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A guerilla attack on the Sporthallen Zuid
In this series we would like to give you a preview behind the scenes of the organisation of the NKIR. From participants to organisers to partners, in this blog you can read more about this event. How does one prepare for the NKIR? How does someone experience the NKIR?...
Welcome TopRow Melbourne
Amidst the madness that is 2020, TopRow is celebrating the opening of our new site in Melbourne, Australia. Our first Australian rowers will hit the water beginning November 4th, 8 months after the originally scheduled March opening was postponed due to the COVID-19...
Meet our Team: Dario Sportelli
Meet our Team! We're very lucky to have Dario on board with us! He's looking forward to getting back on the water soon with our Learn to Row courses and private lessons at our Melbourne location! Read about his journey here. I started rowing when I was 12, following...
Meet Our Team: Will Golding
Like so many people in our sport, Will didn't start out as a rower. Rather, he played football (soccer) and rugby - "not especially well," as he tells it - in addition to running cross country. After his first year at the University of East London he came to the...
Inclusion in Rowing
The documentary A Most Beautiful Thing, which was released in the US over the summer, tells the story of the first African-American high school rowing team. In a predominantly white sport like rowing, they stood out amongst their peers at regattas in the late 1990s....
Dock stories: Frances Green
Frances Green describes her path into rowing as "unconventional." She spent the first six decades of her life as an athlete in all kinds of sports, but has spent much more time on horseback than in a boat. When TopRow New York City first opened in the fall of 2018,...
TopRow NYC’s Debut on the Charles: In the Boat We Trust
TopRow NYC’s Debut at the Head of the Charles Regatta on October 19, 2019“Bow 16, you have to yield! YIELD!” Perry Hamilton bellowed as we worked our way through the crowd under the Charles’ stoic bridges. With skilled expertise, Perry shepherded D.D. Meakin, Hilary...
Catching up with: Morgan Hellen
My name is Niki van Sprang and I am a (former) TopRow Amsterdam instructor and current Dutch National Team Member (Heavyweight men’s double). In this new rubric I catch up with former teammates from my time at the University of California Berkeley. Today we start with Morgan Hellen. When I first arrived in America Morgan often had to act and translator and English teacher as I was still struggling with the new language. What followed were for years in which we never raced a race without each other with as highlights a National Championship in 2016 and a Royal Henley regatta victory in 2015. Now I’m curious what he has been up to since.
TopRowNYC Masters racing as “The Swing Set”
We are less than a week from this year’s Harlem River Classic, a fundraising regatta in support of Row New York — a NYC-based nonprofit organization that combines rowing and academic support to help middle and high school students attending some of our city’s most under-resourced schools realize their full potential.
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