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Preuschl Named to US Team

bteeley — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 13:34:45 +0000

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 at the Indianapolis Rowing Center (IRC) and, through a partnership designed to recognize and develop elite rowers, Preuschl also receives strength training and coaching from St. Vincent Sports Performance.

Returning for its second year in Indy, the USA Adaptive Rowing Team will hold its August training camp at the Indianapolis Rowing Center. Read more about the US Adaptive Program Selection

New IRC Coach–Kleinhans

bteeley — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 20:53:41 +0000

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 Hamilton, OH. In spring of 2010, she coached the GMRC junior girls to Nationals in the 4+. A native of New York, Kleinhans played basketball for the University of New Hampshire before being recruited to row for the University of Cincinnati.

She can be contacted at Jackie@indyrowing.org

Nationals Results

bteeley — Sun, 18 Jul 2010 19:03:18 +0000

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 four advanced to semi-finals, beating the US Development boats. In semis, they raced a tough heat , finish 5th with at time of 7:43. They did not advance.

The singles each raced well in the heats, but did not advance from the national field.

Rowers and Coach Stephen Eckstein, thank you for representing IRC! Results from the weekend are posted on racetrak.com

Teeley Coaches US Pre-Elites

bteeley — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 19:48:53 +0000

: 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 are the “next wave” of US Rowers. Rowers are chosen from collegiate programs around the US. Daily practice includes 2-3 on-water sessions in sweep or sculling boats on the busy Schuylkill River.

Jeff’s Journey Featured

bteeley — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 00:58:32 +0000

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

The barge is here!

bteeley — Wed, 02 Jun 2010 18:58:16 +0000

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

IRC Alum to NSR Finals

cgray — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 14:29:30 +0000

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 to the Sunday finals.

For the men’s and women’s 1x, this regatta serves as the first step towards making the 2010 Senior National Team that will represent the US at the 2010 World Rowing Championships in Lake Karapiro, New Zealand, and the winner of each event earns the right to compete at a world cup race of their choosing. If the NSR #1 winner finishes in the top four (or top half if there are fewer than eight entries), then he or she is nominated to the team. For the remaining boat categories, the speed order serves as an opportunity for athletes to test their speed early in the season in preparation for future selection regattas and trials.

Congratulations again to Pat; IRC is very proud of his performance and will be following this promising athlete’s career as the season progresses.

IRC Wins Grant

bteeley — Thu, 15 Apr 2010 18:47:05 +0000

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!

Annual Boathouse Clean-Up Day

cgray — Mon, 12 Apr 2010 18:39:12 +0000

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 the tower and making it regatta-ready, scraping and painting the control commission gazebo, and more. Please e-mail the clean-up day chair, Tracy Barta (tbarta@indy.rr.com), with questions; comments; and to sign up. Thank you all for your support of IRC and for volunteering your time to make IRC ready for the spring season!

St. Patrick’s Day Parade Updates

cgray — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 18:35:35 +0000

IRC will be marching in the 30th Anniversary St. Patricks’s Day Parade in downtown Indianapolis. The parade is this Wednesday, March 17 and will officially kick off at 11:30 a.m. on North Street east of Pennsylvania Street.

IRC is calling for all Juniors, Masters, members and fans to come out and participate in the parade – We need as many bodies as possible to support the Rowing Center! Please wear as much IRC gear as possible, and then deck out in St. Patty’s Day accessories! We have to be in position and ready to march by 11:15, so we ask that you arrive by 10:45 to help set up.

To get to the start location, take Deleware Street north (one way) and take a left at North Street. We will be positioned on the right side of the street, as the Left side is an emergency lane.