Grosse Ile Rowing Club Boathouse
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Please help us provide our student athletes with a premiere training facility and boat house.
The Grosse Ile Rowing Club is a volunteer organization dedicated to supporting, promoting and facilitating supervised, instructional and competitive programs for all Grosse Ile students desiring to participate in rowing, and Grosse Ile residents who wish to experience the health, educational, and personal benefits rowing presents. Our 7-member Board of Directors aims to build and to support high quality programs and facilities that promote access to rowing; encourage excellence in competitive rowing; and use rowing to foster physical activity, health, leadership, and community engagement.
The GIRC has purchased property along the Detroit River, where it will construct and operate a boat house and training facility. We’ve obtained the zoning variances, the planning commission approvals, and have ready to start approved construction drawings! This is where you can help!
We will not "finance" construction, and thereby risk losing the community's investment in this facility. Therefore, we must raise the funds to construct the facility and to establish an endowment fund to cover operating expenses.
This boat house will provide greater flexibility to the high school students, protect our equipment, and permit the Rowing Club to provide the residents of Grosse Ile the benefits rowing offers. The following outlines the programs planned at the boat house:
Row to the Future
A series of programs designed to engage individuals and groups of different ages in rowing activities that promote long term health and wellness. The boathouse will additionally serve as a social and athletic gathering place for current participants and alumni as a means of keeping them involved in this community-based program.
Learn to Row/Development - Middle School
Beginning with 6th grade students, learn to row programs will teach rowing technique and health and wellness through rowing in a fun environment. Students will be encouraged to build on these skills as they progress into the competitive high school program.
Learn to Row/Recreational Rowing - Adult
Adults will learn the basic rowing technique in this fun, recreational program. Improved health and wellness and the low impact nature of rowing will serve as cornerstones of this program.
High School Rowing - Teenage
The Grosse Ile High School rowing program is a no-cut program that uses competitive rowing to promote long term health and wellness. Student-athletes are also educated on the opportunities presented by rowing at the collegiate level (education, scholarship, travel, high level competition, etc.)
Club Rowing
During the summer and fall, competitive rowing programs for multiple age groups and levels of experience will use competitive rowing to promote long term health and wellness.
Why rowing:
Let our kids tell you in their own words!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=81cohTSpZEU&feature=player_embedded
Contact Information:
Eric Flessland, President, Grosse Ile Rowing Club
[email redacted]
The Grosse Ile Rowing Club is a volunteer organization dedicated to supporting, promoting and facilitating supervised, instructional and competitive programs for all Grosse Ile students desiring to participate in rowing, and Grosse Ile residents who wish to experience the health, educational, and personal benefits rowing presents. Our 7-member Board of Directors aims to build and to support high quality programs and facilities that promote access to rowing; encourage excellence in competitive rowing; and use rowing to foster physical activity, health, leadership, and community engagement.
The GIRC has purchased property along the Detroit River, where it will construct and operate a boat house and training facility. We’ve obtained the zoning variances, the planning commission approvals, and have ready to start approved construction drawings! This is where you can help!
We will not "finance" construction, and thereby risk losing the community's investment in this facility. Therefore, we must raise the funds to construct the facility and to establish an endowment fund to cover operating expenses.
This boat house will provide greater flexibility to the high school students, protect our equipment, and permit the Rowing Club to provide the residents of Grosse Ile the benefits rowing offers. The following outlines the programs planned at the boat house:
Row to the Future
A series of programs designed to engage individuals and groups of different ages in rowing activities that promote long term health and wellness. The boathouse will additionally serve as a social and athletic gathering place for current participants and alumni as a means of keeping them involved in this community-based program.
Learn to Row/Development - Middle School
Beginning with 6th grade students, learn to row programs will teach rowing technique and health and wellness through rowing in a fun environment. Students will be encouraged to build on these skills as they progress into the competitive high school program.
Learn to Row/Recreational Rowing - Adult
Adults will learn the basic rowing technique in this fun, recreational program. Improved health and wellness and the low impact nature of rowing will serve as cornerstones of this program.
High School Rowing - Teenage
The Grosse Ile High School rowing program is a no-cut program that uses competitive rowing to promote long term health and wellness. Student-athletes are also educated on the opportunities presented by rowing at the collegiate level (education, scholarship, travel, high level competition, etc.)
Club Rowing
During the summer and fall, competitive rowing programs for multiple age groups and levels of experience will use competitive rowing to promote long term health and wellness.
Why rowing:
Let our kids tell you in their own words!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=81cohTSpZEU&feature=player_embedded
Contact Information:
Eric Flessland, President, Grosse Ile Rowing Club
[email redacted]
Organizer and beneficiary
Grosse Ile
Organizer
Grosse Ile, MI
Dennis Sitek
Beneficiary
