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Rowing Adventures on Boathouse Row
A guided rowing lesson and ride past Boathouse Row
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Boathouse Row
Photo by R. Kennedy for GPTMC
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Outsider Tip
Keep your eye out for rowing pair Renee Hykel and Julie Nichols, Silver Medalists at the 2005 World Championships in Japan. They live in Philadelphia, and are now training for the 2008 Olympics out of the Penn AC boathouse.
Boathouse Row, home to Philadelphia’s rowing community, is a leading epicenter of the nation’s championship aspirations for the sport. To this day, it’s a national magnet for grass roots development of competitive athletes, since the boathouses and the clubs that populate them have long served as training ground for national and world championship medalists, including a long list of Olympians.
The boathouses are home to more high school competitors than any other U.S. city, as well as the nation’s first and largest community of master’s athletes. They host nearly twice as many regattas as the closest competitor city.
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