp here!

The Indianapolis Rowing Center will be hosting the annual Boathouse Clean-Up Day this Saturday, April 17 from 8-10 a.m.  This is a great opportunity to get some of your required volunteer hours out of the way early in the season!  Included on the to-do list is:  Power washing and organizing the gas hut, sweeping out [...]