An all-day workshop addressing issues of access, affordability and diversity in the sport of rowing. Co-hosted by the United States Rowing Association and Temple University.

When: Saturday, February 23, 2008

Where: Tuttleman Learning Center, Temple University: Located at 13th St. and Montgomery Ave., across from the Student Activity Center and behind Paley Library.

Participants: Seventy (70) participants attended our first workshop in Boston in February 2007; participants at the Philadelphia event will be limited to 100.

Who should come?: Coaches, athletic directors and program-leaders who want to increase the ethnic diversity of their existing crew programs. Coaches, athletic directors and program leaders who want to develop or to enhance rowing outreach programs.

Register: Go to www.regattacentral.com / camps & clinics.

Tuition: $100. Fee waivers available. Contact Kelly@usrowing.org.

Lodging: Doubletree Hotel, 237 So. Broad St., Philadelphia. Phone: 215-893-1600; Rate: $123 per night available until Janaury 22, 2008. Tell the hotel that you are with the USRowing/Temple seminar.

Reception: Friday evening, February 22, 2008, 6 p.m.-9 p.m. Fairmount Rowing Association, No. 2 Boathouse Row, Philadelphia.

Agenda:  

Saturday, February 23, 2008

8-9:00 a.m. -- Registration

9:00-9:15 -- Welcome

9:15-10:15 -- Peter Westbrook, 1984 Olympic Bronze Medalist Saber; Member, U.S. Olympic Committee; Author, Harnessing Anger: The Way of an American Fencer; Founder, Peter Westbrook Foundation.

10:45-11:45  Julian Zimlich, Program director, Pocock Rowing Foundation; Author, The Outreach Cookbook.

11:45-12:30 p.m. -- Hosted lunch

12:30-4:00 -- Breakout discussion/workshops: Summer Outreach Programs; Recruiting; Finances; Issues of Social Equity.

4:30 -- Post-workshop, no-host wrap-up at the Draught Horse Tavern.

Information: E-mail Kelly McGlynn at Kelly@usrowing.org or Robert Kidd at Rkidd@srcm-law.com