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  1. Supporting Collegiate Club Rowing

    Supporting Collegiate Club Rowing Supporting Collegiate Club Rowing Collegiate club rowing offers students leadership experience and community but requires solutions to improve safety, provide more education and awareness, and build better governance support. Collegiate club rowing is getting talked about. The hottest topics are the loss of athletic department status, ... Read more...
  2. The Inside Story on Your Megaphone

    The Inside Story on Your Megaphone Revealed: The Story Behind the Blue Ocean Megaphone The Blue Ocean® Megaphone sports an interesting name, a sleek appearance, extreme durability, and cool functionality as the only digital megaphone. This is the story behind the innovation. You may have seen them lined up on the coach's bench. Or in a single file at the back end of a ... Read more...
  3. Concrete Canoes and SpeedCoaches

    Concrete Canoes and SpeedCoaches Competitive canoe racing is growing. Data and analysis delivered by canoe SpeedCoaches are critical to making boats go faster, even when they are concrete canoes. When you have Olympic ambitions, data and analysis are critical, regardless of your watersport. Anuar Akchurin knows. He is aiming to compete in the canoe sprint event at the 2028 LA ... Read more...
  4. Finding Her Coxswain Voice: Nat Toms

    Finding Her Coxswain Voice: Nat Toms Coxswain Chronicles: From Novice to World Champion in Two Years– This is Part Four of an NK Sports Interview Series Nat Toms is a unique cox. Not only is she a junior world champion, but she took a men's crew to gold in Paris, an increasingly unusual feat. Before the junior world championships, Great Britain only had one recognized ... Read more...
  5. Discovering the SpeedCoach GPS2 as a Masters Rower

    Discovering the SpeedCoach GPS2 as a Masters Rower NK Sports' SpeedCoach® GPS 2 performance rowing monitor delivers value with on-water readings, built-in workouts, and superb analytics for a Masters rower without a coach, training hard but not competing. Do any of these describe you? You are a Masters rower who has completed a Learn to Row and now has one or two years of experience. ... Read more...
  6. Heat Stress Danger: Red Flag, Stop Rowing

    Heat Stress Danger: Red Flag, Stop Rowing Preventing heat stress for rowers includes staying aware of conditions and communicating when to reduce or stop rowing practices or competitions. NK’s Kestrel Heat Stress Flag Kit is the perfect tool. Hammering down a 1,000 m or 2,000 m racecourse, there are many things to pay attention to besides your bursting lungs and screaming legs. You ... Read more...
  7. Becoming a Para Coxswain

    Becoming a Para Coxswain Johanna Knight has an ambition. Actually, she has several, but the one that stands out is being selected to be the para coxswain for the US national team. As one of the first recipients of the revised NK Sports Grant Program, Johanna used her $500 grant to purchase a CoxBox GPS amplifier with a pink bumper. She has the dream to use that CoxBox® in... Read more...
  8. Finding His Coxing Voice: James Trotman

    Finding His Coxing Voice: James Trotman Coxswain Chronicles: Navigating the Waters of Leadership – This is Part Three of an Interview Series Is there any greater test in modern coxing than The Oxford Cambridge Boat Race? To guide a crew of eight finely tuned athletes down the twisting, turning waterway that splits open the heart of the English capital is a ritual embedded into ... Read more...
  9. What Every Rower Needs to Know About Dragon Boating

    What Every Rower Needs to Know About Dragon Boating NK's own Katie Godfrey celebrates 19 years on the US national dragon boat team and shares what is the same and different from rowing. Nineteen years in any sport is a long time. Nineteen years on a national team is a remarkable achievement. Katie Godfrey, who has been selected to the US National Dragon Boat team for the 19th year, doesn't miss a... Read more...
  10. Finding Her Coxing Voice: Morgan Baynham-Williams

    Finding Her Coxing Voice: Morgan Baynham-Williams Coxswain Chronicles: Navigating the Waters of Leadership – This is Part One of an Interview Series Coxing is a notoriously tricky – and thankless – task. Summoning up the mental resilience and emotional mastery to successfully guide a boat full of athletes to the finish, finding creative methods to eek every last drop of effort out of ... Read more...

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