Not Just a Camp!
2025 - Masters Rowing February Symposium - Sweep and Sculling Options
An annual tradition! Come row and learn in Sunny Sarasota! You can also stick around for a race affter over the weekend! It's not JUST rowing and video, but we do lots of that too!

When: Tuesday-Friday, February 18 - 21 BUT you do not need to make it for the entire time. We have two day options (though we do get the best feedback from those who are able to commit to the four days).

What: 2 day or 4 days of rowing, rowing and more rowing! Sweep and Sculling options--you can even do both! The symposium will combine on the water rows, with in-depth video sessions and on-land convention style seminars to help you do a deep dive into becoming a better and smarter rower. Each two days will include full days of rowing, seminars and video. We will start in the morning both days and wrap up late afternoon in enough time for some group dinners or you to get on the road if you want. You can sign up to scull for one two day option and sweep the next or stick to one the entire time!

Dates:
1/2 Week Options: Feb 18-19, 20-21
Full Week Options: Feb 18-21
Racing Opportunities the weekend of February 23. Masters racing for the The Sarasota Invitational traditionally takes place on the Sunday Feb 23rd. We will be able to find rental boats for all who want to race in Sarasota.

Who: Masters rowers of all levels will be accomodated! We will group rowers of similar experience levels. Sweep vs. Sculling: You can decide if you sign up for 2 days or 4 days. For each 2 day block you can choose sweep or sculling. You will stay with sweep or sculling for the entire 2 days. There is a price discount for signing up for 4 days.

Some of the 2022-2024 Symposium Sessions:

• Body Prep & Sequencing
• Mobility and Rowing
• Lifting for Masters
• Psychobiological Perspectives on
• Rowing Faster
• Nutrition for Masters Rowers
• Gut Health for Masters Rowers
• Rigging Intro
• Specifics of the Release and Catch
• 1987 Boat Race - Lessons Learned
• Olympic and World Championship rowers from 2020 and 2022 share their stories
  

Check out the 2025 Coaching List!!!

• Casey Galvanek - Coach Galvanek is the Head Coach at Sarasota Crew and was also most recently the Coach of the Gold Medal winning USA Men's 4- at the Paris Olympics, plus he's generally awesome. He also was an 2021 USA Olympic Coach leading the US Women's Lightweight 2x to a 5th place finish within a second of the podium. The list of athletes he has helped to develop into world class rowers is too long to list but he has the unique ability to teach to all levels of abilities and experiences.
• Richard Hull - Coach Hull's rowing career included racing for the GB National Team in European regattas in 1990, winning the Visitor’s Cup at Henley in 1989, and winning the Boat Race three times with Oxford between 1987 and 1990 (while ostensibly studying for a PhD in biochemistry). Richard then spent over 20 years in the business world before returning 9 years ago to coaching rowing in Olympia, WA as head coach of the youth and masters programs. He has also coached in the US Junior National Team system. Richard holds a USRowing Level III High Performance Coaching Certification and is a frequent presenter at conventions, clinics, and courses on topics at the intersection of physiology, mental approach, and rowing technique and brings his relentless British humour along to it all.
• Lindsay Shoop - Gold medal Olympian, MSED, CSCS brings years of coaching rowing at all levels with a masters education in Exercise Physiology that masters rowers all over the country have gained from. Lindsay has worked masters rowing camps (as well as youth) for years. She also has been a commentator for many rowing events including most recently the NBC Paris Olympic rowing broadcasts.
• Mike Wallin - Coach Wallin travels in from Chicago where he is the Head Coach of the Chicago Rowing Foundation. Not only has he helped CRF grow to one of the largest and most competitive juniors programs in the country, but he has coached several Gold Winning USA U19 World Championship Women's 8+'s.
• Rick Brown - Coach Brown led camps for the junior national team for 11 years before joining Sarasota Crew as the Director of Operations. Much of the USA Men's Team at the Paris Olympics were graduates of camps and boats that he coached domestically and internationally. He led clubs at Three Rivers Rowing (Pittsburgh, PA) and Rogue Rowing (Ashland, OR) with great success and several national medal boats in small boats. Coach Brown also coached masters at Marin Rowing, Three Rivers and Rogue.
• Megan Kuehm - Coach Kuehm is the Head Masters Coach at Sarasota Crew and has coached nationally competitve small boats at youth programs in several different regions in the US. She has a great ability to work with rowers of all levels.
• Robin Brown - Robin coached medal winning teams at University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB), Marin Rowing and Three Rivers Rowing before earning her Masters in Nutrition from the University of Pittsburgh. As a Registered Dietitian she owns her own business and has worked with top rowers across the country to help them fuel properly.
  
  Daily Schedule Example:
• 7:00-9:00 - row
• 9:00-10:30 - video review and snack break
• 10:30-12:00 - row
• 12:00-1:00 - lunch break.
• 1:00-2:30 - Seminar #1
• 2:30-4:00 - Seminar #2
  

Cost: $700 for 1/2 week or $1200 for full week.

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