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November 19, 2024

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.

Mary Wright: Director of

Merchandise

Welcome!

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)

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

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

Wishing you all a wonderful Thanksgiving! Leah Livermore, WRRA Secretary and Director of

Volunteerism (volunteer@westernreserverowing.com).


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.

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

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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