| Start Date: | 08/29/22 |
| End Date: | 09/23/22 |
| Registration Opens: | 08/09/22 |
| Registration Closes: | 09/14/22 |
| Camp Fee: | $25 |
The Learn-To-Row Clinic provides current RIT full-time students who are academically eligible with exposure to the sport of rowing during a multiple day, four-week-long clinic. Perfect for those with an athletic background, participants with no rowing experience will learn to row. Those with rowing experience will learn to row at a collegiate level while elevating their skills in a setting that incorporates on-land learning, training, and racing through intra-squad scrimmages.
RIT’s coaching staff will instruct participants within a fun and challenging environment that promotes individual technical development and teamwork. Clinic participants will receive training in small groups and one-on-one feedback and instruction. Training and race scenarios will provide participants with a chance to demonstrate their understanding of the aspects being taught.
Is the Learn-To-Row Clinic right for you?
If the answer is YES, then come join us!
The clinic meets each weekday Monday and Friday from 5:00-7:00 p.m., Wednesday mornings at 6:00 a.m., and Saturday mornings from 9:00-11:00 a.m. Program participation a minimum of 3 days per week is strongly encouraged.
Facilities/Transportation: Clinic participants utilize the same facilities as RIT's Men and Women's Rowing student-athletes. Transportation will be provided to the Gosnell boathouse for the first two and a half weeks of the clinic for Monday, Friday, and Saturday after which time participants will carpool from campus as the crew team members do. Wednesday mornings the Clinic participants will meet on campus at the Field House at 6:00 a.m.
Clinic Info Package: Participants will receive additional information regarding location and what to bring/wear (i.e. sneakers, athletic apparel, water bottle, etc.) prior to the start of the clinic.
Registration: Clinic fee - $25 includes t-shirt
*An RIT Athletics participation waiver will be required to be completed at your first day of attendance.
Questions? Contact Coach Jim at jcbatl@rit.edu.
Clinic Staff
Jim Bodenstedt begins his 30th year at the helm of RIT’s men’s and women’s crew programs. Bodenstedt and his staff have been honored as the men’s and women’s Liberty League Coaching Staff of the Year multiple times. Bodenstedt is a graduate of Ohio University and the State University of New York at Brockport. He is an active master’s rower and rows regularly out of the Gosnell Boathouse.
Chris Frey '07 begins his 111th year as coach of RIT’s men's novice program. He was a member of the coaching staff named Liberty League Coaching Staff of the Year in 2015, when the Tigers earned Liberty League Novice Crew of the Year honors, and 2017. Frey, a member of several medal-winning crews as a Tiger oarsman, earned a bachelor’s degree in information technology with honors from RIT in 2007 and is Software Engineering Manager at Sharp Notions in Rochester.
Freddie Frey '09 begins her 17th year with RIT Rowing and serves as the women’s varsity coach. Frey joined the program in 2006 and was a member of the coaching staff named Liberty League Coaching Staff of the Year in 2016 and 2017. Frey is a 2005 graduate of St. Lawrence University where she was a standout oarswoman for four years and led the team as captain her senior year. Frey earned her master’s degree from RIT in Communication and Media Technologies in 2009.
