Help Fund Jessie's National Team Dream!!
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Help Fund Jessie's National Team Dream... Come True
Thank you for visiting my donation page! If you haven't heard the GREAT news already, I've been named to the 2019 US Rowing Team this past week, after winning the US Lightweight Women's Quad (4x) trials. It is a hard won dream come true for myself and my three teammates, and having won the trials, our next challenge is to raise money to cover the cost of training, traveling, and competing as Team USA at the 2019 World Rowing Championships in Austria at the end of August!
The Boat. Photo Credit: Self-timer. ;)
The World Rowing Championships is the highest level of competition for the sport of rowing, excluding the Olympic Games. To accomplish our dream goal to WIN A WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP, we need to be able to compete at an elite level as stress free as possible. Since our governing sports body, USRowing, does not cover our costs of competition, the burden of having to send ourselves to World's is quite heavy. By fundraising the funds to get to Austria, I know we would be making a huge step in a stress free direction!!
We had to prove our speed and race for our spot on the 2019 USA Team, at trials. Photo Credit: Row2k
US Trials III; Our Lightweight Women's 4x (Stern to Bow: Molly Reckford, Rosa Kemp, Michaela Copenhaver, Jessica Hyne-Dolan) Photo Credit: Row2k
The final sprint. Photo Credit: Dan Copenhaver (Instagram: @dancopenhaver)
After crossing the finish line at the 2019 US Trials III in the winning Women's Lightweight 4x. Photo Credit: Row2k
Photo Credit: Dan Copenhaver (Instagram: @dancopenhaver)
Getting my photo taken for The National Rowing Foundation and USRowing website, post trial victory.
Photo Credit: My Awesome Mom
My Background Story:
Growing up and throughout high school I had my toes dipped in many different extracurricular activities and sports. Although I believe I have always been an athlete (and tried mostly every sport known to man), I had a hard time finding a sport that I really enjoyed and wanted to continue to pursue seriously. I eventually was injured in high school (during basketball season) after a small dirt biking accident that resulted in a torn meniscus. Although it was a short recovery time, and the surgery came later in college, that was the end of me being able to make a Varsity sport in high school. It was when I was gearing up for college, I wanted to find something new that would keep me in great shape, and challenge my competitive spirit!!
Eight years ago, I learned how to row during my freshman year of college. It was in the most obvious place... the desert of Phoenix, Arizona... where I attended the best university in the country, ARIZONA STATE. Go Sun Devils! I rowed for ASU's club rowing team where I fell in love with the sport... chasing sunrises and sunsets over Tempe Town Lake.
I soon learned how to scull in the summer of 2013. Building on this skill over the next few years, I trained under coach Pattie Pinkerton, at a place that will always be known as my home club-- San Diego Rowing Club.
In a country with thousands of rowers, only nine lightweight women are selected to represent the USA at the World Rowing Championships, and only two are chosen to compete for the USA at the Olympics.
My dream since learning how to scull was to become one of the best rowers in the country and compete at the World Rowing Championships and Olympic Games. This soon shifted to wanting to become one of the fastest rowers in the World. After years of endless hard work, great happiness, tears, wins, losses, and six years of going to World Championship trials, I FINALLY MADE IT! I have been working for this moment for a very long time, and now that the day has come, I am so overjoyed.
I am proud of myself for having courage to persevere and keep getting better, and I am grateful for the ongoing support from all of you over the years. You have been the "wind beneath my wings.' Everyone reading this has helped me in some essential way; emotionally, spiritually, and financially. Thank you for your outstanding impact on my life.
And.... a HUGE shout out to my amazing mom and my amazing husband.
A quick trip home to see family, between the end of 4x selection and the start of training in San Diego!
This year most of the top USA lightweight (<130lbs) women rowers came together to put some extremely fast crews together! Sarasota Crew and coach Casey Galvanek provided the expertise, boats, and facilities for this unique opportunity.
