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Why Membership? The Benefits of Membership
Why should you or your club become a member of USRowing? USRowing offers several benefits for both individual and organizational members.
Individual Membership Benefits
- Sport liability and accident excess medical coverage.
- Electronic registration and release form - NO need to file waivers at each registered regatta as USRowing’s national office will manage your waiver for you.
- Automatic eligibility to participate in all USRowing hosted events, USRowing conventions, and other USRowing-owned regional events.
- Automatic eligibility to participate in national team testing.
- Automatic eligibility to participate in our coaching education program.
- Our monthly e-newsletter: USRowing This Month is our timely and informative e-newsletter that is e-mailed every month.
- Access to USRowing’s members-only content on www.usrowing.org.
- Individual members-only discounts on shell and rowing equipment insurance through Roehrs & Company, Inc.
- Complete access to USRowing’s resource library.
- A toll-free number for membership support services: (800) 314-4ROW (4769). Call us Monday through Friday 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. EST with your rowing questions and concerns.
- Assistance in locating rowing clubs across the nation.
- Annual Yearbook.
- Access to discounts from USRowing Merchandise, Avis Rent-A-Car, Hilton Hotels, United Airlines, Craftsbury Sculling Center, Rubini Jewelers, The Art of Rowing, The Sock Guy, Connect-A-Dock and Rudy Project.
Organizational Membership Benefits
- Eligibility to race in more than 200 registered regattas across the country.
- USRowing organization discounts on property, automobile and rowing equipment insurance packages through Roehrs & Company, Inc.
- Online requests for certificates of insurance at www.roehrs-usrowing.com.
- A toll-free number for membership information: (800) 314-4ROW (4769). Call us Monday through Friday 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. EST with your rowing questions and concerns.
- Our monthly e-newsletter: USRowing This Month is our timely and informative e-newsletter that is e-mailed every month.
- Free information. Access to more than 600 articles from USRowing’s resource library available to your organization at no cost. Whether you need boathouse management tips or fund-raising advice, information is available right on the Web site.
- Free regional listing of USRowing’s member organizations with contact information to promote your USRowing registered regatta.
- Connect-a-Dock discount on your new dock system.
- Your organization’s vote as a voting member in the association.
- Eligibility to participate in the USRowing Club of the Year program.
- Free 2011 Rules of Rowing and USRowing Safety DVD.
- Discounted Mustang Survival PFD’s and Flotation Suits.
- Discounted Phillips AED (Automated External Defibrillator).
- Discounted background checks for coaches and volunteers working with youth rowers.
- Kippy Liddle Safety Program. For $225, you will receive a Kippy Liddle Kit. This kit includes 11 adult USCG-approved personal flotation devices, a rescue throw bag, a waterproof high-intensity flashlight, an air horn, nine emergency rescue blankets and a first-aid kit.
- Access to discounts from Hilton Hotels and United Airlines.