Membership - General Information

Collegiate and experienced rowers who were looking for a place to row in Cincinnati founded the Cincinnati Rowing Club (CRC) in 1982 as the East Fork Water Sports Association. Initially, the club was located at East Fork State Park where we had the pleasure of hosting over 16 collegiate national championships. As the club grew, it became necessary to find a larger and more prominent site. Working with the City of Newport, Kentucky, the Licking River boathouse was built in General James Taylor Park in 1995.

The Cincinnati Rowing Club is an organization formed and maintained to promote the sport of rowing, to teach and train oarsman and oarswomen without preference to race, creed, religion, or color, to provide an equitable means for both recreational and competitive rowing, locally, regionally, nationally, and internationally, and to provide a means for community and charitable involvement in the Cincinnati area.

CRC is an organizational member of USRowing, a nonprofit organization established over 100 years ago to serve an existing network of clubs now over 30,000 members strong nationwide. CRC members are encouraged to join as individuals as this allows you to participate in registered regattas and receive the USRowing magazine.

In June 2002, CRC became one of the 14 charter members of USRowing's Club Partner Program.