The Ottawa Rowing Club is very excited to announce its latest partnership with Urban Ocean SUP, coming this summer 2016! Urban Ocean provides quality Stand Up Paddle Education with emphasis on safety, technique and fun - all values we embrace at the ORC. Urban Ocean will have a selection of boards on site at the [...]
Safety is everyone's responsibility both on the water and around the club. A vital part of ensuring we have a safe environment is reporting incidents when they take place. We need to know what happened and why, right away so we can take whatever steps are necessary to ensure any problems are addressed quickly and completely. That [...]
On a gorgeous June morning the amazing team at CTV Ottawa Morning Live visited us at the Boathouse and on the water. You can watch the broadcast here and learn more about rowing and the ORC’s awesome Canada Day party between 10am and 3pm. Thanks for visiting us CTV Ottawa Morning Live!
We are pleased to announce that Aaron King will assume the position of Athlete’s Representative on the ORC Executive for the upcoming year. Aaron has been involved in the club since 2013, when he began rowing with Carleton’s novice program. He has since competed for the ORC senior men’s team, and the University of Ottawa [...]
If you are an ORC member and you drive to the club, you must obtain a parking pass from the ORC office. Parking in our lot is included in ORC memberships. Please ensure you know your license plate number when you come to the office for a pass. Please continue to take care when [...]
Rowers from Glebe Collegiate brought two gold medals back to Ottawa from this weekend’s Canadian Secondary School Rowing Association national championship regatta. Gillian Cross and Hayley Watt took a three second victory over a crew from Saint Michael Secondary School in Niagara Falls in the 2000 m senior women’s double final on the Royal Canadian [...]