The West Side Rowing Club

🚣 In 1912, a handful of Buffalo oarsmen pulled together enough boats, borrowed from Columbia University and New York's Union Boat Club, to build a modest boathouse on Unity Island and enter their first regatta as the West Side Rowing Club. By 1918 it was the only rowing club left standing in Buffalo, and in 1921 it became the first club in the entire country to sponsor rowing for public high schools. 🏆

The club has weathered a lot since then, including a 1975 fire that destroyed its original wooden boathouse, rebuilding five years later without a dollar of government funding. When women's rowing became an Olympic sport in 1976, West Side grew its programs to welcome them, and today the club's rowers include more women than men. Their current home, the Fontana Boathouse, opened in 2007, its design adapted from Frank Lloyd Wright's own boathouse plans for the University of Wisconsin. 🛶

West Side Rowing Club’s Summer Rowing League Regatta is tomorrow, Saturday, August 15. Special thank you to our 2026 Sponsors!!

Boys of summer 🌞 steak roast 2026

Last Crew Camp session begins August 10th. See you on the water! Registration Link: https://www.regattacentral.com/services/offerings.jsp?g=YLTR2014&job_id=652&fbclid=IwY2xjawTYWKZleHRuA2FlbQIxMABicmlkETFyVlUxRTNGRVIwcTlHeWJVc3J0YwZhcHBfaWQQMjIyMDM5MTc4ODIwMDg5MgABHndmlHIailhqS1p-6OT5vRrmhd4E2qgx0RzuTG1XRdgQ71tDLMsY_eHzpy6Y_aem_jHoeQjSMnKVDQ2e813pWyw

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Week 4 of Crew Camp Full and the 2nd 1/2 Session begins TOMORROW!
SPOTS still open at our Tonawanda and Main site. Sign up here today: https://www.wsrc.org/summer-crew-camp
Financial Aid questions, contact Ian at [email protected]

West Side U23/Sr. Men and Women, and the U17/U19 HP Women travelled to Ypsilanti, Michigan for the USRowing RowFest National Championship, coming away with multiple medals.

Women’s U23 8+ 🥈
Women’s U23 4- 🥇
Women’s U23 2-🥈
Women’s Open 2- 🥇
Women’s U17 4+ 🥉
Women’s Youth 4+ 🥈
Men’s U23 2- 🥇
Men’s Youth 1x 🥈

Next up RowOn Championships in St. Catharines!Staying hungry for the rest of the season! 💪

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