We went through almost 2.5 months of selections coming out of US Speed Order 1 in the singles (1x). We took part in a double (2x) selection for the National Selection Regatta 2 and a second selection for the quad (4x)! After 18 days of 4x selection, the boat was selected and our quad (4x) boat was San Diego bound for the start of our summer training at the Chula Vista Olympic Training Center, leading into US Trials III.
Lightweight 4x Selection Camp, Sarasota, FL.
Photo Credit: Casey Galvanek
Selected Lightweight 4x (Left to Right): Michaela Copenhaver, Jessica Hyne-Dolan, Molly (Mary) Reckford, Rosa Kemp
The beginning of the next step towards our dream of a podium finish at the World Rowing Championships... and one day Olympic level in the lightweight 2x (selected differently) is well on it's way.
It truly takes years to earn success at the elite level. We have put in the work on our own, and thanks to the generosity of family, friends, our home clubs, and host families, we have been able to dedicate more time to training and racing this year as a community of lightweights.
We, as a boat, are so excited to be representing our country this year at the World Rowing Championships, and I personally feel extremely lucky to have a seat in this boat with these women above!
The Plan:
To compete and medal at the 2019 World Rowing Championships. To race and medal at the 2020 Olympic Games.
As this four year cycle to the Tokyo Olympics is coming to a close, it is crucial that any race experience is maximized, while also trying to maintain complete homeostasis-- AKA stress free living. To race fast this year, we need races against the best in the World which is what we will have at the 2019 World Rowing Championships in Europe!
Again, as you could imagine, the financial burden of being able to cover all costs on our own while not being able to work full-time is very high. Please help me take this next step toward reaching our goal to medal at worlds! I am raising money to cover my flight, race fees, boat rental fees, coaching fee, hotel, food and necessities during our time abroad.
Thank you for considering financial support and for sharing this post. I really appreciate your contributions!!
The Coaches Talk About Jess
Jess started sculling competitively under the guidance of Coach Pattie Pinkerton in 2011, and now under Coach Casey Galvanek (2017-Present). She rowed sweep (Eights and Fours) at Arizona State University for two and a half years before transitioning to San Diego, Philadelphia, New Jersey, and Florida to focus on training in lightweight sculling events. Jess has attended multiple trials, including the 2014 and 2015 Under 23 World Championship Trials, the 2015 World University Games trials, the 2015 Pan Am Trials, the 2016 Olympic Trials, the 2017 World Championship Trials, the 2018 World Championship Trials, the 2018 Pan American Games trials (winning the lightweight 1x), the 2018 Pan American Games Qualifier Regatta in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, the 2019 National Selection Regatta II, and the 2019 World Rowing Championship Trials III in the Women's Lightweight 4x, etc.
While she completed her studies at ASU with a Bachelor of Science in Exercise and Wellness, and was working as an intern for a San Diego physician, intending to continue post graduate studies to become a Physician Assistant, she soon realized she had to make a tough decision. If she really wanted to make this dream a reality, she knew she had to make the choice to move across the country, with everything rowing related at the highest level being on the East Coast.
So she and her husband packed up their life into a small Uhaul, and moved to Sarasota, Florida so Jessica could train full time for her dream spot on the USA National Rowing Team, under Sarasota Crew's Pre-Elite Program. In just under two years of transitioning and living in Florida, Jessica has been named to the USA team twice.
In Sarasota, Jessica coaches the Sarasota Crew Elementary Rowing Program, works remote in vacation property management, and spends a few days a week working at a local Sarasota coffee shop (Lelu's); all while training 2-3 times per day... 6 days per week for her spot on the US National Rowing Team.
Thank you for sharing and supporting the red, white and blue dream!
Fun Facts About Lightweight Rowing:
World Championship events include the Lightweight Women's Quadruple Sculls (4x), Lightweight Women’s Doubles Sculls (2x), the Lightweight Women's Pair (2-), and the Lightweight Women’s Single (1x). The only event for lightweight women at the Olympics is the Lightweight Double Scull.
*International Lightweight women compete weighing less than 130 lbs, with a crew average of 125 lbs.
Thank you for any and all contributions!! It means the world!
