USRowing Summer championships

[rowing]

In USRowing speak, YOUTH ≠ U19. The Youth events are designed to close out the scholastic and scholastic-like spring season. The "Youth" category itself is not FISA sanctioned. You can be 19 years old (under FISA interpretations) and still race in the USRowing Youth events. You only have to be in high school or just graduated in the calendar year.

U19 Summer Nationals is FISA compliant. You cannot race beyond the calendar year of your 18th birthday.

The problem is that Summer Nationals is so close on the schedule to Youth Nationals that it seems like a stutter, and so similar in categories it seems like a repeat. Move the Summer Nationals to August. Wear it around a few years and see how subscription shakes out. Then we can revisit your experiment to herd salamanders.

[fullmetal]

Hosting more regattas in the summer doesn't cut it. Many of the juniors racing at not-club natls are traveling from some distance, and I would also imagine that each region does not have enough actively training juniors to support a full regatta. You could do it as an inexpensive scrimmage, but that defeats the purpose of "more regattas = more money" for USRowing's part.

August is too close to the start of the academic year for many parts of the US, imo, even if we don't consider Canadian Henley on the schedule.

[rowing]

Clubs used to be the week before Canley and no one said boop.

The current date seems sillier than the old one.

[Remomex]

Hosting more regattas in the summer doesn't cut it. Many of the juniors racing at not-club natls are traveling from some distance, and I would also imagine that each region does not have enough actively training juniors to support a full regatta. You could do it as an inexpensive scrimmage, but that defeats the purpose of "more regattas = more money" for USRowing's part.

I wonder about this. No west coast teams traveled to NJ for summer nationals. Heck, barely any mid-west teams did. You could easily have regional regattas in the summer that I think would be well attended. There is a lot of rowing in the US - it's an enormous country.

[rowing]

Hosting more regattas in the summer doesn't cut it. Many of the juniors racing at not-club natls are traveling from some distance, and I would also imagine that each region does not have enough actively training juniors to support a full regatta. You could do it as an inexpensive scrimmage, but that defeats the purpose of "more regattas = more money" for USRowing's part.

I wonder about this. No west coast teams traveled to NJ for summer nationals. Heck, barely any mid-west teams did. You could easily have regional regattas in the summer that I think would be well attended. There is a lot of rowing in the US - it's an enormous country.

O.D.P. .......whoosh!

There are a lot of pieces on the board already. But in and of itself, Summer Nationals is in the wrong time slot.