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and these final months leading up to the Games are crucial to our team’s
success. We also are looking forward to 2020 and the Tokyo games, and
are focused on ensuring that we have a strong group of athletes ready
to compete.

As the last Olympic quadrennial came to a close in London, we set out
an ambitious goal of doubling the NRF fundraising from $1 million to $2
million in four years, with your continued contribution we can make that
goal. As you consider your gift to the NRF this year we hope you will
think about our athletes sitting on the Olympic starting line in Rio and
how important it is for them to know they have a team of folks cheering
them on and willing to support rowing and Olympic dreams... Thank you.
TO OUR SUPPORTERS

The last year of the Olympic
quadrennial is always exciting. Our Go USA!
athletes have been training hard and racing with James W. Koven
intensity and determination. Each athlete is focused Co-Chair
on securing a spot on the US team and making his or her
mark at the Olympics. Marcia J. Hooper
Co-Chair
We are very proud of our athletes and what they have accomplished
these past twelve months. At the 2015 World Championships in
Aiguebelette, France the US qualified ten boats out of the fourteen
Olympic events for Rio, and three out of four Para-Olympic. As a result,
the US was one of the top Olympic qualifiers by country. Yet we still
have more to do.

Four boats will compete in Lucerne, Switzerland at the Final Olympic
Qualification Regatta on May 22nd to 24th to qualify for a chance to go
to Rio. We know each athlete will race hard to qualify the remaining
four events for the Games. We know this because each is a US National
athlete and that is what they do – they strive to be the best.

We at the National Rowing Foundation salute and applaud that drive.
We are working diligently with your support to that drive and make their
dreams happen. The funds we raise through your generosity support the
athlete development both on and off water, providing funds for training
and coaching, fees and expenses for international racing, full time
medical and nutritional advisors, equipment purchases, and more. And
there is always more we can do to ensure our athletes can be successful,

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