ROWING

In 1997 equipment from the defunct Remex Rowing Club was donated to JRC, unofficially merging the two clubs. In the last ten years, the JRC has become Northeast's Florida's true community rowing club. Our members range from as far as Palatka in the south, to Kings Bay in the north, to the communities of Neptune, Jacksonville and Ponte Vedra Beaches. Over the years, the JRC Board has integrated representatives from all the scholastic and collegiate rowing programs in the area. Since our founding we have developed learn to row programs for youth and adults, judge/referee development programs, coxswain clinics, competitive masters program; conceived and ran the First Coast Headrace until 19????? when it was handed over to Stanton Rowing; produced the Trout River Rowing Festival; and organized a small community youth rowing program. Also, as an aside to the national caliber oarspeople raised in Jacksonville's rowing clubs, in 2001, Missie Fiesler a Stanton Rowing Program graduate, rowing..

Primary location: Jacksonville United States