WRRA held its Annual Meeting on November 9th at the Cleveland Rowing Foundation with over 75 people in attendance. Maria Coyne and Monica Wagner were re-elected to the Board of Directors. Thank you to Maria and Monica for your continued support! Mary Wright is the newest addition to the board and is the WRRA Director of Merchandise.
For those of you that missed the meeting, please click here for the presentation.
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Mary Wright: Director of
Merchandise
Welcome!
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Maria Coyne: Director of Corporate Rowing | |
Monica Wagner: Director of Sculling | |
VOLUNTEERISM
Thank you to the 247 members who volunteered over 2,636 hours this year! That’s 48% of our paid
membership and a 9% increase over 2023! We can’t begin to tell you how much every hour is
appreciated. The 2025 accounting period for volunteer hours began at the beginning of November.
Year-round volunteer activities include: WRRA Learn to Rows, WRRA SRL Regattas, WRRA Corporate Rowing Events, WRRA Maintenance, Canalway Partners RiverSweep and the CRF Head of the Cuyahoga Regatta. Please make sure your time is documented on the Volunteer sign-in sheets available at events or email me your hours.
The top four 2024 volunteer categories:
1. CRF 28th Annual HOTC: 1018 Hours (170 WRRA Volunteers)
2. WRRA Learn to Row & Learn to Cox Events: 567 Hours (89 WRRA Volunteers)
3. Equipment & Maintenance: 398 Hours (92 WRRA Volunteers)
4. Pan American Masters Games: 259 Hours (42 WRRA Volunteers)
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The WRRA Volunteer of the Year award recognizes individuals who volunteered and went above and beyond to advance the mission of WRRA: To provide and promote adult competitive and recreational rowing for the Northeast Ohio community through quality programming.
2024 Volunteer of the Year: SUZANNE RYAN! THANK YOU!
| There were 38 WRRA Super Volunteers who volunteered 20 or more hours this year: | |
Baldwin, Elana
Bonsky, Heather
Buynak, Joan
Clark, Gary
Clark, Janet
Connor, Karin
Fahrenholz, Sally
Fox, Michelle
Gannon, Cathy
Halda, Dick
Hornick, Tom
Jakob, Linda
Jamison, Jamye
Livermore, Mike
Luken, Rebecca
Luther, Brian
Margulis, Rachel
Osborne, Rebecca
Pingor, Michelle
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Pirrone, Nancy
Postel, Chuck
Postel, Terri
Rauhe, Barb
Ryan, Jim
Ryan, Suzanne
Schwerdt, Nicole
Sebbio, Russ
Shields, Bob
Sieberth, Cara
Stimac, Megan
Stranathan, Howard
Taylor, Katrina
Thomas, Leslie
Travis, Patty
Tyler, Sue
Wilson, Carol
Wright, Mary
Zacharias, Michelle
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Wishing you all a wonderful Thanksgiving! Leah Livermore, WRRA Secretary and Director of
Volunteerism (volunteer@westernreserverowing.com).
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Concept 2 is hosting the 2024 Holiday Challenge beginning Thanksgiving Day and ending
Christmas Eve. Western Reserve Rowing Association has a team on Concept 2. Participants row,
ski or ride 100,000 or 200,000 meters between November 28th to 11:59pm on December 24th.
There is also a charitable giving aspect to the Holiday Challenge. For every person who rows, skis
or rides 100k during the challenge, Concept 2 will donate $.02 per kilometer (1000 meters) to the
participant's choice of this year's charities.
In 2023, 21,681 people worldwide (95 countries) participated and logged 5,755,067,909 meters!
$70,000 was raised for charity.
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Upcoming events:
CRF Annual Meeting: November 23, 2024 at 10am
WRRA Maintenance Day: Sunday, December 8th at 9am
WRRA Maintenance Day: Saturday December 14th at 9am
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WRRA Maintenance day on November 23rd has been cancelled due to CRF Annual Meeting
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WRRA Board of Directors:
Sharon Romilly, President: President@westernreserverowing.com
Marti Rini, Vice President and Director of Governance: Governance@westernreserverowing.com
Libby Sobota, Treasurer: Treasurer@westernreserverowing.com
Leah Livermore, Secretary and Director of Volunteerism:
Monica Wagner, Director of Sculling: Sculling@westernreserverowing.com
Chris Cole, Director of Equipment: Equipment@westernreserverowing.com
Maria Coyne, Director of Corporate Rowing: Corporate@westernreserverowing.com
Tim Marcovy, Director of Coaching and Coxing and Director of Safety:
Robin Murphy, Director of Veterans: Veterans@westernreserverowing.com
Mary Wright, Director of Merchandise: Merchandise@westernreserverowing.com
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