-Jess :)
Thank you for visiting my donation page! If you haven't heard the GREAT news already, I've been named to the 2019 US Rowing Team this past week, after winning the US Lightweight Women's Quad (4x) trials. It is a hard won dream come true for myself and my three teammates, and having won the trials, our next challenge is to raise money to cover the cost of training, traveling, and competing as Team USA at the 2019 World Rowing Championships in Austria at the end of August!
The Boat. Photo Credit: Self-timer. ;)The World Rowing Championships is the highest level of competition for the sport of rowing, excluding the Olympic Games. To accomplish our dream goal to WIN A WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP, we need to be able to compete at an elite level as stress free as possible. Since our governing sports body, USRowing, does not cover our costs of competition, the burden of having to send ourselves to World's is quite heavy. By fundraising the funds to get to Austria, I know we would be making a huge step in a stress free direction!!
We had to prove our speed and race for our spot on the 2019 USA Team, at trials. Photo Credit: Row2kUS Trials III; Our Lightweight Women's 4x (Stern to Bow: Molly Reckford, Rosa Kemp, Michaela Copenhaver, Jessica Hyne-Dolan) Photo Credit: Row2kThe final sprint. Photo Credit: Dan Copenhaver (Instagram: @dancopenhaver)After crossing the finish line at the 2019 US Trials III in the winning Women's Lightweight 4x. Photo Credit: Row2kPhoto Credit: Dan Copenhaver (Instagram: @dancopenhaver)Getting my photo taken for The National Rowing Foundation and USRowing website, post trial victory. Photo Credit: My Awesome Mom
My Background Story:
Growing up and throughout high school I had my toes dipped in many different extracurricular activities and sports. Although I believe I have always been an athlete (and tried mostly every sport known to man), I had a hard time finding a sport that I really enjoyed and wanted to continue to pursue seriously. I eventually was injured in high school (during basketball season) after a small dirt biking accident that resulted in a torn meniscus. Although it was a short recovery time, and the surgery came later in college, that was the end of me being able to make a Varsity sport in high school. It was when I was gearing up for college, I wanted to find something new that would keep me in great shape, and challenge my competitive spirit!!
Eight years ago, I learned how to row during my freshman year of college. It was in the most obvious place... the desert of Phoenix, Arizona... where I attended the best university in the country, ARIZONA STATE. Go Sun Devils! I rowed for ASU's club rowing team where I fell in love with the sport... chasing sunrises and sunsets over Tempe Town Lake.
I soon learned how to scull in the summer of 2013. Building on this skill over the next few years, I trained under coach Pattie Pinkerton, at a place that will always be known as my home club-- San Diego Rowing Club.
In a country with thousands of rowers, only nine lightweight women are selected to represent the USA at the World Rowing Championships, and only two are chosen to compete for the USA at the Olympics.
My dream since learning how to scull was to become one of the best rowers in the country and compete at the World Rowing Championships and Olympic Games. This soon shifted to wanting to become one of the fastest rowers in the World. After years of endless hard work, great happiness, tears, wins, losses, and six years of going to World Championship trials, I FINALLY MADE IT! I have been working for this moment for a very long time, and now that the day has come, I am so overjoyed.
I am proud of myself for having courage to persevere and keep getting better, and I am grateful for the ongoing support from all of you over the years. You have been the "wind beneath my wings.' Everyone reading this has helped me in some essential way; emotionally, spiritually, and financially. Thank you for your outstanding impact on my life.
And.... a HUGE shout out to my amazing mom and my amazing husband.
A quick trip home to see family, between the end of 4x selection and the start of training in San Diego! This year most of the top USA lightweight (<130lbs) women rowers came together to put some extremely fast crews together! Sarasota Crew and coach Casey Galvanek provided the expertise, boats, and facilities for this unique opportunity.
We went through almost 2.5 months of selections coming out of US Speed Order 1 in the singles (1x). We took part in a double (2x) selection for the National Selection Regatta 2 and a second selection for the quad (4x)! After 18 days of 4x selection, the boat was selected and our quad (4x) boat was San Diego bound for the start of our summer training at the Chula Vista Olympic Training Center, leading into US Trials III.
