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Welcome to the Mercer Junior Rowing
Club
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The
Mercer Junior Rowing Club (MJRC) was
founded by The Princeton National
Rowing Association in 2002 in order
to increase accessibility to the
sport of rowing for high school
students in the Mercer County and
surrounding areas. The MJRC team is
housed on Mercer Lake and is open to
all high school students whose
schools do not have their own rowing
teams. To date MJRC services over 20
different high schools. This
Spring MJRC will also be accepting 8th
graders into our new Development
Program. The high school team is
comprised of varsity and beginner
athletes, known as novices. No
experience is needed to be a begin
rowing
MJRC
provides competitive and fun rowing
program that encourages and
emphasizes good sportsmanship and
individual responsibility. Team
members are encouraged to achieve
personal as well as team goals.
Through regularly scheduled
practices, MJRC will improve the
physical fitness of our youth
through physical training and goal
setting
The
MJRC coaching staff is comprised of
current and former US team athletes
who are certified by the USRowing
Coaches Education Program. They
provide assurances that the time
children spend rowing will be
quality time.
MJRC is a co-ed team but the boys
and girls compete separately and in
novice and varsity squads. All
technical and conditioning training
is introduced over the first year as
a novice. After one year of rowing
experience, athletes move up to the
varsity squad.
MJRC strives to instill and enhance
the athlete's self-esteem,
self-discipline, team reliance and
personal fitness. Rowing is the
ultimate team sport and our program
will teach valuable skills of
teamwork, dedication,
accountability, sportsmanship,
athleticism, motivation, confidence,
perseverance, goal setting, time
management, and the rewards of hard
work. There are no super stars in
rowing. It takes everyone on the
team to make a crew successful. The
skills learned in rowing will carry
them through their lives in whatever
they pursue.
Please read the parent handbook,
which is located on the registration
page, for more detailed program
information and expectations or
contact Program Director Sean
McCourt at seanmccourt@rowpnra.org.
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About the Princeton National
Rowing Association |
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The
Princeton National Rowing
Association, a 501(c)(3)
non-profit organization, serves
as a community resource for the
support and advancement of the
sport of rowing. Its goal is to
increase the visibility of
rowing, promote international
and national competition, and
support superior competitive
rowing from the United States.
The organization, originally
founded as the Princeton
International Regatta
Association, was established in
2000 as the local organizing
committee for the first FISA
World Cup held outside of
Europe. It has since grown into
an umbrella organization which
is responsible for: The Mercer
Junior Rowing Club, The Mercer
Masters Rowing Club, The
PIRA-Resolute Racing Camps,
running the Finn M.W.Caspersen
Olympic Rowing Training Site,
and hosting national and
international regattas. Its
facility, the Finn M.W.Caspersen
Olympic Rowing Training Site on
Mercer Lake in West Windsor, is
home to over 500 rowers ranging
from high school aged to
Olympians, six rowing teams, the
United States National Team, and
community outreach programs.
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