Women's Rowing

Can you help Catholic Women’s Rowing become back-to-back MARC Champions?

You were instrumental in supporting a historic year that not only saw our first MARC Conference Championship, but repeat victory at Dad Vails and our first trip in program history to the NCAA Championships.

You can help this trend continue and start Catholic Rowing on its path to becoming a dynasty. This year’s Cardinal Giving Challenge will determine the kind of race experience we can give our athletes in the spring season:

• Can we work with a nutritionist specializing in how female endurance athletes need to fuel, or will have to get by with handouts from USRowing?
• Will we stay at a hotel within walking distance of our race course, or have to travel half an hour or more to get there?
• Can we travel the day before our race and practice on the course, or will we need to wake up at dawn, board the bus, travel to the course and rig our boats all on the day of the regatta?
• Will we take a charter bus and travel in comfort or cram in vans for every race?
• Will we be able to seek out races with faster teams from the Liberty League and the NESCAC schools, or see them for the first time at the start line at NCAAs?
• Will we have our pre-regatta meals in a restaurant or in the hotel meeting room?

To make these program enhancements happen, we need to raise $22,000 to close the gap in our operational costs so our athletes can focus on getting the job done on the water.

Because here’s the reality: we can do it again. Every extra minute of sleep, every higher-quality meal, and every mile traveled with better legroom gets us closer to securing the bid to once again represent Catholic University at the NCAA Championships.

Will you help us get there?