Lightweight 4x Selection Camp, Sarasota, FL. Photo Credit: Casey Galvanek
Selected Lightweight 4x (Left to Right): Michaela Copenhaver, Jessica Hyne-Dolan, Molly (Mary) Reckford, Rosa KempThe beginning of the next step towards our dream of a podium finish at the World Rowing Championships... and one day Olympic level in the lightweight 2x (selected differently) is well on it's way.
It truly takes years to earn success at the elite level. We have put in the work on our own, and thanks to the generosity of family, friends, our home clubs, and host families, we have been able to dedicate more time to training and racing this year as a community of lightweights.
We, as a boat, are so excited to be representing our country this year at the World Rowing Championships, and I personally feel extremely lucky to have a seat in this boat with these women above!
The Plan:
To compete and medal at the 2019 World Rowing Championships. To race and medal at the 2020 Olympic Games.
As this four year cycle to the Tokyo Olympics is coming to a close, it is crucial that any race experience is maximized, while also trying to maintain complete homeostasis-- AKA stress free living. To race fast this year, we need races against the best in the World which is what we will have at the 2019 World Rowing Championships in Europe!
Again, as you could imagine, the financial burden of being able to cover all costs on our own while not being able to work full-time is very high. Please help me take this next step toward reaching our goal to medal at worlds! I am raising money to cover my flight, race fees, boat rental fees, coaching fee, hotel, food and necessities during our time abroad.
Thank you for considering financial support and for sharing this post. I really appreciate your contributions!!
The Coaches Talk About Jess
Jess started sculling competitively under the guidance of Coach Pattie Pinkerton in 2011, and now under Coach Casey Galvanek (2017-Present). She rowed sweep (Eights and Fours) at Arizona State University for two and a half years before transitioning to San Diego, Philadelphia, New Jersey, and Florida to focus on training in lightweight sculling events. Jess has attended multiple trials, including the 2014 and 2015 Under 23 World Championship Trials, the 2015 World University Games trials, the 2015 Pan Am Trials, the 2016 Olympic Trials, the 2017 World Championship Trials, the 2018 World Championship Trials, the 2018 Pan American Games trials (winning the lightweight 1x), the 2018 Pan American Games Qualifier Regatta in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, the 2019 National Selection Regatta II, and the 2019 World Rowing Championship Trials III in the Women's Lightweight 4x, etc.
While she completed her studies at ASU with a Bachelor of Science in Exercise and Wellness, and was working as an intern for a San Diego physician, intending to continue post graduate studies to become a Physician Assistant, she soon realized she had to make a tough decision. If she really wanted to make this dream a reality, she knew she had to make the choice to move across the country, with everything rowing related at the highest level being on the East Coast.
So she and her husband packed up their life into a small Uhaul, and moved to Sarasota, Florida so Jessica could train full time for her dream spot on the USA National Rowing Team, under Sarasota Crew's Pre-Elite Program. In just under two years of transitioning and living in Florida, Jessica has been named to the USA team twice.
In Sarasota, Jessica coaches the Sarasota Crew Elementary Rowing Program, works remote in vacation property management, and spends a few days a week working at a local Sarasota coffee shop (Lelu's); all while training 2-3 times per day... 6 days per week for her spot on the US National Rowing Team.
Thank you for sharing and supporting the red, white and blue dream!
Fun Facts About Lightweight Rowing:
World Championship events include the Lightweight Women's Quadruple Sculls (4x), Lightweight Women’s Doubles Sculls (2x), the Lightweight Women's Pair (2-), and the Lightweight Women’s Single (1x). The only event for lightweight women at the Olympics is the Lightweight Double Scull.
*International Lightweight women compete weighing less than 130 lbs, with a crew average of 125 lbs.
Thank you for any and all contributions!! It means the world!
-Jess :)
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Jessica Hyne-Dolan
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Sarasota, FL