ABOUT ONEWORLD ROWING
ABOUT ONEWORLD ROWING
Why OneWorld Rowing?
Athletes cannot live by GoFundMe alone. They train year-in, year-out, every year, to compete at the highest levels of their sport and to represent their teams, their coaches, their schools, their country. They need more than a flickering candle of support; they need a steady furnace.
Nationally and internationally competitive amateurs need sustained, systematic resources to support their development – during the years spent to reach full athletic potential. They should not bear the entire burden of raising those resources alone.
This, however, is the paradox of rowing in the United States: the further athletes go in their competitive journey, the fewer reliable sources of support they find, and the greater share of that burden they do bear alone. Rowing may have an image of affluence and ample resources, but the reality is that many U.S. athletes and coaches pursue competitive rowing on a meager budget with little or no outside support. Rowing is expensive, it is an amateur endeavor with no professional contracts awaiting even its elite athletes, and the sport’s existing institutions must juggle busy agendas and multiple priorities.
Even rowers fortunate enough to enter the sport at well-funded youth and community programs or varsity college teams will face the challenge of diminishing support, if they pursue the intense training and racing necessary to reach the elite level and represent the U.S. as a National Team athlete.
My fellow directors and I founded OneWorld as a U.S. 501(c)3 charity to address this paradox and to help more athletes and coaches face this challenge by providing annual financial grants and pro bono athlete aid services. We hope to see all ambitious rowers have the means to stick with the sport, to continue their competitive journey to its fullest extent, and to have access to experts in athlete wellness & performance fields such as physical therapy, sport psychology, and sports nutrition.
Why? We believe that more athletes, more coaches, more opportunities to collaborate and to compete at the highest level, are good for the individuals in the sport and good for the sport as a whole. Therein lies OneWorld’s definition of success: a broad community of healthy, well-prepared rowers competing at championship-level national and international regattas every year.
OneWorld is also here to encourage others who love the sport to take a similar approach to supporting elite and pre-elite rowers – to Recognize Athlete Development with Annual Resources (RADAR). Advocacy does not mean forming a charity to buy an audience for our own opinions, though. It means forming a charity to provide an additional megaphone for the voices of those in need, so they save their energy and attention for training and racing.
That is why we started OneWorld by consulting numerous athletes and coaches before making any Program or beneficiary choices, and we apply that same discipline to each year. It will always be the experiences and input of athletes and coaches in today’s competitive rowing community, not the personal viewpoints of OneWorld directors, that guide our charitable decisions.
Thank you to the rowers who inspire us and to our donors who join us in Supporting Pathways to High Performance.
Learn more about whom we support and why:
Overview College Club Rowing High Performance Training Groups U.S. Athletes at World Championships
Why OneWorld Rowing?
Athletes cannot live by GoFundMe alone. They train year-in, year-out, every year, to compete at the highest levels of their sport and to represent their teams, their coaches, their schools, their country. They need more than a flickering candle of support; they need a steady furnace.
Nationally and internationally competitive amateurs need sustained, systematic resources to support their development – during the years spent to reach full athletic potential. They should not bear the entire burden of raising those resources alone.
This, however, is the paradox of rowing in the United States: the further athletes go in their competitive journey, the fewer reliable sources of support they find, and the greater share of that burden they do bear alone. Rowing may have an image of affluence and ample resources, but the reality is that many U.S. athletes and coaches pursue competitive rowing on a meager budget with little or no outside support. Rowing is expensive, it is an amateur endeavor with no professional contracts awaiting even its elite athletes, and the sport’s existing institutions must juggle busy agendas and multiple priorities.
Even rowers fortunate enough to enter the sport at well-funded youth and community programs or varsity college teams will face the challenge of diminishing support, if they pursue the intense training and racing necessary to reach the elite level and represent the U.S. as a National Team athlete.
My fellow directors and I founded OneWorld as a U.S. 501(c)3 charity to address this paradox and to help more athletes and coaches face this challenge by providing annual financial grants and pro bono athlete aid services. We hope to see all ambitious rowers have the means to stick with the sport, to continue their competitive journey to its fullest extent, and to have access to experts in athlete wellness & performance fields such as physical therapy, sport psychology, and sports nutrition.
Why? We believe that more athletes, more coaches, more opportunities to collaborate and to compete at the highest level, are good for the individuals in the sport and good for the sport as a whole. Therein lies OneWorld’s definition of success: a broad community of healthy, well-prepared rowers competing at championship-level national and international regattas every year.
OneWorld is also here to encourage others who love the sport to take a similar approach to supporting elite and pre-elite rowers – to Recognize Athlete Development with Annual Resources (RADAR). Advocacy does not mean forming a charity to buy an audience for our own opinions, though. It means forming a charity to provide an additional megaphone for the voices of those in need, so they save their energy and attention for training and racing.
That is why we started OneWorld by consulting numerous athletes and coaches before making any Program or beneficiary choices, and we apply that same discipline to each year. It will always be the experiences and input of athletes and coaches in today’s competitive rowing community, not the personal viewpoints of OneWorld directors, that guide our charitable decisions.
Thank you to the rowers who inspire us and to our donors who join us in Supporting Pathways to High Performance.
Learn more about whom we support and why:
Overview College Club Rowing High Performance Training Groups U.S. Athletes at World Championships
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