57 results for tag: Rowing

Head of the Anacostia Rowing Regatta (Washington DC)

Athletes Without Limits DC Rowing Team will be competing again at this year's event - if you are in the DC area stop by to cheer them on! "'Come for the racing, stay for the pie.' The Head of the Anacostia (HOTA) is set in the heart of the Nation’s Capital and passes by Nationals Stadium on the port side approximately 1500m from the start line. In addition to racing, the regatta includes an apple pie contest (best pie wins)  after the last race.  Enter an apple pie in the contest, or simply partake in the deliciousness.  Rowers, spectators, coaches, referees, and volunteers; there will be apple pies for all..." (read ...

Bayada Rowing Regatta (Philadelphia, PA)

Athletes Without Limits DC Rowing Team will be competing again at this year's event - if you are in the Philly area stop by to cheer them on! "The BAYADA Regatta is the nation’s oldest and largest all-adaptive rowing competition for athletes with disabilities. Sponsored by BAYADA Home Health Care, the event takes place at the St. Joseph’s University Boathouse on the banks of the Schuylkill River in Philadelphia, PA. The regatta is free of charge, open to the public—and lots of fun! Enjoy exciting races, medal ceremonies, music, entertainment, and face painting and crafts for kids throughout the day. Come support ...

Athletes Without Limits relocates National headquarters to Bend Oregon

The move was made in large part due to Bend’s abundance of training opportunities and facilities, access to outdoor recreation, active lifestyle, and the community’s ethos for volunteerism.

2012 Texas Rowing for All National Development Camp

Lady Bird Lake in Austin Texas Registration Deadline: March 17, 2012  Texas Rowing For All will again be hosting the annual National Development Rowing Camp for People with Intellectual Disabilities in Austin, Texas. This 4-day Development Camp will help adult athletes with intellectual disabilities, to increase their individual rowing technique; build rowing confidence; provide opportunities to row (sculling & sweeping on water) in a team boat; and learn the skills of competitive racing. The purpose of this Development Camp beyond increasing skills & competence, is to identify athletes with intellectual disabilities for the USA ...

2015 Bayada Rowing Regatta (Philadelphia, PA)

The Athletes Without Limits/DC Strokes Rowing Team competes annually at this event and is the featured home page photo on the event website. The BAYADA Regatta is the nation’s oldest and largest all-adaptive rowing competition for athletes with physical disabilities. Sponsored solely by BAYADA Home Health Care, the event takes place at the St. Joseph’s University Boathouse on the banks of the Schuylkill River in Philadelphia, PA. The regatta is free of charge, open to the public—and lots of fun! Enjoy exciting races, medal ceremonies, music, entertainment, and face painting and crafts for kids throughout the ...

2015 Capital Sprints Rowing Regatta (Washington DC)

The Athletes Without Limits/DC Strokes Rowing Team competes annually at this event. “Cap Sprints” began fourteen years ago as a scrimmage among cross-town rivals and has grown into a summer racing tradition for rowing teams all over the DC area and up and down the East Coast. Each year, more than 200 youth and adult athletes with various phyiscal ability compete in 30 plus rowing categories during the day-long event, capped with music and a post-race BBQ.

Brisbane to host 2019 INAS Global Games

For Immediate Release: 12th June 2015 Learn more on our Athlete Without Limits Global Games page. INAS – the International Federation for sport for para-athletes with an intellectual disability – has selected Brisbane, Australia to host the 5th INAS Global Games in 2019. The Games – a week long championship featuring nine sports – will attract more than 1000 of the world’s elite athletes with an intellectual disability. The opening ceremony will take place on 19th October 2019. Sport Inclusion Australia (formerly AUSRAPID) is the INAS member organisation responsible for the delivery of the Games. ...

2012 Athletes Without Limits DC Rowing Camp

Registration has closed for this event. Athletes Without Limits is hosting an on-water 4-day training camp for athletes with intellectual disability interested in rowing with our Rowing Team at local and national regattas. Following the camp, athletes who do not live in the DC area can train at their respective boathouses and race with the Athletes Without Limits team at regattas. Camp Director, Coach Patrick Johnson, brings 20 years of teaching experience at the high school and collegiate level and is the founding director for two adaptive programs including the integrated Athletes Without Limits/US Paralympic Military Program (USPMP) Rowing ...

2015 Charm City Sprints Rowing Regatta

Good luck to all the Athletes Without Limits/DC Strokes rowers participating at this annual Masters/Open 1k regatta in Baltimore.

Venable Foundation Donates Racing Shell to Athletes Without Limits Rowing Program

Athletes Without Limits celebrated it's newest racing shell The Venable at a special event featuring Olympic Medalist Esther Lofgren and Paralympic Bronze Medalist Sgt. Rob Jones. Generously donated by the Venable Foundation under the leadership of Doug Baldridge, The Win-Tech four-person sweep racing shell has adaptive features that allow the athletes with disabilities on our Washington DC-based Integrated Rowing Team to race and train together with their non-disabled peers. Visit our Facebook page to see photos from the dedication event.