North Charlotte RowingEstablished November 2013

North Charlotte Rowing (NCR) MissionTo provide affordable and accessible recreational and competitive rowing programs for youth and adults as a means to promote the sport, foster teamwork and encourage physical activity and a healthy lifestyle.

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Rowing is a mentally, physically and socially transformative lifetime sport for people of all ages, body types and athletic abilities.

Rowing is all about Teamwork. Without teamwork the boat will not successfully move through the water. The collective team is greater than the sum of its parts. Learning to work with teammates is an important life lesson.

Rowing requires mental focus in harmony with physical energy which translates into improved concentration in other aspects of one’s life.

Rowing and its Benefits

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Educational Benefits - Opens doors for educational opportunities including college scholarships.

Social Benefits - Enjoyable way to make friends, network and connect with the community.

Rowing and its Benefits

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Rowing and its BenefitsPhysical and Mental Benefits - Rowing is a total body

workout, using all of the body’s major muscle groups.

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NCR Club ProfileA recreational and competitive rowing club currently based at

The Erg House in Huntersville. We will row at the Lake Norman YMCA in the spring of 2014.

Newly formed not-for-profit organization (applied for) that is a spin-off from the North Carolina Community Sailing and Rowing Center.

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Current location through December 31st.

NCR Rowing ProgramsYouth and adult learn to row classes

Competitive youth and adult rowing

Recreational rowing

Summer camps

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NCR Club & Individual AccomplishmentsFormer youth rowers:

Sophia Bhalla rowed on the US Junior National Team and competed for the USA in Lithuania this summer. She finished first in the women's single at the 2013 Southeast Regionals.

Forrest Daugherty recruited to row at Princeton

Scott Ortlip recruited to row at Dartmouth

Griffin Lynch learned to row at NCR after surviving a brain tumor that left him legally blind. He went on to the UNC men’s crew team and participated in the US Paralympics Identification Camp.

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Former NCR coach Lou Berl is now Head Women’s Rowing Coach at Harvard/Radcliffe.

NCR Club & Individual AccomplishmentsFall 2013 Regattas and Medals

Head of the Charles (International Elite Oarsman Competition in Boston) – Two oarsmen and one coxswain competed.

Tail of the Tiger (Clemson University) - Medaled in six events.Chattanooga Head Race - Medaled in one event.Head of the South (Augusta, Georgia) - Medaled in nine events.

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NCR Board of Directors

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Name ProfilePeter Nixon Cornelius resident, former Cornell oarsman, EVP

External Affairs at FairPoint Communications.Jude Starrett Cornelius resident, Senior Assistant City Attorney

for Charlotte.Larry Taggart Cornelius resident, former MIT oarsman, Co-

owner of StampSource.Eileen O'Flaherty Davidson resident, former Rutgers oarswoman,

College Relations Associate at Davidson College.Cindy White Cornelius resident, Senior Assistant City Attorney

for Charlotte. Moved to Cornelius from Charlotte to be able to row on Lake Norman.

Sarah Norton Davidson resident, parent of youth rower, community volunteer.

NCR Coaches

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Name ProfileDan Brooks Huntersville resident, former oarsman and coach

at the University of Massachusetts - Lowell.

Christopher Czech Davidson resident, former Skidmore College oarsman, and former Clemson University Rowing Association head coach.  After completing his PhD in mechanical engineering at Clemson, Chris chose to move to Davidson in order to have access to a community rowing program. 

Suzanne “Buzz” Buzzelle

Huntersville resident, former Michigan State University oarswoman, former youth women's head coach at Pioneer High School in Grand Rapids, Michigan, where she lead the team to the 2010 Michigan state championship.

Wade Glaser Charlotte resident, former University of Virginia oarsman.

Clay Sturges Belmont resident, former University of Iowa oarsman.

NCR Future & VisionPermanent home on Lake Norman or

Catawba RiverNational recognition for our rowing

teams and facilityHost annual regatta that draws from up

and down the East CoastPartner with:

Local schools and universitiesWounded Warriors and the VA Hospital

Develop:Adaptive rowing programs for youth and

mastersPrograms for at-risk youth and

underserved populations. 

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