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USOPC Assembly

USA Ultimate and USRowing Receive DE&I Awards

The United States Olympic & Paralympic Committee awarded USA Ultimate and USRowing with the 2024 DE&I Choice Awards for excellence in diversity, equity and inclusion practices during a reception at the U.S. Olympic & Paralympic Assembly in Colorado Springs. Created in 2015, the award identifies two NGBs annually for the creation of DE&I best practices. […]

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USRowing Sarasota

USRowing to Host Trio of Large Events in Sarasota

USRowing has announced a series of National Championships, U19 Trials and Beach Sprint Trials in Sarasota, Florida, from June 12–18, 2025. The 2025 Youth National Championships will run June 12–15 at Nathan Benderson Park, while the U19 National Team Trials for the single sculls, pair and double sculls will take place from June 16–17. As […]

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USRowing Ann Arbor

Ann Arbor to Host 2025 RowFest National Championships

Ann Arbor, Michigan, will host USRowing’s 2025 RowFest National Championships, which take places July 12­–20 in partnership with the Ann Arbor Sports Commission, Eastern Michigan University and Ypsilanti Township. RowFest — one of the nation’s largest rowing community events — will be staged at The Rowing Course at Ford Lake. The regatta will include traditional […]

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Samuel Imrek, left, and teammate Curtis McDowald, of the United States, celebrate their gold medal victory over Canada at the end of the men's fencing epee teams final, at the Pan American Games in Santiago, Chile, Thursday, Nov. 2, 2023. (AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo)

DEI Initiatives Ongoing Throughout U.S. Olympic Movement

Whether it be state-by-state laws that are divergent in nature, international federations putting out mandates that may not match a member country’s intrinsic values and all in the background of the pandemic-era reckoning about race and diversity throughout the United States, national governing bodies throughout the U.S. Olympic movement have a list of topics to […]

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2023 ST Awards

Winners of the 2023 SportsTravel Awards Announced at TEAMS ’23 in The Palm Beaches

SportsTravel announced the winners of the 2023 SportsTravel Awards during the TEAMS ’23 Conference & Expo in The Palm Beaches of Florida, honoring the best events, venue and host city in the sports-event industry. TEAMS: Travel, Events And Management in Sports, is the world’s largest gathering of event organizers and travel planners from the sports […]

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USRowing Foundation

USRowing Creates Foundation to Assist Funding

USRowing has announced the formation of the USRowing Foundation. “The USRowing Foundation will be a separate 501c3 organization from the National Governing Body but will work shoulder-to-shoulder with USRowing to provide funding for our priorities and initiatives,” said USRowing Chief Executive Officer Amanda Kraus. “We have an incredible group that has signed on and we […]

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USRowing Announces Regatta Schedule for 2023, New Event for 2024

USRowing has announced its regatta schedule for the 2023 and 2024 seasons as the national championships’ slate will include three summer regattas in 2023, as well as a new combined event in Oklahoma City in 2024. USRowing will kick off the summer with the Youth National Championships in Sarasota, Florida, June 8–11. The USRowing Summer […]

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Atlantic City

USRowing to Combine Annual Convention with Indoor Championships in 2023

USRowing has announced that the 2023 USRowing Annual Convention will be held at the Atlantic City Convention Center from February 3–5, 2023, in the New Jersey destination. In addition, USRowing and the Atlantic City Indoor Rowing Association will co-host the 2023 USRowing Atlantic City Indoor National Championships alongside the convention. This is the first time […]

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Nathan Benderson Park Adds More National, International Events to Calendar

Hosted by Nathan Benderson Park Conservancy with support from Visit Sarasota County, three more World Cup events have been added to the future calendar after four other events were announced in the past week-plus. The Conservancy will host the 2024 International Canoe Federation’s Sprint World Cup, Marathon World Cup and Dragon Boat World Cup. Dates for these […]

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Amanda Kraus ST Podcast

Amanda Kraus: Changing the Face of Rowing

Amanda Kraus took over as CEO of USRowing in November, leading the national governing body at a time of challenges across the sports-event industry. But her background is expected to help her on a number of fronts, including adding much needed diversity to the ranks of participants and the chance to fundraise for any number […]

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